A direct line between County Cork and Loudon VA does not go through the east coast of Maryland on a spherical earth, that was the only point I addressed. Even if you wanted to maximize how much is laid in the ocean as opposed to land, there are still shorter distances that would land you on at least in Delaware. While I am sure there are logistical reasons to do it where they are doing, that is irrelevant to my point.
Yeah that sounds off. Probably mean digging at coastal shallower waters then just having it lay on the floor elsewhere, that's the standard.
That's assuming we live on a flat earth. A shorter line between County Cork and the US would have the US terminus much further north.
"We are crazy."
What's incredibly frustrating is how much of the craziness has been created and driven by Australians. Other countries want to push back against Trump? Go after the lunatics who fill his dementia-ridden head with all the crazy ideas, including their companies.
That's amazing, frankly.
I wrote a simple bash script the other day to handle a video encoding queue, with this line:
if [[ $(date +%s -r "$file") -lt $(date +%s --date="1 min ago") ]]
It's running on Debian 12 but to imagine that if it were running on Ubuntu it would have failed?
Wild that this wasn't caught as soon as the dud utility shipped in a distro. I would have expected somebody's scripts to have failed, they ran it under bash -x and thought, "Oh, boy," then off to file a bug.
I like the idea of using Rust and the idea of Software Engineering. But together.
We heard a while back about Google making a nondestructive book scanner that used puffs of air to turn pages and multiple cameras with stitching algorithms.
Is there a home version that people can recommend, product or build plans?
I have at least a hundred out-of-print books, some on taboo subjects, that I'd love to be able to scan and lend out privately.
Frankly this would be a good item to lend around; I'd only need one for a few days a year.
Thanks! I was waiting for the MAGA types to crawl out from under the rocks.
To be fair there's a common way to compile Lua to JVM bytecode so it's likely just a Java front-end, not using the basic interpreter.
Back in the day there was a craze to port Lua, Ruby, Perl, Groovy(!), to run as Java front-ends. Not many got put into production outside of Lua.
However the real point here is that it's now "tell me why I shouldn't use Rust" time.
Moving ABI might be a reasonable objection for a small team but Cloudflare has over a hundred engineers on this so it's not a problem.
They get speed and memory safety in exchange for learning "The Rust Way". Seems like a good engineering tradeoff.
IMO Rust is still for the top 20% of engineers so Java's "solid middle" is still quite safe.
Yeah, we don't want anybody with actual critical thinking...
I thought that until I learned that they need weekly maintenance tending.
Somebody would need to build an automated battery watering system for homeowners who go away for a long vacation and forget to water their houseplants.
At some point it's too Rube Goldberg to be usable. Now, a few square miles of grid-scale
Do I have to put out a hit on a whistleblower who exposes my illegal business scheme?
if your PC meets the Windows 11 Hardware Spec.
It's much better for this stupid AI bubble to burst now than it will be in a year's time, and it'll be better to burst in a year's time than in two year's time.
The longer it lasts, the worse it will be.
Reportedly that bug would have been caught if they passed the preexisting date test suite, but their attitude was 'meh'.
I'm not advocating for C but I am advocating for Level I software engineering. Rust doesn't fix this.
Breaking updates is one of the worst positions to be in. Press coverage is a poor substitute, though it's good that it got some.
Well, this greatly increases my confidence in Aardvark.
Do you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking?
