If you pay your bills on time, you can take advantage of that. You can think of it as a tiny discount, but the credit card company thinks of you as dead weight.

However, those companies also have clever mathematicians who have figured out how much to give you back and how much interest to demand from the people who don’t pay their bills on time. The house always wins.

Money first, stuff later = gift card
Stuff first, money later + extra money = credit card

LabVIEW is definitely programming of some sort, but doesn’t feel at all like programming. Pretty marginal example, but still…

Well, the point and click part was a bit extreme. Still true in some rare cases, but actual programming still requires a keyboard.

However the RAM thing is interesting. Haven’t actually written any code in the 70’s and 80’s, but what I’ve heard from people who did, RAM was a huge bottle neck. Well, pretty much everything was. Even the bandwidth between your terminal and the mainframe was a bottle neck that made you suffer.

Back in those days, programmers were painfully aware of the hardware limitations. If you wanted your code to run within a reasonable amount of time, you absolutely had to focus on optimizing it.

Oh, but there is one thing Lemmy can replicate. !slop@hexbear.net

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The whole planet and everything in it is completely riddled with viruses. Better steer clear if you value your life. If they ever send you a message, delete it without reading a single word of it.

Glad I could help!

LOL. You’re welcome!

I like to think that viruses are just an inevitable consequence of having biochemical machines we call “life”.

Yep. Bio weapons are terrible in every way. Now that RNA vaccines are in production, making new vaccines just got a whole lot faster.

New fear unlocked.

Prime horror movie material.

You trust your body. You trust your mind. But what if the enemy… is already inside you?

They’re not viruses. They’re not bacteria. They’re your own proteins… twisted. Hungry.

They hide in the folds of your brain. They wait in the silence of your cells. And when they strike… you won’t even know you’re already lost.

PRIONS

COMING TO AN ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM NEAR YOU

Wait until you hear about viruses or prions. Truly terrifying nanobots. Worst of all, they already exist. Those things are out there right now.

The old generation is always the best and new generations are always bad. What we call the bad generation depends on the decade or century when you ask. This seems to be one of the constants of human existence.

All they have to do is to stop maintaining the mobile app that controls the robot. Sure, you can still start it manually, but it won’t do anything smart.

On top of that, people have families, jobs, and other commitments that hinder their plans. Moving to another town is already hard enough as it is, but relocating to another country is even harder.

While it’s certainly possible and perhaps even advisable, it’s not a realistic option for most people. If your life is in danger, remaining isn’t really an option, so any associated difficulties with moving and starting anew are the lesser evil. However, for everyone else, the situation gets complicated.

It’s 1285813 in hexadecimal, which was a disappointment. I was hoping to see at least one letter to increase the search space a little. You can totally brute force this in no time.

LOL, spot on!

Long ago, I stumbled upon something similar. A chemist ordered some “organic salt” from amazon, and analysed it at work. He was very disappointed to find that it had only inorganic components, so left a negative review where he explained his discoveries.

Yeah, it’s cool to colonise a new place, but what about the day when the colonists bite the hand that feeds them? In many sci-fi stories, Mars eventually rises against Earth.

History repeats itself, like the episodes of Power Rangers. The writers had only one script, and hardly any creativity, so they just made minor tweaks here and there and turned that napkin into a series.

Why China tough? They would just be walking in the footsteps of England at that point? Totally lame!

Would be way cooler if you built a chain of rebellions: Rome -> Britannia*/England -> America -> Mars. That’s like next level independenception or something.

*caveats: Britannia did rebel, but independence came when Rome just couldn’t afford to rule Britannia any more. They weren’t kicked out.

Was it Johann Heinrich Wolfgang von Sandwich in 1638?