IIRC, the DoD has pretty much moved away from Ada. They couldn't find enough good programmers.

The design was picked by a committee, and subsequent changes have been made by committee.

FWIW, the main reason Ada didn't succeed was that it was too expensive. Even Gnat required a more powerful computer than most folks had access to. And it was also the most complicated language around. But the REAL problem was that the length of the string was part of the type, and different types couldn't be the same argument in a function. There was a work around, but it was clumsy. The default string should have been UNBOUNDED, and the specific length string optimization choices.

Well, it definitely fits into "news for nerds". As for "Stuff that matters"...that depends on your use case. I no longer have access to any 32 bit computers. (I may still have a 16 bit computer somewhere.)

I *did* come to that conclusion...but I also wonder what systems this would put limits on. So far nobody's mentioned any, but they probably exist.

OTOH, for any full system you should be able to compile it in 32bit mode...at least I think so. Possibly only an older version, but GParted is a special purpose tool, so that shouldn't be too limiting. (But perhaps it depends on libraries that are also only available in 64 bit mode. That would make building it more challenging.

That said, I'd probably just keep an old copy of bookworm around. Possibly even the LiveCD version. (That does have gparted doesn't it?)

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.

I guess that explains how we got a mandated one size fits all COVID vaccine policy.

If it's science, this government is against it.

The problem with immigrants is always getting them to integrate with the resident culture rather than just transplanting their own into the new place.

FWIW, Roman troops used that effect to make ice cream (well, really sherbets) in the Sahara. But that didn't cool down the days.

Additionally, the farther you move from the equator towards the poles, the less surface area there is.

Given that perspective, the hottest possible temperature is when the air molecules are moving at about the speed of light.

Of course, nothing would hang around in that case.

After due consideration, I have decided to never purchase a Belkin product again.

OTOH, I've always avoided purchasing anything that required internet access to work. So perhaps I'm not part of their market. (I believe that the last Belkin product I bought was a cable.)

Actually a small fraction of the extremely rich do invest in or create things that a corporation wouldn't. But you can never tell which ones will do that, and they are often rather crazy in other ways.

I can't strike a good balance sheet on this thing. SpaceX required a wealthy backer to even get started. And probably Tesla speeded the development of electric cars by at least 5 years, more probably a decade. Those are really valuable contributions. They don't justify worshiping crazy ideas. But without the "extremely rich" class, they wouldn't have happened.