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Comment What's the next step (Score 1) 194

I started off as a Java developer back in 2005 and I've since moved to writing projects in PHP and Javascript, using my own frameworks for each language.
14 years down the road, I know I'm a bit of a dinosaur, with Angular, SyncFusion, DevExpress and other frameworks being hot topics (but my own frameworks offered application-like building features long before these frameworks existed).

Up until recently I thought I'd drop everything and start using Kotlin.
Now I hear my colleagues talking a lot about Razor / Blazor / WASM etc and it looks like it's the future.

What's your take guys? I'm sick and tired of PHP's shortcomings and of JavaScript's weak typing.

Kotlin or Blazor?

Comment the worst part of US world domination is (Score 1) 172

... not the US dollar being imposed as the base currency for all international transactions and trade.
It's that the US owns / controls the internet and all the core technologies around it.
And with the UK going always hand-in-hand with the US, this also means ARM and hence the vast majority of mobile devices.

Comment Re:How can we explain your imaginary world? (Score 1) 219

The viking farms were not under ice.

"What does seem to have contributed to the abandonment of the Western Settlements, archaeologists said, is climate change. The onset of a ''little ice age'' made living halfway up Greenland's coast untenable in the mid-1300's, argues Dr. Charles Schweger, an archaeology professor at the University of Alberta, who has studied soils around the Farm Beneath the Sand.

Dr. Schweger said the Norse were no match for cooling temperatures, which caused a glacier several miles up a valley to expand. As this glacier grew, it also released more water every summer into the valley, causing turbidity in drinking water and raging floods that blanketed meadows with sand and gravel. Today the edge of Greenland's ice cap is only six miles from the old farm site. But in the mid-14th century, it probably was far closer."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05...

Comment Re:No recovery, but they did soft land (Score 1) 38

Between Elon Musk's description of global thermonuclear destruction (he advocated... more as a joke but it was a semi-serious suggestion... that the polar icecaps of Mars could be nuked to release atmospheric gasses to terraform the planet), building tunnels under cities, having orbital space lasers under his control (with the Skylink satellites), and a forgotten island retreat under his control (Kwajelin Island)..... does that make him into a Bond villain?

It is merely a matter of perspective, but billionaires like him certainly seem like they have the potential to be a supervillain as much as a superhero.

Comment Making AI algorithms doesn't require a PhD (Score 2) 54

What these dudes making AI with a PhD are doing instead is a new level of bullshitting with fancy words that impresses people with money and of course legislators who are about as clueless regarding computer technology. They think manipulating a URL to look at the image directory of a server is "hacking".

Machine learning isn't all that complex and it sure isn't even new either. I agree with others here that this is just an ignorant journalism major spouting off buzz words.

If you want to see a really nice GUI designed AI interface? Grab Scratch from MIT and then look at some of the AI experiments that have been done in that programming environment. They aren't necessarily all that fast and certainly some other programming environments would make them work more efficiently, but it isn't even all that new.

Also.... the other shoe dropped when they got into the "app store" business model the developers of this "Cortex" programming environment started to explain what they were doing. It is a scam to separate you from money in your wallet where the author bought into the buzz words to make this seem like a cool thing.

Comment Re:Where have we heard this before? (Score 1) 79

SpaceX set a company record for the most flights in a calendar year, but not quite a global record for any company/organization. They are doing some good though and are definitely a competitor in the global launch market and having a significant impact upon launch prices right now.

And I agree with you that any company which can send aloft a piece of equipment which functions at all while in orbit is pretty damn impressive. Getting into space is just barely possible and has almost no room for excuses or lazy engineering. Virgin Galactic is an example of a company who has tried and failed with unfortunately several deaths associated with their efforts too.

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