Stories recounting cruel physical and sexual abuse are only a google search away. Of thousands of children being disappeared. Of being woken in the middle of the night to dig graves.
Because time in the real world uses leap seconds. The time businesses open and close. The times reported in news articles. And so on. What facebook wants is for all of them to stop using leap seconds so facebook’s infrastructure is simpler
The lasers they use are extremely specialized, since they have to deliver outrageous amounts of power for a very short period of time. Advancements in normal lasers may not be of much use here
Edit: Wow, looks like they have improved considerably
That’s assuming they ever even make it to net positive energy output. The article carefully avoids mentioning that the lasers they use are wildly inefficient. It is very hard to break even when you lose 90% of your input power right at the start
In most of the US they aren’t common. Outside of that debacle in Texas, I can’t recall any rolling blackouts in the US from lack of supply. The rarity is quite likely why that event made international news and got so many people around the country talking about it
This comment would be more compelling if it gave any hint about what aspect of the tooling the author didn’t understand or what they should be doing differently.
> In the modern world, the demand seems to be that every tool be perfectly safe in every situation no matter what you do
The problem is that there is such a huge number of tools in widespread use that each one causing even a few security vulnerabilities means that the ecosystem overall is constantly vulnerable
Adding features to existing software is much cheaper than writing entirely new software (not to mention the cost to switch!) At the same time, new features in low level software can unlock substantial value. Say a new API that speeds up your app by 1% or cuts down on further development time by a small fraction.