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I used to worry about this. Now I realise that my worry came from a scarcity mindset. There is no reason at all to believe that electricity production will always be difficult or e…

>>> That is, you could recover the unencrypted data if you recorded a copy of the pilot by mixing. Yes, thanks for the response!

Since backscatter systems depend on on an RF source, I wonder if work has been done on encrypting the source signal (pseudorandom bit pattern for example), then modulating the rand…

I think it's just very subtle sarcasm that these are dangerous thoughts in a world where thought-crime is real.

I just love it that everyone is saying things like: "And yes, it is my opinion that climate change is absolutely happening" . The level of fear in stating simple opinions has gone …

You should review the concept of "fractional reserve banking".

Still relevant but apparently unknown to the trendy conference speakers and FP ranters: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/aPToP/

You're missing the entire fields of robotics and automatic control, which are not new fields and have never made claims of human level intelligence. These are the fields that have …

Well then, I guess with that line of reasoning we should just turn off the computers and go live in the woods. There's obviously too much risk in doing anything.

In most large companies today, the shareholders outside of the top 3 management levels are irrelevant and usually just a tedious burden.

Thanks, but that means I'm doing the testing. I wish I could do that - maybe someday.

It's important for package developers to be aware of other software that depends on their interfaces or functionality. Some cases will slip through sometimes, but over a couple of …

I've seen that bug! And, I'm not too surprised, KDE has a broken development and maintenance process. I'm sure they think they're doing a great job - but that's because they don't …

I agree, this is a problem, but it's not being solved by this practice. The example you gave is specifically about a client application of git that wasn't updated to work with the …

Yes, it makes a lot of sense to ignore the real world and pretend that software will always be stable.

This practice is seriously bad. It means that one group of developers is busy improving and fixing packages, and another different group is cherry-picking commits in order to maint…

Thanks so much for pointing to this.

Thanks for the info! I've added the git-core PPA now which installs 2.14.1 . I just don't understand this screwing with version numbers and not being on the latest code.

Does anybody understand Ubuntu releases? The update this morning for Ubuntu 17.04 installs git 2.11.0 .. NOT the patched 2.11.3 NOR the latest 2.14.1 Why isn't Ubuntu fully up to d…

I assume they are .. however, they take no risks with their shaming.

Of course it's mandatory ... unless you don't care about silly little things like bonuses and promotions.

TL;DR Some guy not only speaks his mind, but has the balls to actually write his thoughts down. The completely predictable response from "forward thinking progressives" follows.

Yes. This so correct. Linting efficacy is one of the many myths about software quality and team efficiency that abound in this industry.

Citing an arXiv paper should take precedence over citing anything else. If you really believe in science then ONLY non-paywall papers should be cited.

It's called Finite Domain Constraint Programming and it's been studied for about 50 years.