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I wonder what you have to say about our new generation fertilizers and vaccines.

Will WebRTC be the one needed to be mandated?

When you are learning, everything is important. I think it is okay to cut the person some slack regarding this.

Yes, probably.

It's just that git does a much more interesting job with compression, actually. Lot's more to learn. They don't compress the snapshots via something like zstd directly, that comes much later after a delta step. (Interestingly, that delta compression step doesn't use the diffs that `git show` shows you for your commits.)


They would fall behind in the world just like people from developing and poor countries do today.

Very few people fall behind at the moment due to lack of access to information. People in poor countries largely have access to the internet now. It doesn’t magically make people educated and economically prosperous.

You are arguing the converse. Access to information doesn't make people educated, but lack of access definitely puts people at a big advantage. Chatbots are not just information, they are tools and using it needs training because they hallucinate.

As long as your language is good enough to generate correct code at any point, it is a specification. If not, it is an ambiguous approximation.


If you could regenerate some code from another code in a deterministic manner, then congrats you have developed a compiler and a high-level language.


Times New Roman was designed for a time when printing quality was not that good. With 1080p screen nowadays, that barrier is removed, so optimization of readability has different constraints.


Cheap compute would be a boon for science research.


It'll likely be used to mine bitcoin instead.


The GPUs, sure. The mainboards and CPUs can be used in clusters for general-purpose computing, which is still more prevalent in most scientific research as far as I am aware. My alma mater has a several-thousand-core cluster that any student can request time on as long as they have reason to do so, and it's all CPU compute. Getting non-CS majors to write GPU code is unlikely in that scenario.


> Getting non-CS majors to write GPU code is unlikely in that scenario.

People mostly use a GPU-enabled liblaplac. Physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine departments can absolutely use the GPUs.


I provide infrastructure for such a cluster that is also available to anyone at the university free of charge. Every year we swap out the oldest 20% of the cluster as we run a five year depreciation schedule. In the last three years, we’ve mostly been swapping in GPU resources at a ration of about 3:1. That’s in response to both usage reports and community surveys.


Such a long blog post about privacy failure due to correlation and no mention of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity

Disappointing.


Sodium batteries are much better for environment. Sodium is everywhere.


Lithium is common and present everywhere too.


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