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It's a pleasant and practical language to write, yet fairly safe. Imagine the safety of Rust but looking more like Python (or Haskell...), the concurrency of Go (since V5), and wit…

I can confirm this, happened twice this week.

One piece of advice: some things in university might be pointless and/or hard. Treat it like a game, the goal is usually quite clear (grades, passing, etc.) and work as much as you…

But that's only because (unfortunately for the airlines) miles are not a universally accepted currency. Just like some poorer countries needing to be bailed out by the IMF, despite…

A single beam column with the machine around it costs millions already, and takes quite some space. Wafers are simply not large enough to accommodate more than, I'd guess, two or t…

Just putting chips into things that didn't have them before and still don't need them

This is called electron beam writing, and is done routinely in research settings and to write the lithography masks, but does usually not have the required throughput for a product…

If you look in another field, the default wavelength (wave number) unit is 1/cm. Meaning, there's not really a default wavelength unit.

Go ahead then, we'll read it if it's poetic enough!

Yes, if your bicycle costs $100. But why insure it then?

Once you're the schmuck, or your company starts laying off, you'll start appreciating it. (As has recently happened in my family)

Not to detract from Thunderbird's deserved attention, but I've been using Evolution for many years, and search is delightfully instantaneous.

Got it, so it's only for poor people :^)

Great, so now we're writing our own memory allocator?

Except that that's a linked list and not an array.

Except that more efficient solutions can be implemented much more practically? Solutions that you'd need to bend over backwards for in C?

Six arguments - seriously? Avoiding that is the point of generic programming, and probably more efficient there too

> Why not joplin? Mostly because joplin stores notes in an sqlite database instead of a simple folder structure making it not easily accessible by normal unix tools and editors. Bu…

Governments issue money, so yes they kind of do have magic money. Certainly a different access to money than private entities.

I'd like to see you drive your sedan through just 4 miles of Colombian Amazonas Jungle. See: Cars are impractical!

Right, because there's no reason at all to regulate a shared medium like RF bands except to make money.

It's not peanuts at all, given that it's an entirely different technology. Free space optics will have different applications, of course, but those applications where fiber is curr…

I know about two newspapers who regularly say "ETH Lausanne", and I suspect these articles are written by similar pedants as some commenters here appear to be.

...yet, when saying "ETH" everyone knows what is being referred to. Except for crypto bros.