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Absolutely based. Finally someone of stature in the industry calling this whole fear overblown.I'm just as reassured as I was when Edward Teller called the whole fear of his industry overblown.
While converting 1 billion lines of code sounds like an impossibly large effort, this is Microsoft that we're talking about. I'm confident that they'll succeed at making the new code backward compatible. Including the buffer overflows.
Apple's behavior regarding ads is especially annoying to me. I deeply dislike that they allow Uber and Lyft to advertise via iOS notifications. Apple should inflict massive penalties on them for that anti-user behavior. Apple also advertises their own TV shows through notifications, which I view as an even worse breach of etiquette.
On top of all that, I avoid the iOS app store as much as possible because it's an advertising-infested mess. I'm sure I'd have more apps on the phone if I trusted the app store more.
(cue superiority complex) I've been using Linux Desktop for over 10 years.Welcome, newcomer! Better late than never.
Europe and Japan are great at the former, the latter no chance.Europe and Japan should be totally capable of producing super inexpensive batteries. They just don't, at the moment.
If you have Republican senators or a Republican House rep, call their offices and tell them what you think of this.
Posted by
Ankaios on Thursday June 19, 2025 @12:49AM
from the twitter.com dept.
It was a stable orbit. Just one that happened to intersect Earth's atmosphere and surface.
Here's a proposal for an amendment restricting the pardon power:
https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congress...Here's the proposed text:
SECTION 1. The President shall not have the power to grant pardons and reprieves to—
(1) the President’s self;
(2) any person, up to a third degree relation, of the President, or a spouse thereof;
(3) any current or former member of the President’s administration;
(4) any person who worked on the President’s presidential campaign as a paid employee;
(5) any person or entity for an offense that was motivated by a direct and significant personal or pecuniary interest of any of the foregoing persons; or
(6) any person or entity for an offense that was at the direction of, or in coordination with, the President.
Any pardon issued for a corrupt purpose shall be invalid.
SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
~200,000 m/s is unfathomably fast.It's about 110,000 fathoms per second.
Turns out the Google AI's 15-day forecasts are for the weather in Mountain View.
Which I can forecast 15 days out, too.
Well, I guess now democracy dies in anticipation of darkness.
They're currently discussing how difficult it was to design a credit card reader for the Robotaxi that would reliably fail whenever it detects cash in the passenger's wallet.
Non-software-developer humans often use things called "lamps" to illuminate spaces at night. Unfortunately, illumination inhibits effective nighttime coding.
"[0] made up"
If only every religion would admit this.
Praise Thagwag!
Is "Moon Policy" anywhere near the ballot box? Particularly for senators?It is in Huntsville.
I suggest you read up on former Senator Richard Shelby.
Posted by
Ankaios on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:16PM
from the nasa.gov dept.
I guess it's time for someone to start selling token tokens.
Why is science reporting such irredeemable clickbaity trash? Not just from the mainstream media with commercial motive, from whom I naturally expect trash, but also from nonprofit universities of all places.Seriously, who is the intended audience of this headline?
University science-by-press-release drives me crazy, too. My guess has been that the intended audience is alums that might be enticed to donate more.
Great. Now I need a medieval font for Emacs.
Apollo, the International Space Station, and the Space Transportation System aren't really "science" projects. Science is an aspect of each of those projects, but they aren't investments solely dedicated like particle accelerators or astronomical observatories.
(I'm not even completely comfortable viewing ITER as mostly a science project, since much of the motivation for its construction is technology demonstration rather than just plasma and fusion science, but it's definitely more of a science project than Apollo, ISS, and STS.)
A lot of bookstores and restaurants do more good than harm, and we tax them.
But can it get down to the Titanic?Yep.
Getting back up to the surface might be a challenge, though.
The world's first non-repairable car. Minor fault, major accident, or inevitably-degraded battery? No problem!, just throw it away and buy the latest model, like you would with a phone or tablet! You wanted an upgrade anyway, didn't you?No big deal. Just buy the AppleCar AppleCare plan.
> So far as I can find the last time Congress bothered to pass a budget was 2016 with the prior one in 2010.The last time Congress passed a budget was for last fiscal year (FY 2023):
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2617
It was about three months late, but they passed it. This year's is currently at least about four months late, and the federal government is currently operating under a continuing resolution that will expire in March. However, full-year continuing resolutions are rare: the budget bills are usually passed, but passed late.
Eh, I cut Forbes some slack. It's easy to accidentally swap the purchase value with the current value.