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  1. Re:Impressive acceleration on Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no apparent inclination.
    You get pushed into the back, that is all.

  2. No, that are german maglev trains, moron. Google "trans rapid" or "transrapid".

  3. It is a test. Who cares if it is "better"? It is an experiment to see what the problems are.
    Did you ever accelerate on 500 yards to nearly 200mph and braked down to zero again? I guess you lack imagination (science knowledge) to grasp what a deed that already is.

  4. Or C#, or plenty of other languages that would look exactly the same on this level.

  5. Re:Terrible news on US Nuclear Comeback Stalls As Two Reactors Are Abandoned (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You are mixing up a "base load power plant" with "base load".

    Try again.

  6. Re:Terrible news on US Nuclear Comeback Stalls As Two Reactors Are Abandoned (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Because baseload is the minimum required 24x7x365.
    No it is not. You don't know what base load means. Reread my previous post, I explained it there.

    The rest of your post is nonsense as it is based on your incorrect idea what base load is.

  7. Re:It's not GMOs that people object to. on Scientists Genetically Engineer the World's First Blue Chrysanthemum (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So, and how does then the legitimated use work?
    With your explanation no farmer could use the seeds.

  8. Re:Terrible news on US Nuclear Comeback Stalls As Two Reactors Are Abandoned (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Baseload, that is fixed amount of power, never varying, e.g. 50% of peak.
    That can be provided with any power plant, it does not matter if it is varying, or not.
    Because you have load following plants to balance any variation out, regardless if demand or supply.

  9. Re:Watch Pandora's Promise on US Nuclear Comeback Stalls As Two Reactors Are Abandoned (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Except that burning coal does not emit radioactivity.
    If at all (depending on the source of the coal), the ash can contain trace amounts of uranium and/or thorium. And that ash still can be (and is) used as building material or safely be deposited.

  10. Where is Blindseer when you need him to debunk that article?

  11. Re:then dont' make it public on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is nor what they grap/scrap but what they copy and redistribute.
    Google creates a catalog, pointing with every search result to the original.

    HiQ is balantly violating copy right, privacy rights and EULAs/TOSs.

    If you don't grasp the difference I hope you are not a software developer. Ignorance on that scale can easy be the end of your career.

  12. Re:But why? on How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing fancy about class-based OO.
    Stop nitpicking.
    If you need to do it by hand: then it is!

    C has had header files for a very long time that are just as much an interface definition as any OO based one.
    No they are not. Header files and corresponding *.o files or *.libs are not comparable with what interfaces are in other languages.

    If you would spent your time with learning something you don't know instead of nitpicking over stuff you barely know you would not make such posts, facepalm.

  13. Re:Irish passport on Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, in plenty of countries a simple id is enough, because they have treaties with the surrounding countries.
    Inside of the EU/Schengen you don't need a passport, and inside of Schengen there aren't even border controls for EU citizens.
    And if you are from a country where you require a Visa to enter the EU, you usually get a "Schengen Visa" and can travel freely in the Schengen area. Of course, AFAIK UK does not belong to the Schengen area and you would need an extra Visa if you want to travel from Paris to London, e.g.
    The Schengen area btw. is bigger than the EU as also Norway, Iceland and Switzerland are members. On the other hand a few new EU members have not yet signed the Schengen agreement.

    I can travel most of north Africa without a passport, only need an ID. However I would be checked at the borders there. That has nothing to do with EU or Schengen, that are binational contracts/agreements between EU countries and the north african countries.

  14. Re: Muslims already won on Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most Muslims in the UK come from the Commonwealth.

    With very little paper work they receive an UK resident permit, even citizenship and also a passport if they want.

    The EU has absolutely nothing to do with the UK's perceived "Muslim problem".

  15. Re:But why? on How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Rofl, besides insults, you did not contribute much to our two different threads of conversation.
    FYI: I'm an expert in software engineering (amoung other areas of software development), but most likely you again misplaced your dictionary and mean something different with the term 'software engineering' than the rest of the world.

