The way I've understood it is Shannon showed that it's possible to reliably send a signal even if you know the signal will get corrupted before arriving at the other end.
Shannon's theory is foundational to modern communication systems. You can expect to have WiFi remain functional even as other devices use the same medium. Up to a point, the Shannon limit in other words.
So I went to have a look at Odin and was mind blown at the lispiness in the hellope example. A list of operators defined as "program"; that are applied to the accumulator then printed. It's a striking first impression for me and I want to see what the Odin people have cooked up.
Odin has been a masterpiece so far! Ginger Bill has a massive update coming in for it Jan 2027 as well. :) I think it's definitely going to take off in the next few years.
I wasn't when I saw they made the exact same stupid error as Python: if and switch are statements, so that you need a stupid ternary operator to do the same.
And Anthony Rapp (the actor who plays him) went through some awful stuff that made him famous for another reason and he seems to have come out stronger. Good for him.
As for the whole mycelium plot in Discovery, I found it so ridiculous that I refuse to consider that show canon.
There’s far worse problems with Discovery ;) but really, much of Trek is ridiculous: “we went really fast around a sun and traveled back in time to _exactly_ when we need to be.” Convenient!
Oh of course. Mycelium is just the tip of the iceberg e.g. "Spock had a secret sister." Oh come on!
Yes some Trek scripts are better than others, as are some entire shows. But the creators of Disco seemed like they had never watched a single episode of "real" Trek or understood what made it work.
Speaking of laptop batteries as a UPS source, some laptops come with battery management features that keep the battery healthy even when plugged in full time, usually exposed as a setting in the BIOS/UEFI. I've found that business/enterprise type laptops like Thinkpads and Probooks have this as standard, for example Thinkpads from 2010 already had this, assuming you're lucky enough to find one with a usable battery of course.
Congratulations on launching William. There's quite a bit of criticism here that'll help you refine your app I think. I'm working on a something similar and already learning from the discussion here around user experience and privacy. All the best.
I appreciate it! It’s bound to happen when it’s my first time launching an app. All criticism is good criticism, only up from here. Thanks for the comment!
As I read this, Greenspun's tenth rule of programming humorously came to mind: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
Generalized by replacing "C or Fortran" with a language where the user wants more power over it's syntax and semantics, to witness the author pull it off in just 44 lines of JavaScript was a joy.
Shannon's theory is foundational to modern communication systems. You can expect to have WiFi remain functional even as other devices use the same medium. Up to a point, the Shannon limit in other words.