Scissors have been used to cut the lines, with explosive effect.

Better begin/end than syntactically significant white space. Wow this argument has been going on for a while.

Has Ada usage actually been increasing recently?

Possibly from recent use in military drones.

Also possibly a mis-read by TIOBE about searches for ADA because of the NVIDIA ADA architecture.

Developers who have no skill to make skeuomorphic designs insult it. Yawn.

That's easy, skeuomorphism requires art skills. If done well, skeuomorphism is superior to material design. It looks better, and is more intuitive.

But the vast majority of developers don't have the skill to do skeuomorphism. They can do material design, so they accept that and insult the other. I am in the same boat, I am just honest enough to admit my true motivation.

Good point. An army that sees all others as subhuman and sees only the next death is one that has to keep fighting. It has no choice. It's the only thing it knows. It can keep conquering more territory outwards, or it can slaughter its own government inwards. History shows those are your two options.

Whether or not Russia conquers Ukraine, it will attack other countries - vast numbers of bored, underpaid soldiers would seek entertainment elsewhere if they didn't.

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

1. Were the safety guards, which were optional, installed?

2. We know investigators are looking into the computer system, does this mean the computer can also set the switch settings?

If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, it was likely an accidental bump.

If the answers are "yes" and "no", then one of the pilots lied.

If the answer to the second one is yes, then regardless of the answer to the first, I'd hope the investigation thoroughly checks whether the software can be triggered into doing so through faulty data or the existence of software defects.

It's also subject to hurricanes and Biblical flooding. Furthermore, the specially modified 747 used to transport Shutltes from place to place is already a museum piece at the same place that Texas wants to place the Shuttle. It would have to be de-mothballed and made operational again just for thiis one job.

The Shuttle in Los Angeles, not all that far from Houston, is accessible to even more people.

What will a society of 150-year-old hippie mystics lookalike?

We hear so much these days about young urban hipsters deciding not to have children because the world as they see it appears to be coming to an end. But when I visited Iowa this month, I was impressed by by seeing babies everywhere. So if children represent optimism about the future, look at these differences among states:

https://worldpopulationreview....

Now consider the effects, long-term, of these differentials on our culture and politics.

"Dark matter" is about to go the way of phlogiston and luminiferous aether.

I'm not defending that post. I'm saying you talk like a soviet. Huge difference between the two, but soviets didn't have logic as their strong point. Propaganda and sophistry was the soviet way.