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I have watched this dispute for many decades and the reality is that there is ebb and flow in the lifecycle of such things. The biggest problem is that people do not have sound mem…

Certainly. My middle son was looking at buying a property in a near by town. He asked me to come an look at it. We had the actual shire plans for the blocks and while looking at th…

This scenario happens far more often than most people realise, putting up a building on the wrong plot of land. If you are not going to do your due diligence then you will suffer t…

I didn't think my play on words would cause such controversy about acceleration and jerk. Mayhaps I should not be making "Dad jokes" here.

Here in Victoria (Australia), we commonly see road signs stating that "speed kills" whereas the reality is that it is the jerk that kills.

One of the basic causes for slowness is how the underlying language implementation does procedure calls. Decades ago, I looked at how Microsoft handled procedure calls and returns …

Far too many people (including AI researchers themselves) fail to see that all LLMs are actually simple machines. Extremely simple machines that are only mechanically following a r…

For the duration of their incarceration, why is there an expectation that those incarcerated have a right to vote anyway. Of course there are people who are in prison who shouldn't…

Over 40 years, I have seen many "programmers" who should never been in the business. Some of these were marketed as "guru" programmers. I suppose such idiotic systems like ChatGPT …

Doesn't support Linux though or any of the unixes. Looks good though.

Your third option is never good. Not cowering before bullies, even if you have been beaten up works wonders. So does ignoring the tom fools. Their goal to intimidate and make you f…

Private school has a different kind of bully.

Says it all.

If you want pristine sand beaches then expect major change over time. Looking at areas where there is little change over time, certain coastal structures are in plain sight. But as…

As I wrote above: > The reality is that it is based on a very distorted view of relational algebra as in it is based on tables, which are not relations but bags of records. It allo…

I was quite disappointed in this person's consideration of the problem of SQL and relational databases. The following extracts from the discussion highlight some interesting misund…

The problem is not the query planner per se. There is a much more subtle problem and it is related to how you have created the query in the join structure. For many queries, the or…

One problem with your explanation is that the muon and the tau (and the pion as a decay product of the tau) all decay into electrons, neutrinos and photons, which would suggest tha…

After about 15 minutes, the neutron has changed into another proton and electron, so bar now has a bigger party on its hands.

The first thing to point out here is that the > the speed of light is not > 299,798,452 m/s It is quite inaccurate to say this. The correct way to phrase this is that the speed of …

Emergent behaviour can occur, not a problem. But if you study such systems, I think you will find that the emergent behaviour is based on the programming involved and is not "beyon…

The images generated are based on two things: 1). the code within the systems 2). the data entered into the system. Those images are the result of how the data is processed by the …

Using protective gear (as in the kinds used in American football) is more detrimental to player safety than not using it. This was discussed back 40 or so years ago. It allows you …

You make the following comment regarding artificial stupidity systems (AI) > since it knows how to correctly apply exist concepts to previously unexplored areas and yet these syste…

My two brass razoo's worth. Like any technology, if you use relational databases incorrectly then you will have problems. Unfortunately, over the decades I have seen so many abuses…