Yeah, how is that mars colony plan going realistically. have they figured out the bits about how humans are going to survive in a toxic irradiated environment for months on end? I want it to happen, but I honestly…
Taken literally you are technically correct, but... 1. Space is big, but LEO is not that big and if a single company clutters it enough, other organisations might start bumping into issues like 'if i don't get sign off…
Devils advocate here. There is currently an article on the front page about a US bill to compel operating systems to collect age verification / id data. If something like that was actually in place and every packet on…
SpaceX is the stoic incumbant by now. They have the launchpads and enough money to fight any challenging patents. If I was an up and coming rocket engineer, they would be my goto stable career choice. If I had ideas, i…
The process you describe took me right back to my childhood days when I was fortunate to have a simple 8 bit computer running BASIC and a dialup modem. I discovered the concept of war dialing and pretty quickly found…
The same motive that all nascent life has - survive and propagate.
Coincidentally, i bought myself a Synology NAS this weekend with the honest intention of using it mainly as a backup device, but while browsing the built in apps, i noticed a lot of the media download and streaming apps…
Google also quite often fires customers.
In the context of interface/product design, gender identity is just another data point for marketing purposes. I cant think of many products that are genuinely gender specific. When data collection and manufacturing…
True...ish, but i bet a percentage of them get rich by focussing on what they are good at and neglecting their families, just making piles of money available. There's probably enough kids getting 10K a month pocket…
Dyson swarms are fascinating concepts, but as we are learning about our own ever increasing energy requirements harvested from our ecosystem, moving around too much energy in a complex system can have undesirable…
How is it calculated for non residents. How much would Elon pay if he were caught speeding in Finland?
If you aren't using a public framework and you use any JavaScript in your app then you are creating your own framework. Nothing wrong with that. The real value of public frameworks comes into play when you have more…
As well as the $4 fee mentioned, Zip and co also charge the merchant - in my country, 30 cents per transaction and 4-6% commission. Late payment interest is probably just gravy. With schemes like these, all customers…
For me the answer to that question, as with most things in life, is a do a bit of both. Don't just buy the same food from the same place all the time. Most people choose, conciously or not, to trust in organisations…
Curious, in these three hours did you teach your student about git log, checkout $HASH, bisect, revert or any of the other ways that git is actually useful beyond being a glorified FTP ? Git is a wonderfull tool for…
I've always thought of numbers, and the broader system of mathematics as equivalent to the Newtonian understanding of physics - an adequate tool to explain observed reality - but the edge cases that break the system are…
Totally agree with your viewpoint. These sort of laws should focus on the realistic ability to repair an item, not the practical costs of doing it. Many of us here would have been called in to upgrade a family members…
I've always found the focus on 'languages' in hiring to be a bit odd, and perhaps a hangover from olden times. Any programmer with enough experience can become competent in any programming dialect fairly quickly. But…
What sort of systems are you building ? I’m guessing some variation of CMS, shopping cart or simple crud backoffice reporting systems. I’ve spent 14 years working for a small agency building these sorts of systems. I…
I've been a developer since the 90s and I still occasionally experience that dread. But then I remember the reason I love this profession - it allows us to gain deep insights into other fields that we wouldnt normally…
Im not qualified to comment on the sociopolitical implications of this. I would prefer if things had not got to this stage but I understand the good and bad uses of such information. My personal solution is to obfuscate…
Aside from the logistics and energy requirements of controlling the trajectory of something that weighs 10^24 kg, I wouldnt trust anyone alive on earth to be able to work out a stable orbit that wouldnt impact the…
I came up with the analogy of 2 pairs of independent dancers on a large checkerboard floor. Lets say the tiles are 10cm^2 and the two couples start out 10 tiles apart. Every second, the tiles on the floor push away from…
Yeah, how is that mars colony plan going realistically. have they figured out the bits about how humans are going to survive in a toxic irradiated environment for months on end? I want it to happen, but I honestly…
Taken literally you are technically correct, but... 1. Space is big, but LEO is not that big and if a single company clutters it enough, other organisations might start bumping into issues like 'if i don't get sign off…
Devils advocate here. There is currently an article on the front page about a US bill to compel operating systems to collect age verification / id data. If something like that was actually in place and every packet on…
SpaceX is the stoic incumbant by now. They have the launchpads and enough money to fight any challenging patents. If I was an up and coming rocket engineer, they would be my goto stable career choice. If I had ideas, i…
The process you describe took me right back to my childhood days when I was fortunate to have a simple 8 bit computer running BASIC and a dialup modem. I discovered the concept of war dialing and pretty quickly found…
The same motive that all nascent life has - survive and propagate.
Coincidentally, i bought myself a Synology NAS this weekend with the honest intention of using it mainly as a backup device, but while browsing the built in apps, i noticed a lot of the media download and streaming apps…
Google also quite often fires customers.
In the context of interface/product design, gender identity is just another data point for marketing purposes. I cant think of many products that are genuinely gender specific. When data collection and manufacturing…
True...ish, but i bet a percentage of them get rich by focussing on what they are good at and neglecting their families, just making piles of money available. There's probably enough kids getting 10K a month pocket…
Dyson swarms are fascinating concepts, but as we are learning about our own ever increasing energy requirements harvested from our ecosystem, moving around too much energy in a complex system can have undesirable…
How is it calculated for non residents. How much would Elon pay if he were caught speeding in Finland?
If you aren't using a public framework and you use any JavaScript in your app then you are creating your own framework. Nothing wrong with that. The real value of public frameworks comes into play when you have more…
As well as the $4 fee mentioned, Zip and co also charge the merchant - in my country, 30 cents per transaction and 4-6% commission. Late payment interest is probably just gravy. With schemes like these, all customers…
For me the answer to that question, as with most things in life, is a do a bit of both. Don't just buy the same food from the same place all the time. Most people choose, conciously or not, to trust in organisations…
Curious, in these three hours did you teach your student about git log, checkout $HASH, bisect, revert or any of the other ways that git is actually useful beyond being a glorified FTP ? Git is a wonderfull tool for…
I've always thought of numbers, and the broader system of mathematics as equivalent to the Newtonian understanding of physics - an adequate tool to explain observed reality - but the edge cases that break the system are…
Totally agree with your viewpoint. These sort of laws should focus on the realistic ability to repair an item, not the practical costs of doing it. Many of us here would have been called in to upgrade a family members…
I've always found the focus on 'languages' in hiring to be a bit odd, and perhaps a hangover from olden times. Any programmer with enough experience can become competent in any programming dialect fairly quickly. But…
What sort of systems are you building ? I’m guessing some variation of CMS, shopping cart or simple crud backoffice reporting systems. I’ve spent 14 years working for a small agency building these sorts of systems. I…
I've been a developer since the 90s and I still occasionally experience that dread. But then I remember the reason I love this profession - it allows us to gain deep insights into other fields that we wouldnt normally…
Im not qualified to comment on the sociopolitical implications of this. I would prefer if things had not got to this stage but I understand the good and bad uses of such information. My personal solution is to obfuscate…
Aside from the logistics and energy requirements of controlling the trajectory of something that weighs 10^24 kg, I wouldnt trust anyone alive on earth to be able to work out a stable orbit that wouldnt impact the…
I came up with the analogy of 2 pairs of independent dancers on a large checkerboard floor. Lets say the tiles are 10cm^2 and the two couples start out 10 tiles apart. Every second, the tiles on the floor push away from…