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  • none of these are race conditions, they're just runtime errors. python only parses code when it is about to run that block so you can absolutely get a crash from bad indentation.

    in my experience, the js world's focus on developer ergonomics has absolutely yielded some insane situations where running an installed script has caused it to start downloading more dependencies. however, this has unfortunately started happening in python too lately.

  • only true if your language compiles to c. fortran peeps are safe.

  • bro i cry at chords.

  • no. i don't pretend to even begin to understand how the prototype at wardenclyffe was supposed to work. i do remember that it supposedly used the atmosphere as a transmission line, but whether that meant bouncing the signal off of it (meaning it was radio based) or somehow charging it (meaning it was static based) i couldn't tell you.

  • it's not a news video.

  • tesla's idea was global wireless power. no idea what his efficiency numbers were though.

  • it does say on the site for the device that it draws 100W, but in the video he says that there is a 10W minimum draw, so i'm assuming it goes up from there

  • i'm doing video courses all day, so 5

  • great idea to just wrap existing tools! love that. now i just need to figure out how to switch out the editor...

  • why is the swedish prime minister in this

  • sweden calls them worm roses

  • i thought you were talking about independent verification of each frame of a video and storing it in a block chain to accompany that file, so that's my bad on missing the point.

    but with using "the" blockchain, we're still dealing with the problem of massive emissions to keep it running, except now there's no profit motive. or rather, that's already true for a lot of things so it would need some sort of verification token to incentivise actually including our video hashes in the calculation. i think the ethereum people call it "gas money". so it would be pay-to-verify.

    an alternative is to have a foundation like the internet archive host the verified hashes. way less energy use, and they need the money more anyway.

  • his parents i think

  • i thought we were talking about the opposite situation, archival.

    so in this situation we're not actually talking about using a block chain, as in a progressive hashing function, but the blockchain, as in a massive network of computers used to verify anything.

  • buh, i mean, what would it add over just a single hash?

  • surely so does a block chain? at the heart of it a block chain is just a series of hashes too.

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  • boomers use emojis constantly in a way that's almost frightening. like they have to idea what the faces are supposed to represent and just add as many as they can.

  • that means you fit in here <3