  16. Re:It's not GMOs that people object to. on Scientists Genetically Engineer the World's First Blue Chrysanthemum (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    By planting seeds you bought, regardless from the producer or a third party that bought them from a the producer, you hardly infringe a patent.
    After all that is their intended purpose.

    There would be a patent violation if I would use monsantos seeds to breed a new kind of plant.

    Or do they argue, that you not only have to buy the seeds but also require a license to plant them?

  17. Re:Has this happened with IOS? on Stealthy Google Play Apps Recorded Calls and Stole Emails (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    iOS is somewhat better in this regard, because apps are expected to start with no permissions and prompt for permissions that they need as they need them.
    I'm pretty sure the OS is prompting for permission and not the App.

  18. Re:With all this hate... on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD or OpenBSD was more a hint for a change.
    I have no real experience with any of them.

    Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, but uses a Mach kernel.

  19. Re:What happens to Rust when Mozilla is gone? on How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I can code in basically every language (after fooling around a day with it, if it is an obscure language).
    My resume lists more than 30 I think.
    Of course, only because I had to use them in a certain project, not because I'm super fluent in them, e.g. my COBOL skills are basically non existing but where enough to do Y2k reengineering.

    I used Lisp in the university, but never liked it ... it was only a a few weeks for a course. A friend of mine jumped into it and became a kind of CLOS expert, but later moved to Python and now he works for SAP and mainly does Java.

    I would love if we would have a slightly tamed C++ for the JVM or a similar VM ... in the Java world we have so many tools and libraries based on reflection and byte code analysis/morphing ...

  20. Re:But why? on How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Linking to a library is not a "runtime."

    Perhaps you should get a dictionary of terms?

  21. Re:It's not GMOs that people object to. on Scientists Genetically Engineer the World's First Blue Chrysanthemum (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Of course it is more or less one sided.
    It is a school book after all.
    And probably the facts in the book are 20 years outdated, happens often in biology or sports :D

  22. Re:Why is this even a thing? on An End To Phone Pranking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I read the link.
    And it clearly states that most networks use their network equipment to determine position.
    And only 3, if I remember correctly, use GPS.

    So although the other poster does not believe this technology exists I rely on it daily and it has been working extremely well.
    The question never was if the technology exists, the question is wether the phone operators are allowed to access my GPS info on my Phone. I doubt e.g. in Europe that would be legal. And on my iPhone I can switch GPS completely off.

    And some people argued that the GPS position is send via GPS to the phone operators, which is clearly false :D

  23. Re:It's not GMOs that people object to. on Scientists Genetically Engineer the World's First Blue Chrysanthemum (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about this particular case.

    However if he bought the seeds and then panted them it hardly would be a patent violation in the rest of the world.

  24. Re:But why? on How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    An interface is a well defined term, the wannabe expert here is you.

    If you want to talk in C, then it is an API you define and not Interface.

    If you want to do C talk and talk about interfaces, then put them in quotes. Because most of your talk you only are riding the anti pattern "intellectual violence" and unfortunately you are very bad at it :D

    Again: on a language level C has no interfaces. If you don't agree, you have a mental problem. A header file defining a few C functions can barely be called an interface. And it is not abstracting anything away.

    If you want to talk about interfaces, then Pascal units would have one, e.g. or Modual 2 definition modules would be some, or a C++ class with _only_ pure virtual functions would be one, or a Java/Scala/Groovy interface "class" would be one, or the C# equivalent ofc.

    Nitpicking alone does not make you right, it only makes you look like an idiot.

  25. Re:But why? on How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Pointers and pointers to functions have nothing to do with an interface.

    You could argue that you could define an "interface" by simply declaring some functions in a header.

    Then a/the corresponding C file would be the implementation. But that would be on a very low level. E.g. you usually would need tricks and dynamic library loading to have more than one implementation in your code.

    COM is actually an interesting example :D Lucky I have no longer to program for that bullshit and IUNKnown or however the first interface in the chain was called.