So you did not read the story. OK.

So the text contradicts the headline: it is not about climate change, but about criticizing the company in public.

This is a fake news headline. Please fix it.

(I worked with Maren briefly. She was great to work with. I also worked at Slashdot for many years, and this headline is trash.)

So there's my math - how about yours?

A lot better since I'm not trolling.

Never assume you launch all your infrastructure from Earth for space projects. Every serious analysis avoids this mistake. If the English settlers had to ship over all the concrete and steel to build New York City, their tiny wooden boats would have never left the dock.

A Dyson swarm isn't a new camera for the Hubble space telescope, it requires in-situ resource manipulation. After you launch the starter factories and seed mining colony, they have to operate with only minimal launches from Earth. These factories would be dedicated to the cause: any other use for these factories is purely a side benefit.

Mercury masses around 3.2x10^26 kg per Google. That's enough material for 6.2 trillion 'silicon' Dyson swarms using typical composition of a rocky inner planet.

The delta-V to get from Ceres to Mercury is horrible. You're better off building the swarm there or out near the optimal range between Jupiter and Saturn. With a tiny escape velocity of 4.2 km/s (compared to 11.1 km/s for Earth) and no need to change orbits expensively the rocket requirements for building at Mercury are minimal, especially as you get near the end of chewing up the planet. Mass launchers (aka Navy Rail guns) with current technology can do this.

But the most important part is that you don't have to dig up anybody's back yard to build the swarm. Political resistance to mining 15 trillion tons of material, let alone the cost of launching the rockets for it, would stop the project first.

The Sun will eat Mercury eventually as it swells into a Red Giant. Transforming the planet into a billion billion solar sails with brains means it can live on. It's not hard to sail further out on light as the Sun swells. We've already proved it works. Plus you can build interesting things with the left overs.

Building a Mercury chewing factory is left as an exercise for the reader.

This is one of those... 'we've got something we really didn't expect. We've gotten it a few times now, and don't really know what to make of it. It suggests the absurd. Can anybody see any flaws in our methodology?' moments where everyone involved is very nervous about having to redo ALL their math to try to incorporate something NEW.

And yeah, the standard model is pretty fucky. A physicist at UT Austin once explained it to me as 'well, basically we just multiplied out all the particles we had into a matrix. It describes the phenomenon but offers very few insights into it, '.

Are Bats and Supes gonna kill folks in this cut? Do we get to see what few amazons survived get sexually assaulted by aliens?

The as bad as the JL movie really was, it was far and away better than 'Superman vs. Batman'.

The DCCU is just better off without Snyder.

If Wx isn't that large, I might take a stab at porting it... who knows. :)

You will have to tell me how:

^10000.grep( *.is-prime).say; # Retrieve prime numbers from 0-10,000

Is incomprehsible bullshit and:

given $value {
    when Str { ... Do string handling ... }
    when Int { ... Do integer handling ... }
    when Bool { ...Do boolean handing ... }
    default { ... Fallback handling... }
}

Is mind wanking....

If you've really tried the language, why not give it a comprehensive review?

I read this as 'both we and RMS need to leave abusive language, and toxic environments behind."

It could have used an implicit subject since the OP actually does call RMS out on his behavior.

and

"this is more important than the coddling of a whiny child who has never reached the emotional maturity to treat people decently."

I read this as a jab at RMS or any other individual who won't or can't grow up to the point they work in society-- basically anyone who feels its more important to complain about SJWs and political correctness and those who beat a drum and chant, rather than actually trying to address the real, underlying problems.

Just make/ruin your own OS already! And leave actual Linux and actual professionals alone!

Pottering works for IBM's newly acquired RedHat division. As RedHat's XFS choice shows, they will prefer their own brand in-house code even if it lacks features users want.

If you are doing professional Linux in the USA that means you are probably running Ubuntu or some variant of RedHat. Both of these use Pottering's toy init system, unreliable binary logfile service and the rest of his kitchen sink.

My point is that Pottering is making is own OS already. It's just that he's reusing the name RedHat for it.

Both strongly connected to Epstein, Minsky through testimony and Ito through cash trails. I'm thinking that MIT may be about to have its very own Penn State-style culture of denial exposed.

Just the demo image on the homepage makes me break out in cold-sweat flashbacks to endless conference calls. Sure, there's Steve Carrel in the bottom right, but watching 'The Office' gives me a little too much work-stress-related grief to really enjoy it.

1. Corporate preferred (aka required) for www.mycompany.com site and apps.
2. Your real browser.
3. Something in a text mode and script-able for when the GUI sh*ts the bed. (Or just cURL and wget then edit the downloaded file).
....
999. The crappy ancient copy of Internet Explorer and Java 1.x required for some "special things".

By special things I specifically mean Dell iDRAC, HP iLO, SGI BMC and any other PoS out-of-band management card slapped into every commercial server ever. These are the perfect example of how IoT really works. Fire and forget. Sell the thing and abandon support 5 minutes before the money is in the bank.

IBM is excepted just because you never really buy things from IBM. You just rent them for a while.

If you're really not lucky that day you'll have to pop up a console on something that offers ActiveX control or to download of some never-patched ancient Java application. Oh, and you have to turn off ALL security settings and trust this software from Example.com with a certificate that expired early in the Stone Age.

Hope you kept that Windows XP VM around with IE 6.

I think that folks aren't going to really be happy with this unless it contains a transistor-perfect emulator or a very-close facsimilie thereof of the C64, complete with c64 BASIC.

I'm not terribly familiar with the state of c64 emulation. I'm in the apparent minority of people who grew up in that era that went on to become techies that did NOT own a c64 or Vic20. That said, I know that newer machines do have some reference-quality emulators out there. I can't imagine that the c64 would be terribly difficult to handle if it's not already, especially if you owned or licensed the rights to the original hardware design.

The real trick, in my book, will be to allow the 'bare metal' coding that the c64 did on a modern architecture. USB controllers like to offer an enumeration and access to their terminals rather than bit-level access to the serial pins.

"So explain to me again how you broke your arm..." the doctor said.

"I was trying to get away from the creeper."

"As in a monster."

"Yeah. It hisses and then explodes."

"And you felt you had to run into moving traffic to get away from it."

"I had an entire stack of diamonds on me! I couldn't just let him blow me up."

"Uh-huh."

The police officer chimed in, "You know, some of the people on that bus that hit you were more seriously injured than this. You're damn lucky you *only* have a broken arm."

The doctor shook his head. "Last year this same time, it was a kid chasing a Gyrados pokemon into the side of a street-sweeper. He's still in halo gear. But this year, they've got virtual treasure to hide and monsters intent on taking it from them."

A true believer in ... what?