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This kind of thing is why I am looking forward to "No Man's Sky" VR release tomorrow.

No-one is likely to complain when I colonize a planet far off the beaten track where the highest form of life is a small feline creature with tentacles.

Is narcisside better?

Some varieties of Gen IV can use the nuclear waste from previous generations as fuel.

I remember that! Good old Goscinny and Uderzo. :)

I think this is an excellent point. The current emotional baggage with nuclear is stopping serious investment into this tech, which I believe has the potential to save the planet.

Gen IV nuclear is completely safe from meltdown, and some varieties can consume waste from previous generations, and yet most people (me included) have a visceral reaction to the idea of a plant being built near where we live.

Is noisily deleting passwords acceptable in your eyes?

(i.e. "Your password contains spaces, which is disallowed by our policy. Please try again.")

A determined marketing campaign could reverse that perception.

Reliable recurring revenue is better for long term stability of a business. Joe Average on subscription is better for their overall "health" than the ups and downs of "no-one's buying this month because something amazing is coming out next month".

The Witness was one for me. The whole game made me look at the real world in a different light.

I played it with headphones on, and the volume loud enough to hear the crunching of gravel under my feet. The first time I found one of the "second kind" of puzzle, I nearly jumped out of my skin, and searching for them made me see things I hadn't seen before in ordinary places I visited.

Interesting. I never played more than a few minutes of this game, because the learning curve was more than I was willing to put in at the time, and I died on the first encounter.

I might have to give it another go.

In case anyone thought that was real vaccination, it's a method to present the typical fake news tactics in an attempt to help you to recognize them for what they are.

The link to the actual game is here: https://getbadnews.com/#intro

Get everyone "vaccinated"?

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-...

And if you call it with the right parameters, you can fly.

What's the difference?

If a news article has a question as it's headline, then answer is almost always "no".

I suppose in this day and age, with OCR being as good as it is, you could take a picture with your phone, and be able to search on text in the picture.

Now I think about it, I seem to recall Evernote doing something like that a while back. Mind you, I don't know how easy it is to get the meta-data back out.

If you had the rule: "If you have money coming in, ten percent of it belongs to the government. No messing. No exceptions. No loopholes. Ten percent for everyone for everything."

Would that increase or decrease the amount of taxes?

The fact that I can't even answer that simple question troubles me.

If you read, execute and understand all the code in "The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide", you will suddenly find yourself in the top 10% of people who use bash.

https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

(as a pdf: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf )

This is a beautiful way to express multiple ?: expressions.

Yes, but now you are a "known risk". IN theory, if a company does not have a policy for a "known risk", they could be liable if a data breach occurred, whereas an "unknown risk" there is nothing they could have done, and therefore less penalty under the law.

Oh my days. That's the saddest (as in - imparting of sadness) morse code message in the world. :'(

Another interesting point: People graded on quantity (making pots) made better pots than those graded on quality (one masterpiece).

https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramic...

I was going to make a joke about children being ideal chimney sweeps, but I thought I probably shouldn't. I'd appreciate it if you pretended I did, and it was really funny and witty, and made you do a sensible chuckle, and it was tastefully done, so you weren't offended in any way.

Thanks.

I like your point "and nuclear, where palatable".

I think that until marketers can convince Joe Public that nuclear is probably the safest and best tech now we have Gen IV reactors, and that they are the best way to remove by-products of older generations, we will continue to degrade our environment searching for energy.

If I could give you +4 million for the "blocks of focused time" comment, I would. This is hugely under-rated in my office.

Open plan, with 2nd line support talking to customers right next to developers.

Half-baked idea here: Should we force prisoners to get a degree while they are incarcerated?

Ok, I agree. But your original comment just said “Maybe you shouldn’t be a landlord then”, and I foolishly responded.

Would you shy away from a challenge or an opportunity just because you might be bad at it or fail in some unknown way?

That's a reasonable call, and to be fair to the tenants; it might have been less than I remember. I haven't got the details to hand, so I can't check.

But without going into detail, I definitely buried my head in the sand too much, and they did pay a small amount at one stage to make me think it might be okay. It was sixteen years ago now, and I've thankfully forgotten a lot of it.

I do remember that I had to restart the whole process when it was thrown out because a date was wrong on a letter. I wasted a whole heap of time trying to get the judge to reverse that decision rather than moving on and starting again.

Anyway, like I said, I was very naive back then, and made lots of mistakes.

Let's just say I would have done things very differently if I knew then what I know now. I learned a LOT in the whole process. I was a lot more naive back then, and could have done a lot of things a lot better.