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Re:Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:11PM (#14457201)
Peagus rockets aren't cryogenic, they are solid monopropellant rockets. Not really all that dangerous.
I cant speak for NASA, but in general if you are writing extremely safety critical code you simply don't use dynamically sized things. In addition to safety, the dynamically sized objects cause issues for the real-time constraints on these system as well.
Re:Vim: Takeaways from One Year of Typing on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:25PM (#9997344)
SublimeText has a vim mode called "vintage" that allows vim commands to work.
Re:The Web We Have to Save on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:25AM (#9995222)
Feedly is is excellent.
Re:On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality (2001) on Monday July 20, 2015 @02:27PM (#9917994)
Exactly. Especially her mocking comment about how she freed herself from punctuation.

"When will I evolve to the stage in which Ill be able to omit an apostrophe without being conscious of it?"

And then you see how she wrote by the end...

Re:On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality (2001) on Monday July 20, 2015 @02:25PM (#9917978)
Then again the character was intended to be in high school. I think the sloppy writing was very intentional. You can see her style shifts a few times throughout the story.
Re:On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality (2001) on Monday July 20, 2015 @02:21PM (#9917949)
I think there is a lot more to the story than just what was in the first bit. Very interesting analysis of that part though!
Re:On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality (2001) on Monday July 20, 2015 @02:18PM (#9917931)
That part was extremely cringy. But I think that was intentional.
Re:On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality (2001) on Monday July 20, 2015 @01:02PM (#9917351)
It should be noted that this is fiction, but still a very interesting read.