You don't have to click into topics. Zulip has a "channel view" which lets you see all messages in a channel, chronologically, just like Slack or Discord or IRC. That's actually the default experience when you click on a channel in the sidebar.
It also has an "entire server" view if you want to see everything in one stream.
Yes it's basically switzerland and japan and now PRC, i.e. US also can't build ballpoint pen tips (not that US couldn't). The TLDR is it's like a 20m per year market, TISCO china has revenue of 15B, it wasn't worth rounding error effort until politics compelled them to. And even then it wasn't really about metallurgy but submicro tungsten manufacturing to close precision gap for other strategic industries. The meme/rumor is TISCO made one batch of ball point tip metal to prove a point and that chunk is enough to last PRC ballpoint tip industry for decades.
Very small, high precision spheres are hard to make. Ball bearings also fall into this category. Many modern machines depend on this. I never see it "recreate society manuals," but they should be.
We present observational and computational evidence that the large-scale filamentary structure of the universe is topologically equivalent to a Menger sponge at finite iteration depth. Recent work has demonstrated that thirteen fundamental physical constants can be derived from the seven structural parameters of the Menger sponge (S=5, P=2, b=3, d=3, Δ=17, removed=7, kept=20) with zero free parameters and sub-parts-per-billion precision for dimensionless quantities. If these constants genuinely originate from Menger geometry, the physical universe should exhibit Menger-like topology at observable scales. We compile observational data from WMAP, Planck, NEXUS+, IllustrisTNG, EAGLE, and other surveys and simulations to test this prediction across eight independent metrics. We find: (1) the cosmic energy budget (WMAP: 73% dark energy, 27% matter) matches the Menger first-iteration void/structure ratio (74.07/25.93) to within 1%; (2) the cosmic web volume void fraction (NEXUS+: 76%) corresponds to Menger iteration 4.7, consistent with 13.8 billion years of finite-time evolution; (3) cosmic filaments are one-dimensional at their core, carry over 50% of total mass in under 6% of total volume, and exhibit hierarchical self-similarity down to at least 10 parsec scales, matching the Menger construction algorithm at every tested scale; (4) the mathematical tools used to identify cosmic web structures (Morse theory, persistent homology, discrete topology) are the same formalism used to characterize Menger-type fractals. We propose that discrepancies between observed and ideal Menger ratios arise from the universe being at finite iteration depth with spatially varying iteration rates due to gravitational time dilation, yielding testable predictions including a spatial dipole in the fine structure constant correlated with local matter density.
Where 0.? is something less than 1 because 2 adults need less than 2x the money
Similarly for kids
1 kids = Y
2 kids = Y + Y(0.?)
3 kids = Y + Y(0.?) + Y(0.?)
You'd expect 2 kids to be less than 2x 1 kid. And you'd expect 3 kids to be les than 1x + 2x 2nd kid. Each kid is cheaper for various reasons like hand-me-downs etc...
Charlie Stross gives a great talk about Slow AI in which he argues that you don’t actually need a computer to build a paperclip oprimiser, and money is already a great paperclip.
>Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence?
No, we are not madly harvesting the world's resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence. We are, however, harvesting the world's resources in an attempt to optimize artificial intelligence.
~50 years old developer here: Today was the first time i thought that I will probably never really write code again.
What used to take me a week and also trigger procrastination because it's so tedious and slow is now taking me an hour at most. It is so good at parsing the codebase and finding solutions, why bother anymore.
It's mesmerizing how this is working. I'm using Opus 4.6 for the big refactors or feature additions that really spread around the code, and it is incredible how good it does it. Plus the code is readable.
I guess in 6 months most of us will have an assistant agent in the IDE which partly takes over our role, only discussing things about the project's development direction.
Sorry, the era of free communication is fading. Across middle powers, developed countries, and increasingly North America, governments are tightening the rules around online speech—and often jawboning platforms into going further than the law strictly requires. The list of examples is so long I can’t even begin to type them all.
The Tesla Sentry Mode only got their license plate in footage. They hit my parked car as they were backing out of their spot. I was able to go after their insurance to fix it.
Since I didn’t capture who was driving, the police didn’t charge them with hit and run.
It's said that people have known about the fear of Satanism since the Middle Ages. How did ancient Satanists communicate? We all know that modern Satanists communicate through the dark web or things like Telegram and WhatsApp.
I think if you look at e.g. Model 3 Performance it's not quite so hopeless. 80kwh packed into an EV roughly the same size, weight and performance as a contemporary BMW M3. Even with today's technology (0.2kwh/kg, 3-4 miles/kwh) a Miata-sized 250hp, 2500lb, 200 mile EPA EV is possible. Whether that would be a compelling driving experience and anybody would buy such a thing is another question.
> I think it's possible to write a kernel with GC, and to still be judicious about memory usage with a GC language. ... but I will still afford that it is technically possible.
I need to split some hairs for a bit:
Do you mean what is colloquially referred to as "GC", as in the dotnet / Java / Javascript / golang "mark-and-sweep", fully-automatic style?
Or do you mean other automatic memory management systems, which some people technically define as GC, like automatic reference counting? (IE, they clean up memory immediately, and except for requiring some manual form of breaking cyclic loops, generally are fully automatic?)
If the Executive Branch doesn't care about the Constitution and inconvenient laws when directing the law enforcement agencies under its control, Congress doesn't hold the executive to account by either withholding funds or threatening impeachment, and the SCOTUS majority doesn't try to rein in these acts while seeming to lack the ability to enforce its own decisions, the words printed on the Constitution are just useless ink.
Elections have consequences, and we're all paying them. Some paying a lot more than others.
It also has an "entire server" view if you want to see everything in one stream.