They have never put it in a production machine. And as a steam turbine engineer, I can say they probably never will. The engineering problems are too difficult to solve in a cost-effective and worthwhile manner for small vehicles. Trains, large trucks, and busses? Maybe. But not in passenger vehicles.

I agree with you that humankind has reached the limits of technological advancement about a decade ago.

I am not confused at all, you have a reading comprehension problem. I am talking about a _possibility_, quite obviously. It goes like this: "Sorry, your patch did raise red flags in Coverty, please fix it and submit again." And this way every contributor that is unwelcome can be neatly fended off. Or have you forgotten how systemd is _actually_ developed? There are now enough examples around to know that the project leads are very full of themselves and do not play nice with others at all. "God complex" seems to be a fitting description.

airplanes are loud and need a long runway

helicopters are extremely loud and have blades that cannot touch a single thing or instant explosive cuisinart

do you have a solution for every suburban house needing a giant runway or a meticulously clear landing pad, and to only have deaf neighbors?

sorry: you need a new kind of engine. quiet, safe, small, convenient: capable of vertical take off and landing

apostrophe technology will recycle 20-30% of cognitive entropy in the existing forum

instead of babbling in incoherent monotone, the insertion of slight pauses allows the speaker to catch their breath, and listeners to reflect on the last statement

do not be fooled by cheap knock offs like semicolon, ellipsis, and hyphen- only our quality controlled and 5 sigma patented apostrophes, at a reasonable price, give you the rhetorical power, you want, and deserve

we do not condone overuse of our technology. apostrophe abuse such as by christopher walken and william shatner leads to rhetorical inversion, in which cognitive entropy is decreased only at the cost of increase in camp, a dangerous failure of influence

test drive your own apostrophe, today

you got it: feel good PR "technology." the gadget doesn't matter, appearances do. it makes people feel good about the company, without actually doing anything truly substantial about the topic

we'll have flying cars when

1. it is energetically manageable, so fusion

2. taking off and landing is easy, which both helicopters and airplanes, existing technology, make complicated dangerous and noisy, so a new kind of engine

3. there is coordination with other flying cars, which means centrally controlled/ effortlessly intercommunicating AI, because people would just fucking crash into each other all the time

... by trying to teach them the worst abomination of a programming language under the sun. Even a good macro-assembler is better. I also strongly advise you to stay away from Java and JavaScript. These languages are only for experts that already have serious skills, all other develop very bad habits using them. Possible candidates if you really want to teach them are Python, Ruby and maybe Lua. But seriously, CS concepts are not something you teach with a language, that would be like teaching them to use a pen of a specific color instead of teaching how to write.

I've got no problem with eSports. Personally, I'd rather have the controller in my own hands, but boys want to watch each other playing video games, god bless 'em. Especially if it keeps them off 8chan.

Actually, he's right, during the 1700s, aka the 18th century, there was quite a bit of white slavery going on.

Not in the US, which is what this conversation was about.

Peddle your "white genocide", "save white heritage" bullshit elsewhere.

Everything has risks. I'm against decrying one activity because YOU don't like it's risk profile.

That's right. As long as the risks are spelled out in advance and only to the practitioners, there's no problem.

Where exactly does the healthy bit come in?

First, I didn't say anything about "healthy".

Second, not all boxing is professional prize-fighting, which is where the head injuries come from. No protective headgear, refs who are unwilling to stop fights because of the big broadcast money, etc.

My point was that boxing requires a significant amount of strategy and thought. Not that it was some healthy pastime. I boxed for years, but would never have my kid go into boxing. On the other hand, I had no problem letting my kid study other martial arts, including kickboxing, which she has done for over a decade. She's finishing a math PhD right now, so it does not appear to have caused any crippling brain injury. In fact, there is some research that studying martial arts has a significant cognitive benefit to the practitioner. I believe it is very healthy to study movement based upon physical combat. Otherwise, I would never have retired from a career in academia in order to teach martial arts.

Given the ubiquity of washing machines and dryers, laundry doesn't really take that much time anymore anyway (at least, not for me it doesn't).

What I could really use, though, is a robot that could automatically scrub bathtubs, toilets, and counters. Sort of the scrub-brush version of a Roomba.

Oh yeah boxers never talk shit about opponents.

They do, but the consequences are rather greater and more direct than tweeting it out.

exactly

it's better to decrease inefficiencies in a simplified system than devise complex add-on contraptions that purport to recycle lost energy, but it's so fractional, it doesn't even make up for it's own extra weight, it's own extra cost, it's own extra maintenance

it stinks of rube goldberg perpetual motion machine

Indeed. And if you pipe your logs directly into a database, you get this little thing called ACID, which apparently the systemd folks have never heard about. Their current solution is about the worst one possible. Closed, proprietary, unreliable. A "fair weather only" system that falls over dead as soon as the conditions are not ideal anymore.

As to being paid for this propaganda trash, this person almost certainly is.