Volker_W

I never understood why Program permissions is such a big deal on Android and IOS, but not on Desktop Windows/Linux, where any application can to everything.

Friction with the helicopter doesn't matter, friction with the air does.

if you are applying torque to someone, then that thing is applying an equal and opposite torque back

Yes, just like with a force.

but in the real world there is friction and air resistance where you have to keep applying torque to keep something spinning at the same rate

Yes, but I think you are forgetting one thing: If the friction is between the rotor and the body, then this friction does not only act on the rotor, but also on the body. I.e. the friction creates a pair of torques which the engine can perfectly counteract with it's own pair of torques.

If the friction is between the rotor and the air, then yes, the spacecraft needs some kind of counteraction or it will start turning.

Yes. The time derivative of angular momentum is torque.

I added a link from my post to your comment: https://weissmann.pm/julialang/#updates

It would be nice to hear updated thoughts when you have a chance to try all of these improvements (especially when v1.9 comes out with the cached binaries)!

I finished my Master in physics. Now, I'm working in IT, and even tough physics will always have a special place in my heart, I probably will not return to physics.

If I will find myself doing Numerics, I might give Julia a second try, but I don't think I will find myself doing numerics anytime soon.

Maybe if I buy a SDR and have some fun with it, I might use Julia.

Shameless plug: I wrote about what I think is bad about Julia:

https://weissmann.pm/julialang/

Tell HN: Copying and pasting from ChatGPT unsolicited sucks

I can understand why you might feel that way. Copying and pasting from ChatGPT without permission can be considered rude and disrespectful. It's important to always ask for permission before using someone else's work, especially if it's for a public forum like Hacker News. Not only is it the ethical thing to do, but it can also prevent potential legal issues. Additionally, using someone else's work without giving them credit can take away from their hard work and efforts. It's always best to give credit where credit is due and ask for permission before using someone else's work.

C++ is (I'm guessing) currently holding up an order of magnitude more applications than whatever you think is better than it.

You could say the same thing about COBOL.

(Not that I think that C++ is as bad as COBOL.)

If you translate it so that it does exactly the same, the resulting code has a modern language but is even more horrible than the original COBOL code.

If you translate it so that is does effectively the same, the resulting code is nice.

Unfortunately only the former can be automated. Also, you need to understand the code to do the latter. But reading it is hard and the ones who wrote it are dead/pensioned.

That's not a struct. It's a function called ka_add that returns a pointer to a KaNode

Large "independent" media like NYT have admitted that they work closely with the DoD and other agencies to screen content before publishing.

Source?

an operation of a foreign government on your territory and information content.

And who gets to decide whether something is "information content" or a "foreign operation" ?

If Europeans conscientiously choose want to get RT, they can.

If I want to visit rt.com , Vodafone blocks it.

German Vodafone customer here: It seems to be blocked properly not just on DNS level. Changing DNS does not fix it.

$ ping rt.com

PING rt.com (91.215.41.4) 56(84) bytes of data.

^J

--- rt.com ping statistics ---

293 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 295812ms

I'm not a Putin/Russia supporter, nor do I read rt.com, but I want the ability to hear what the enemy says.

Seeing this comment in the #1 spot makes me proud of the HN community.

We’re an adtech business

Get fucked.

Do you think Apps should not be Sandboxed on iOS?

some gateways strip too-long query strings for example

Uhm. What?

See also: SQL, Python

I do not see what is wrong with SQL and I definitely do not see what is wrong with Python.

Ever heard of hate-speech laws? To be fair, your question would need reordering:

Aren't left-wing groups changing relevant laws, then saving the information of right-wingers, then deploying state power against them?

Even if you buy a flagship Samsung television for five figures, it's virtually guaranteed that within a year or two they will release an update the slows it down to molasses. These things have controller boards with miniscule amounts of RAM in them, and they use the same firmware across all models. When a new model with more RAM is released, they add more features, causing all older models that self update to start swapping to the pagefile.

Source / Proof?

As a miner, do you get to chose which transactions you mine?

Yes, the mining pool can chose.

The difficult part is not setting up a SQL database, the difficult part are complying with all the banking regulations. If you have a distributed ledger, you do not need to comply with these regulations and everything gets easier.

This is both a good and a bad thing.

I just checked and they do not block all porn, but the porn that does not fulfill their regulations.

Are you aware of any project using a SQL database that allows someone to purchase legal porn or donate to legal far right organizations? Mastercard, Visa and Paypal lock such accounts. SEPA (luckily) does not.

This is the only advantage of bitcoin I see.

The problem with transparency logs is that you can see that they are doing shenanigans, but not necessarily stop it.

Twitter loves to hide off-site links in general.

Do you have a source/proof for me?

Could we have created a <form> element that made it easier for small local manufacturers to sell online instead of Amazon rolling everyone up? How would that have worked? A text box that had some kind of privacy control built in, so that all our passwords wouldn’t leak?

What a bunch of BS.

I have never heard anyone claiming that having a website is revolutionary and special.

I consider C/C++ not having ownership of memory as a primary concept to be one of its ugliness's.