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I see, so thus guy was probably licensed to carry passengers. Thanks. The seating arrangement was pilot in the front, passenger behind. When my son (about 8) get off his ride and w…

> One massive restriction on ultralight airplanes is that you can't carry passengers. Again, on paper, because of risk, but it ends up having some controversial effects. If you wan…

"Voter literacy" is obviously a good thing; but blockchain and encryption are not part of that. Very few software developers, for example, are qualified to evaluate a crypto scheme…

> But it is possible that every extended family will have at least one member who can run a server That's as may be; but many, many people have no access to an "extended family". A…

> How costly can it be to test the file fully in a CI job? It didn't need a CI job. It just needed one person to actually boot and run a Windows instance with the Crowdstrike softw…

> or there is no internal testing Thing is, as far as I can see, deploying this database update to a Windows machine will result promptly and unconditionally in a BSOD. That implie…

> Respect and endorsement are not the same thing. This is true, but has no bearing on posters that command neither my endorsement not my respect. You get my endorsement if I agree …

But isn't that a fairly tiny risk, compared with letting a third party meddle with your kernel modules without asking nicely? I've never been hit by a zero-day (unless Drupageddon …

UK courts can also order a newspaper to publish a retraction or an apology, and can specify the prominence that should be given to it.

> (or in some cases that you have been abducted by aliens) Really? There are therapists who will try to convince you that you were abducted by aliens?

Back in the 80s, we used to draw network diagrams on the whiteboard; those parts of the network that belonged neither to us nor to our users was represented by an outline of a clou…

That sounds a bit like the patch cards for the EMS VCS3; you puhed pins into the square patchboard to connect-up the modules. If you mounted a piece of card over the patchboard and…

Didn't Stockhausen create a notation for electronic music? I was surprised TFA didn't mention it.

That ball of ionized air is opaque to radar, making the rocket hard to detect. Or, so I read somewhere. I don't know at what speed a rocket has to be going, before the kinetic impa…

Thd only time I've ever heard a sonic boom was as a kid, on holiday in the south of France. They would regularly fly Mirage jets over the beach resorts. I suspect these flights wer…

I used eXceed. Actually my boss wrote it; I worked for Hummingbird for a while.

But they train their models on everything , regardless of the licence. It follows that the resulting derivative work likely mixes stuff that is under incompatible licences, with th…

"God" has some unique properties. One of those might be that God neither exists nor doesn't exist. If God has this property of 'neitherism', then the value of n is undefined. Neith…

The question is malformed because it contains a term that cannot be evaluated.

> Let n equal 3 if God exists, or 5 if God does not exist. Is n prime? [Not yet finished the article] Author says the answer is True. I say the question is malformed, and cannot be…

What's with Lifestyle Domain Holdings? Did they fold, or something?

I don't assume that; I simply observe that a toaster doesn't need software, that simple machines are more likely to be reliable than complex machines, and that the ability to run s…

> everything including your toaster is running software Doesn't that just support the author's claim that there's too much software? FTR, my Dualit toaster doesn't run software.

> generate a pretty good poem about my cat I do not consider a text generator to be the pinnacle of "great software", regardless of how well the code was written. I don't think "me…

> (not just engineers but designer and UX researchers as well as all the other support roles like project managers etc) Oh! I thought you were going to say "testing teams, design r…