a society where people are blind to the cruelty of one half while denouncing the cruelty of the other half.
that seems to be one of the ingreedience for violence.
each side will justify their violence by pointing at the other side. i have seen it before - its not a very original story
it didnt go into detail about the purpose of the = / == padding.
and it also didnt show in the example how to handle data that can not be devided into groups of 6 bits without bits left over.
i think i have an understanding of how to do it but it would be nice to be certain.
could someone address the following 2 questions in a short and exhaustive way:
- when do you use =, when do you use == and do you always add = / == or are there cases where you dont add = / == ?
- how to precisely handle leftover bits. for example the string "5byte". and is there anything to consider when decoding?
pascal was the 2nd language i learned after basic and it was the best time of my learning life. the fact that you could add inline assembler code and the early attempts of object oriented programming were amazing.
it was turbo pascal 6.0 btw.
this made me think of a fun activity. ask chatgpt to come up with a new word and then google that word.
sometimes the word exists in the context of a scify show or a plant. sometimes gpt just added a "se" or "us" to existing words.
sometimes it changes a Z to a C
but it never actually came up with a new word
one argument that was repeated over and over by pro fission folks was that an accident like chernobyl could not happen in a "good" country like france, german or japan.
seening how one of the most technologicaly advanced countries suffered a contaminating incident that is comparable on scale with chernobyl was a shock to most germans and blew the mentioned agument away.
if you were old enough to remember not being allowed to go outside as a child, to see your playgrounds demolished and the sand exchanged, you may be thinking differently about it.
for decades it wasnt safe to collect mushrooms in the woods, something germans are or better were quite fond of. i am honestly not sure if its even safe today.
nuclear may be safe for the most part but when it goes wrong it goes wrong in such a dramatic way that it is traumatizing.
what is the point of creating yet another social network unless you have a key feature to make it distinct and valuable?
if you just make a twitter / facebook clone for tech people all you are doing is dividing yourself from other people. that might be desireable for some people but i dont think its worth persueing in the long term.
i propose we create something that addresses existing problems and adds new features. a social network not based on yet another website, not based on yet another app with centralized ownership.
blockchain is the new hype and promises new features and value.
lets make a social network that exists entirely on a cryptoblock chain. i am not talking about creating yet another coin. this is entiely outside of the scope of monetary tokens.
lets use the blockchain technology to host text and link posts in a distributed fashion.
lets come up with a way to give an incentive to host a copy of the chain. and lets make it completely decentralized.
then you have a social network worthy of hackers
"If we take the moon's current rate of recession and project it back in time"
is a very straight forward way of saying, lets assume the moon receeded from the earth at the current rate.