SpaceX launch vehicles are the best engineered space craft ever built. He has gotten many difficult things to work well, like rapid defueling and refueling of launch vehicles on the pad, and the recovery of first stages. These technologies will take a big chunk out of launch costs into the future.
Its not looking good. Our telescopes are getting better all the time but we are only seeing natural phenomena. There is no evidence of radio transmissions from other stars. Our solar system is pristine. There is no evidence of old probes, or debris left by explorers. I have been following SETI for almost 40 years now, and my gut feeling is that if there was intelligence out there we would have seen some sign of it by now.
Because fast radio bursts come from all over the sky and are sent from billions of light years away. Different groups of aliens would have to be sending us messages without the ability to coordinate with each other and schedule their transmissions because they are twice as far away from each other than they are from us.
Unity made sense when Gnome was so unstable. Now that Gnome is usable, Ubuntu is dropping the cost of maintaining unity by using Gnome. It makes sense to me.
Neither of which really matters much these days. We don't fix cars any more and military aircraft are flown by software which can handle higher G loads than any humans.
At my first real job in the 1980s there was this older guy who went on and on about why women were better suited to filing and sorting tasks because of their nimble fingers. Now nobody sorts and files with their fingers, because nobody uses paper, and that guy is dead but in another sense there are always guys like him in the workplace.
They have to carry on about this stuff then the world moves on and we largely forget about it.
To do that Ada, Pascal and FORTRAN would have needed more low level features, which make them both useful and insecure. In other words, something like C has to exist. C is in some respect, a super macro assembler. Tied to the machine and the OS if it exists at all.
Rust would have to exist between C and python.
A friend of mine who did a lot of Ada programming told me that his project turned off array bounds checking because it was just too slow for their application to function. There is little difference between that and coding the app in C.
C underlies everything you use. Its in the firmware, the OS, the virtual machines and the compilers. Most things run on C. And yes, many applications these days are better written in a higher level language than C.
Its a fact of life that you have a progressive stack from hardware to microcode to machine code to assembly code to C and to a VM. C has to be there and yes its hard to write securely. CPython is written in C. Whats the alternative? There has to be something outside the VM.
Reddit already customizes their home page. I subscribe to/r/rtlsdr and I get articles from that small subreddit on my main page. This change seems to be just like an automatic subscription to/r/australia and/r/melbourne which I can turn off if I like.
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Why should humans be the point of reference?
SpaceX launch vehicles are the best engineered space craft ever built. He has gotten many difficult things to work well, like rapid defueling and refueling of launch vehicles on the pad, and the recovery of first stages. These technologies will take a big chunk out of launch costs into the future.
I met the likes of Larry Niven,
Whats Larry Like?
Its not looking good. Our telescopes are getting better all the time but we are only seeing natural phenomena. There is no evidence of radio transmissions from other stars. Our solar system is pristine. There is no evidence of old probes, or debris left by explorers. I have been following SETI for almost 40 years now, and my gut feeling is that if there was intelligence out there we would have seen some sign of it by now.
Because fast radio bursts come from all over the sky and are sent from billions of light years away. Different groups of aliens would have to be sending us messages without the ability to coordinate with each other and schedule their transmissions because they are twice as far away from each other than they are from us.
Commit early. Commit often. Push every commit.
Sorry I have bad news for you. There have been unfixed irritating bugs in Unity for years. Gnome is meant to be the fix for those bugs.
Unity made sense when Gnome was so unstable. Now that Gnome is usable, Ubuntu is dropping the cost of maintaining unity by using Gnome. It makes sense to me.
Our military is perpetually obsolete.
You coder-bros are NOT Lazarus Long.
It was pretty clear from the later books that Lazarus was good for nothing any way.
Neither of which really matters much these days. We don't fix cars any more and military aircraft are flown by software which can handle higher G loads than any humans.
At my first real job in the 1980s there was this older guy who went on and on about why women were better suited to filing and sorting tasks because of their nimble fingers. Now nobody sorts and files with their fingers, because nobody uses paper, and that guy is dead but in another sense there are always guys like him in the workplace.
They have to carry on about this stuff then the world moves on and we largely forget about it.
what douche had the brilliant idea to build a freakin'text editor with Python? Seriously?
Me, actually
It looks like C with a few nasty bits taken out. Not enough of a step forwards to be justified IMHO.
To do that Ada, Pascal and FORTRAN would have needed more low level features, which make them both useful and insecure. In other words, something like C has to exist. C is in some respect, a super macro assembler. Tied to the machine and the OS if it exists at all.
Rust would have to exist between C and python.
A friend of mine who did a lot of Ada programming told me that his project turned off array bounds checking because it was just too slow for their application to function. There is little difference between that and coding the app in C.
There are some places where C is useful
C underlies everything you use. Its in the firmware, the OS, the virtual machines and the compilers. Most things run on C. And yes, many applications these days are better written in a higher level language than C.
I am a former C coder and current python coder.
Its a fact of life that you have a progressive stack from hardware to microcode to machine code to assembly code to C and to a VM. C has to be there and yes its hard to write securely. CPython is written in C. Whats the alternative? There has to be something outside the VM.
LOL US drivers still addicted to grilles. Why not buy a Rolls Royce then?
Hmmm SCSI to USB adapters do exist...
Reddit already customizes their home page. I subscribe to /r/rtlsdr and I get articles from that small subreddit on my main page. This change seems to be just like an automatic subscription to /r/australia and /r/melbourne which I can turn off if I like.
I think its likely that Apple will be asked to provide a back door into the OS so that plain text can be captured before it is encrypted.
No he just made a promise to Trump.
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What exceptional talents or skills merit this adoration?
She has her own helmet.
Back to work Donald.