>Chip scale atomic clocks have been commercially available for 20 years
Not quite. I remember looking around when NIST first announced that research, but it took several more years until they were commercially available. The first one you could actually buy was the SA.45s in 2011. source

>The way data is exposed is almost ALWAYS via a compromised "client" machine talking to a database server
Are there published stats on that or is that a hunch? I don't actually know.
>(other than unencrypted database dumps I supposed).
Yes, that's one of the reasons of having encrypted data at rest. Another is hardware theft, another is being able to store data with a host you don't completely trust.
  All the cloud data and backup providers aren't just going to stop encrypting data at rest just because lsllll says compromises "almost ALWAYS" happen at the client side. Even if that were true, encrypting data at rest is still a good thing for the times when it isn't true.

Here!

Were you watching? It's easy to say now after the carnage is over.
S&P did move, about 30% top to bottom in a few weeks, with the highest single-day volatility index except for a day in 2008. Crude light futures tanked went below 0 for the last trading day of that contract around that time.

That's a pretty fucking stupid casus belli to get rid of community contributions.

Most of us have heard the common saying: "programmer time is expensive, hardware is cheap" -- the justification to buy better servers and to buy the developers high-end workstations because developers can get more work done in less time.
Another phrase IMO ought to become commonly understood by businesses: user time is more important than developer time.
Sure programmers are expensive, but users seldom have the fastest mobile devices or workstations and they won't get the same experience as developers.
I don't use messenger but am pleased to see that Facebook has saved even a half a second a day for a billion active users.

Progressives bellyached and clamoured for free speech for decades. Now progressives deride it as "freeze peach" and are pretty happy to take on the libertarian position of "don't like it? build your own platform then :^)"
If you count yourself among them, then you are a worm. An eel. An absolute shit-heel.

eh

but there's nothing you can do with my TV that concerns me

what if it has a microphone?

This isn't the first time I've heard of reversible computing and its purported benefits, and over the years every time I looked it up I haven't seen significant advancements or implementations. This article is no exception. And I'm still not convinced there exists any design of a reversible-logic processor is practical or useful for general purpose computing, assuming that the physical hardware problems have been solved.

I would be quite happy to see a software simulation of an 8 bit processor with a simple instruction set and a small amount of RAM, all implemented in simulated reversible-logic gates. Does anyone know if such a simulation exists? Or is the answer "well, it's complicated" which means probably not?

then take it to the logical conclusion and disconnect from the entire country

i'm not really sure what benefit there is to having anything to do with russia electronically nowadays

yes

and obviously it's ignorant

americans are feeding crony financial parasites and getting nothing in return "because capitalism" when it's not capitalism at all

and never can be capitalism: capitalism is pretty wonderful but only works in certain economic sectors. it's not magic unicorn farts you sprinkle on anything and then everything is fixed because magic, which is unfortunately the extent of many americans' understanding of capitalism

very well said

thank you