It's not too late. Many people don't really care about being fast, it's just about doing the challenges for fun. I know people who don't even start each year until they finish work later in the month and then do several days worth of challenges each day to catch up. I started on time this year, but I am now a couple of days behind because I was busy all weekend.

Improving c compilers is a useful exercise, and should continue happening anyway, but that doesn't solve the same problems that Rust solves.

Regardless of how good a c compiler is, it simply doesn't have the information available at compile time that a Rust compiler has available, enabling it to offer unique safety guarantees.

As for missing drivers, I don't see any suggestion that those working on adding Rust support would otherwise have been working on wifi drivers anyway.

Couple does not have to mean exactly two.

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* two or a few things that are similar or the same, or two or a few people who are in some way connected:

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* couple (of somebody/something) a small number of people or things

I agree that trying to force people to move like that is a way to lose friends.

The way I did it was by gradually spreading the word a few years ago, until probably half of my friends were on Signal after a few weeks (I have a fairly technically orientated set of friends so that wasn't too hard)

For the rest, it was about waiting for a good time. The recent media coverage about WhatsApp T&Cs (regardless of how accurate that coverage was) ended up being a good way to have a conversation with people about moving and most others either moved or already had Signal by then.

For the last handful, the conversation has been "Have you tried Signal yet? [ ... usual blurb...] Anyway, I'm on the verge of deleting WhatsApp now, so you can get me in future either with Signal or SMS.

I'm now down to 2 contact that I use WhatApp for and I expect to have deleted my account in a few weeks.

At no point was any pressure or anything like that needed, and well timed gentle nudging works and I believe is more effective than lawsuits.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

:-)

I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

Lithium battery fires are in the news because they are new. There are many more gasoline fires every day.