HEAD KNIGHT: Augh! Ohh! Don't say that word.
ELASHISH14: What word?
HEAD KNIGHT: I cannot tell, suffice to say is one of the words the Knights of SI cannot hear.
ELASHISH14: How can we not say the word if you don't tell us how many mebibytes it takes up?
KNIGHTS OF SI: Aaaaugh!
HEAD KNIGHT: You said it again!
ELASHISH14: What, 'it'?
KNIGHTS OF SI: Agh! No, not 'it'.
HEAD KNIGHT: No, not 'it'. You wouldn't get vary far in life not saying 'it'.
KNIGHTS OF SI: No, not 'it'. Not 'it'.

I know. :) But I had to work it in somewhere!

...okay, I don't actually know if that was LEO or not. But, de-orbiting. Pretend I said "de-orbiting can still be hazardous."

Alas, depending on the construction material, LEO can still be hazardous.

Yes. They have the strength of a million normal dollars. Personally, I welcome the newest addition to the SI unit family. (What could be more ironic than the addition of a highly-variable American currency to a French system intended to be as constant as possible? Nothing, friends. Let us rejoice.)

Fun science fact: it takes twice as much MSG to kill a rat than it does salt if you count by number of molecules, and 5.5x as much if you count by mass.

I dunno about that; heart failure is found in 100% of DHMO overdoses. The rat LD50 for DMHO is only 90 g/kg.

Don't bother. You'd get more bang for your buck if you sprinkled fibreglass in their bedsheets every night.

Y'know, disparaging Wikipedia for citing WHO statistics is a really good way to make you look like a jerk. Most of the medical and biological stuff is written by bored graduate students; it's just as accurate as the papers themselves. Save your ire for the history section and other reservoirs of national ego.

Sodium chloride, man. That shit will do you in. And watch out for that shifty DHMO guy, too. Nothing good comes of a chemical with "HMO" in its name.

Probably a write or read past the end of an array. Debuggers love allocating extra space and accidentally making that stuff safe. Use a memory profiler; Valgrind will sort you out.

Interestingly, that may be what's happening in the first half of the paper. They spend a lot of time rambling about laboratory contaminants as though they're apologetic high school students trying to explain why their vinegar-and-baking-soda volcano burned a hole in the teacher's desk.

The protozoan parasite work my lab does spawned out of stuff that was once like that. The genus Plasmodium has over two hundred species, and is often said to have one species for every worthwhile animal in Africa (although in truth there's a lot of overlap, and about a dozen of them can attack humans.)

In defence of my original and somewhat-creaky post, I'd file that under the rare "exceptional genomes" category. Such findings may seem immense, but compared to the unbelievable scale of the whole tree of life, they're pretty exotic. And I'd still contend that, whether counting patents, diseases, or mutations, most of the useful information can be gleaned directly from the organisms we've already studied to death.

And on that last off-topic note: bizarrely, Canada Geese are one of the numerous invasive species in New Zealand.

They could've just gone with -1 as a return value and had no problems; it's not like PHP stops you from doing substr($foo, false)—in fact, it casts false to 0 and returns the whole string.

But that's just the thing: there are so many documentation-requiring exceptions of various kinds that you can't program without keeping the documentation open. I've written pretty large applications in PHP (including a full interpreter for a scripting language) and there's a true paucity of consistency. No other language has this problem, except perhaps INTERCAL.

You're saying you don't search strings for tokens in normal usage? Now you're weirding me out. What the heck do you plan on doing with PHP?

It's safe to assume that the money will go where it's needed in order to produce the machine installation. Generally supercomputers run massively parallel batch jobs (e.g. partial differential equations for physics simulations such as nuclear explosions, weather, etc.) so while internode communication time is important, (especially with various kinds of pooled memory) it's not as important as you'd expect in a real-time application.