Well C doesn't have garbage collection either.. and the kernel code just self-manages all of these structures. You can easily use pointer structure style code without a garbage collector.. maybe that's not trivial in rust.. but it will need to be able to manage it in order to interact with C bindings...

even when it's as easy as "don't hard code passwords, and don't use stupid obvious passwords"... humans still continuously get this stuff wrong..

Perhaps you should learn how destructive and terrible nuclear weapons actually are before comparing one to other tragedies or atrocities. I hope that humanity never uses nuclear devices as a weapon ever again :(

The reasoning behind keeping certain strings on one line for grep is to that it is easier to search for those strings. For example, the output of an error message should be easily searchable, and (at least in Linux) one of the best tools for this kind of search is grep, which operates line-based. Keep in mind that splitting C strings across long lines additionally requires quoting them, adding even more ambiguity between what you're searching for. I think it makes sense to enable use of common tools like this.

And why can't the microphones just be designed to filter or ignore those frequencies? I mean if our human ears can do it....

Once I noticed it was happening, I had to go in and turn it off. The motion smoothing gives me headaches, and screws up too much. It's especially problematic when not watching live action stuff and when playing games. My roommate seems to like it so he always turns it back on. I guess to each their own, but I definitely notice and it bothers me.

wasn't there a better suggestion where they modified the mosquitoes to not carry malaria instead of just wiping out all the mosquitoes?

So, create an algorithm which migrates from the current times to the new times over a longer period of time. and does so in short segments? Hmm

This never happened. Deroir left the conversation about as politely as you can.

You sign a tag so that it's verifiable that no one else could have possibly created the tag, so if a malicious user gets your account name but not your private key, they can't create new tags.

uhhh what if all ISPs simply stop taking contracts from government, and just.. allow it to stop having internet access? They'd be free to sell dumpy plans to everyone else in the state.. I guess it depends on how much $$$ montana pays for service?

A human can do it with two eyeballs and a few mirrors... so what makes a machine different? I mean sure we'd prefer if the machines were safer than humans, but most of that is likely more to do with the software running on the humans than the lack of sensors... so the hard part is *not* sensors, it's interpreting the sensor data to safely move the vehicle.

People on both the left and the right oppose civil forfeiture...

I doubt they're using routing for voice or SMS. I suspect they're having the device "phone home" where it is, so that it can ask it the question. Not idea how you'd secure that connection tho.

I read the title originally as "if compilers were infinitely fast" and it actually made sense as a problem question to answer. When you say "computers are infinitely fast" the question becomes dumb because there are a lot of things you can do if computers are infinitely fast which would be dumb to actually do.