All of us stoners have seen desperate times and desperate actions but frankly mate you've taken the biscuit

He did?! I was wondering where that last biscuit went.

I've actually done something similar to this in the workplace before and found it to be very effective. Basically I scheduled a meeting for the last hour or so of the workday Friday and invited the other developers to come jump on with me. I shared my screen, we had an open mic, but basically I talked through what I was doing and they had a chance to see how my thought process works and also to make suggestions or ask questions. It turned out to be a good chance for the more junior folks to learn from me and some of the other experienced developers and at the same time it made us think about what we were doing at a deeper level, which is something you can get complacent in after you've been doing it a while.

This is something I did for several weeks in a row, but the last time was at least two years ago -- and yet as recently as last month I've had some of the folks that participated bring it up and comment how much they learned from it. If you think about it, it's basically pair programming on steroids.

He said "We're all dicks" not "we all have dicks."

You might want to consider that the reason modern war doesn't involve air combat as much is specifically because one side of those wars has completely dominated in the air.

Also the F-4 Phantom famously didn't have a gun which made it much less useful than it really could have been. John Cheshire, who flew 197 missions in one, said this: "Bullets are cheap and tend to go where you aim them. I needed a gun, and I really wished I had one."

There is a book named En... ohhhhh..... I see what you did there.

I think the other folks replying to you missed your point -- it's shame that the current republican party is such a mess, because a strong republican party with reasonable positions on issues would not be a bad thing, but instead would be a good alternative to the current democratic party -- which is not what it could be either, let's face it.

That may be true, but of the 20 republican candidates in the field those are probably the least electable ones when it comes to the general election.

Oh give it a rest. Do you think the first rockets carried satellites into space? Do you think the first airplane flew across the country? New tech doesn't start out as the end-all-be-all, it starts out as a baby step and people with higher aspirations improve upon it until it's something you never thought possible. Your attitude of "It's useless because it doesn't do what I imagined" is just ridiculous.

That would be fine with me, too! Anything that can help me determine what to actually expect.

It's probably because the field of glasswork is not inherently known to the public to be a particularly masculine nor feminine trade. When you tell people about it, I bet nobody has ever said "Isn't that something girls do?" The thing keeping a lot of women from STEM fields is not necessarily the environment within those fields, but let's face it, little girls are dressed in pink and given dolls from the moment they are born and are often ostracized if they want to play with traditionally male toys. Same with boys, they are dressed in blue and given sports toys or toy guns and if they play with dolls people treat them like outsiders. This lasts through their entire lives.

Just last week I was out to lunch with three other male coworkers. One of them said to another "What, did your sisters dress you up like a ballerina as a child?" -- They are in their 40s. This just goes to show you how far into life these stereotypes go.

The answer doesn't lie in making boys' toys more girly or girls' toys more boyish. We have to change how society thinks if we want to truly allow for equality in genders. As you can see from every single Slashdot thread on this topic, we have a long way to go, or perhaps we have the wrong goal.

it specifies that 5G networks should provide data speeds of up to 20Gbps -- 20 times faster than 4G

I just get so sick of marketing speak. "Up to" could mean anything here -- setting an upper limit of 20gbps is useless. Tell me what the average speed I can expect will be, at least then I can have some idea what I'll actually get.

Around here, it gets so humid in the summer that we had to swim to get to school.

Upstream both ways!

Yeah. You could probably replace the thing with a raspberry pi .... at each location ... with a custom controller card.. and another one to control them all... for about $5,000 $2M ? Someone's pork barrel overfloweth.

Well, you do have to find someone to do that work, and pay them, and also pay them to warranty their work when it inevitably breaks. Nothing costs just parts, you have to include labor and the example you just gave is all custom (which is exactly what they've got now, just with modern hardware). $2M may be too much but why don't you go submit your bid for $5k and let me know how that works out for you.

With the project already billions over budget and years behind schedule ... You probably wouldn't get on a plane these guys designed

Well if they were spending that time making sure their plane wouldn't fall apart in the air, then sure I would. One of the trends of today's society is that we aren't willing to wait for things. Especially when it comes to new tech and something as risky as a nuclear reactor, I want them to take their time and get it right. Hopefully that will mean the second one they build is put up much more quickly and safely.

Kudos to them for finding their flaws now, and not after a meltdown happens.