OK, Thanos.

So, how exactly would one implement this plan?

> Hello, I am Eliza.
* I'd like to build a safety-critical system.
> Don't you ever say Hello?
* Hello, I'd like to build a safety-critical system.
> How are you today.. What would you like to discuss?

Seems legit.

I've lived here for 20+ years (including 5 in the area in question), and had never heard "The East Cut" until today.

Ick.

I get that this is in the Politics section, but really? PRNewswire? On an Internet poll run by an organization no one's ever heard of?

Sheesh.

Cats are social creatures (though not so much as dogs or humans), so a solitary cat (which I will designate CAT-1) is much more sensitive to interference than a group or clowder of them, which I will designate CAT-5. So, a simple upgrade should solve your problem. :)

I was a new software engineer at Sun when Java was developed; in the industry, lots of "old guard" people immediately started ragging on it. Now it's the scripting language kiddos who mostly rant about it as "old and outdated." Achievement unlocked!

It's a tool, nothing more nor less. It happens to be one that's good enough for a lot of tasks, with a huge installed base and many years of well-tested open-source libraries available. The only newish language that I see with a chance to topple it is Go, but it still has many years of development to match Java's reach and scope. (I went to the most recent Gophercon, and was impressed by the energy; I predict that Google will at some point ditch Java/Dalvik for a Go-based stack on Android.)

At this point, it's the plain vanilla ice cream of programming languages: maybe not your favorite, but it won't kill you, and will always do in a pinch!

The rocket was in fact carrying satellites -- a large primary payload (HawaiiSat-1), and a number of small CubeSats.

http://www.hsfl.hawaii.edu/wor...

The SuperStrypi is an evolved variant of a spin-stabilized 1960s sounding rocket, so the axial spin is expected, though the anomaly that ultimately doomed the mission was not!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Disclaimer: I helped port some code to run on the system board of one the CubeSats. Let's just say it was a disappointing afternoon....

Ah, that would also explain it.

As I watched, it looked like the SuperDraco engines fired momentarily (which I thought was very weird), followed by the first & second stages disintegrating. I hoped it was just a strange camera angle and I was actually just seeing first-stage separation, but alas, no.

...should of course be based on "Are You Being Served?"

The Workstations in Evans Basement (WEB), on a bunch of diskless Sun 4/50s running X10 with uwm.

Once I got settled in, I started running X11(R1? R2?) with a custom root window bitmap and fielded lots of questions from other undergrads about how I'd done it. I later worked at Sun on XNeWS and DeskSet, among other things.

Even to this day, I use X's network transparency, though mostly just for xterms at this point.

Yes. (Go Bears!)

I'm curious, what do people in HPC think of Chapel? I was curious about it, and it seemed pretty interesting, but still early days. http://chapel.cray.com/

True, though most aligners are written in C/C++; lots nowadays take advantage of CUDA.