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Comment Re:Some real geniuses leading Exxon. (Score 1) 110

Will probably hit 10 billion in a century and with less global poverty than today. Spare us the histrionics.

You are completely wrong.

Civilization will almost certainly be set back to the dark ages or worse by within a few decades by a global nuclear war, which will be caused by social upheavals brought on by climate change, resource depletion and environmental degradation.

FFS, we can barely avoid such a war right now with all the dick-waving dictators proliferating around the world. Just what do you think is going to happen once the stress levels get cranked up by an order of magnitude?

Comment Re:How about none? (Score 2) 72

It should be obvious to anyone that standard Windows is wholly unsuitable as a near-realtime controller for industrial equipment. If the CNC manufacturer gave you this copy of Windows, you should demand a refund.

If they didn't, you probably should either track down some secret embedded version of Windows designed for this use case, or hire some Active Directory guru who can override all the standard Windows behaviors with "policies".

Maybe next time, buy a CNC machine that can accept standard gcode files.

Comment Re:So Green Energy is Crappy and jury-rigged power (Score 4, Insightful) 93

Because Texas rarely gets as cold as Scotland it was highly likely nobody considered a need to have heaters

Rarely =/= never.

This is just sheer stupidity on the part of Texans. Just like when I lived in south Texas and repeatedly had to deal with the fact that they put the water meters and supply lines to houses in free air outside the house. WTF? They get at least one hard freeze there every few years. I knew some folks who were on vacation during one of these cold snaps and sustained countless thousands of dollars damage when the pipes strung through their uninsulated attic (another idiocy) burst.

It's not surprising, though. Texas was one of the primary cradles of the rapidly metastasizing nationwide idea that willful ignorance is a virtue.

Comment Re:Annually? (Score 2) 93

What's annually got to do with it?

There is a federal statue in place that specifies that all communications published in the USA which discuss any energy or power-related topic MUST include an inappropriate division by some factor of time, such as "KW per day".

Or at least that's what I presume, since I don't recall ever seeing any news article that did not include this.

Comment Re:A lot of religious people (Score 2) 557

nothing to do with religious people. a human is born entirely without any other help other than requisite nutrients out of the first singular cell - at that point that code is the same and exactly the dna that you have in the billions of cells in your body. the entirety of the person is defined this way. you can take a cells from the day two and clone it into 100000 exactly similar persons.

You could also take any given cell from your anal sphincter and use its DNA to clone 100000 exactly similar persons.

Does that make your asshole a child?

Comment Re: Of course it is (Score 1) 90

Oh, and if you could somehow do without the if err != nil pattern, you'd probably shrink the number of lines in every golang project by half.

Maybe they should add "catch (...) { }" to the language.

But seriously, they proposed a rather straightforward streamlined syntax for errors a couple of years ago, but it was rejected by the community. Back to the drawing board.

I personally don't mind the very explicit error handling too much. It kind of makes it clear that you've though through at least some of the corner cases.

Comment Boss advice (Score 1) 97

Xbox Boss Tells Employees Microsoft Has No Plans To Stop Making Consoles

Don't fall for it, it's a trick. This Boss is very hard to beat.

However, over at xboxtopwalkthroughs.com, they give tips on how to defeat him. First: don't fall for his traps like this apparent career reassurance. Second: stay to the back of the conference room and always try to hit him from the side. Keep moving and never let him fix his laser pointer on you. Make sure you have plenty of ammo; it takes dozens of hits to finally finish him off.

Comment Re:Pay down technical debt, not incur new one (Score 1) 61

If I have to run in C++ slow debug mode, maybe I should just use a safer, slightly slower language like Java, Go or Pascal in the first place.

"But you only use debug mode while your developing!"

That's probably only testing the happy paths.

"Then you should use $CODE_COVERAGE_TOOL!"

This is really getting complicated and expensive. Why not just begin migrating to Rust like the article said?

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