Synthetic fuels scale up even worse than battery density.
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Connecting "next" with a German translation of "nähest" ("closest") is just as nonsensical.
This is terrible if not unresponsibly dangerous advice.
The top comment has a link to a database with cases of people drowning. The common pattern: if life vests were mentioned then those in the party who drowned were those who either took off their PFD or didn't wear one to start with.
Your best chance is to make it to the side of the river where the currents are less or nonexistent. A life vest increases your chances of making it there alive. Taking it off to dive down to some deep water outflow because somebody mentioned that stunt in some anecdote will get you killed for sure.
And long. Loooong. His sales pitches seem to always go in circles. Computational irreducability here, causal graph there, namedrop Wolfram Language a few times with pretty pictures, make sure that "in our models" Einsteins theory and quantum mechanics are mentioned as special cases and "surprisingly everything works out beautifully". Yeah no right.
Time to move on. I've read enough of his 20-mile-long self-praising sales pich novels. He is just going in circles.
It's as if Stephen Wolframs mental horizon starts getting more and more restricted over the years since he tries to frame everything he sees in terms of his physical theory.
Stephen Wolfram is so self-centred, I sometimes wonder if it's actually a stage character invented by a really talented comedian.
I share a lot of the critisism, but billionaires are not "sick in the head". They are playing by the rules that society gives them. They were exploiting them with luck and smarts to get where they are. This is not praise, but a counterargument to the sentiment. Society needs to set boundaries, instead of not doing it and then villifying those who take advantage of that.
In low scale settings, if it's a place almost nobody knows, then this works, but many approaches work like just asking "What is 1+1?". Scale is low, no bot writer will bother to adjust.
In high scale, high visibility, none of this works. The incentive to break your captcha is so high that you'd need to basically construct a reverse turing test. You need to assume that the attacker is very powerful and very smart and will spend months custom tuning their solution to vreak your captcha. This is really hard and how to do it is the interesting discussion.
In summay, the setting matters. If it's the first one, we can debate toys all day long but they only have entertainment value. If it's the second then this is really hard and state of the art is to click pictures with traffic lights.
Anybody knows of such an app?
Today people write whole articles in tweet threads. It's terrible.
Back in the day it was better for the geeks. They don't care about all that extra crap as much. But they do care about a simple API they can start hacking with and just drop a status line.
But today it's used by governments, election campaigns and presidents for important PR communication. And by grandma at home. They need those features and don't care about simplicity.
Target groups change as you grow. And that's also why often times original founders and engineers leave because it's not anymore the thing they signed up for. But they get replaced by other people.
If some crappy javascript library leaks customers secrets for an online shop, where exactly is the OS kernel at fault?
If the CEO's secretary gets convinced to wire $1M to an oversees account because somebody made them believe it's the boss requesting it, then how would a verified microkernel have helped?
> The Linux CVE database was recently analyzed and it was determined that 96% of the vulnerabilities would be mitigated to at least non-critical status, if not completely eliminated, if linux were a microkernel architecture.
In a fair comparison you need to consider the CVEs that a microkernel would suffer which had been eliminated with a monolithical kernel.
Oh but it's verified, you say? Then the fair comparison is a verified monokernel vs a verified microkernel.
Apples and oranges.
Key is to keep the threshold minimal for getting back and making progress.
It's a disaster. Like always when humans intervene in key larts of the ecosystem and totally screw up the network effects.
Another story showing the vast effects of such interventions is the story of the wolf in Yellowstone.
There is actually evidence to the contrary of your position. The grandparent post mentions mating discrimination.
Or, more generally, some superimposed versions of me partially overlapping, as can be seen with those overlapping Es in the original article.
Maybe the universe just doesn't use the right rule though.