From Mr. Overstreet's announcement:

PSA: Right now I'm not getting any kind of funding for working on bcachefs; I'm
working on it full time for now but that's only going to last as long as my
interest and my savings account hold out. So - this would be a wonderful time
both for other developers to jump in and get involved, and for potential users
to pony up some funding. If you think this is interesting and worthwhile and you
want to see it completed and upstream - especially if you're at a company that
might make use of it - talk to your $manager or whoever and nag them until they
send me a check :)

Robo cars will be able to maintain more constant engine speeds, minimize braking, etc., so they are likely to be more fuel efficient and put less wear on brakes, tires, and the engine.

...no need to say more.

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Having the OS and all of the tools packaged up as a bootable VMware image is a great idea. It removes all of the issues about how to resurrect it later.

I can't image VMware removing backward compatibility (or failing to have tools to provide the ability to move things forward). Just in case, I see two solutions:

1. Fire up your VM once a year with whatever you are using to run VMware VMs and do a forward-compatibility upgrade if available to be sure you don't fall too far behind.

2. There are cloud providers who want to provide space for your VM. They are likely to have a forward-compatibility plan for their customers, even if those customers are so "lightweight" they are essentially non-paying.

I guess I'm not the first person to come up with this title. :)

It's kind of a spooky name. I don't know if Mr. Nimoy would have liked it or not.

In most cases, software engineers do not need to be licensed. Maybe this is another item for the general licensing debate.

I assume detecting the RF signature of the transmitter controlling the drone is the best way.

Of course there are these problems:

1. There are many signals on the bands used for RC.

2. It is possible to build an autonomous drone.

3. In these days of software defined radio, people can spin up non-off-the-shelf, non-standard radio control systems.

When someone becomes President, they become privy to information very few people in the world know. I'll guess some of this information guides your decisions, perhaps not to where you would have been before you learned the information.

I'm not saying I agree with any decision which have been made. I'm simply remembering some people know a lot more about these decisions than I (or most members of the press) ever will.

I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I also don't know if the folks who wrote out Constitution had any idea either.

...about computers.

Yes, they need to know how to read, write, type, and do math, but this question was about computers.

Students should know how to convert base-10 numbers to binary.

They should understand how to map a character set to binary.

They should understand how to add two numbers in binary and then--time permitting--learn about AND/OR/XOR gates.

They should understand the concepts of CPU/memory/bus/network/storage and transferring data over a wire.

They should understand that a network can be wired or wireless.

They should understand what a cloud computing facility looks like and how their files get to/from it.

After the above, given time, you can teach them enough so they can decide whether or not they want to pursue a degree in computer science. This might include parsing a language by hand, talking about simple algorithms and algorithmic complexity, introduction to the Turing machine and computability, and maybe some simple data structures like arrays and linked lists.

Each of the above concepts can be absorbed and exercised in a week.

-Todd

p.s. "Computability" was not in my Chrome dictionary. Sheesh!

The problem of disappearing personal Web sites has been in the news a couple of times this week.

It seems like an obvious startup to guarantee viability of Web content after death for a fee. It seems pretty straightforward, except...

I assume there will be some law to define. For instance, does the company have the same rights as the deceased when it comes to asking/forcing Facebook to not delete their page/wall.

This sounds like a great business project, and a great career-maker for at least one lawyer.

-Todd

Its been doing well, but...

:)

...but is likely a necessary skill to do well in a computer science course of study, as well as engineering, physics, etc.