Broadband had pretty much had taken over most places by the mid-2000s. That was 20 years ago. There are people who can drink now who were born after 9/11.

What I’m trying to say is, yes, we’re old. Dialup to younger folks is like what rotary phones were to us.

Not every country has such a paranoid view of their government as Americans do. Some systems function a bit better when the people want something done.

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Software patents are fucked, ain’t they? You can implement a thing using completely different code, algorithms, hell even programming languages/CPU architectures, and you’d still be infringing. There was some stupid fight over a simple slider UI element to unlock a phone a few years back.

That’s great. That’s a personal antecdote though. I was online, unsupervised at 14 years old back in the late 90s, and being into anime and furry shit, I definitely had more than a couple people online trying to roleplay sexual shit with me…a fourteen year old kid. Even though my account profiles stated so. Unfettered, unsupervised access is also not the solution. I’m basing my opinion on this on my own experience as well. There are a shitload of predators out there.

I am not saying a blanket, hamfisted ban is the solution either. This is more complex than being a black and white problem. Where the fuck is everybody’s parents? They should be the ones actively guiding their kid through online spaces, not the government. It was literally a slogan in the 90s to “ask your parents before accessing such and such website” on every ad having to do with the Internet. WTF happened.

Warmest November I ever recall feeling in 35 years. It’s literally in the 70s/80s F on the mid Atlantic US coast.

I don’t care about the laws, I don’t think parents should be allowing access to social media to their five year olds. Preteens maybe, with heavy supervision, yeah that’s reasonable, but not toddlers for fuck’s sake.

The law can go fuck itself, sure, but parents need to step the fuck up in this day and age. There is no reason for a 1st grader to be posting to X/FB/whatever. They should be playing Legos, riding bikes, and digging holes in the playground dirt.

You wanna get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid? Because that’s how you get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid.

The same parent that handed the kid a device to be on social media can also take the kid out somewhere to socialize with other kids.

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Are we still going on about the diacetyl and studies that drove the coils so hard they were basically incinerating the cotton and juice?

Some people need a reason to read, some knowledge or skill to be gained, and aren’t into just reading for reading’s sake. I’ll never read Harry Potter or most other fiction, but I’ll definitely binge some electronics engineering and programming reference books. Doesn’t mean I hate reading. It just has to be useful to me. I have to walk away with the feeling of having gained info that I didn’t have before.

That’s probably why I don’t play many videogames either.

I think you’d like this channel: https://m.youtube.com/@CoreDumpped

That’s basically how IGBTs in power electronics work, in stuff like trains and electric cars. It’s a sensitive, easily activated voltage-driven MOSFET driving a larger BJT transistor in a chain.

Also how Darlington pairs work. So, yeah, maybe they could do all the computation at that level and then cascade the output through larger transistors to talk to the outside world.

The article mentions this, and says these new transistors actually take advantage of quantum tunnelling at those small scales to switch the transistors on and off. Usually that’s accomplished by charging up a conductive channel in a traditional MOSFET like a capacitor.

The disadvantage seems to be that these transistors can only control very tiny currents. They currently lack enough ass to control much else.

As an addition to your post, I’m also in the process of learning C/C++, and I’m curious also how others arrange their actual project files and include directories. Like, for example, if there’s a bunch of classes having to do with UI elements, do you just group them each under their own file all in their own directory? I’ve also seen projects where everything was just thrown into the top level directory, both headers and implementation files together in a giant pile of source files.

sudo apt install libflour

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

libflour-3.2.3-23 : Depends: crackers-2.52-29 but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt --fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

As in, forever for good, or the “Microsoft” “for good” user settings paradigm?

Happens. Cars used to need special skills to even get started and drive around. Now a five year old can start one and drive off if they can reach the pedals. But they won’t have any clue how it actually works.

My computer is on a workbench that already has a mess of wires and electronic components on it. One less wire is great. I barely game. I don’t need the quick response.

First, who are you quoting?

Literally the person four comments above this one, right before yours. You gotta slow down when reading comments dude.