America is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to America.

2.2 Km to nearest chemist / convenience store.

If you can get a hold of Dubai Led bulbs, they are supposed to last extremely long

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-lights-you-cant-buy/

Yes c++ == c. That’s the point Bjarne Stroustrup made. It is the C language but then it’s better.

Nowadays they’re not completely compatible. But originally it was a preprocessor that created the C equivalent to be compiled. You could write C++ that compiled with a C compiler as long as you didn’t use the extra features.

???

If c = 1, then c++ = 2

#include <iostream> using namespace std;

int main() {

int i = 10;

cout << i++ << endl;

cout << i << endl;

}

postfix ++ increments the variable.

Yes. You were unlucky to have stupid friends.

I’m an idiot. I didn’t click the thumbnail. I had that router but the thumbnail only showed the antenna with cross brace which I’ve never seen before.

What is it?

No. I usually browse all.

Where are people seeing this hexbear and lemmygrad content? I use the Thunder client with a lemmy.world account. I don’t have those instances blocked but never see anything from them. Is it because I created my account on lemmy.world?

Ignoring AI as he is like ignoring Spreadsheets as hype. “I can do everything with a pocket calculator! I don’t need stupid auto fill!”

AI doesn’t replace people. It can automate and reduce your workload leaving you more time to solve problems.

I’ve used it for one off scripts. I have friends who have done the same and another friend who used it to create the boilerplate for a government contact bid that he won (millions in revenue for his company of which he got tens of thousands in bonus as engineering sales support).

Microtubules have been pushed for decades without any proof. The latest paper wasn’t evidence but unsupported speculation.

But more importantly the physics of computation that creates intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with understanding intelligence. Even if quantum effects are relevant ( which is extremely unlikely given the warm and moving environment inside the brain), it doesn’t answer anything about how humans are intelligent.

Penrose used Quantum Mechanics as a “God in the Gaps” explanation. That worked 40 years ago but today we have working quantum computers but no human intelligence.

Burned DVD’s or mass manufactured? Purchased can last forever although aluminum substrate corrosion has happened in humid environments.

Verbatim is still around. They still say, “Up to 100 years”. 10 years is up to 100 years.

Play the lottery. You could win up to $1M dollars.

USB sticks are only rated for 10 years. So you should only expect 5. Physically they will last much longer but the electrons leak out of the floating gate unless re-written.

10-15 years for DVD. I have extensive experience with DVDs. I don’t have experience with Blu-ray but I would expect it to be half the rated lifespan too.

DVD’s will last about 15 years tops. I bought the highest quality 100 year rated AZZO dye DVDs. I used special tools from cdforums to make sure I burned at the speed that resulted in the lowest pi/pio errors rate ( the errors you don’t normally see because they’re corrected in drive). The ideal speed isn’t the slowest or fastest based on the drive and the media. I stored the DVDs in black dvd cases in my temperature controlled basement.

They all started having errors after 10 years.

That still means you have to find a source that’s not contaminated. Given it’s even in Antarctica, that’s going to be a challenge.

1. Where? https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/2127/2022/

2. You are going to pay hundreds per bag to send it for testing?

Hydroponics are done with plastic components. I’ve never heard of hydroponics done with glass.

The micro plastic is in the dirt. Most commenters here think microplastic means a bit of plastic that broke off packaging.

Microplastic are plastic pieces that you need a strong microscope to see. They can be as small as bacteria.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016121003095