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>There will never be a "cheap" version of a commercial rocket with an accepted less-than-perfect failure rate. Spaceflight is an all-or-nothing game. substitute rocket and spacefli…

Developers should be force fed nothing , because they "chose" to not follow a formal education. Almost everything I see in these blog posts is stuff I was already taught at college…

For some reason most online publications still think we're in the era of paper journals and stubbornly refuse to corredate their articles with references as if they had strict spac…

No, a trick is a shortcut with respect to the more tedious method. By definition anything that works also formally works, otherwise it wouldn't.... work.

Battery tech is clearly a gargantuan problem. The amount of industry that desperately wants better density is stunning and the fact that despite the billions spent we are still stu…

Imagine justifying a second hand card market for DIGITAL GOODS. I'm sorry, I'm completely tired by this bullshit. If a multiplayer (and competitive) videogame does not have everyth…

Why would someone run their proprietary server software on top of Linux?

Because companies earn money by producing goods or providing services, but those goods and services are required by burned out people. Let's say your company can build and ship a p…

>progressive nothing progressive about this design. just call yourself peculiar instead of giving this veneer of betterment

And using services that need ads to survive by bypassing those ads does not help!

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are sleeping in a hotel. In the middle of the night a power surge happens and all three of their room kettles catch fire. The engineer …

It's funny how people on this website are always stupefied by the fact that the internet holds so much information and every time they search for something they always seem to find…

AI will just be like fake download buttons. Kids will instinctually learn while older people will believe anything

It's solved by asking Dang for a charitable exception

Richard Stallman was/is a grade A hacker and that's how the free software movement started as. So, which kind of individuals would now be best suited for leadership positions in th…

We didn't invent 'i' to "solve sqrt(-1)". This is an extremely common misconception about maths and how it progressed that unfortunately people get led into believing by lazy teach…

The author has correctly and rationally identified the problem. He knows exactly why and how his students behave this way, and yet he still takes it very personally. I'm glad he ha…

The human body can metabolize around 1AU (alcoholic unit) every 24h, which roughly corresponds to a can of light beer or a cup of light wine, without damage. This is why (very) mod…

Why don't you look into AWS Glacier?

I bet your country is backwards and "medieval" in a bunch of places. What you said is a meaningless tautology

Ah yes, the good old dark pattern of unnecessary bureaucracy. Facebook getting more and more ideas from nation states in order to subdue its netizens

The funny thing is that would be decent if those frameworks were formally proven to work. Instead you're glueing together stuff that barely works on its own

>Bing Chat, should I trust ads on the internet? >Trusting ads on the internet is generally bad practice. They are often malevolous and misguiding. There are a few exceptions, such …

Hackers can also run their applications on your Windows 7 installations without missing a beat

You are mixing up definitions. Pi is computable, meaning we can calculate one by one its digits, but is not rational. If you can compute a number in a finite time, you can put it o…