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@ Tlaloc_Temporal @lemmy.ca

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  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • Memory leaks are often difficult to deal with, and many contemporary languages basically encourage them. I know many applications that suffer significant performance issues due to memory leaks, and way too many that simply don't care about memory footprint.

    A language that treats memory management differently from the start makes all these problems much easier to deal with, if they appear at all. The real question is if the other costs of using the language are worth the somewhat niche performance gains.

  • I hacked mars!

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  • You need that living habitate to survive 6 months in 0g minimum, plus move it planetside without breaking anything.

    You could expand the habitate to a larger area later, true, but there's still like 7 mass cycles that need to be maintained long term, and this system needs to be robust enough to trust a few dozen people to. Otherwise, it's just an extension of Earth's biosphere and is dependent on regular resupply.

  • Linux gaming is growing! The Roblox client Sober was downloaded 1.3 million times this year.

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  • 1 in 7 means lots of friend groups just don't have players. It's very likely that many children will grow up without really knowing what roblox is.

  • I hacked mars!

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  • Ceres would be a way better start. Lots of water for shielding, consumption, and fuel; easy access to asteroid orbits; and a shallow gravity well to make transport easy.

    Similarly, many of the icy moons around the gas giants would be good, also with decent mining, but better science opportunities too!

    Our Moon is good too. Close, big enough to not need zero gravity setups. That's actually about it really, it's just right here. May as well do Orbit I guess.

    Start with Antarctica and the ocean floor. That's still 80% as difficult, and rescue can take 30 minutes, not 3 days or 10 months!

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  • You need a very big one though, and humans need a more varied diet than soil bugs.

    You'd also need to deploy the system, or find a way to maintain it all the way from Earth orbit to Mars' surface.

  • I hacked mars!

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  • 1kg of oxygen is a good estimate, humand need 0.5-1kg per day.

    Astronaut calorie budges is a bit higher than average, as would be for labouring humans. About 3000kcal, or 12 MJ.

    I think more important than the raw energy and oxygen is sourcing the water, cleaning the water, producing the energy to electrolyse and heat, and maintaining the equipment necessary to do so. And that's assuming all food is shipped in.

  • Linux gaming is growing! The Roblox client Sober was downloaded 1.3 million times this year.

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  • There's no way it has 100% market penetration.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • If the language makes common but dofficult to deal with error impossible, that's nice. Not critical, but nice.

    If the language introduces easy to make and hard to deal with errors, that's an issue. Not a deal breaker, but an issue.

    The idea does exist, but it's stated with way more confidence and finality than it deserves. That's social media I guess.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • The evolution strategy: if you don't know what you're doing, every function is a feature!

  • my argument is foolproof

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  • That's a fast trip to feudalism.

  • I’m somewhat of a bad dude myself 🐟

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  • That's a Scleral Ring and helps to keep the shape of the eye in fish, many reptiles, and birds. Fish don't have round eyes (they're shaped more like M&Ms or chocolate chips), and the ring helps support the shape when swimming. Most rings are just cartilage, but fast swimmers often have bony rings.

  • How about the digestive system?

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  • That's why we have the compound word "through-hole".

    90% of important parts on living things are pockets and manipulations of surface area, two things completely ignored by topology. Topology is interesting mathematically, and has meaning for traversal and knot problems, but it's not really useful to describe reality.

  • The Automotive Engineer Who Took Apart a Bogus KGB Intelligence Dossier

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  • I remember Harper's government pushing through legislation without review, shutting down government when they didn't get their way, and burning documents for three days as they left office. They cared about not appearing fraudulent, but I wouldn't trust them as far as the length of Parliament Hill.

  • How about the digestive system?

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  • And yet each indentation could hold something, like cheese or a kitten, so each indentation in functionally different from a smooth surface.

    Deforming a shape changes it, thus topology is a special case of specifically ignoring most aspects of a shape.

  • something I'm confronted with too, visiting family

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  • Exactly. I'd be much more ok with a standardised block of text and maybe a picture. No music, no animation, basic machine voiceover if any audio.

    My favourite advertisements (the ones I'm most ok with) are podcast ad reads, because they never gave music or sound effects or crass images, it's just the voice making the podcast reading some text. And they're personalised based on the context of the podcast, no personal information needed.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • A very low current transformer, more of kess yeah.

    Some lights will charge op and flicker, others have a constant glow. The speed/brightness depends on how long the wire is, so most residential lamps are unnoticeable even when it happens, but large rooms and weird wiring can make it more obvious.

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  • LEDs are so efficient that even microamps can power them. If your LED driver is cheap, it'll run on basically nothing, or charge up enough to start for a fraction of a second.

    The microamps come from a hot wire running next to a switched wire behaving as a capacitor when carrying AC voltage, letting microamps leak through. (It's not required that the light is on the hot side of the switch as I said previously, my bad).

    This can happen if the switch box is a terminal box with hot and switched wires in the same cable, which is rather common. Probably some other configurations too.

  • postmarketOS v25.12: The One Where The Saga Continues

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  • Honestly, I "upgraded" my phone to the 8 year newer model, and besides the easy numbers like CPU speed, RAM, and storage, it's a straight downgrade. No headphone jack, slower charging, 50% chance of worse battery life (something slurps like mad sometimes), a hole in the screen, fewer buttons, a bunch of my apps don't work anymore, fewer sensors, worse case selection, fatter & heavier, and the big G won't stop pestering me to install malware.

    I still use my old mobile more. It really just needs a new battery and some extra RAM.

  • bumper sticker

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  • I think the problem would be getting enough reflected light and not too much radiant light from the compression and/or fusion plasma.