This.

Having been to quite a number of places, including some that are usually not deemed beacons of liberty and democracy, I can safely say that US border officials are easily the most arrogant, condescending, dismissive and generally unpleasant lot. And it doesn't strike me as some clever psychological strategy designed to improve security either, they genuinely seem to think of foreigners coming in to their country as primitive provincial supplicants, about to be graciously allowed a glimpse onto The Light.

Here's what an Isar Aerospace spokesperson said way before launch (auto-translated)

What is that? In the broadest sense of the term, everyone is a knowledge worker.

Knowledge regurgitation will become a domain of "AI", if it isn't already. When knowledge generation becomes a domain of AI, all bets are off. Until then, the bigger danger is that various AI models, running out of actual knowledge to absorb, will mere dilute and poison the pool by referencing each other.

With all due respect to anyone's efforts, but this is as far removed from being a "New Open Source Windows-Compatible Operating System" as a firecracker taped to a wooden stick is from a Falcon 9.

And this time, it's for real.

I have no issues with fission technology, but we do know, even now, that fusion would only produce relatively small, calculable quantities of low-grade, fast decaying material and would be inherently safe from any runaway effects. Fuel would be nearly unlimited and universally available.

Money is being splurged, in comparatively obscene quantities, on much less promising things.

"TrapC, a fork of the C language,"

There's a lot more to a C(++) compiler and its surrounding ecosystem than just the paradigm of "memory safety".

Meh. With gargantuan sums routinely being pissed away for far more questionable endeavors, I'd say we could comfortably do both.

There is absolutely no reason both things can't be done at the same time. The money spent on fusion research is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. The ultimate vision should be energy that is available in abundance and almost too cheap to meter, rather than just "reasonable".

This has got to be code of some kind. Something like the lingo in Oceans 11, only less refined.

Neither the water nor the reactor will melt, though.

Trump can wreak a lot of havoc, to be sure, but luckily ITER may not be important enough for him to bully others into exiting as well, even if he cuts funding to the US share.

And you got that wrong, too.

Imho, software engineering still eludes all management, planning and steering techniques more by an order of magnitude than other kinds of engineering.

So with enough brainfuck you can do anything with it. Question is, why would you.