There might also be many optimization opportunities that still have to be seized.

The same technology can also be used to force people to live with bodies engineered to make their existence a living hell. Similar things can be done with brain uploads.

It really depends on what you're doing with your hardware. Overclocking, overheating, unstable power supply, and things like that increase the likelihood of memory bitflips.

It makes economic sense to keep selling non-ECC hardware to maintain market segmentation.

Maybe a partial solution would be to duplicate pointer data, compare pointers at every deference and panics if it doesn't match up. In essence a poor man's version of ECC. It's a considerable runtime overhead, but it might be possible to hide it behind a flag, only to be turned on to reproduce bugs. Also, anti-cheat measures already do something similar.

Certain data is more sensitive as well and requires extra protection. Pointers and indexes obviously, which might send the whole application on a wild goose chase around memory. But also machine code, especially JIT-generated traces, is worth to be checksummed and verified before executing it.

They probably should have been. But the presidential system putting de-facto unchecked power into the president is just asking for such abuses to happen. Almost by design one might think.

It's not unchecked power. The very fact the courts overturned it proof the power is checked.

That's true in theory, but really missing the point. In practice these checks come far too late. The court system is notoriously overworked and slow. In this case, most of these tariffs will not be returned because the government will make it an administrative nightmare to claim it back. In other matters the damage is even harder to roll back.

It’s a ton of work to put together a case and bring it to court - we’re talking months of research and writing for complex cases.

It’s not realistic to assume the courts can strike down something days after it happens if it takes months to put an argument together.

But I’ve been rather impressed by how fast the Supreme Court makes decisions when cases are brought quickly (likely much less complex).

I fully understand why the courts are slow, and they should indeed not rush decisions (especially since they have a huge weight in common law law systems), but because of this they are not able to restrain another powerful institution that has no problem with moving fast and breaking things.

You might anyway have to check them out so you can review them in depth. PR can give you an overview of what changed, but only very limited insight into the context of the change, and no oversight at all into whether something is missing.

If your code is modularized then you have at least protection from modules polluting each other's packages.

I rather hope it doesn't. It's not so much about action; it's subtle worldbuilding and a certain vibe that is easily distorted on screen. Also, it would destroy everybody's personal vision of the Shrike...

I find it awesome that the true nature and mission of the Shrike remains a secret.