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  1. Re: Good/Bad/Ugly on Startup Builds Prototype For Floating Data Center · · Score: 1

    Both may be necessary. At some point those making the decisions completely forgot that they should pay attention to reality and that there would by dry years every now and again just like through all of written history.

  2. Re:Good/Bad/Ugly on Startup Builds Prototype For Floating Data Center · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, and a bit more serious, but bouys on shafts using wave power make vastly more sense.
    http://www.carnegiewave.com/projects/perth-project.html
    The force of the waves pumps water and that can drive desalination as well as run generators.

  3. Re:Good/Bad/Ugly on Startup Builds Prototype For Floating Data Center · · Score: 1

    Yacht people sometimes describe them as holes in the water to pour money into.

  4. Re:Keeping up on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "damn, I can't focus close enough on this ultra-tiny low contrast font on this power supply, I need someone with young eyes to read it"

    I was in that situation and the person with young eyes took a photo with their phone and zoomed in.

  5. Re:Stupid question. on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well Admiral Grace Hopper was more or less just getting started at 50

    I loved an interview of her a few years ago:
    Q: "What led you to join the Navy at a mature age?"
    A: "World War Two."

  6. Re:Stupid question. on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    The only "social media" you need to be active on as a senior dev is LinkedIn

    Yes, but LinkedIn profiles are often a mix of lies, damned lies and blatant advertising.

    For a bit of giggle look up the linkedin profile of the person that "lost" all the white house emails a few years back. Data recovery expert!

  7. s\workplace\workforce\ on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    s\workplace\workforce\
    I'm sure you all know what I meant but some people like to complain.

  8. Re:Stupid question. on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the HR departments want X years in specific technology

    Another thing is HR departments use social media to put together a file on applicants so that they can justify the enormous amount of time they spend on social media during work hours playing Farmville or whatever the latest timesink is.
    No FaceSpace profile and the time required to look you up exceeds their attention span.

    However, if you are have been in the workplace for several years sometimes there are ways around the gatekeepers who have utterly no idea of the requirements for the person they are hiring and no wish to commit enough time to find out. If you can find your way to whoever is going to be doing the technical interviews you can avoid the people attempting to put together a social media dossier on you who take any "drunken pirate" joke seriously, and would strike you from the list merely due to what you are wearing in FaceSpace photos.

  9. Re:I dern't believe it! on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    You're presuming an ability to get really close to the tanks which I reject.

    Thus showing that you didn't have the patience to read to the second sentence of the post you replied to, and thus going off on a ridiculous tangent of pretending the person you replied to wrote something other than they did.
    You know the "only use 10% braincells" meme? Please stop trying to prove that it is true.

  10. Here we go again on Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK · · Score: 2

    Well, true, but AC said OS, not kernel

    By the textbook definition the OS is the kernel and the software distribution has all the userspace stuff. By the "beige box is the hard drive" definition the software distribution is the OS - the definition the Judge threw out as stupid in MS vs Netscape but has gained traction since.

    So the OS can have drivers to handle hardware used for accessibility and the software distribution can have applications that take use of them.
    The Solitaire game isn't part of the OS FFS.

  11. Is it really an issue? on Linus Torvalds Isn't Looking 10 Years Ahead For Linux and That's OK · · Score: 1

    but there are definitely areas where the modern Linux kernel is a little too big for its own good

    It's too big to booting off floppy disks now, but that is very rarely an issue these days.
    It's still small enough to run on an Nintendo DS FFS!

    So I'm curious - where are those areas? Don't hint, give an example or several (since there are apparently "areas") and let us see if it's as ignorable as the problem of not being able to boot it from a floppy disk anymore.

  12. Not a zero sum game on Former Rep. Louis Stokes, the Man Who Saved the Space Station, Dies At Age 90 · · Score: 1

    Whoever decided not to fund both "helped kill the Superconducting Super Collider" instead of it having anything at all to do with the ISS.

  13. Re:Is this a good thing? on Former Rep. Louis Stokes, the Man Who Saved the Space Station, Dies At Age 90 · · Score: 1

    The AMS is regarded by many as the only experiment of any merit on the ISS. And it came as an afterthought and almost didn't happen at all.

    So is that "many" a bunch that deny climate science, or nearly every other science is of any worth or is the "many" you describe a completely different bunch of luddite pricks that can't think beyond stock prices and cocaine?

  14. Re: Why does it matter that he's black? on Former Rep. Louis Stokes, the Man Who Saved the Space Station, Dies At Age 90 · · Score: 1

    A joke is supposed to be funny, otherwise attempts like the above make the teller look far too stupid to remember to breathe.

