We have always been at war with EastAsia.

Dennis Ritchie could also be argued to be the first, last, and only one to ever make a C compiler from scratch.

Years ago I founded a company and was raising capital. The bus scenario would always come up and we would describe our well thought out plan for replacing me. The response was unenthusiastic.

One day I flippantly replied "I won't care about your money, because I'll be dead." Then would go on to describe the plan. That bit of frank honesty combined with a thoughtful plan made raising money much easier.

All well and good, but I was thinking about field trips from schools outside NYC. But as other posts note, it's possible to buy an Oyster card in London. I assume NYC will have a similar scheme.

I took my son to London and had a great time using the Underground and the bus system. Paying with contactless credit card was very convenient. And the payment cap per day was nice. But I was left wondering about one potential issue.

What do you do if one of you doesn't have a credit card or smart device/phone with payment system? Fortunately, I had two credit cards (we didn't have a data plan in London). So no real problem for us. It still left me wondering what would people do if they a payment method for each person? i.e what if you are riding more than a few times and hit the payment cap due to swiping multiple times per ride. Seems like either a chance to be accused of fraud. Or actual fraud.

What would happen to, say, a class field trip visiting NYC? I'm genuinely curious what people do in those edge cases.

I get an alert if the door doesn't close all the way or if it stays open over an hour. I can open the door to let the electrician in while I'm at work, or to let my teenager in if he forgot his keys at home. Etc.

Not all computation is algorithmic. Some things are heuristic. And how, exactly, do you use the incompleteness theorem to prove you have a complete answer to what lies outside your domain of study?

Stalking laws tend to cover surveilling someone without their consent. If they can claim they have cause to follow me home, I can claim they’re being malicious and threatening doing so. Followingme home with the implicit threat of sending armed government employees after me is threatening.

Keep in mind that non-human generated code may not have copyright. Not open source, which does have a copyright. But no copyright at all.

There's an argument that if it is modified by a human, it can be copyrighted. But that could be line by line.

Or they live in the neighborhood, or took transit to the store. Maybe they rode a bicycle.

In any case, if I’ve done nothing wrong and your drone follows me off your property I’m filing stalking and maybe doxxing complaints against your security guard, your store, your store’s manager, and Flock.

It was coming right for me. I feared for my safety. ;-)

Failed, exploding-cost projects like this are a good reason to consider whether replacing your legacy stack is worth the risk and expense.

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You do realize the incident you point to happened 170 miles away, right? And wasn't Haitian? When people say "nobody is eating cats" in the context of the time, they meant Haitians in Springfield. They weren't ignoring half the facts. They were ignoring irrelevant facts.