Backwards compatibility is the big problem here. There were closures implemented in Watcom C++ back in the Optima++ heyday before Sybase purchased Optima++ and then promptly killed it. And the C++ true closures came years later. I still miss working in the Optima++ environment. The BEST editor that had two-way round-trip reverse engineering, file-based viewers as well as event-based viewers, you could trace directly into the Watcom library itself. What I wouldn't give for Optima++ and the Watcom C++ compiler to be open-sourced and used as the basis for future compilers and environments. It was only a hop skip and a jump to get it to work under QT if they wanted to. The big problem with Optima++ was that the DataWindow control outdid the Sybase PowerBuilder widgets. And that spelled the end for Optima++.

You wrote code. You used the GPL so that everyone can benefit by seeing the updates to your code and seeing the code for applications that use your code (publish code for derivative works). GPL insists that no one can 1) take away your copyright - you own it, 2) any derivative software must be published so everyone can see what was done and how it si used as well as the code for the application that uses your code. This means, anyone using your code cannot hide their code and must publish to all recipients of the binary having used your code. This is where the money is - hiding the source code so only one company can use the techniques listed. Using GPL means everyone gets to see. The biggest benefit - no security through obscurity and bugs are found by a huge set of eyes. And the code shared is used to fuel new innovation again from a huge number of eyes. No one in this chain is restricted from charging a fee. The only requirement is the retention of copyright notices and the publication of full source for derivative works.

Objects impacting the side of the moon that faces us, can only originate from the conical section that is oblique to the majority of the face of the moon pointing towards the earth. This means, most impacts on our side are glancing since things cannot come from earth directly (90 degree impacts) toward the moon from the conical area covered by the earth. By contrast, the rest of the surface of the moon has no such limitations on direct 90 degree impacts. So it stands to reason that more of the kinetic energy of objects hitting the moon are going to affect the surface on the far-side rather than the near side. We don't need a computer simulation to figure this out. Just Kepler, Newton, Descartes and Copernicus.

Mod parent up. Icebergs displace the same weight of water. Ice bergs have a lower density so it sticks out. When an iceberg melts, the density becomes equal so the water from the iceberg fills in the iceberg sized hole. No rise in sea level noticed.

1. Vaccines work by either retraining the immune system or by increasing the readiness of the immune response
2. The old way of programming the immune response requires a vaccine made from Omicron which is not happening
3. Pfizer and Moderna hyper-inflate the immune response prior to the infection so that there are far more antibodies circulating - not necessarily omicron specific antibodies - they literally hijack the antibody making factories and retool them without a copy of the virus handy
4. Antibodies are not always 100% specific (as proteins bind based on probability).
5. So a population that has a hyper-inflated immune response is likely to accidentally bind to Omicron by ACCIDENT (as prediced by suboptimal protein binding)
6. The degree to which binding occurs is dependent on how similar the proten binding sites are
7. So we are now comparing people that have natural immunity and a regular level of antibodies against a pool of people that have programmed immunity that has been hyperinflated.
8. Wouldn't it be better to compare pigs and flying pegasi?
9. We should have a study of people that were boosted that have natural immunity or that have been vaccinated with the omicron variant - that would be a fair test.
10. We should do apples to apples comparisons
11. Or we should focus on outcomes like boosting those with immunity gives higher rates of virus-clearing

• 1 billion people in a lifetime (75 years)
• 8 billion people in a lifetime = 600 tons of CO2 per person
• 1 space flight = 75 tons of C02 per person
• 10 flights in one year = 750 tons of CO2 per person
• 750 flights in 75 years = 56250 tons of CO2 per person

So all the people in the world in a lifetime genrate 1.07% of the CO2 compared to spaceflight per person in a lifetime (75 years)

• 1 billion people in a lifetime (75 years)
• 8 billion people in a lifetime
• 1 space flight = 75 tons of C02 per person
• 10 flights in one year = 750 tons of CO2 per person
• 750 flights in 75 years = 56250 tons of CO2 per person

• So all the people in the world in a lifetime genrate 1.07% of the CO2 compared to spaceflight per person in a lifetime (75 years)

This is the case with all consumer grade goods these days. They are not designed to last. They are designed to be replaced and purchased again. Is this any surprise? I think not. Maybe that's why it's not a story?

Basic algebra. 11 unknowns, 10 equations. That's going to be a parametric solution. You don't need a newspaper or a professor to tell you that the answer is not unique. How is this an amazing find?

Being vaccinated will prevent you from dying for the most part. Vaccines do not prevent mutations. Covid 19 specifically vaccines do not prevent you from getting ill. They prevent you from the severity of the disease. You can still contract the illness but you will fight it off before it can do severe damage. Factually, you are correct about the spike proteins. But you are incorrect about the mutations.

It all goes to show you that unless you have quality inputs and a human being interpreting what's happening, the computer can only measure what it's taught. Garbage in, garbage out. Unfortunately, too many schools are relying on these methods when a simple in-person exam with limited seating would suffice. You can't use technology as a crutch for everything.

Making someone feel good won't fix a situation. MFA does not protect email. Any safety you have from automated systems is just an illusion. All it takes is one person to be convinced to bypass the security warnings. People are both your weakest link and your strongest asset. If you train your people, your organization will be invulnerable to people attacks. Now you just have to worry about the mechanical attack surface. That's a whole lot smaller and straight forward. The math is simple. You are in a wild forest with random animals that could attack in any which manner at any moment some of which are cute and furry. Do you train all your people? Or do you trust that the person you didn't train won't mistake a furry cute mogwai for the gremlin it truly is - once you feed it after dark and add water. Said differently. Training is necessary for recognizing potentially harmful actions that may look benign. Even something as simple as an email is deadly as an attack vector because it has to be open to the outside. So you have to trust your people more than your machines to keep your business safe. Even if it means feeling bad for the "gotcha's" - participation trophies won't hold back ransomware. Time to face the big bad world. Or if you don't believe me - run a honeypot and see what happens.

A black hole is a supercompressed dead star. Nothing more. Nothing less. We already have a name for a group of stars. So a group of black holes are a constellation.

The bill specifically states that the manufacturer can provide restrictions against reverse engineering and prevents competition with the manufacturer. So they can't use the information to build new copies of something. Just fix something with the permission of the manufacturer at repari facilities other than only the manufacturer. There are no such loopholes that you're talking about that would make the primary market runaway with competition. But all Americans have the right of first sale. And that implies the secondary market should not be owned by the manufacturer. Please read the bill again. You skipped the important parts.

Ask your SO for sources and lookup both sides of the story if you can find it. The DC Protest was meant to be peaceful. It turned out ugly. There's footage of black-masked-black-clad people breaking things. There's footage of the police opening the doors and ushering people into the capitol peacefully. The result was terrible yes. There was at least one veteran in the group. Where is the strategy you'd expect like in "The Last Ship"?