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Hi, well it's probably not a good rate when you're just starting out. But I'm in my forties now, and it's basically an ongoing auction for my time that's driving up the price gradu…

SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I am an all-rounder programmer with decades of experience in many areas, available for freelance work. I'm up for: - game development (I wou…

If you make a game for a given platform, it makes sense to target the most common configuration, which in this case was 512k (not 512M btw). Even though RAM expansions eventually b…

I admit I failed that question, and I understand the impulse to then challenge the way the question was constructed. In school, it's something I did regularly, partly because some …

Say you're getting mugged and the mugger opens with "If we accept that you don't have any right to your possessions, don't you agree that I'm justified in taking all your stuff?" I…

This is wrong on so many levels. I've been writing code commercially for more than 30 years. > This is also what Software Engineering has become: you memorize, regurgitate and part…

SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I recently went from my full time programming job - doing mostly business and scientific software - to a freelance setup. I'm up for: - game…

Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean by "as bitter as this"? Reading the story with no context, it seems almost reverential to Christianity: We're in the far future and space…

I know they're distinct things, I just wonder about the way visualization is described. From the way non-aphantasia is characterized here one could assume that the difference is ju…

The problem with this test is I have nothing to compare it to, and the answer spectrum provided is not helpful because it seems concerned with things like how vivid the colors of m…

SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I'm transitioning from my full time programming job to a freelance setup over the next few months. I'm up for: - game development (I would l…

The ASKAP scans at 888MHz. From the paper, which luckily is publicly available: > It exhibited a high degree (∼ 25%) of circular polarization when it was visible. We monitored the …

Wahlomat was a great starting point for me as someone who is not up-to-date on current party agendas. However, its weakness is that it breaks down answers into yes/no options. For …

> But the authentic ones are willing to do it for free. The only scientists who can afford to work for free would have to be independently wealthy, that's not very common. I don't …

But this specific endeavor is about protecting our orbital infrastructure, it has nothing to do with curiosity. We depend on satellites. Yes, the byproduct will be that orbital cle…

> There is enough garbage on the surface of the earth to worry about. Every single time there is anything happening with space flight, there is at least one comment saying "We shou…

The only reason why so many companies are openly in support of LGBTQ+ is that right now it costs them almost nothing and effortlessly paints the illusion of a human face onto their…

Hang on, the 15 minute interval requires constant human action, it's not enough that the phone itself is reachable? How does that even work? If that's true (which is sincerely hope…

Forgive me if I misunderstood your intent, but this feels a little like moving the goal posts on me. In my comment, I was addressing the specific claim that we know little enough a…