Comment Re:Interesting story (Score 3, Funny) 553
Recursion is always the answer:
- something with trees: recursion!
- GUI window placement: recursion!
- use after free bug: recursion!
- my stack keeps overflowing: recursion!
Recursion is always the answer:
Replying to my own post: apparently TODAY is perihelion day. Who'd have thunk?
2017 January 4, 2017 6:17 am 91,404,322 mi
Context! It's currently about 91Mmiles:* "Earth's closest approach to the sun, called perihelion, comes in early January and is about 91 million miles (146 million km)."
* Admittedly, when God created the Sun several GY ago, the distance was probably different, and immaterial. B-)
Channel streaming services generally have embedded advertisements.* Netflix, as a content service, does not—they got that correct!
* And the streaming services (apart from Netflix and Amazon) that I've tried have very intrusive, irritating ads, that are frequently broken, so that if you skip to see a part of the show you wanted to recheck, you have to watch minutes of ads. Without DVR features, channel streaming is tedious.
They already do this at some power generation stations (e.g., [1] from 2014). There may possibly be issues with suphur poisoning though.
see what you did there.
Whoosh! *
* Literally.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.