PhilWright

The river does not have a mind, so any decisions on what actions to take in the name of the river are actually conducted by a person/organisation. In that case it is the person/organisation that becomes responsible. So the river is just a pointer deference to another entity. Just like a corporation is a pointer deference to the shareholders.

Clearly a river cannot have legal rights. If the river bursts its banks and floods my house, can I sue the river? Clearly I cannot because how do I sue the river, who represents the river and how does the river have money to pay me? The river cannot appointment executives to represent its interests.

In reality the local government acts for the protection of the environment, so why pretend the river has rights? If you want cleaner rivers then pass legislation with appropriate level of punishment such as fines/prison.

It is more likely to be a slippery slope where you begin completely believing your technology will work and then over time it becomes more and more fraudulent. At the beginning I think she completely believed the technology would work. After a year and no progress, what do you do? You raise more money and double down. Fast forward another couple of years, do you admit you were wrong and tell the investors the bad news? Do you take the humiliation of the failure? In her case she doubled down again and although must have known by now it would never work, she carried on with the pretence. Like a kid caught in a lie keeps on making more lies to keep the façade going.

You cannot use 1GB to encode more than 1GB of information. A 1GB zip file does not encode 1TB of information. Sure, you might have a 1GB zip file that expands to 1TB of data but not information. That is because the 1TB of data has lots of redundancy and inefficiency in how the data is represented that allows the high level of compression.

The author is often found bashing OOP and praising FP. It's his hobby horse. Every time he needs a few clicks on his blog, up comes the 'OOP is a disaster!'.

It's a wonder the world has managed to survive with the billions of lines of OOP out in the wild, running the world!

We never know the people that commit the perfect murder because no one even knows a murder has taken place. I would guess that there multiple perfect murders every year but the number is impossible to know! But I agree with her advice, only do it once if you want to get away with it.

No doubt the US could blockade China. But given a big percentage of their trade is with the US, it involves a lot of pain and certain recession for the US as a consequence. It would hurt the US just about as much as China. A Pyric victory?

This is something that might well happen in the future. But to retrofit this to all commercial planes is not a simple or cheap task. Many planes in the sky were designed and built many years ago and so updating them to also upload to the cloud during flight requires substantial design and certification efforts that Boeing/Airbus are not going to suddenly take on unless they are forced.

Adding it as a feature of any new plane designed in the future seems simpler. Although uploading everything in real time be ideal you could easily ping with the essentials for almost no bandwidth. Every minute with location, speed, altitude and half a dozen other important numbers would be a good start.

Earth: Dig a hole in Australia/China and process it to get rare-earth metals.

Moon: Use multiple rocket launches to boost equipment and people to the Moon. Dig a hole and process it to get rare-earth metals. Send people and metals back to earth.

Hard to see how the Moon version could ever be price competitive. Even if you could pick up rocks of pure rare-earths I do not think it would be cheaper. Still, makes for an easy headline for a NASA chief I suppose.

Author gives an example of the S and O in SOLID but does not say anything about the L, I or D. So the title should be 'S.O Windows Forms'.

Being caught out using software you did not correctly license is not the problem. That would be fair enough. It is the burden of proof and the time it consumes when you have done nothing wrong.

It would be like the police turning up to your house and demanding you have a receipt for every item in your house. Any item you do not have a receipt for is assumed to be stolen and you have to pay for it. The burden of proof is placed on you to prove you did not steal it. Normally the burden of proof is on the police to prove you have stolen, suddenly it has been turned upside down.

Can you prove you have purchased every copy of every software instance on every computer in your organization? Maybe you can because you have excellent record keeping but most are not so efficient. Maybe the invoice cannot be found because it was not forwarded to the right person. Or a paper invoice has been filed incorrectly and nobody can find it. You KNOW you paid for it but cannot prove it. Sorry, but you are guilty and have to pay $10,000 for that server license again. Try explaining that to your boss.

QDOS became MS-DOS and not Windows.

