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Comment Re:Environmental track record (Score 2) 57

The Hudson Bay Company, founded 353 years ago still exists nowadays although they have stopped trading furs with the natives quite a while ago so yes, a company can recycle itself and change its vocation.

Another one of my favorites is Abercrombie and Fitch used to sell handguns.

And GMAC's Spark Plug Division worked on Apollo's CSM.

Comment Re:Musk has never had even one original idea (Score 1) 155

Nothing very concrete: https://www.tumblr.com/numbero...

I may also find it less extraordinary than others, having lived it with somebody else. My father ran a company for decades, I worked for him as a teen, and came back in my 30's. As a teen, many of the same people working there still in my 30's, we would do things exactly like that. I thought after a couple decades my father would notice, and when I explained back to him how the company functions around him causing problems he was quite upset. When I wasn't working in that family business I was mostly a consultant in tech and saw it there more than once I'm sure.

Comment Re:Musk has never had even one original idea (Score 1) 155

You missed the point completely. Musk is a genius *bussinessman* because it recognizes good ideas, and has the drive to make them happen.

SpaceX's first employees were rocket scientists and figured out how to contain Elon. Tesla he purchased, and there's some containment there. He appears to run the show at Twitter though.

Which is going about as well as dusting off the business plan that got you kicked out of PayPal would be expected to.

Comment How would you know? (Score 2) 115

I'm honestly not sure if I'd know the difference if in the same situation. Not that I'm going to an NFT party, but just UV lights in general.

I do typically wear transition lenses which need UV to dim. They don't get set off by proper black lights but now I'm wondering if UV-C would dim them.

Maybe there'd be some ozone smell? That's usually easy to pick out.

Comment Good. Java can go away (Score 1) 109

I've been in Java since 1997 and .NET since 2002.

I'm quite OK with Java being a thing of the past. Once Oracle got a hole of it the writing was on the wall to walk away.

C# just seemed to evolve better. Java promised write once, run everywhere, but always fell short. Now with C# I'm quite happy to develop on Linux. MS has got Debian repos for me all ready to go, easy updates, everything stays where it should.

Comment Re:They took a chance (Score 1) 34

I'm given to understand previous probes used a radiation based heat source, most likely a small piece of plutonium just to keep things warm rather than generate power.

Most probes to the Moon haven't used a radiation source. I can't find any in the US Surveyor, Ranger, or Explorer programs nor the USSR Luna probes. China's recent Chang'e 4 lander/rover is the only one I can find.

They're probably wondering how the Earth-based testing came up short. It's a shame this didn't work.

They didn't design it to last through the lunar night so I don't see why they would have tried testing for it.

Comment Re:It's called automation. (Score 1) 203

10 years ago, SHA1 was something you could sensibly store your passwords in.

Uh? No. SHA1 has been vulnerable to faster-than-brute-force attacks since 2005

NIST and most other real security professionals were recommending against using SHA1 since 2010/2011-ish.

Unlike you, I do not claim to be a security professional, but even I know SHA1 has been unsafe for a far longer than a decade.

I feel sorry for your clients.

Comment Re:Not up to us now (Score 1) 147

rich western nations, which at this point cannot producing meaningful CO2 reductions *snip* Well except Germany of course, fuck you

CO2 (metric tons in 2020) per capita:

Germany's: 7.72
US: 13.68
Australia: 15.22
Singapore: 9.45

But Germany gets the fuck you? I don't think I'd hire you for your critical thinking skills.

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