deepsun

> What would be needed is some sort of compatibility switch that disables all optional CPU features. Sure, you will get some reduced performance of the compiled code, but in exchange, a faster startup time.

I think other AOT-compiled languages don't opt in for the lowest set of CPU features -- they just detect them at runtime and use whenever present, all in compiled machine code.

I remember it felt odd when XSLT code provided "otherwise" instead of "else".

And also unit tests for edge cases and loopholes in laws.

It is hard to do even sitting on a planet (even impossible) -- there are minute differences in gravity and acceleration between any two points, so time flows with different speeds. And it changes all the time.

If something is possible theoretically, it may not be in practice. But if something is proven to be impossible, it's also impossible in practice.

Note we're not talking about "below a millisecond" or below any other time range (second, minute, month). We're talking about _exactly_.

To be fair, my first computer _was_ inside its keyboard.

Entanglement (more correctly, wave-function collapse) cannot be used to transmit information. So there is a "spooky action at a distance", but there is no faster than light communication.

I find it's easier to understand if you assume that every entangled particle already "knows" what state it will be at the moment of entanglement. In theory it's called "hidden variables". John Stewart Bell has proven that there's no local hidden variables, but noone said about global variables. For example, in Superdeterminism it's all easy and clear.

PS: Physicists thet reject Superdeterminism only for philosophical reasons, there's no scientific reasons to reject it.

Theres one more thing that is often assumed, but "wrong" -- that there's some global time.

For example if you hear something like "did you know that aliens from Alpha Centauri see Earth as it was 2 years ago, as it's the time light from Earth takes to reach Alpha Centauri?". No they do not, because it would assume that there's some common "now" between Earth and Alpha C.

If we assume a common "now", it would lead to a whole bunch of paradoxes and errors, like "what was before the Big Bang?" (error in the question), or "where is the center of the Universe?", or "those faint red-shifted stars that we see as they were almost 13 billion years ago".

So it would still be stealing legally, right? And feds could watch the thief as the ledger is always public.

Einstein read Poincare papers for sure, and realized that assembling all those pieces together turns the physics upside down. But many of the results of the special relativity were well known before. For example, the great Michelson–Morley experiment was conducted in 1887, 18 years before. Einstein was the first to realize that all the pieces form a totally new puzzle.

Another weirdness is why does docker even need a daemon? Podman saw that and can work without daemon.

Similar to Helm -- in v3 they also removed a daemon (Tiller).

> not necessarily exactly equal to the time

I believe it was Poincare who has proven that it's even theoretically impossible to synchronize clocks exactly.

They will appeal.

They will appeal, as usual, and never pay that.

Old school HTML coder is close, yes.

I use tables, columns and rows.

Am I DBA, accountant, or data engineer?

I've read it, the main idea is "this isn’t just about mathematics or physics — it’s about fundamentally reimagining what it means to be human", but he still talks like all problems are solved. My point is that no only those that did not require novel creative approaches like Collatz.

Yep, but Edison is long gone, while Hollywood kept compounding over time. There's zero other reasons Hollywood is _currently_ better than any other place for filmmaking.

Santa Clara, CA. Lots of computer systems around.

> AI has solved all our problems

What about the Collatz conjecture? AFAIK, it requires some novel approaches to mathematics, which would be a real testament to AI creative skills.

I don't doubt it will be solved some day, but as of now it's too early to say that all our problems are solved.

> But tomorrow, it may be the illustrators

I thought illustrators have been out-of-job for quite time, right since Midjourney released. So not tomorrow, but yesterday.

Yep, exactly my point "small change in initial parameters".

Also, how it stops to be. Specializations like that get disrupted if there's an easier way to make money (aka Resource curse, aka Dutch Disease [1]).

Same thing with Israel -- if they had some easier way to make moneys they would go for it. But constant demand from their defense kept if afloat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

Interestingly, Java had exactly that in mind when introduced `assert` keyword in very early versions (2002). It's equivalent to an `if` that can throw a runtime AssertionException, but only if the program is launched with `-enableassertions` flag.

The idea is that you use `-enableassertions` only during development, and your program should never rely on it. But it helps IDEs and static analyzers to have a contract about code.

Don't forget the compounding effect. Say, one country (or city or community) decides to invest their efforts into area X (e.g. clock making in Switzerland). They do it and become better and better. As long as they keep doing that they can become #1 in the world. Regardless of any reasons "why them".

There's no reason Netherlands are better at chip lithography except that they're doing it (Dutch agriculture success can be attributed to good soils/climate/geolocation, but not chips). There's no reason Hollywood is better at filmmaking. Kinda chaos theory -- small changes to initial state leads to huge changes in the later outcomes.

Interestingly, Google Cloud recommends using Cloud Run (any container) instead of Cloud Functions (upload code). AWS can do that with Lambda too, I wonder why AWS decided to "move backwards" here, as I always found containers are easier and faster to work with?

Both container-way and code-way have the same scalability (code-way is built into a container anyway, just on the cloud). Maybe AWS re-builds the container for security every day?

The page has only a description, no comparisons. The best way to explain a technology is to compare it with something.

Yup. Fridges don't "need" to be connected, i.e. in order to work. They are "more efficient" when connected, but don't have to be.

You just said that animals are tortured and then killed. I pointed out that farmers usually do not want to torture their cattle, on the contrary. But the end goal for the farmer is meat/eggs anyway.

So the Bertrand Russel's question -- is the farmer kind to their turkey?

And there's small portion of animals that happy to do what they are doing (shepherd dogs, sled dogs, even pull horses become sad without work), they are bred this way. Not sure whether we can call that slavery.

Managers can just call the store on-site employees. Or come in person. They just want to save on labor (aka replace humans with robots).

Some animals are not tortured, but loved and pestered. Then killed.

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

She said that on October 7 both sides committed war crimes. Yes, on October 7.