Nuclear + Batteries could be nice too because the reactors will be always working at optimal rate without having to start/stop them to adapt to demand and let the storage manage peaks and lows. So investment in one domain can help the other too.
True. In any case references solve only half of the problem because it lets you state "this function will not take a null pointer". You still cannot say "this function may take a null pointer" unless you use a very unusual convention of saying that any pointer argument may take a null pointer.
I don't find that convention unusual. That's how I (and everyone at my company) writes code every day. If an argument is a pointer, that means it may be null. If it may not be null, it should be a reference.
Technically there isn't a recession but, if you split by sectors, you see that all sectors not related to the AI investment boom are in the red. The question is: is it a natural consequence of investment shift to better technologies or a real problem that is temporarily hidden by an AI bubble ?
Is there a particular meaning to 'active/inactive' that I don't know that justifies your out-of-proportion outrage? What is the problem with observing that 35% of Americans just don't care enough about this subject to go vote ?
The people you are replying to are trying to have a meaningful discussion by providing references and some basic argumentation. Can you add some link or arguments that explain more strongly your point of view instead of using strong affirmations ('misinformation', 'debunked', 'nonsensical') without any trace of argumentation and no reference at all ?
Maybe it was initially supposed to be a sort of "3-value boolean" (true/false/undefined) and not a standard bool. You can (rarely) meet this pattern in c++ if you use boost::tribool or in c# if you have a nullable bool. There is probably similar thing in other languages.
Even if the computational power evolve exponentially, we need to evaluate the utility of additional computations. And if the utility happens to increase logarithmically with computation spend, it's possible that in the end, we will observe just a linear increase in utility.
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