  15. Re:there is no climate change ? who said that? on New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    "there is no climate change" - I wonder how many deniers or skeptics argue that?

    Quite a few still, but I suppose you can't call them skeptics because that assumes putting some value in truth and not just hoping reality will go away.

    It's really just a symptom of a deeper illness of wishing for a perfect 1950s that never happened, and no change since then.

  16. Re:The simple Economics of it all: on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 1

    The 1MB block, what does it store exactly?

    Everything the Feds need to trace it back to a drug dealer a few transactions ago and take it off your hands if they want once they take bitcoin seriously. Oh, you thought it was harder to trace than cash? You people really thought that? You were not joking?

  17. Reputation? on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 2

    it could do real damage to Bitcoin's reputation

    Reputation?
    I suppose since a pyramid scheme needs a fresh supply of suckers to function that would be a very major worry. If it isn't such a scam then it doesn't matter so much does it?

  18. Re:I dern't believe it! on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    The only exceptions are the very first introduction of them

    With respect, they were supported by infantry from day one (look up Monash) to prevent an enemy getting close enough to put a grenade through a hatch or similar problems. We just think otherwise due to the movies.

  19. Yes, and no, and a lot else - huge group on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    they're not wild-west types or anarchists

    Some of them are not but some of that wide and varied bunch that like to call themselves "Libertarians" are clearly anarchists that just like to sound of the word "Libertarian". Others, to put things bluntly, want to be the chosen nobles of an absolute monarch such that the rules apply to everyone apart from the chosen nobles. Many and varied branches good for a lot of laughs, as well as the few that are not so naive that they ignore the implications of what they preach - sadly either very rare or drowned out by the noise of opportunists, useful idiots (ironically ideologically similar to the anarchist Russian Black Army that the Reds used as cannon fodder) or just plain idiots.

    The special case above of "libertarian" warlords is what Koch was pushing hard a few years ago. A dystopia where the rich can do what they want and rest are serfs that have to put up with those polluting upstream unless they are warlords with a lot of resources themselves.

    That's what the legacy of George Washington etc is saving us from. Wanting to throw all that away seems somewhat extreme to me - counter-revolutionaries more than two hundred years too late that just do not understand the gift that they have been given.

  20. The point I was making on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    The point I was making is that tanks alone are not a tool to solve every problem. I gave an example which you then later accepted despite a vicious attack when I presented it.
    I really can't understand why you found that so challenging and got so personal over something so trivial that you even agree with.

  21. Re:Doesn't take responsibility on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, you just have beliefs based in jealousy and envy, and neither is very becoming.

    Ah - shooting the messenger and shitting all over a commitment to a just and fair society. How petty.

  22. Re:Doesn't take responsibility on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    Did you miss all the court cases, various tricks and powerful friends making exceptions? The authorities know all right but it has got very political so a criminal is not being chased despite attempts that were aborted - I suppose we've hit post-literate times where the news outlets are not read apart from "Wired" so you managed to miss it.
    There has been a lot of press which has made the crook infamous internationally and it makes America look corrupt.

  23. Re:I dern't believe it! on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    The Russians had tanks eventually

    The Russians started with tanks. Lots of tanks. There was a famous German report from the front along the lines of having destroyed something like sixty of the twelve known Russian tank divisions so far.
    They had more and far better tanks later of course.

    However an infantry force with anti tank rockets does not enjoy an advantage against an armored column.

    Infamously in situations where the armoured column can not see them or cannot easily target them they do - hence my comment above about built-up areas and hence the tactic of having infantry supporting tanks and keeping the rockets out of range.

  24. Re:I dern't believe it! on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    Think you back to WW1 where the tank was born, dear one

    When Monash used them in combination with Infantry and air support.

    I really don't know what your problem is and why you are incorrectly nitpicking, and being amusingly condescending without thinking about what you have written. Being condescending just looks hilarious when the person doing it has entirely missed the point.

    As to infantry attacking tanks... that assumes you get near enough to the infantry. man portable anti tank weaponry is much shorter range

    Yes, that's where they suck, as I mentioned above. That's why tanks don't get sent alone near enemy infantry. Their job is to be where they can see other stuff coming and pound the shit out of it from range. It's not to drive down the street alone and have someone fire a rocket at it or get a building dropped on it.

  25. Re:And all they wanted was a faster horse on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    You've taken half the story and guessed the rest. It was a contact job for Iran.