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It's a pleasant and practical language to write, yet fairly safe.

Imagine the safety of Rust but looking more like Python (or Haskell...), the concurrency of Go (since V5), and without a borrow checker (but a GC instead).

I can confirm this, happened twice this week.

One piece of advice: some things in university might be pointless and/or hard. Treat it like a game, the goal is usually quite clear (grades, passing, etc.) and work as much as you can to achieve the best results. Don't think too much about whether there's a point, and if it's boring, find ways to not make it boring (read more literature about it, solve trickier problems)...

But that's only because (unfortunately for the airlines) miles are not a universally accepted currency. Just like some poorer countries needing to be bailed out by the IMF, despite issuing their own currency.

A single beam column with the machine around it costs millions already, and takes quite some space. Wafers are simply not large enough to accommodate more than, I'd guess, two or three columns at the same time. Each with independent optics.

A somewhat simple 2x2 cm Si photonics Chip in my line of work takes about 24h exposure for two layers - a full scale wafer is hundreds of times larger, more complex, and has dozens of layers. The math, physics, and geometry just don't really work out (yet)

Just putting chips into things that didn't have them before and still don't need them

This is called electron beam writing, and is done routinely in research settings and to write the lithography masks, but does usually not have the required throughput for a production line. The upside of mask-based lithography is that all structures are exposed at once.

If you look in another field, the default wavelength (wave number) unit is 1/cm. Meaning, there's not really a default wavelength unit.

Go ahead then, we'll read it if it's poetic enough!

Yes, if your bicycle costs $100. But why insure it then?

Once you're the schmuck, or your company starts laying off, you'll start appreciating it. (As has recently happened in my family)

Not to detract from Thunderbird's deserved attention, but I've been using Evolution for many years, and search is delightfully instantaneous.

Got it, so it's only for poor people :^)

Great, so now we're writing our own memory allocator?

Except that that's a linked list and not an array.

Except that more efficient solutions can be implemented much more practically? Solutions that you'd need to bend over backwards for in C?

Six arguments - seriously? Avoiding that is the point of generic programming, and probably more efficient there too

> Why not joplin? Mostly because joplin stores notes in an sqlite database instead of a simple folder structure making it not easily accessible by normal unix tools and editors.

But instead much more accessible to any kind of software, including a five line python script. While plain text files are useful, they shouldn't be taken to be the only true and accessible way of storing data, even textual ones.

Governments issue money, so yes they kind of do have magic money. Certainly a different access to money than private entities.

I'd like to see you drive your sedan through just 4 miles of Colombian Amazonas Jungle. See: Cars are impractical!

Right, because there's no reason at all to regulate a shared medium like RF bands except to make money.

It's not peanuts at all, given that it's an entirely different technology. Free space optics will have different applications, of course, but those applications where fiber is currently not feasible stand to profit quite a bit from this.

I know about two newspapers who regularly say "ETH Lausanne", and I suspect these articles are written by similar pedants as some commenters here appear to be.

...yet, when saying "ETH" everyone knows what is being referred to. Except for crypto bros.

This appears very similar (my Haskell is a bit rusty) to the problem description in Real World OCaml (https://dev.realworldocaml.org/imperative-programming.html), although made easier by the use of non-pure functions there.

I read this as wanting a different "feeling" for the language. Go uses this approach, with maps and arrays being baked into the syntax, and things work just fine. Implementing Vec in user code is rather the C++ "feeling".

Personally I'm happy Rust took the C++ route, it makes things more interesting, but I can see his point.

The rocks also need to be able to move a bit for elasticity, and have sharp edges. For that you also replace a part of the ballast every few years. That's hard to do when everything is sealed. Even with such "glue", the lifetime couldn't be eternal, after all.

Can you elaborate on "not technically solid"? Or is this notion also based on a single experience?

Yet it is you who first made a sweeping generalization across continents based on what sounded like your inability to use one tool vs another.

In Cologne, like many German towns, ice and snow is an issue about two weeks a year (in a cold year). And even then, that's what the city's road clearing services are for.