I highly recommend the book Pandora’s Star by Peter Hamilton. They explore using tiny wormholes. They move them, poke a powerful sensor suite though, scan, retract, and close, gradually moving in on prospective planets. They have powerful forcefield to protect against anything coming in the other way. Makes sense to me.

I have a recursion joke. Re-read this for the punchline.

[Year] Name

For me. I don’t care about resolution after I’ve downloaded it. Heck, I don’t need to know the resolution before downloading, I can tell by the file size.

Links to Lemmy are basically banned on Reddit. As is closing a subreddit. They’ll replace the admins and reopen.

There are some fringe benefits for blockchain but massive issues with normal human issues like:

• Scams/theft: person has the wallet lost through scam or left, how do you invalidate the lost credentials or tickets.

• Wallet loss: loss through any number of means: fire, incompetence, computer being destroyed, loss of account to cloud backup etc

• Issuer need to invalidate: if tickets/credentials were purchased by fraud or an issue occurs where they need to invalidate

How does blockchain handle these common situations?

Great reads! Thanks for posting.

I think it would be neat if, as something gained popularity, more and more of it were re-written in optimized assembly. I mainly work in .NET, which performs fine for what it is, but there are some libraries like Dapper (which is a micro-ORM) which are written in IL, which is incredibly difficult to do but results in it being insanely fast compared to what you could do in purely managed .NET. I’m sure if it were written in assembly it would be an order of magnitude faster than that.

X-COM: UFO Defense has joined the chat.

There are 17 million new cars sold in the US every year. Somebody is buying them.

https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/used-clean-vehicle-credit

Median new car price is $46k, so $21k after tax credit for a used car is very doable for many.

They’re insanely cheap RIGHT NOW. lol

You can get a used 2018-2020 Tesla (or any other brand) for $25k and then $4k back through a tax credit.

That could be avoided by using on prem properly, too. People are very capable of making bad infrastructure whether on prem or cloud.

I think it’s basically saying companies need to pay more if they want people in-office. Which makes sense to me. If you want someone to spend time and money to commute they need to compensate for that. You can’t ask someone who has been WFH to start coming in without some incentive or else you’re basically cutting their pay.

That said, many people won’t switch from WFH to in-office for any amount of money.

I used to like bootstrap. Still do. But it has some faults… Depending on your needs you’re loading a lot of CSS you aren’t using.

Bootstrap 5.3 is 59kb before gzip. 6700 lines of code. That’s a lot to just apply some simple styles.

There are a ton of lighter weight alternatives nowadays.

I think there are many users who simply don’t care as long as there are memes and content. They won’t leave for a long time. But as users who do care leave, the content will decline and others will follow.