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Yeah, how is that mars colony plan going realistically. have they figured out the bits about how humans are going to survive in a toxic irradiated environment for months on end? I …

Taken literally you are technically correct, but... 1. Space is big, but LEO is not that big and if a single company clutters it enough, other organisations might start bumping int…

Devils advocate here. There is currently an article on the front page about a US bill to compel operating systems to collect age verification / id data. If something like that was …

correction. in the real world all smartphones are either apple, android or none/other. in terms of legals, you really do have to cater to all three, which is why we don't have one …

Because high level languages are where the libraries that do all of the heavy lifting exist. Libraries provide a suite of tools for absstracting away all of the complexities of cre…

SpaceX is the stoic incumbant by now. They have the launchpads and enough money to fight any challenging patents. If I was an up and coming rocket engineer, they would be my goto s…

The process you describe took me right back to my childhood days when I was fortunate to have a simple 8 bit computer running BASIC and a dialup modem. I discovered the concept of …

The same motive that all nascent life has - survive and propagate.

Coincidentally, i bought myself a Synology NAS this weekend with the honest intention of using it mainly as a backup device, but while browsing the built in apps, i noticed a lot o…

Google also quite often fires customers.

In the context of interface/product design, gender identity is just another data point for marketing purposes. I cant think of many products that are genuinely gender specific. Whe…

True...ish, but i bet a percentage of them get rich by focussing on what they are good at and neglecting their families, just making piles of money available. There's probably enou…

Dyson swarms are fascinating concepts, but as we are learning about our own ever increasing energy requirements harvested from our ecosystem, moving around too much energy in a com…

How is it calculated for non residents. How much would Elon pay if he were caught speeding in Finland?

If you aren't using a public framework and you use any JavaScript in your app then you are creating your own framework. Nothing wrong with that. The real value of public frameworks…

As well as the $4 fee mentioned, Zip and co also charge the merchant - in my country, 30 cents per transaction and 4-6% commission. Late payment interest is probably just gravy. Wi…

For me the answer to that question, as with most things in life, is a do a bit of both. Don't just buy the same food from the same place all the time. Most people choose, conciousl…

Curious, in these three hours did you teach your student about git log, checkout $HASH, bisect, revert or any of the other ways that git is actually useful beyond being a glorified…

I've always thought of numbers, and the broader system of mathematics as equivalent to the Newtonian understanding of physics - an adequate tool to explain observed reality - but t…

Totally agree with your viewpoint. These sort of laws should focus on the realistic ability to repair an item, not the practical costs of doing it. Many of us here would have been …

I've always found the focus on 'languages' in hiring to be a bit odd, and perhaps a hangover from olden times. Any programmer with enough experience can become competent in any pro…

What sort of systems are you building ? I’m guessing some variation of CMS, shopping cart or simple crud backoffice reporting systems. I’ve spent 14 years working for a small agenc…

I've been a developer since the 90s and I still occasionally experience that dread. But then I remember the reason I love this profession - it allows us to gain deep insights into …

Im not qualified to comment on the sociopolitical implications of this. I would prefer if things had not got to this stage but I understand the good and bad uses of such informatio…