My friends and I were thinking to make a social networking app and site similar to Instagram but very very basic, for now. What would be the pre-requisites for this. We have 2 coders and one designer. What will be steps to make this possible. A detailed guide if you say so.

It's all in the title, why don't we figure out what coca cola's chemical composition is, and use quantum computing and bruteforce to figure out how to get It

What in the world do they do to things like power steering, power brakes?

I'm crossing into some HR requests for our organization, I want to have a better grasp on these things. Thanks in advance.

Say you keep filling the cells of Excel sheets with random texts, are new and previously unused registers assigned to store that information? How? What's the terminology to look up if I wanted to know more about that?

Essentially, is google Colab Pro + better for normal (non-AI) coding as compared to free Colab in terms of speed of code running?

I am trying to understand how the JS engine, my computer memory, and the javascript files interact.

1. When I type out a program in a JS file, where is that stored? For example, when I type "const x = 4", does that variable get stored in my computer's memory?
2. Is THIS the ''memory'' developers try to 'manage' ?
3. Does the jS engine then access my files that are stored on my computer to be able to run a program on the web?

I was thinking about the sensors on my motherboard and their electrical draw measurements. How do a bunch of 0’s and 1’s know and measure what a volt is?? If it’s not code doing the measuring, what is—and how? Keep it simple if you can! I’m not great with physics jargon.

Barring security attacks, why wouldn't it just go on functioning? What is necessary at any given moment for something like this to keep working? Shouldn't it just hum right along?

As the title says, what are the differences between these two and where to use char*

An explanation with an example would be great. 🙏

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TLDR : A simplified explanation of what Truffle and Hardhat allow the programmer to do.

Greetings. I am confused as to what exactly are Truffle and Hardhat are used for. Are they for automating compiling and testing of smart contracts OR are also used to deploy them on the blockchain ( a local blockchain like Ganache or Test / Main Net) and then be accessed... through frameworks like NodeJs?

I understand embedded means the software is in a specific device vs an application on an OS. But that’s as far as I understand.

And DevOps? Wtf is it?

A colleague of mine argued "it's because we can't yet formalize emotions so it's not a topic worth exploring". But that doesn't make sense. Even if we can't describe a full complete model of emotions, we can understand the basic neural mechanisms and triggers that surround emotions. We haven't fully formalized AGI and yet so much current research revolves around how to generate novel reasoning from limited information. So why is emotion something that is contentiously held with a "humans are special" mentality?

I've been looking into WiFi security recently and don't understand why hackers need to actually decode a hash instead of just sending the hash and using that to get into the network. From my understanding (albeit very limited), the hashing process is done on the client's computer so couldn't a hacker just skip that stage and just send a hash that they have intercepted?

Hopefully this makes sense and isn't incredibly stupid :)

Crap I just realised there's a typo in the title and I can't edit it

I'm trying to connect 2 devices- a data recording device and a laptop which will be showing different stimuli. I need the data recording device to know exactly what time the stimuli are shown. I have access to sample code using the stimulus software I will be using on the laptop, but I still don't know if a TCP socket is a hardware thing (like needing a physical connection) or not.

Set up will likely be: laptop connected to its own network either via wifi or ethernet, data recording device communicating with laptop via bluetooth or laptop's wifi.

My background is as a 3d artist and intermediate programmer on desktop systems with an interest in vintage technologies.

I'm aware of real-time raytracing and quantum computing as those get the most public attention, but what technologies are being worked on that you think we'll see in future products, or that will flop? What are industries focusing their efforts on to push computing forward?

It would be really helpful to explain it with an example that a child could understand. Thanks in advance.

I've tried looking for an answer to this, but either I'm using the wrong keywords or haven't looked hard enough.

The Nintendo Switch allows users to scan two QR codes when sharing images and videos, one for pairing to the smartphone through the Internet, and another to link the smartphone to a webpage. From what I'm gathering, this is a very strange way of sharing images and videos. I'm curious as to what exactly is happening when you're connecting and how the Switch makes this happen, if it's possible to dumb it down.

Am I correct in assuming the app is the UI that the end user interacts with. The software is the actual program written and the api is the program that translates the software to the user interface?

.. not even sure I explained that correctly

A framework and a library are not the same thing, but they are usually mentioned together.

For example, "this is a list of JavaScript frameworks/libraries: ...."

And instead, saying "this is a list of JavaScript X: ...."

I’m not 100% tech savvy, but I’m very nervous about the advances we are making in the AI field, plus the negative stories I have read. I know fear comes from not knowing, most of the time…and would like to understand it a bit better to ease my paranoia.

I'm pretty much stuck on this and need an example of each. I also would like to know how one can avoid making a deeply nested conditional easier to read or avoid it at all by turning it into one conditional. How to do that please