Systemd Rust components come out slightly larger than C with a test program being 32KB compared to 20KB for its C twin
Who's going to be able to scrounge up an extra 12KB of RAM in today's market?
Most things expand when they rust.
'No Point' Grading Homework
So, don't factor homework in the grade. Don't even collect it. Assign it of course. Design the tests to be challenging for someone who has done the homework. If students don't do the homework themselves and struggle and learn, they will fail the exam. Problem solved, the unfit won't progress.
My Calculus professor didn't assign any homework. On the first day of class, he simply handed out a double-sided sheet of paper packed with lists of problems from the textbook, which had the all the answers in the back, and said, "If you don't do every problem listed you probably won't pass the exams and class." I did every problem and the practice helped.
in business, intelligence is mostly judgment. Judgment depends on context, and the answer varies with which human or which model you ask.
Almost like having different kinds of people, with different backgrounds and experiences is helpful. Too bad that's unpopular at the moment.
Oh. Republicans.
And pretty sure "Elite" means something different after the DOGE purge
What I read from the paper is Google acted on its own assuming a certain (wrong) understanding of the law.
And Google possibly didn't care and thought if anyone complained it would be better for them to then ask for forgiveness than first ask and wait for permission, that they might not get. I hope they're fined *and* made to replace all the trees.
Palmer Luckey Reveals Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup
And... The company and/or product will be called "Luckey Dogs".
(A subsidiary of "Greased Palm(ers) Industries.)
NASA is accelerating its Artemis program with an Apollo-era sense of urgency, aiming to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028 and establish a permanent base near the moon's south pole.
Sounds like Trump wants to put his name on something on the Moon
will be the response to this. The manufacturers won't stand for it, because they lose the potential revenue.
Likely methods:
1. Proprietary Non-linux os's which have a smaller memory foot print.
2. Signed boot loaders with E-fuses blown in the microcomputer.
3. Potted CPU electronics.
4. TV hardware subscriptions (Now you don't own it) Click wrap contract provisions which prohibit modification of the hardware.
5. Mandatory network connections. TV won't work unless it is connected to the internet. This will allow security patches to stop jailbreaks and exploits.
6. Televisions legally required to always be on - like in the dystopian future of Max Headroom.
I'm curious how the nuclear decay of sodium 22 produces antimatter to begin with. Does something transmute, for lack of a better word, into antimatter when its nuclear bonds are broken?
Bananas create anti matter. From Ten things you might not know about antimatter (also mentioned, but not explained here DOE Explains...Antimatter)
Bananas produce antimatter, releasing one positron—the antimatter equivalent of an electron—about every 75 minutes. This occurs because bananas contain a small amount of potassium-40, a naturally occurring isotope of potassium. As potassium-40 decays, it occasionally spits out a positron in the process.
AI Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing
This will devolve into them fucking around and us finding out, probably faster than their minders can imagine.
Idle hands and all that
Maybe Google can build its data center on [their] campus...
Ya, like they'd really want one of those things in their neighborhood.
agents -- programmed to fulfill requests or complete tasks on a user's behalf -- contact call centers
And with companies replacing call center staff with AI agents
Microsoft will rename "Patch Tuesday" to "Patched? Tuesday" - problems solved.
it's no longer possible to create new Arc accounts as of today
Why does using a browser depend on an "account"? And why is an already-installed application (not tied to a single service provider) going to stop working ever
According to the Wikipedia page for Arc an account is required with an email address. I'm guessing it's for the AI features - and to mine more information about you. This is probably also why the browser will stop working.
Users are only able to use the browser after signing up to an Arc account with an email address.
I'm imagining that Dia will also require an account and personal information for mining your data - I mean, using the AI "features".
This just in: DHS uses military-grade heat ray at the southern US border; Border Patrol agents find discarded ponchos with half-popped Jiffy Pop tins duct taped to them in the scrub. No signs of the wearers.
In the sciences, we are now uniquely priviledged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton
