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Yes, but please observe SI rules [1]: it's millischwarzeneggers.

> This means that they should be typeset in the same character set as other common nouns (e.g. Latin alphabet in English, Cyrillic script in Russian, etc.), following the usual grammatical and orthographical rules of the context language. For example, in English and French, even when the unit is named after a person and its symbol begins with a capital letter, the unit name in running text should start with a lowercase letter (e.g., newton, hertz, pascal) and is capitalised only at the beginning of a sentence and in headings and publication titles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...

Makes you wonder what will come first:

- energy-efficient, long-lasting, mechanically optimized robotic "birds"

- good-enough understanding of the avian brain connectome & operation, such that all you need is a bunch of fine wires stuck in it, and a small CPU sending commands (local and remote operation, etc.)

I wonder if Elon Musk is of the Red or the Green mindset.

On a related note: for a more realistic portrayal of VX-like-agent-in-a-terror-plot, see Michael Crichton's novel "Binary".

I like Inkscape very much and use it for all my (usually quite simple) vector drawing needs. From the get go, it was quite intuitive to use - my first vector editor experience was with CorelDRAW 3 in the early 90s.

Surely a 1.21-GW datacenter would suffice!

Similarly, you normally don't see any imperfections/dust specks on your cornea - but you will if you look into a very narrow (0.1-0.2 mm) beam of light (e.g., when using a telescope pushed to a very high magnification = very small exit pupil [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_pupil

One could wear a paper mask/visor to only show the eyes. (Though the eye extraction feature might malfunction then?)

On a related note:

C. Limb, R. Limb, C. Limb, D. Limb "Nominative determinism in hospital medicine: Can our surnames influence our choice of career, and even specialty?"

https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/147363515X14...

I normally rebuild my workstation every ~4 years (recently more for fun than out of actual need for more processing power), might finally do it again (preferably a recent 8-/12-core Ryzen). My most recent major upgrade was in 2017 (Core i5 3570K -> Ryzen 7 1700X), with a minor fix in 2019 (Ryzen 7 2700, since 1700X was suffering from the random-segfaults-during-parallel-builds issue).

Wait, but in "Independence Day" they uploaded human-made computer virus into alien computer and it just worked™!

Also "Space Force" has an "Enhance!" scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVOydVwOO4M

That, and also, as pointed out in e.g [1], a "boomer" submarine can launch all its SLBMs in 60-90 s. Faster than it could be torpedoed. And even if you manage to disable it very quickly, just a few launched missiles mean multiple times that number of warheads (MIRV).

[1] Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War: A Scenario"

I've read someone mentioning that in the UK such matters often resolve themselves by means of an accidental fire.

But hey, at least we finally got the motorcycle chase (kind of) in "Jurassic World"! (It's my favourite entry in the series, BTW.)

It was SO annoying when it turned out Crysis 3 does not respect this setting in the VTOL-flying sections.

Related XKCD: "How close would you have to be to a supernova to get a lethal dose of neutrino radiation?"

https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

I remember reading somewhere that the Tierra ecosystem/evolutionary simulation ([1]) readily produced such higher-order parasites of parasites.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)

In Greg Bear's novel "Quantico" terrorists use inkjets to produce their biological weapon's deliverable particles.

I remember that! (On my uncle's 286+Hercules PC).

As already mentioned, bounds checks won't necessarily cause that much overhead. When I rewrote my small image processing library from C to Rust ([1]), I only had to use unchecked array access in one hot loop to get overall performance equivalent to C code.

[1] https://github.com/GreatAttractor/libskry_r

But, but, Your Honor, at the time I was traveling at 0.5 c and in my hyperplane of simultaneity transaction A happened after transaction B!

I have one as well, using btrfs+RAID1.

They still make a lot of noise.

I love both The Laundry Files and Merchant Princes/Empire Games, and wouldn't mind seeing a high-budget TV adaptation of them.

mild spoiler

At some point there's a bloody Project Orion-type spaceship taking off the Earth's surface.

More specifically, in Permutation City mind uploading is in its infancy, while in Diaspora it's a run-of-the-mill tech.

I'll add Schild's Ladder to the recommendations.

I'm waiting for a "monitor-replacement glasses" - show me a device which simulates an equivalent of my current 24"/4K/60 Hz monitor (same amount of pixels, same angular size in my FOV). Since I can touch type, I don't need AR/motion sensing, just the display.

> The concrete prediction is that the internet will become filled with AI written crap, and that anyone wanting to use it will have to filter out an enormous amount of AI nonsense, before they reach any useful information.

The same point is made in Fall; or, Dodge in Hell.

It's more stable (and structurally leaner, I think) to instead have the engines at the front in tractor configuration, as in the interstellar ships in Avatar movies.

And Unreal Commander (freeware), also compatible with TC plugins. I'm usually on Fedora, I use Krusader there.