What’s the total human population again, 8 billion?

Electron was discovered in 1897. If you own a textbook on chemistry which is older than that, put it up on Ebay in the antiques category.

A muzzle loader’s cotton wad is perfectly deadly, there are multiple stories of people dying from blank shots.

At least there are separate apps, and you don’t have to register your bank card with them to use maps, you don’t even need to enable GPS.

Definitely China. You go there, and you install the Baidu Maps app, because Google Maps does not work there. But it’s not just maps, it also includes chat, banking, public transport tickets, and voice calls, all in a single app. Many street vendors don’t even have cash, they accept Baidu payments through the app. And it’s as big-brother as it gets, it immediately asks for every permission and refuses to work otherwise.

mcedit, because I’m not nerdy enough for vim.

Because you won’t determine the type of NAT during hole punching. This requires the client sending two UDP packets to two different IP addresses, then comparing their source addresses on the server.

Normally yes, you can just assume that two clients you are trying to connect both have port restricted cone NAT, and run the hole punching algorithm, and if the connection fails after ten seconds, show message to the users ‘Error 418: your router is a teapot’.

The one use case is running STUN/TURN server for NAT hole punching, that requires two separate servers, or one server with two IP addresses. You will only need that to run masterserver for games that support hole punching, or to run VoIP telephony / teleconference server.

Another use case is reliability, when your server is connected to several network providers, it will keep working if one of them has an outage, and will naturally have a different IP address for each network link. But your VPS does not have several network links, otherwise they would advertize that in bold red letters.

85% own a smartphone, 88% own a car, but only 83% have a driver’s license, that would explain a few things. Is gas cheaper than mobile internet in the US?

Also, Americans means US citizens, Mexico and Canada are conveniently excluded as usual.

How long until we get self-insert AI porn?

It flies, so I don’t get the joke. I’m an embedded developer BTW.

It depends on how rich you are. CEOs have their own, reduced edition of the law.

The presidential helicopter won’t have any anti-air capabilities, and their defence wouldn’t risk firing AA missiles with the VIP still in the sky, so the most they could do is shake their fists impotently at the nearby drones. If they didn’t shoot down the drones still near their borders using another helicopter, the safest way is just let them be, drones will only target ground objects anyway.

Robotized armies are already here, and they look nothing like steel skeleton humanoid Terminators, they are more like cheapest four propeller drones with an anti-tank mine strapped with zip ties, naked wires with no cover, because it’s single use.

One part grain, two parts water, salt to taste (or soy sauce for tastier taste).

Bring to boil, then let it simmer on the smallest flame your stove can do. Keep the lid covered. When you stop hearing boiling noise, it’s ready. Takes around 30-40 minutes, if it cooks longer you’re probably using too much water.

Basically, prepare it like buckwheat. No need to pre-soak it, oat grain is soft enough that you can chew it unboiled. Washing before boiling is up to personal preferences, it’s gonna boil so it’s sterile by default.

We can control AI just fine. We cannot control corporations, who use sloppy AI for important decisions. A few court cases for unfair hiring practices will solve the problem rather quickly, it won’t be AI who will get fined, it will be CEO.

Yeah, you could probably achieve 15% cooling efficiency with regular old nitrogen or methane instead of fluorocarbons.

Not shown: a cubic meter of obscure developer boards and gadgets that hardware manufacturers randomly send to Torvalds to integrate into Linux.

Also his RAM is ECC.

std::vector<bool> fits eight booleans into one byte.

Wow, I’ll try that tomorrow

Edit: I’ve tried butter coffee twice, and it’s actually decent.