Feed UTF-16 to the C compiler and let me know how that works out for you.

The second while loop doesn't run because the character at the pointer is zero? That part is only obscure to a python programmer who expects a particular formatting.

Read Ignition!, an excellent and entertaining history of the development of liquid rocket fuel by John D. Clark (one of the main protagonists of the field), with the truly excellent forward by Isaac Asimov that includes the following excerpt:

Search for a PDF, and you'll find it. I've had the fortune to meet a number of scientists cut from the same cloth as Dr. Clark, and they are among my favorite people. I'm sorry I never had a chance to meet him.

Any sort of combustion-level heat in the presence of nitrogen and oxygen creates lots of messy NOx byproducts (that are all atmospheric pollutants), so, yeah, unlikely to be a pure N6 -> 3(N2) reaction without at least restricting its decomposition environment to exclude O2.

My father designed instruments to measure atmospheric concentrations of NOx (and I wrote much of the software for them) for one of the biggest manufacturers of things like that. He explained the chemistry to me years ago, and NOx pollutants are nearly unavoidable in the presence of O2.

It's not a true C obfuscation, it's a Unicode hack. The compiler treats the code as a series of bytes but your text editor sees UTF-8. The code which actually executes is hiding there.

The C code itself isn't obfuscated. The problem is that your text editor isn't showing you the code.

If you look at the C code in a plain ASCII text editor, you'll see everything. But a text editor that interprets UTF-8 hides a bunch of stuff from you.

If you happen to be viewing the entry in VIM, use ":set encoding=latin1" to see what's really going on.

Have you followed-through and seen what Destin is charging for that knick-knack? Yes, it seems to be a nicely-designed grill brush. But it is a frelling grill brush. It doesn't need to be high-tech.

And it most certainly doesn't need to cost over $75 when a Chinesium version is $20.

Thinking of the void as an analogy to a gas is misleading, that's why your supposition doesn't work.

The universe is expanding, everywhere, as far as we can tell. Without any evidence to the contrary (and a fair bit of evidence supporting it), the expansion is constant, everywhere, and is described by a value called, you guessed it, the Hubble Constant. Most recently, however, a handful of different measurements have suggested two disparate values for the Hubble Constant, resulting in what's known as the Hubble Tension ("tension" because the two values appear to be being measured correctly, but are not the same).

The idea in this paper, as far as I understand it, is that there are large-scale fluctuations in mass distribution, and we happen to be in a local minimum compared to the average across the universe, thus a local void. Since the Universe isn't filled with a gas under pressure (at least to first approximation), there isn't a grand rushing-in to fill that void. Rather the opposite: the relatively higher density elsewhere is pulling harder by its larger gravity than the mass in our local neighborhood, creating a local anomaly in the large-scale gravitational field, pulling us outward. This local anomaly appears as a local increase to the Hubble constant, adding on to the underlying Hubble expansion. We are, locally, expanding slightly faster than the Universal average.

This local effect might explain the two measurements for the Hubble Constant, one in our region of the Universe which is affected by the local paucity of mass, and one across greater expanses of the Universe where the lumpy distribution of mass is evened out by the law of large numbers.

Are you being deliberately obtuse or do you just not know the history of waterworks projects in Hawaii?

Like ships and aircraft, spacecraft fly a country's flag. Where those countries fail to assert sufficient control over spacecraft operations, they are subject to their neighbors' displeasure. But first, someone has to do something sufficiently displeasurable and escape their own country's legal ire.

I read the article to see why black holes in particular would be a useful way of determining position in space, rather than, say, a handful of stars.

The answer is that they aren't just using any black holes, but the ultra-massive black holes at the center of galaxies which spew lots of radiation from their accretion discs, so are bright in radio frequencies, and are far away and have limited self-motion since they are at the center of their galaxies, so are stable from our vantage point.

Someone correct me if I got that wrong.

He's lying through his teeth. Revenue management has used ML for a loooong time to set things like price of different fare buckets, number of seats released to different fare buckets, exactly when seats are released to specific fare buckets, how many seats to hold back, how many instrument-supported upgrades to allow (e.g., upgrade certificates), how many complementary upgrades to allow, etc., forget things like schedule and route planning, and so forth. All three of the big US airlines are already using dynamic pricing on reward tickets such that you get a different price if you're logged in to their web site versus doing it anonymously.

So, again, lying through his teeth.

There's no Maui water rationing "due to a drought." If there's water rationing, it's because the natives have obstructed the construction of sufficient aqueduct capacity to match the increase in population. Plenty of fresh water falls in the rain forest and uselessly empties into the sea. You just have to pipe it to where the people live.

Succeeds, or causes a different morbidity to the patient, or worse.

I mean, you can inject tuberculin toxin into a tumor too, or radioactive thallium, or any of the vast suite of toxic concoctions, but it might not work out so well for the rest of the patient. Especially if you call yourself an inventor, instead of a medical scientist, with the level of training and knowledge expected for each.

The last time I paid a premium for a computer product because it was made in the USA, it turned out to be garbage. It was a 386 motherboard. It had a "quality feel" to it, but the cache ram circuit promptly failed bringing performance into the toilet.