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"The energy density of batteries is an order of magnitude less than fossil fuels, and you have to carry the heavy batteries with you the entire trip (vs burning off fuel as you fly…

"For jet engines, the only thing that comes to mind is electric aircraft. No single-crystal turbine blades needed at all. I may have picked a bad example, but the principle stands.…

Your range checking requirement is just one of many things that may or may not be necessary to someone using this. Taking them all into account (besides the fact that may be unfeas…

While there are indeed "details" out there that have a great impact on the macro-dynamic, and even pose as blockers, history also provides us many counter-examples. The steel-makin…

You two debated this as a philosophical or even moral issue, but it changes everything when you look at it from the natural hazard prospective. It doesn't even have to be a subject…

The dilemma of spending significant amount of effort and resources for a colonizing project when the result won't benefit the enterprising society is not new. When looking for a re…

It's also called "vision". It's what provides and powers directions on large and long term scales. Those "simple" and "mundane step-by-step issues" are just chores by themselves, y…

In the open space, shades get very cold, like a few degrees over absolute zero cold, because even without a medium to facilitate convection and (atmospheric contact) conduction, th…

"to Thai, squid, octopus, and cuttlefish are all ปลาหมึก. For English speakers, those are similar things, but all clearly distinct. But for Thai speakers, they're all ปลาหมึก, just…

Also, the kind of satellites that aren't much more than mirrors, even with today's knowledge, they can be designed to change their profile/surface and thus reduce the absorption of…

"I’ve seen too many «well crafted» implementations of such technically vexing features as «fetching data and returning it» that were so overengineered that it should have been cons…

"We should look at how people are using LLMs right now instead of chasing promises of superintelligence." This. When more computing power and memory resources became available to s…

rsync does what was designed to do and the lack of scope creep is not a bad thing. There is "fpsync" - another tool on top of rsync (which was mentioned in one of the comments at a…

"No stuffing about with swapping physical hardware just because I've temporarily relocated myself." That's exactly the use case for which the carriers offer roaming plans. The bonu…

Managing the light source, specifically the 13.5nm length on the wave spectrum, that gets generated from overheated tin plasma, is in fact the most challenging part of the machine.…

I was thinking about this too. When you read a program, there is this information payload, which is the metaphorical ball you have to keep your eyes on, and more or less forget abo…

Most likely, it didn't happen (yet) due to kernel related stuff being still actively worked on¹ and (more importantly) due to a shortage of developers willing and capable to tackle…

"putting yourself and your hard work in legal risk" Like what? I'm genuinely curious what personal risks faces anyone from contributing to ReactOS. I also am curious what kind of l…

"A good example I think has adjusted the behavior of the ecosystem is Rust: it makes certain things much easier than before and slowly the complex bug-mired world of software is im…

The transition from kilobytes to megabytes is not comparable to the transition from megabytes to gigabytes at all. Back in the kilobytes days, when the engineers (still) had to man…

This fits your description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_quantity

This tendency of requirement overloading, for what can otherwise be a simple solution for a simple problem, is the bane of engineering. In this case, if security is important, it c…

Whereas it may be used in outdoors-like natural lighting, it is not (always) true that it is "usable in the sun". On one such product¹ there's this "Important Notice" advising user…