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Forget I said this. Clearly it’s impossible and the cranks at mit and nature should not have announced their findings.

You (and seemingly everyone else compiling news-from-2020 lists) forget about the discovery of signs of life in the atmosphere of Venus. Not to be grandiose, but, if true, in 500 y…

I agree. (Edit: to add to this, I've always thought that the third-last episode of Futurama, 'Murder on the Planet Express', was a return to form and reminiscent of the heyday of t…

I find this really disgraceful. A flaw in procedure that led to the initial catastrophes is at least understandable in terms of insidious errors in complex systems. A continuation …

He says in the Computer History Museum talk that (paraphrasing) ALOHANet was eventually connected to ARPANet, making in effect the first connection of the Internet.

Surfing and invention sound like makings of a good life. Speaking for myself, 'underappreciated' is the right word to describe his achievements. Quoting the article, "Metcalfe and …

It's an odd colour scale on that map, red, then light blue through black. Usually it's something simpler, like blue through red. It takes a look at the scale to realize that the fo…

It's been a long time since I've used C, but I recall strncpy being safe. I assume from context that I'm wrong, though.

Nature at least used to publish a single-page science fiction story at the back of every issue. They still publish online, though they've dropped it from the print edition. edit: h…

That’s a quote worthy of bash.org

Now that you point it out, that seems to be the case. The fuzziness around the edges (the east and north especially) threw me off, though that could probably be put down to compres…

A nit pick, I guess, but it’s a square, not a cube. The edges are interesting. I wonder what part of the image processing results in the irregularity. Some kind of interpolation, I…

Same idea with parentheses, at least I understand them.

Dating myself, but I remember the first time I heard about mp3s. In a school trip, another kid told me that you could download songs in files that were only a megabyte a minute. I …

That's coincidental; according to Wikipedia, Wald and his wife perished in a plane crash in India.

> "There are almost certainly multiple vulnerabilities at play here, since long gone are the days where a single vuln gave arbitrary code execution" Could you go into this in a lit…

Correct about the comment in the livestream, see here: https://youtu.be/zNklfC6jgBs?t=14653 It was Bob. Rough transcript: "We were surprised a little bit at how smooth things were …

>> It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed > That's... currently the case Is it currently the case? I'm not seeing it, though it I may be missing it. I do see, at th…

It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed as part of their metadata, ie alongside the date the comment was posted. Some formatting could be added (eg red highlight for…

Just be careful about 27.

He says in the second article you link that he doesn’t think hotlinking is bad per se, especially when it’s done in support of knowledge and education. I think the moral is rather …

This looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing. From time to time I've looked around for good charts of the night sky, suitable for printing and browsing. These are the best I've found s…