⚪️ Ada Programming Myths Debunked: Why and How Ada Still Matters in Modern Software Development

🗨️ Ada, a programming language commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense and named after the world’s first programmer Ada Lovelace, is widely used to control airplanes, trains, spacecraft, and all sorts of other complex systems. Let’s look at the language without the usual myths and see what pr…

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The Shape Of The Sword - Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives

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From the 2026 "What to watch"-panel at Åcon 14 last night, unfortunately I'd already seen most of the recommendations... 😁

@acon

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⚪️ Meshtastic: Understanding a decentralized protocol, its cryptography, and its bugs

🗨️ Meshtastic is a decentralized mesh network making it possible to transmit short messages over tens of kilometers through a chain of intermediate nodes (no Internet access is required). It’s based on the LoRa protocol designed for long-distance data transmission. Today, you and I will explore the …

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Meshtastic: Understanding a decentralized protocol, its cryptography, and its bugs

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"It's not that I think nuclear power is 100% safe, I won't tell you that. But ... the risks of nuclear power are less than the risks of continuing to burn fossil fuels, in my opinion. Now a lot depends here on how much of your energy mix you think you can get from renewables, which are very good at the current margin, but you don't want to become over-reliant on them."

#JamesActon, 2024

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350318121/going-nuclear-we-are-entering-era-new-global-arms-race

Huh? Why on earth not?

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