Comment Re:Humans are logical in their self-interest (Score 1) 67
BZZZT!
I was talking about commercial space, not residential. The residential space tends to get rented.
BZZZT!
I was talking about commercial space, not residential. The residential space tends to get rented.
Given the current state of the art, there's not even a guarantee that the real harm won't show up in the 2nd or even 3rd generation. Not all state of the art modifications prove to be stable.
If something goes wrong and the child needs expensive lifelong medical care for an unanticipated problem, guess who will be first to shout "NOT IT!"
> Bruh. Apt already relies on Perl, which has no formal language specification. What nonsense is this?
You are right, which is why I don't think this is a huge deal.
Though perl5 compatibility back to c.2000 is pretty good.
Today's rust code most likely won't run in 2050 on modern compilers.
But perl4 code doesn't run well today either.
Yet nothing in trixie needs to run anything from buzz - so as long as everything works within a version or two it's hard to imagine anybody being negatively affected.
I have a UPS package shipped Overnight/Saturday Delivery on Friday and it now appears to be on a truck near Chicago. It was originally scheduled to transit from South Dakota to New England.
New delivery date is Tuesday. I hope the sender gets his money back!
(I didn't need it that quickly but the sender was making good on a delivery date guarantee, at a loss of his profits).
I have a floppy controller on order that doesn't know how to read disks; it just passes through magnetic field data to software which is supposed to be able to reconstruct the disk image.
Hopefully these tapes will be OK to read as long as somebody can build a magnetic read head of the correct type.
Maybe with ML there will be a reasonable chance of reconstructing faded regions. Old audio tape is still mostly fine, so fingers crossed.
BTW, what a great job these folks have!
> No need for all that. Either "Judgement is for the other side" or "Case dismissed." Clears the docket, and slows down these kinds of submissions until they're at least doublechecked.
Interesting. I think you've changed my mind about this.
Economic incentives are probably the way to go.
> Hopefully there are more relevant "science objectives" than this dead issue.
It's an exoteric story. Really they want funding to build rockets and this is a technology demonstrator.
But there is a theory that the asteroid belt is the former crust of Mars. More data on that would be interesting.
It's of course "widely discredited" but not with a scientific method or anything. Comparing isotope ratios would be fun someday.
Most of the second guessing of the pilot seems to assume the pilot could press pause and work out the alternatives on a chalkboard for an hour or two and then resume real-time with a solution in hand.
The fact is, it all happened in a handful of seconds. I doubt the pilot even had time to fully assess the problem before hitting the ground.
My idea of roughing it turning the air conditioner too low.