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The way I read this was "The Webb telescope just offered a view of starbirth that sheds light on earths distant past," it's accurate in that sense (our star was born and we're not sure how exactly) and agree could have been worded better.


I have a similar background and got a lot out of my CS program, its about what you put into it. Sorry you had a bad experience, that can absolutely make it harder to invest.


For anyone looking for a great open source Sudoku app with no ads: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.moire.open...

This looks great but I was sad to see advertisements and consider that a bell if not a whistle. I would pay a few bucks for this if it could match the features of the above with this clean visual style.


Hey, thanks for that! I can implement some type of feature for people who want to get rid of ads altogether for a buck or two. Appreciate the suggestion.


They'll admit it if you speak to them, in a round about way. At this point you're either anti-fascist or not.


I understood "contractor" in this usage to mean mercenary.


Selfish


Internet access will continue its steady progress of being more available and cheaper, and you have the burden of proving otherwise.

You can look up the CPI: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEEE03?output_view=d...

Broadly speaking it seems like consumer prices have decreased (CPI suggests ~25%, but that's probably very general). At the same time we've gotten incredibly better internet service compared to 1997 (how do you even account for the monumental jump over that time period).

If the world is ending, we've got it pretty good.


I think it's fair to call yourself a computer scientist if you do computer science. If I walk dogs I'm a dog walker right?


If you write papers that is.

Doing cs is not coding just to clarify.


Where's the source?


It's not open source. I want to keep any possibility of future monetization open for now.


This is why he's incorporated the avatar - in the example he provides you wouldn't see the "boot" avatar if you had missed a letter, the boot is part of the address and should be communicated verbally when giving the address verbally.


If you are sending or telling someone the adress you can't expect them to check the avatar. How would it work e.g. over the phone?


From the README:

If you want to transmit your Xaddress by phone you will say "7150 MAGICAL PEARL - Maluku ,Indonesia" my avatar is a boot


So to check whether the address is valid I need to use a smartphone app. If I cannot do it online and only after someone gives me the address I will know it is broken, but will not know what is the correct address.


Bingo, error detection is functionally distinct from error recovery. In this context, error detection helps prevent some misdeliveries, but can't help ensure additional correct deliveries in the face of error.

By analogy, ECC memory can typically detect two bit errors but can only correct single bit errors. That's because the functionality used to detect two bit errors in ECC memory is insufficient to recover both bits.


The concept of an avatar doesn't translate across cultures. And the visual hash isn't an "avatar" as typically used on the internet. Furthermore, the images may be incomprehensible in some cultures.

Keeping a minimal edit distance between code words in the corpus would enable error detection and correction without the burden of sending another piece of info.


Easily disproved lies, go have a look at the wine APPDB if you're not just trolling. Most of the time if something doesn't run right, it's due to DRM or bleeding edge DX features.


Every time I try I find either bronze or silver. Graphical glitches in five year old games aren't "bleeding edge DX" problems.


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