Super interesting; I wonder whether the fraction of nodes that need to be represented by cycles eats into the performance benefit vs. other approaches.

Degaussers use varying magnetic fields in a specific way, it’s not raw field strength doing the erasing.

We have to go deeper!

I love how often seemingly simple questions just get fuzzier the closer you look at them.

It reminds me of the surprisingly deep rabbit hole regarding the first video game. People often say it’s Tennis for Two, but there’s not really a clear single answer!

I don’t need them to be that nice, and I’d much rather pay a bit more than lug bulky extra components around.

I use my laptop’s speakers all the time; why would I want to bust out external speakers when I can have perfectly usable ones built in? Doubly so when I’m not at home!

Sex is a hell of a drug when it comes to diversity.

Easymotion is the only plugin I need to be happy.

Jimmy may be a dick, but it’s nonsense to say he’s factually wrong. Impure sodium chloride is still sodium chloride.

The free-threaded build is a patched version of the interpreter. This is not (currently) behavior normal users will be exposed to.

Threw me too, I did not parse “Skywalker Hughes” as a name at first.

Well, these services do require money to run. If everyone were as ‘clever’ as you are then we’d have little content indeed.

It’s 1/4, that’s why you get two dice jokers in the fragile challenge.

This is referred to as healthspan or HALE and has been gaining research interest in recent decades.

Ass Dan’s gonna live forever!

Cold fusion was an academic fraud. The actually possible but eternally around-the-corner tech is just plain fusion.

It’s redundant but it still works; doing it that way does not imply they haven’t actually used it.

Getting an infusing scoop made loose tea just as practical in my experience. I just rinse it rather than wash it since it only ever touches tea leaves and water.

You’re absolutely right, you could take any binary that runs under an OS and set up a bootloader to execute it directly without an OS.

The problem is that all programs, even ones in C, rely invisibly and enormously on the OS abstracting away hardware for them. The python interpreter doesn’t know the first thing about how to parse the raw bytes on a hard drive to find the location of the bytes that belong to a given file path. Files and filesystems are ‘fake’ when you get down to it, and the OS creates that fiction so each program doesn’t have to be customized per PC setup.

So, ironically, to be able to truly kernel hack in python like you want would require writing tons of C to replace all OS hooks (like fopen to interact with a file, e.g.) with code that knows how to directly manipulate your hardware (speaking PCIe/NVMe to get to the disk, speaking GPT to find the partition on the disk, speaking ext4 to find the file in the partition, e.g.).

OSes are complex as hell for a reason, and by retrofitting python to run on bare metal like that would require recreating that complexity in the interpreter.

That’s how trolls draw people in further so they can more deeply upset them, it’s not a weird lie at all.