I'm probably older than most on /. and grew up reading books and papers that were primarily written in serif fonts, so I find it easier to read material using these fonts.

I certainly have no problem reading stuff in sans serif fonts, but still prefer serif fonts.

The number of cosmic rays hitting earth is inversely proportional to solar activity. In years close to solar max, where we are now, the cosmic ray flux is at a minimum.

This happens because increased solar wind at solar max blocks some cosmic ray particles coming from outside the solar system.

AS -- Artificial Stupidity

It'll be interesting to see how Waymo handles driving in Amsterdam, with all of its semi-chaotic bicycle traffic, if Waymo ever expands to that city.

Good luck with that. It'll never happen because the manufacturers of these products typically have an industry association that will lobby Congress to get any proposed bill killed. Congress is beholden to corporate interests and couldn't give a shit about consumers.

Golf courses.

I think the rise of AI, along with Reddit's often harsh and silly moderation decisions, is going to result in Reddit becoming irrelevant just like Stack Overflow.

Netcraft confirms Stack Overflow is dying.

One of the two major hardware description languages, VHDL, is based on Ada and it seems to be quite popular in Europe and for defense work. Its syntax is nearly identical to Ada.

I've been to Houston several times. Every time I get off the plane, I'm hit with stifling humidity and the air reeks of hydrocarbons from all of the nearby refineries. Why anyone would consider Houston a tourist destination is beyond me, so I question your 54 million figure--please provide citations to back this up.

It's showing signs of an atmosphere and a tail, hence it's a comet.

Looking back over the past few thousand years, how many times has religion been right compared to science? I don't think there are many cases at all.

Just taking the example of the christian bible: the earth is at the center of the universe, the universe was "created" in six literal days, there was a world-wide flood that covered all land masses and killed all life except that on a wooden shop, people who live for hundreds of years, men have one fewer ribs than women, bats are birds and whales are fish, and many others. All of these errors were later corrected by science.

They did with the Saturn V. Its first flight was nearly flawless. In fact, the entire Saturn series (I, IB, and V) were all successful and none of them failed.

How about we compare it to the Saturn V?

The Saturn V flew 13 times, and achieved orbit every single time and fulfilled its mission objectives. It's very first flight was nearly flawless. Its second flight had issues with pogo, but it still successfully reached orbit intact, and the issues were quickly fixed. NASA was confident enough with the pogo fixes that the very next flight took Borman, Anders, and Lovell to the moon on Apollo 8. Heck, the Apollo 12 Saturn 5 was struck by lightning twice during flight and it not only reached orbit successfully, it also propelled the Apollo stack to the moon and the second successful landing.

If you extend this to the entire Saturn program, you'll find that all three boosters, Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Saturn V, had a perfect record of successful launches. How many successful missions has Starship had? ZERO.

Wayne Green, the publisher of Kilobaud, originally wanted to call it Kilobyte because he lost control of Byte magazine in a divorce settlement with his wife.