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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.

Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:15AM (#49653484)
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.
Re:I'm So Tired of Ads on Sunday May 31, 2026 @01:13PM (#48347461)
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.

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:19PM (#45689628)
If you have Republican senators or a Republican House rep, call their offices and tell them what you think of this.
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.

Re:Researchers discover new third class of magnetism on Sunday December 15, 2024 @11:12PM (#42427955)
Here's the Nature article that the university press release links to: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08234-x
Re:Google says AI weather model masters 15-day forecast on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @11:39PM (#42384856)
Turns out the Google AI's 15-day forecasts are for the weather in Mountain View.

Which I can forecast 15 days out, too.

Re:DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:36PM (#42048638)
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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.
Re:Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @07:57PM (#41452086)
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.

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.

Re:The Y Combinator Codex on Monday June 24, 2024 @12:10PM (#40777816)
Great. Now I need a medieval font for Emacs.
Re:The Mirror Fusion Test Facility (2023) on Sunday May 05, 2024 @08:16AM (#40264280)
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.)

Re:Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:16AM (#39477239)
Norton Sales: https://nortonsalesinc.com/

It's now a prop house. Hmm. A prop house for prop systems.

Re:Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment on Friday February 02, 2024 @12:32AM (#39225416)
A lot of bookstores and restaurants do more good than harm, and we tax them.
Re:165 m Private Submersible Superyacht on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:05AM (#39200184)
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.

Re:X Announces Peer-to-Peer Payment Service Will Launch in 2024 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:52PM (#38963919)
Eh, I cut Forbes some slack. It's easy to accidentally swap the purchase value with the current value.

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