I'm sure Lars will have something to say about it being the end of the world.

And for that matter, neither is a standard 2x4 ABS Lego brick worth making on a 3D printer, even on a super high resolution SLS printer. Injection molding gives a much more accurate and faster way to make thousands or millions of the same part. Just because a 3D printer can make something doesn't mean you should (or should want to) use it as a substitute for existing mass-production methods.

Where 3D printers are useful is in making customized parts, such as obsolete designs or new designs. Make a custom Lego-compatible brick of exactly the shape you need, make a 2x4 Lego brick out of metal, or make a part that is no longer manufactured.

I'm disappointed that the headline wasn't written as a question, because then we could invoke Betteridge.

I call it the "85/85" fad. It started about 10 years or so ago, where normal body text was set via CSS to 85% gray and 85% of your configured font size. Presumably it was to make headlines look bigger instead of, you know, just increasing the size of headline text? I'm sure it must even be a default in new Wordpress configurations. And suddenly everybody is doing that crap. But I took a quick look at the linked site, and it's more like 75/75. And it even has a tag cloud, something that I hear was first invented as a joke.

And a quick protip: your browser probably has a way to turn off CSS rendering. In Mozilla Seamonkey it's View -> Use Style -> None. Of course excessive formatting and hidden fields and pop-up menus and facebutt logins turn into a jumble all over the page, and this one seems to be worse than others. The most interesting is how every word in headline text is in there twice. "The The Ten Ten Lies Lies..."

The good news is, having a throat designed for speaking is a different gene. They'd still be going ook-ook, but they might be a lot more social (the problem with adult chips around humans is that they STAY at that 2-3yo level of socialization) and better at using tools. But we know they can learn sign language, so lack of speech won't be enough to stop them from having a revolution and taking over the planet.

It was called The Last One

Not only that, but life would have been unlikely to survive the event that split the moon away from the earth even if it had already started. There would be tremendous rock-melting heat involved, and fossils would have been destroyed on both the earth and moon.

Not only is it less likely for earth rocks to end up on the moon than the reverse (higher escape velocity), but the question wasn't if earth rocks ended up on the moon, it was fossils. Would the energy it took to get fossil-bearing rocks past escape velocity be so much that the fossils are likely to get damaged? That would further reduce the chance of find earth fossils on the moon.

You would be able to tell because the background music would get more dramatic whenever you looked into the night sky.

Because writing code to do balanced (as opposed to unbalanced) binary trees is a "homework assignment" level question (with multiple branching decision points and subtasks) vs a "test question" level question. Traversing linked linked lists is an idiom that should be internalized if you're going to be messing with data structures and pointers.

If you're just trying to get it to work, taping off the switches is more sensible than ripping the switches out of the wall, then having to put everything back when you realize the system you chose had basic flaws.

The big problems with wiring a house for remotely-controlled switches are that 1) the wall switches may only have the hot wire go through the box, leaving you without a good way to power your "smart" switches other than ground leakage, and that 2) wires to the lamps and outlets are on the same branch, so you can't put the relays in a box next to the breakers, and the relays basically need to be put at or in the lamp itself, and any on/off smarts (occupancy detection and on/off schedules) need to also be at the relay.

Then you need some way to get a signal from the switch to the relay (assuming you don't do the old X-10 thing with the relay in the switch). Fortunately, wireless technology has significantly improved in the past decade or so.

But indeed, this "isn't for everyone".

That's great, until you ask a question about second-year college stuff. Like "show me how to reverse a linked list", which is basic Data Structures class material, not the hard stuff. And then suddenly they get the deer-in-the-headlights look. Back around '04 or so, the group I was in interviewed some people, with the same interview style that I got hired with. All the Java-addled recent CS grads were useless. Only the EE grads actually knew how to program.

Someone should write an emulator that runs on an Arduino.

Um, yeah, I'm gonna have to put up a [CITATION NEEDED] here. Sure, that's a thing, but so is Systems Hungarian Notation.

It's called the DRY principle, as in Don't Repeat Yourself. Any time you do the same sequence of stuff in multiple places, when that sequence needs to change, the chance of missing one is increased.

minor change:

case 2: if (AcquireResource3()) ok = false; else DoStuffWithResources(); break;