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That's true, but it doesn't answer my question.

Geosynchronous satellites can and do modify their inclinations and eccentricities to increase their coverage beyond one spot over the equator.

> This report is, at best, seriously garbled.

It's just run-of-the-mill journalism. Just write what it says in the press release, don't ask any questions.

Why would a geosynchronous satellite have to be in one line over the equator? Why not a higher inclination?

I wish these people wouldn't automatically assume everyone who reads their articles are Americans or otherwise intimately familiar with US institutions. What exactly is it that ICE does that is so bad?

Not American, what's the link between ICE and the Holocaust?

>The "bedrock of computer science" is machine code

It hasn't been machine code for at least two, maybe three decades.

And why should we care? For all I know you might be some kind of e-celeb and coming to Hacker News without knowing who THE mollienne is would be akin to swearing in church, but I still fail to see what I'm supposed to do with your public key.

A key feature of the original Macintosh operating system was an orthogonal interface for copying, pasting, dragging and dropping arbitrary data, whether plain or styled text or graphics, into (more or less) arbitrary locations, which was far from obvious in consumer systems of the time.

And when QuickTime came about, video was no exception. You'd select a length of video from the timeline, copy it and either paste it into a different video, or into a presentation or other kind of document. It's ridiculous to call the ability to use the OS the way it was intended a "pro feature" that you should have to pay extra for.

Good point on the shared_pointers. What's your opinion on using Ravenbrook MPS pools and not deal with refcounts at all?

> Jaszczuk’s current project also critiques capitalist exploitation.

Isn't Jaszczuk himself rather guilty of capitalist exploitation? That is, the exploitation of passed-out capitalists?

And to add insult to injury they made something as basic and ubiquitous as copy and paste a pro feature that you had to pay extra for.

I'm not a prescriptivist, but I'd caution against the opposite fallacy as well. It's very useful to have distinct language for receiving electric shocks and for dying as a result, as it is to distinguish between getting wet and drowning.

They stil acted as if there was. But the worst thing the kid could be accused of is being in breach of contract for seeing more screenings than indicated on his ticket.

Besides, it would make a lot more business sense to take it as an opportunity to sell more tickets rather than to remove him.

I doubt this is as much of a problem of the police officers as the American legal system.

Surely the cost of a movie ticket is better settled in a small claims court than with police intervention and a criminal case. The theatre would have surely got their money even without going to court, now they get nothing instead. It's perverse, just like debtor's prison, which is still practiced in the United States.

I think the police officers in these cases are mostly just acting out what the legal system expects them to do.

No, the idea isn't to electrocute the victim. The whole point of it is to as far as possible give a non-lethal shock. If you're going to electrocute someone it would be easier to just shoot them with a conventional firearm.

>Probably most major commercial ones before 2000 were.

I find that hard to believe. For instance, what makes you think they got speculative execution more correct before 2000 than after? At least it seems impossible to get rid of the timing side-channel since the whole point of the exercise is to change the amount of time it takes to run the program.

Surely you'd have to go back to at least 1980. I suppose one could start a production line of 1970s supercomputers for personal use, and put it on the programmers to figure out how to parallelise everything, but it would be very painful and expensive.

Jira's primary user demographic is by its very nature capable of building a replacement for it.

Build a bare bones system just like Git itself that keeps track of the data and ACLs, and let the silicon valley startup guys make fancy web interfaces and cloud packaging to make it palatable to middle management.

Like Git the core can be moved around and interacted with in the terminal so you're not dependent on any one vendor, and if you don't like any of their GUIs you can just work on the console.

Hmm...looks like I'd better stick to yankee cultural references in the future.

That's why open source projects need to register their trademarks. That's how Gnome managed to stop Groupon from ripping off the name for their own project.

Of course not, that's utter nonsense.

Ultraghiaccio, perhaps?

Romano Scarpa fans should know what I'm talking about.

Actually I was surprised by the Drupal guy since a lot of the people behind these CoCs seem to be various blue-haired kinksters themselves.

I don't think either that or Linus' excessive swearing belongs in a software project, but CoC makers clearly aren't interested in maintaining a civil society, they're just interested in maintaining their particular brand of ideology.

> Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google — yet. See further below

The Julius Malema of tech. "We are not calling for the syncing of user data to our servers. At least not yet".

Running an engine on alane seems like a spectacularly bad idea. USAF experiments with borane didn't go anywhere, I don't expect this idea to fare any better.

Here's a good video on the experiments for those who are unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdeybNPLpZU

> Very few countries can boast to such a peaceful political turnaround.

Or such a slow descent into tyranny. Let's see when Julius Malema and his supporters eventually do call for the eradication of white people.

Seems like an awfully inefficient system. They should replace the trials with talent shows, and convict whoever has the least interesting entry.

It's foolish for anyone to take responsibility for any software written under the current prevailing industry practices.

It would be funny if real engineers were able to get away with making crumbling messes that can't hold their own weight because their middle managers don't believe in concepts like stress and strain like ours don't believe in refactoring or abstractions.

I obviously don't believe they never use SCBA, but doing physically demanding labour while breathing a toxic atmosphere is not an exercise in heroism, but in futility. Supplying bottles in such a situation is challenging for sure, but I find it hard to believe that going without was at all productive.

I hear a lot of remarks in passing from firefighters that their American peers are rather careless with their personal protection equipment, it would be interesting to hear from one of them.

>We treated firefighters suffering from smoke inhalation

American firefighters don't use SCBA?

Strange. I'm on 10.12 too, but I have it.