Tlaloc_Temporal

Memory leaks are often difficult to deal with, and many contemporary languages basically encourage them. I know many applications that suffer significant performance issues due to memory leaks, and way too many that simply don’t care about memory footprint.

A language that treats memory management differently from the start makes all these problems much easier to deal with, if they appear at all. The real question is if the other costs of using the language are worth the somewhat niche performance gains.

1 in 7 means lots of friend groups just don’t have players. It’s very likely that many children will grow up without really knowing what roblox is.

There’s no way it has 100% market penetration.

If the language makes common but dofficult to deal with error impossible, that’s nice. Not critical, but nice.

If the language introduces easy to make and hard to deal with errors, that’s an issue. Not a deal breaker, but an issue.

The idea does exist, but it’s stated with way more confidence and finality than it deserves. That’s social media I guess.

The evolution strategy: if you don’t know what you’re doing, every function is a feature!

That’s a fast trip to feudalism.

Even if sodium takes off, lithium still has a higher energy density. Lots of uses will want that, even if it’s more expensive and dangerous.

I remember Harper’s government pushing through legislation without review, shutting down government when they didn’t get their way, and burning documents for three days as they left office. They cared about not appearing fraudulent, but I wouldn’t trust them as far as the length of Parliament Hill.

Exactly. I’d be much more ok with a standardised block of text and maybe a picture. No music, no animation, basic machine voiceover if any audio.

My favourite advertisements (the ones I’m most ok with) are podcast ad reads, because they never gave music or sound effects or crass images, it’s just the voice making the podcast reading some text. And they’re personalised based on the context of the podcast, no personal information needed.

A very low current transformer, more of kess yeah.

Some lights will charge op and flicker, others have a constant glow. The speed/brightness depends on how long the wire is, so most residential lamps are unnoticeable even when it happens, but large rooms and weird wiring can make it more obvious.

LEDs are so efficient that even microamps can power them. If your LED driver is cheap, it’ll run on basically nothing, or charge up enough to start for a fraction of a second.

The microamps come from a hot wire running next to a switched wire behaving as a capacitor when carrying AC voltage, letting microamps leak through. (It’s not required that the light is on the hot side of the switch as I said previously, my bad).

This can happen if the switch box is a terminal box with hot and switched wires in the same cable, which is rather common. Probably some other configurations too.

Honestly, I “upgraded” my phone to the 8 year newer model, and besides the easy numbers like CPU speed, RAM, and storage, it’s a straight downgrade. No headphone jack, slower charging, 50% chance of worse battery life (something slurps like mad sometimes), a hole in the screen, fewer buttons, a bunch of my apps don’t work anymore, fewer sensors, worse case selection, fatter & heavier, and the big G won’t stop pestering me to install malware.

I still use my old mobile more. It really just needs a new battery and some extra RAM.

We can check that gravity and friction exists right now, without leaving the room. It’s also quite specific situations that don’t have either one.

Here, how the switches are related to the light is already in question, and dumb wiring jobs are more common than anyone wants.

Who said anything about plugging it in? Bean someone over the head with it!

Worse, if the LED is wired to the hot side it will just barely glow at all times.

Because a centralized universal solution is more efficient. Why should healthy people subsidize the sick? Why should drivers subsidize busses? Why should pedestrians subsidize highways? Why should people with solar panels subsidize power plants? Why have public services at all?

You could argue that businesses should pay more, but the fact that a service is useful is not an argument to shut it down.

I’m more worried that they’ll be “aquired” by another nation, and suddenly BC is cut off from the rest of Canada and we have a new unsecured land border with far too much infrastructure.

As soon as some speech is chosen over another, it’s not free. As long as a platform decides what is acceptable, it’s not free. YT and Twitter actively vet who is allowed to speak on their platforms, which means it’s not free. It also means they are somewhat condoning the speech on their platforms.

It’s already not free.

You’re not getting paid to move a gift. USPS is.

Food delivery is a good point though, the perishablility of the package might have exceptions. Most food delivery needs to be delivered within an hour, and the majority is delivered within 20 minutes. Such deliveries are also super local, rarely if ever going farther than 60km. You could say food deliveries of under 50km are exempt, which would probably have some strange outliers, but I don’t think every package is going to get sent with free fries to circumvent this.

At the other end, enforcing better working conditions and possibly unions would go a long way, but good luck finding a politician in power willing to do that.

Perhaps a bit more flexible would be a tax on parcels, and Canada Post has no change beyond that.

At the end of the day, the focus on costs is the issue. The service Canada Post provides is mail access to nearly everyone. Private services will pick up the profitable routes, but they won’t cover nearly as many as Canada Post. If we shut down a service because the profitable routes have been taken by private services, people loose service and more people become dependent on private services.

Maybe the answer is to make Canada Post a charter agency, setting up infrastructure only where used, but required to cover any route requested. That might appease the corner cutters, but would maintain service to the people who need it. On the other hand, I don’t want to ceede any distance to deregulators, lest they use that as precedent to dismantle other services and the few remaining crown corps.

That’s really the larger issue. Arguing that services aren’t profitable in order to dismantle them in favour of private corporations. Our city does this with our busses all the time. Public transportation gets better the more of it you have, but people argue that it doesn’t make enough money so we should reduce service. What is a service worth? Why should we expect them to be profitable?

There’s still lots of domestic mail in the form of packages. And the working conditions of package delivery drivers is pretty terrible. Why not hit two birds with one stone and mandate that all domestic mail must be delivered by Canada Post?