If you click the link twice, you will see that the original source for it is a Washington Post story from January 16, 2022...

FP variables are const by default, and have to be explicitly made mutable.

Your code is actually a perfect example. In C:

const float X = Get_Current_Spped();
Display(X);

In an ML-style FP language:

let X Get_Current_Spped() in
Display(X)

In both cases, you are not changing X - you are creating a new X every time, keeping the previous X unchanged.

Look, I found and skimmed the Nature article before writing my original post. But I am not a QC expert, and so have no clue what a surface code is, why they are important, and what exactly was unsolved about them for 20 years. I can have a guess based on skimming the article, but it is completely lazy that the ABC West Sydney did not bother to include any explanation in their article, not even mentioning "surface code", and instead just filling the whole article with fluff. And given that the original article is just fluff and is missing the background info, the original Slashdot poster should have included some of that background info in their summary, not just linked to fluff.

It's amazing how both the Slashdot summary and the news article are pure fluff - no explanation of /which/ problem was solved! Could somebody please explain what the actual innovation is?

Slashdot cut the title without working - has been years since I last posted. Anyway, what I was trying to say was "It is fun to see how things still look pretty much like they did 10 years ago"...

See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinuxfinances.info%2Finf... . Even describes Wayland as a suggested alternative that does not actually have a good reason for why it would be better...

Eliezer Yudkowsky's "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" is a must-read on this subject. He lays out very clearly and compellingly just why self-improving AIs are so dangerous, and what extremely narrow path the humanity needs to walk to avoid this danger.

California is a "fault" state - see e.g. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Because they are constantly on the road, for testing and data collection. I would imagine that they drove more in these 6 months than many cars do in 6 years.

Ah, no, the meaningful rate is accidents per miles driven, not per car. These cars are driven constantly (for testing, data collection, etc), surely way more that twice the average.

It's not about not having free access - it's not about having access period. I would have gladly paid for an online-only access, but there is no such option. I've tried signing up for a TV service with Comcast (which owns NBC) - not only I have to pay something like $70/month for huge package of channels I would never watch, but the only way to buy it is to sign up for installation of equipment for TV I do not own, and I would only get access when such equipment arrives - there is no option to sign up for online access and not have their cable equipment shoven down my throat.

P.S. I looked into using a Canadian VPN service, but had trouble getting www.cbc.ca olympic coverage to show up correctly on Linux. Now I am planning to watch Olympics on eTVnet - a Russian-language site in Canada, which, unlike NBC, is happy to take my money to provide me with access to content I want to watch.

Not necessarily. For example, an HFT company Jane Street Capical uses OCaml, claiming it makes code reviews go a lot faster and Knight-style errors a lot less likely. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqueue.acm.org%2Fdetail.cfm%3Fid%3D2038036