Part of the problem is that saying 1% sounds very arbitrary and therefore implies you have not done your research. Makes me think you just make that up and have no actual realistic plan on how to achieve it. Getting 1% of most mass markets is incredibly hard.

If you watched Wimbledon then you would see that ever scoreboard has Rolex advertising on them.

Never leave a job before you have another. It is much harder to get a job when you don't already have one. It puts you under pressure if finances start to run out, employers think you might have been pushed out and are unfairly suspicious of those unemployed.

Ask your boss if there are any new projects in the pipeline.

The total number of heartbeats also predicts lifespan, although apparently not as accurately. So is the heartbeat total just a coincident or still a factor somehow?

No.

To paraphrase Boromir, 'One does not simply invent blockchain'.

The speed of causality is a fundamental speed limit. It is also the speed of light, the speed of gravity waves and so the limit on the speed of communication or travel. Exceeding the speed of causality would allow the creation of contradictions which as far as is known, are not possible and would subvert physics.

I don't understand the constant outcry about Uber drivers getting low pay. Nobody puts a gun to the head of the drivers. If it doesn't make financial sense to work for them, then don't. Go work at McDonald's or somewhere else that is always recruiting. If someone offers to pay you $1 an hour then you say, no thanks. You don't work for them and then complain about poor pay. Vote with your feet.

I was once called by a new recruiter because he wanted to know what 'API' was. Apparently he could not even Google to find out himself.

So it is actually two computers inside one box. The first is a normal computer that I presume has no access to the Internet, which would mean it has no network access at all. The other is a computer that can access the Internet that gets reset every time it is started. So if the Internet connected computer gets hacked, just restart and your good!

The only issue, and a fairly large one, is that it is stupid and pointless!

It is obviously not the case that 'humanity seems to do nothing'.

The United Nations have the IPCC working on the issue and their reports influence national policy in many countries. There are the Kyoto and Paris agreements that are based on the details from the IPCC reports. Is the world doing enough? No, I don't think countries are doing enough, but to say humanity seems to do nothing is patently ridiculous.

Absolutely, I think of dead as 'brain dead' and therefore you are definitely not coming back. But the press like to be emotive and spice up the headline I guess.

Unfortunately the billions of trees provide only a one off benefit. Once they die and rot away the carbon is released back again. So you either need to prevent that carbon ever getting back into the atmosphere or ensure those forests are sustained forever. A useful approach to getting some carbon out of the atmosphere but we still need to stop releasing carbon.

What are the offspring called...

narlugas

belwhals

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Hard to complain about foreign companies bribing people in your own government, if you are happy for your own companies to do that to other governments. It would be hypocritical.

<sarcasm> It would be like the U.S. having nuclear weapons and then complaining about other countries trying to develop them. Or if the U.S. promoted democracy but then used the C.I.A in South America to overthrow democracies. </sarcasm>

I would be very surprised because he does not have a background as a software developer or in cryptography. Writing about technology subjects is a long way from being able to write cutting edge software.

True. I would argue that Taiwan cannot stop China from having a successful invasion. They can only make it so costly that China would not be willing to pay the price. Both in manpower and political blowback.

Anything you replace it with will, over time, suffer the same problems. If it becomes popular then it will have vulnerabilities. As technology and its uses change, it will need updating to match and so become versioned and have legacy features and complications in implementation. That is just what happens to all formats. Many people just use PDF as a simple way and showing documents and printing them out on standard office printers.

I am baffled as to why people are saying that we are about to allow people to become immortal when we have zero evidence that we cam extend the natural lifespan at all. Today, there is not a single medicine that people can take because it extends lifespans.

I am obviously not counting regular medicine like vaccines and antibiotics etc, they increase our likelihood of reaching the natural lifespan limit but do not extend the limit.

When they can show that some treatment extends the limit from around 120 to something like 150, then come back and talk about immortality. Although even then, there is a big difference between immortality and adding a mere 30 years! Oh, and those extra years had better not be as a bed bound senile in a nursing home. They can better be quality years, otherwise there is no point in bothering.