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  • No, computing (as in general computing) will barely be affected. Computing uses semiconductors, which this (AFAIK) isn’t. Switching losses always occur unless you switch instantly, which is impossible. Most of the heat of cpus comes from there.

    Specialized things like quantum computing are a different story.

    What this superconductor could mean though: you could have a relatively thin cable from say, the Sahara to Europe, that can losslessly transfer energy. No losses whatsoever. So you can produce energy wherever energy is present, and use it where energy is required!


  • As someone not in those circles that just stumbled upon this post in all:

    You look ‘different’ obviously, as you yourself know. That’s going to get some reactions from some people - you can’t really help that. That’s fine, be yourself.

    Other than that, don’t make your whole identity that you are who you are. What I mean by that is - don’t base your daily actions, what you do, what you always talk about, the friends you make solely on the fact that you are a transman. Just be a normal, decent human being - and I think you’ll find a lot more ‘general acceptance’.

    Then again, just my 2 cents as an outsider, this is just my opinion and as I’ve obviously never had to go through this myself I have no idea if this works or not.






  • Meh, the best programmers are probably somewhere in the middle.

    This also depends on what kind of work you’re doing.

    Writing some frontend with lots of Boilerplate? That’s lots of lines.

    Writing efficient code that for example runs on embedded systems? That’s different. My entire master’s thesis code project on an embedded system consisted of around 600 lines of C code, and it did exactly what it should, efficiently.

    A better metric to that effect would be the git activity graph. People that do important changes don’t commit 20 times a day - they push a commit usually once a day tops to once every 2 weeks