That doesn't sound like progress to me. That sounds like regression to where we were circa 8000 BCE.

"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."- Justice Kennedy in PPvCasey, 1992, explaining why his future self would push for gay marriage.

Seems like "Progress" is rather primitive to me- it's just the right to live out a fantasy in defiance of objective reality.

Maybe it never tried.

That and also more importantly: because nature's idea of "better" is almost never the same as our idea of "better." I think it's wonderful that the performance example that they used, happened to be binding to cancer cells. If cancer doesn't illustrate the vast gulf between us and it, I don't know what does!

grep "terror" /var/log/mail.log

The article left out that terrorists will be required to send from a hostname that has the word "terror" in it. Failure to do so, is a violation and will be punished!

Not sure I can duplicate, due to the other strangeness I'm dealing with (It's a cross-database query and the other database doesn't have a primary key, just sets of fields with unique constraints). It may have also been a Select Distinct that I thought I had applied but didn't; the one row that was duplicating did have two in the parent table.

Duplicate of one of the four, aside from the identity field that was not part of the insert.

Yep. What gave me the clue was copying the exact same code *out* of the stored procedure, where I got 4.

C was invented on a PDP-6, IIRC, and most of the language constructs mimic PDP-6 assembly. Including Increment and Decrement.

Speaking of automotive "why is this shit even legal?", how come motorcycles don't have to have mufflers?
 
Added safety feature- so you can hear them coming. I have a major problem with that issue on my electric bike......

Who needs industrial scale when you can do household scale?

Or possibly, and here's the scary part to me, it actually is possible to breed the concept of freedom out of people.

Still don't.

And McDonald's, where anybody who has bummed $3 a day can get at least a 1200 calorie meal, each and every day until they die of a massive coronary.