I am not surprised, but disappointed, to see something like the CHIPS Act be used for something which is still in ultra-super-unbelievably-early-research-phase. Put more candidly, something not currently useful like Quantum computing.
I went to Holmdel High and my girlfriend's dad was an engineer at the Bell Labs Holmdel location. As it turns out he invented a little something called Adaptive Delta Modulation (aka Abate Delta Modulation) for his Doctorate Thesis in 1968.
They definitely had brain power at the Holmdel location too.
I really don't understand people saying that this is due to AI commits and it is all the volume's fault.
A volume increase that is a single order of magnitude (which 14x is) should not result in this level of failures.
When I compare what Github does and the volumes vs social media companies, payment companies, video platforms, etc, it just doesn't make sense that it is just a volume problem.
It looks a lot more like a platform that already has baseline issues that are compounded by increased volume.
My roommate circa 1989 had a bunch of Apple II’s with multiple modem cards per machine to run a bulletin board. Not sure why an Apple II could support multiple users logging into the BBS via multiple modems but DOS based machines could not.
Why do you mention lifetimes here? They are exclusively a compile-time pointer annotation, they have no runtime behavior, thus no overhead.
Dynamic dispatch in general is much, much faster than many people’s intuition seems to indicate. Your function doesn’t have to be going much at all for the difference to become irrelevant. Where it matters is for inlining.
Dynamic dispatch in Rust is expected to be very slightly faster than in C++ (due to one fewer indirections, because Rust uses fat pointers instead of an object prefix).
The signature check is actually not uncommon, particularly if the vote is contested or a recount done.
We had a vote thrown out of an election several years ago, the woman died right after the election, the signature on the card looked nothing like hers and was probably done by her daughter.
That said all indications are voter fraud is not any kind of wide spread problem in the United States.
Many years ago I was doing due diligence on a point of sale hardware company, I had to head up to an acquisition they had done. People bitched and moaned about the level of physical security added, and when I asked them why they were so upset, they told me to go to the loading dock in the back.
The loading dock was kept completely open "because it's hot and we don't have A/C back here!".
Looks like just a handout to IBM.
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