They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made publicised their revenge on him very publicly too.

I think about 18 billion of that was me

When I lived in Switzerland I literally used a bike to haul furniture (flat packed). Honestly it’s easier than you might imagine.

I brought a big tv home on my bike too. It’s quite achievable, if awkward.

But a cargo bike would have been a better choice than my conventional bike.

I remember many years ago New Scientist magazine did a review study of many different alternative medicine techniques and found that the only benefits they provided were placebo effect.

Except acupuncture. That was the only one with an effect greater than placebo.

Lithium is used in grid storage:

• Hawaii
• Ventura County
• Collie
• Hornsdale
• Bouldercombe
• Geelong

And that’s just what I could find in a couple of minutes.

They’re meant to survive an order of magnitude more cycles than Li-ion. But I’m containing my enthusiasm until we see them lasting a long time in real life use.

They’re meant to have a much wider temperature range than Li-ion, theoretically.

I thought there was a prosecutor who pursued this beyond all reasonable bounds, making Aaron’s life a living hell and driving him to suicide?

Fair enough. I’ll fix that.

It was hardly ever used in WiFi. Two modulation schemes were available in the original WiFi spec, FHSS and DSSS. DSSS was always preferred over FHSS and in practice FHSS was hardly used and eventually obsoleted a decade ago. It was never “the basis” of WiFi as claimed in the meme - that’s simply incorrect.

Don’t get me wrong. FHSS is cool and it’s a great achievement. It just has basically no bearing on WiFi and absolutely no relationship to GPS.

Yes, it’s been obsoleted in wifi since 2014. DSSS was always the preferred option and FHSS was never used much in WiFi.

This is mostly wrong: while she did invent what would later be called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), it isn’t used in modern WiFi or in GPS. It is used in Bluetooth though. It was an option in older WiFi for a while, but DSSS was also available at the same time and FHSS was never used much.

Ah, so it’s a USA specific joke. Gotcha.

Strawman argument. I’m not suggesting any of those things you made up.

I’m just saying that you can’t claim a program’s “memory safe” when it’s not. If a Rust program has zero unsafe blocks and uses zero unsafe libraries you can say it’s memory safe. Otherwise it’s not.

Yes, that’s the difference between “safer” and “actually safe”.

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It’s also a fallacy that rust code is memory safe. I audited a couple of large rust projects and found that they both had tens of unsafe constructs. I presume other projects are similar.

You can’t use “unsafe” and then claim that your program’s memory safe. It may be “somewhat safe-ish” but claiming that your code is safe because you carefully reviewed your unsafe sections leaves you on the same shaky ground as c++, where they also claim that they carefully review their code.

But also, only 30% of breaches are caused by memory errors. That’s because most CVEs related to memory errors don’t result in as many real life breaches as non memory error related ones. Presumably because this class of vulnerabilities is harder to exploit than ones due to logic errors.

So assuming you could reduce the number of memory error related exploits to zero by avoiding c++, you’d only reduce exploits by 30%. That’s still a great result but not anything like the 70% implied here.

It’s already been addressed in Linux - not sure about other OSes. They doubled the size of time data so now you can keep using it until after the heat death of the universe. If you’re around then.

It’s funny though because GDScript is based loosely on python.

Kaliningrad’s fairly strategically useless to them now that every surrounding country’s NATO though. The Suwałki Gap between Kaliningrad and Belarus used to be pivotal in potentially re-taking control of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It would have been very difficult for NATO defend them if Russia took the gap. But now those countries are protected by NATO countries all around so Kaliningrad’s a lot less useful strategically. Not to mention that there’s a strong Kaliningrad independence movement so they’re struggling to control it internally as well.

More here.