Insanely, it's still the cheapest way to pay some of my bills. They charge extra for using a credit or debit card, and the cost of a stamp + paper check is less than card transaction fee. I keep dutifully mailing them a check every month, hoping they'll get tired of having to deposit manually and just make everything the same cost...

Necktie? Nectar? It was definitely an n word.

Pretty sure this was hand crafted algorithm if it happened in 2011.

It's more of a lesson in the difficulty of communicating business logic when creating a project (which will obviously impact AI, but can cause problems for people too).

Generally laid off high end talent gets 3x hourly on rehire (based on my friend's parents).

I'm shocked that Ford had a standard of quality that let them notice.

I read an article recently where Ford was bragging about testing one engine a day off an assembly line for quality control. Ford felt that was an amazing dedication to quality.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/...

I imagine there will be birthday randomizers in pretty much every repo.

I've literally never seen praise for Poettering on the blogs. Only critisosm of him and all of his projects.

The fact that the projects are picked up and used by distros leads me to believe that perhaps the blogs are mistaken and there's something we're all missing.

They're going to make 30% of the population immortal and you think the number is made up?

I'd like to see corporations able to be tried as people. 5 year jail sentence = 5 year government ownership.

Tie it to GDP and use it to make sure no companies get too big to fail so we don't need to socialize the risk. It'll also assure that there's competition.

I think we're both somewhat sarcastic, but there is a certain beauty to using it as a way to foster competition and reduce the need for bail outs.

I'm not into socialism, but I'm not convinced it's worse than 1 company having control of what's today's entire GDP in the relatively short term. And that's what SpaceX is claiming they'll have in the case for their valuation.

What are you referring to by "no breakthoughs"?

If you go back a century and half then most of modern physics has not been discovered yet!

We don't understand dark matter, don't understand black holes due to not understanding physics in that realm (no unified theory), don't know how to interpret quantum theory. We know that entangled quantum particles act in synchrony over arbitrary distance without any signal between them being transmitted at all ... there's a lot we don't know (including not knowing the full extent of what it is that we don't know).

Even if did know it all, what if the thing traveling has a lifetime of millions or years, or in an AI, maybe traveling at near light speed?

Science simply is not in the business of saying what is impossible - it is in the business of predicting what happens in an experiment where we have an adequate theory. When the prediction is wrong you revise the theory.

I meant NOT nonetheless.