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Comment Re:Pulled Linux from Git;now owning 44m lines of c (Score 2) 102

Raises the question: how redundant is that code.
Which also raises the question: how important is that in our times.

I personally always liked it to factor out common code into "company libraries".

But when the SOAP opera started, I realized that no one is putting the generated interface code into a library. So that everyone can get it from a repository.

Instead the regenerated the interface for every department that wanted access to the service. And: they use a naming schema fitting to the project that wants the interface. As in packe names fitting to the client and not the service.

With the result, that I was in a project, where we accessed two different methods of the service, and got the SOAP/WSDL based interface generated two times with different package names.

The two guys responsible for the service, likely did that intentional, to make them look important.

Anyway: having the "same object/class" with two different package names in the same code base, makes them incompatible. So we needed to write a conversion layer, that converted the incoming objects into our owns.

Result: we had half a dozen classes three times. Once our own implementation, which we persisted in our own DBs ... (also already nonsense), and two versions from the service: with the same attributes, in the same order and the same methods.

Comment Re:Still on the doors? (Score 1) 170

Apparently not. Otherwise, consumers would not buy all those additional features.
Consumers have no choice.

If they want a BMW i3X// and that thing only comes with "no buttons" - how the fark would they be able to get one with buttons?

Oh, they should not buy the BMW i3X// but rather an Austin Martin.

Sure ... good idea. Which part of: they want an BMW i3X// did escape you?

Comment Re:Get rich, quick, or plausible? (Score 2) 135

Another opportunity for Trump to put his name on something.
After the revolution he will be punished with "damnatio memoriae".


In the Greek city-states (poleis), being remembered through public inscriptions, family lineages, and civic rolls was the ultimate civic honor.

Erasing a name was a form of political death.

Chiseling and Smashed Inscriptions: If a politician or general fell into deep disgrace or committed treason, the city assembly would order stone carvers to physically scratch, gouge, or chisel their names out of official state documents, treaty stones, and naval catalogues.

Destruction of Statues: Honorific monuments, busts, or statues dedicated to the individual were smashed, thrown down wells, or melted down.

The "Ban of Mention": In extreme cases, a city would pass a decree making it illegal to ever speak the criminal's name out loud, effectively forcing the society to collectively "forget" them.

In one hundred years he only will be remembered as the worst president ever.

Comment Re:Time for lead lined bras and skirts! (Score 1) 89

Nope,
we were talking about that flying over the pole increases "radiation", which it does not, as you perfectly pointed out, as the solar wind particles most likely wont penetrate the hull.

We did not talk about the other points you make at all.

They are btw. only depended on flight height, and have nothing much to do with magnetic fields, poles or not.

You probably misunderstood to what I was answering.

Also, the cosmic ray flux is higher at the poles.
Could be the case, as the poles are aligned with the sun's poles.
Perhaps there is some effect as the sun magnetic field is weak, but gigantic.
As nearly every cosmic particle is charged, it might be curved into a way that from the earth it appears as if it comes from north or south above the pole.

Comment Re:China is losing (Score 1) 137

Actually they have.

However they have not the right to attack the position of the party from outside of the party.

Might sound strange for you, but point is: if you want to do "politics" you are supposed to join the party. And do it from inside the party.

Being a lazy fellow, not joining the party, not raising your voice where it is welcome: makes you an unpleasant fellow.

Actually a simple concept, which makes from their point of view perfectly sense.

Comment Re:China is losing (Score 1) 137

And where did you get your numbers from?

What does a Chinese have, you don't have?
- healthcare
- an EV
- fibre internet
- G5 and soon G6 phone
- uninterrupted power
- cheap food
- mostly free education
- cheap housing
- cheap clothing

And so on.

No idea what kind of "purchasing power parity" you want to factor in when objectively a random Chinese has a higher standard of living than a random USian?

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 137

The decline started with Reagan, perhaps already with Nixon.

A country that has no vision where it want to be as a culture in 30 or 50 years ... how is that supposed to work.

Nitpickers claim: US of Awesomeness, has no culture.

Well, Americans you meet all over the world look like humble and educated. Perhaps because they travel? Perhaps they are well off enough to travel, and hence well off enough to be educated?

As a mass: you look like barbarians.

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