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by gridspy 4y ago
The trick is that the plane flies while still going absurdly slow. 37 kt vs >120 kt for similar planes. So less momentum on landing to dispose of, or to generate while taking off.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Great story! And there is a sequel also : https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_06_21/ "Bots of the Lost Ark"
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by gridspy 4y ago
Pretty sure you need to defrost that turkey first.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Ah, my dear child. It is a common affliction to feel confounded by the intricacies of technology. Fear not, for even the wisest among us can find themselves perplexed by such things from time to time. As for your proposed applications of th
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by gridspy 4y ago
Two or more ChatGPT instances where the response from one becomes a prompt for the other.
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by gridspy 4y ago
You might feel that only a few people are qualified to be your CEO. And they all want to retire - you're competing with the "retire instead" option.
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by gridspy 4y ago
I think you'd appreciate the complex manufactured items and goods requiring plastics that only Earth can export to you. If tons of mined materials or produced goods thereof were the cost, you would be keen to pay it.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Pilots are trained in a loss of pressure situation to reduce aircraft altitude (fly down) until the decompression is no longer dangerous. So even with no mask on, the most you will experience is a short period of unconsciousness.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Fair points. I agree that having to memorize which types are arbitrarily treated as pointers in Python is a huge pain. Python also adds pain with the "default argument" issue.
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by gridspy 4y ago
An accurate summary. I was reflecting exactly your cons when I left gaps in what I said Rust was good for. Con (1) (Existing examples / training) is a legacy language strength in general, C++ is going to lead in this for a long time. C
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by gridspy 4y ago
Could you tell me some differences that you see as significant between the C++ and C# type system? I can think of a few but they seem like compiler sugar only. For instance C# classes are treated as a &ClassName or std::shared<ClassN
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by gridspy 4y ago
Ah, I guess I was responding to this paragraph of your message > But more to the point, people claim it's somehow harder in C++ to learn programming so either I'm super smart or they're wrong. TBH I consider the type syste
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by gridspy 4y ago
A series of expert-level blog articles guided by your experiences teaching a pre-2010 C++ guru would probably be well received by other such "ex-gurus." They would need to be definitive, detailed, verbose and bring the reader up t
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by gridspy 4y ago
Perhaps you should be the first in your group? ;)
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by gridspy 4y ago
In Rust this is done using Cargo (the build system) and each crate (library / binary) can choose a compiler edition that gates certain features which are not backward compatible. You can use (depend on) a crate from your code that uses
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by gridspy 4y ago
In 15 years? Potentially we'll have brain interfaces by then. Just imagine the job you want done and you'll "see" in your mind's eye the existing solutions in your code-base and then on the (contemporary version of
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by gridspy 4y ago
Each of the industries you mention has a tech stack which must remain modern. That means that new work will migrate to the language easiest to do the work and find workers. It's gonna migrate away from C++ if C++ becomes "legacy.&
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by gridspy 4y ago
Ah, I think the parent was referring to C++ circa 1990 to 2010 - prior to the much more happy modern world with standard smart pointers.
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by gridspy 4y ago
The C# standard library is more consistent and powerful (batteries included, more modern). That means there is a "standard, correct" way to do most things in C# in a multi-platform way. C/C++ has massive variety here. Memory
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by gridspy 4y ago
Exactly. And understanding WHY you should prefer using a Struct (or class) instead of a dictionary / hash-map. Can you feel the PAIN of all that additional cost?? The Python / JS world is all dictionaries. Such a developer might n
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by gridspy 4y ago
7. Fundimental underpinnings - Every other language is written essentially in C - you can often understand how their features WORK if you know C extremely well. ... I'd argue that 1,2 are covered by rust. 3 and 6 by unsafe rust. Once y
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by gridspy 4y ago
My experience from 1990 was it was the perfect language to add a bit of server-side logic to some raw HTML. So the niche (for me) was a nice transition from something I understood (HTML) to something new (dynamic webpages). In that way it i
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by gridspy 4y ago
There might be a 10 year lag creating more surgeons from scratch, but you'll have existing surgeons suddenly working for your company today. Your 10-15 year lag assumes untrained workers. You'll have a stream of people transitioni
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by gridspy 4y ago
To build on your argument: The 20% decent shops are retaining their engineers and only growing at a sustainable rate. Available new jobs are filled with a referral since every employee is constantly bragging to their friends. So they post f
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by gridspy 4y ago
I doubt that's true. I haven't used C++ for many years now. I was in your boat a few years ago (C/C++ since 1990) but now 6+ years Python then Rust centric. I still think in C++ terms when writing rust, although most of the t
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by gridspy 4y ago
Rust's dynamic traits are like Java or C# Interfaces. Rust's Static traits are used like C++ templates but with more compiler checks and guidance. In both cases, you can separate the code that implements the trait from the class i
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by gridspy 4y ago
The control software should not be physically able to command the hardware to enter an invalid state. You can do that by only exposing the 3 valid modes to the software or only enabling power to the emitter if every piece of hardware is in
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by gridspy 4y ago
Many things increase GDP without being good. For instance Oil spills increase GDP as suddenly a bunch more (cleanup) work is being done and paid for.
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by gridspy 4y ago
Good example. --- The system distinguished between errors that halted the machine, requiring a restart, and errors which merely paused the machine (which allowed operators to continue with the same settings using a keypress). However, some
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by gridspy 4y ago
Yes, but in response to the soviet threat. > [The Soviets] believed that whoever had superiority in these weapons would take over the world, without necessarily using them. He was afraid of a "missile gap" and took several more

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