It’s a liability and risk concern. If something were to happen (and this is guaranteed to happen eventually) you want to operate with the lowest privileges that you can to reduce the potential damage. This can be a mental health issue, a disgruntled employee or a simple accident that leads to compromise of company data and systems. For the same reason you don’t want to run every single application as administrator, you don’t want every employee to be an administrator at all times.

That said, with a good company, it’s not that difficult to get the access that you need provided that you have a legitimate use case. As a developer, I have a script I can run to give myself full administrative privileges at any time. Think of it as a safety on a firearm to ensure it’s being used deliberately. Even then, I don’t have access to the same documents that HR does because I don’t have a reason to know everyone’s data. And personally, I don’t want to have access to everything. If there were to be an incident (again, with infinite time it will happen eventually to somebody), I could become involved simply because I had access or knowledge. In many cases it could be grounds for termination if I should have known some information and did not act on this data in a timely manner. As I gain more experience I learn it’s often better not to have access to information without cause. It is against everybody’s interests.

I enjoy these statistics showing some mild growth, and at the same time I’m pleased that Lemmy is here for its users first rather than evangelizing as top priority as common with profit-driven applications.

I would say this is metal, yet it is not.

It is wood.

I appreciate you trying to keep your developers productive. Deeply appreciate the concern.

I think my eyes are throwing up.

The best solution for the concurrent and atomic age.

The time it takes for the counter to increment due to cosmic rays or background radiation is approximately constant, therefore same order as adding one. Same time complexity.

Constant time solution. Highly efficient.

Typing on mobile please excuse.

i = 0
while i != 1:
  pass

# i is now 1

Depend on how confident I am that I like my current set of jokers.

Don’t want to waste the upgrade if I win.

Extreme concentration. What free market can we have?

Those random numbers have a random distribution. Random uniform or random normal, I can average out those values to zero to remove the noise. This is indeed what GPS does for example. This wouldn’t be effective for blocking those types of radio signals.

If you want to be effective, you need to know the symbol rate and cater your jamming to the application. There’s also other parameters of a radio signal besides amplitudes like polarity and your signal also has to propagate through free space and make it through the front end of my receiver which could be selective in other ways. You don’t typically have the privilege of transmitting directly into the receiving antenna.

There’s an interesting related area called channel coding that you might be interested in that models noise and interference and figures out how to encode radio signals in ways where they are not easily disturbed.

For your specific example, if you’re talking about changing the value randomly on every nanosecond, I would expect to see a one gigahertz main frequency with lower harmonics, which would likely look like pretty much nothing to most GPS devices.

Wi-Fi is interesting. It’s designed for maximum bandwidth at low power levels. It also has a carrier sense system to prevent interference with other unknown devices on the unlicensed spectrum. Most things are sacrificed for that bandwidth, such as exploiting multipath and spatial propagation differences to squeeze out every last drop of data. Orthogonal carriers are spaced very close together maximize the available spectrum.

Still in this case, Wi-Fi operates at other frequencies that do not get microwave interference, and wireless network might explicitly be trying not to interfere with the microwave because it could be a device trying to share the unlicensed spectrum. The other Wi-Fi frequencies don’t go very far and aren’t good at penetrating walls, so the amount of power that an alien spaceship would have to use to block these signals categorically is crazy high. at some point you don’t have a jammer but a giant space death ray.

I’m not saying they couldn’t degrade it, but jamming them all? That sounds like a very challenging ask. Your microwave shares your living space. Meanwhile your wireless router politely avoids speaking when the microwave appears to be talking.

The cheap ones make a lot of noise already. I imagine to a passing alien spaceship we look like a giant EMP.

Jamming isn’t so trivial because it’s not really the volume but the signal to noise ratio that really matters no matter how much energy the aliens use. Therefore, I propose that this question doesn’t make technical sense.

Take for example GPS. The signal strength is way below the noise and you can’t really hear it at all because it’s so weak. The background noise is overwhelmingly loud already. You have to process the signal out of the noise using special techniques to collect the energy you care about using statistical correlation. While can still jam the signal in general, jamming requires that you understand how the signal is being used to impact that signal to noise ratio and stop the information flow. Simply screaming into all frequencies might not have all that much impact unless you understand what a signal means for each use case. Many wireless applications are even point to point links that are great at rejecting inputs outside of the intended direction and even the wrong polarization. There are physical limitations that preclude a general all signal jammer.

That said, let’s say the aliens understand all of our wireless communication protocols. I think people would adapt after a short period of disruption because it wasn’t all that long ago that we were using wires for business and critical functions. Heck, some industry still use fax machines and famously a lot of old government tech still has software stored on floppy disc. I think we’ll be OK. Might even be better for our mental health once the phones stop working.

Ah yes, one of the few government services that actually sort of works. Can’t have that.

Definitely not high-performance by any means which should come as no surprise due to the limitations of GPU architecture versus CPU for some tasks, but technically fascinating.

The squirrels around here are fat enough to be two of those squirrels.

I’m afraid it’s going to take an infinite amount of time.

I can’t cook half as good on my best day. Amazing.

My understanding is that the American accent tends to be popular in all kinds of media overseas. This is by no means an expression of American dominion or superiority. However, I understand that for example in Sweden it’s popular to use American phrases during sex.

With that said, I expect the IP address from which your connection originates affects the videos presented to you based on your region.