Researchers have achieved data rates as high as 424Gbit/s across a 53-km turbulent free-space optical link using plasmonic modulators—devices that use special light waves called surface plasmon polaritons to control and change optical signals

This could be a line from Star Trek

I've gotten so cynical about the "sustainable" label that I pretty much assume any product, company, etc. that claims to be sustainable is probably the exact opposite.

They're "depressed and despondent" because they judge comic movie fans? This is some prime Dr. Phil level psychology right here.

Far as Swift's syntax goes, I really like argument labels too, but it's just that there's SO. MUCH. SYNTAX. Lots of sugar, yes, but sometimes that's part of the problem in my opinion, because it often adds to the syntactic and semantic "noise." Also, there's 98 keywords (more if you count eg. try, try! and try? as different keywords, and this count is missing eg. sending and other new keywords) – compare this to say Rust's or or Python's 35. Java's got 68, while C++ also has 98 and it's notorious for having way too many of them. And then there's all the symbols – some of which have different meanings in different contexts.

It's true that ARC only applies to reference types, but even with value types you can often get some fairly surprising performance problems due to implicit copies, for example in getters and setters – and the _read and _modify accessors that can sometimes help with that due to returning (well, yielding) a borrowed value instead of a copy aren't meant for "public" use (which doesn't mean many libraries etc. don't use them, much to the consternation of core devs).

Urr, I don't think that's it. I'm not sure stereo sound for vinyls has ever worked so that something like this would be necessary, and it wouldn't really make sense – why would they have to put vocals on one channel and instruments on the other?

A stereo vinyl player just has the needle moving up and down in addition to left and right, so that the left-right axis is the sum of the waveforms of both channels and the up-down axis is the difference – which means that a regular mono player can play stereo vinyls

Would have cost you exactly 0 € to not be a cunt, but here you are.

I didn't correct it because I was away from my computer for an extended period – the current version has a different image and is correctly attributed. I didn't delete it because then the existing conversation in the comments would have also gotten nuked, exactly the same reason the mod didn't delete it either.

THE PEETS

Yeah I doubt those particular comments have anything to do with "AI". It just seems fashionable to blame AI for absolutely everything nowadays

I'll just make a new one (this isn't oc) when I get home but that'll be 10h at least. It's OK to nuke this since it is sorta misinfo, although I didn't know it when I posted it

Ah, figures. I should know better than to post quotes without checking if they're attributed correctly

I actually originally dug this picture up for a post of this RawStory article titled 'Their ignorance is willful': WaPo analyst says enough with the MAGA voter pity, which is highly relevant.

The problem with the majority of right wing extremists isn't that they're just stupid misled bumpkins, but that they're actual psychopaths who vote for people like Trump because he's promising to hurt everybody they hate

Edit: apparently not a Herzog quote https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/werner-herzog-germany-quote/