Nothing would make it “help get a little closer to making it a reality” if it’s not physically possible, and there’s a very strong argument that that’s the case. If nothing else, the maximum specific tensile strength allowed by covalent bonding - which is fundamental physics that we can’t change - combined with the reality of defects in a 36,000 km cable - is far below what’s needed to build a space elevator in Earth gravity. It might be possible to build a space elevator on the Moon or even (in the far future) on Mars, because their gravity is such that real materials could potentially do the job. But doing that involves bootstrapping an entire offworld industry, which is far beyond anything even the most advanced nations are capable of currently, let alone a technologically stunted oil state.

There’s no chance they’d actually succeed in building a space elevator. The Line is at least theoretically physically possible with current technology, even if it was always an obviously spectacularly bad idea. A space elevator is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Always interesting to see the fascist take. Oh wait... no it's not.

I agree. Questions like this often seem to come from people who don’t *want* to use AI, or perhaps are afraid of it for whatever reason, and they’re looking for reasons that they shouldn’t use it.

It was Andrej Karpathy, one of the world’s top AI engineers.

Description of the term: https://x.com/karpathy/status/...

About him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I’ve stopped arguing with people about it (mostly haha) for this reason. They’re either going to have to figure it soon enough without our help, or as you say be left behind.

This matches how I use it. I’ll add a few other points:

4. Writing the first core version of a service or UI. I’ll typically use close to 100% of those generated lines, and then continue building with LLM assistance where it makes sense. It makes a big difference to development velocity.
5. Finding bugs. If some bug isn’t obvious to me, provide the code to an LLM and describe the problem. Its success rate is high.
6. Working with tech I’m not particularly familiar with (an extension of your #3, i.e. learning)
7. Writing documentation.
8. Reverse engineering existing code, i.e. describe some code to me so I don’t have to dig through it in detail.
9. Writing unit tests.

What do you object to, her support for equality or her opposition to genocide? Or is it that a woman stated an opinion?

So, the functional equivalent of reasoning?

Are you saying that ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek etc. “make heavy use of external tools” to write code? Because they all write pretty good code, up to a certain size of program. Certainly far better than the average human, who can’t code at all; or the average software developer, who isn’t really very good.

It won for clear reasons - on the same hardware, Linux is faster, and this is well-known. https://blog.zorinaq.com/i-con... SQL Server scores posted on TPC.org were faster for many years, although now that does not appear to be the case (perhaps for political reasons, as only Microsoft may post scores). Still, patching is profoundly easier on Linux, which is a critical feature for cloud deployments. https://www.tpc.org/tpch/resul...

I started cruising because work would call during my vacations. I was seriously in New Orleans on Bourbon Street for Fat Tuesday in 2010, and my phone rings with a development problem. Cruising took my phone out of range, and thank heavens for that!

UMC/Mediatek exists because RCA engaged in a technology-sharing agreement with the Taiwan government, before RCA management attempted to become a conglomerate. TSMC actually got later technology from Erickson.

RCA bought Banquet Foods, AVIS, and a carpet company. The resulting distraction ended their semicondutor division, and all the patents were sold to UMC.

Is the United States actually capable of producing a focused semiconductor company, that doesn't try to build an Itanium?

I have my doubts.

There is actually a Chromium package in OpenBSD that uses pledge() and unveil(), and it's interesting. The browser is only able to see your ~/Downloads directory; the kernel will either block or kill it for trying to open anything else.

If Microsoft is serious about Edge, then I would like to see a relevant OpenBSD package. I would also like to see an F-Droid listing.

Barring these, Edge is a Windows-only browser.