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Comment Re:There is already a safe subset of C++ (Score 1) 82

Ish.

I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.

There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.

IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.

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Journal Journal: Antiques being melted down 3

A restoration expert in Egypt has been arrested for stealing a 3,000 year old bracelet and selling it purely for the gold content, with the bracelet then melted down with other jewellery. Obviously, this sort of artefact CANNOT be replaced. Ever. And any and all scientific value it may have held has now been lost forever. It is almost certain that this is not the first such artefact destroyed.

Comment Re:CHENGDU, China (Score 1) 205

Some of you US Americans are so full of yourselves with so little knowledge about the rest of the world

As are billions of others all around the world.

Which is why a least those of you who fall under that description also really deserve your current imbecile government.

LOL, they or I may indeed deserve it, but you get to suffer it too, so enjoy your schadenfreude. :)

Comment Re:We are so screwed (Score 2) 205

I think you are generally correct; however, mandatory military service can merely be a component of mandatory civil service to teach and show people discipline and a community focus.

For some reason, I can't recall which country made me think of that... so maybe it was all propaganda to begin with...

Comment Re: Everyone start handing out DVDs and USBs of Li (Score 1) 137

So it's your contention that by claiming Windows 10 was the last version of windows that MS is obliged to support it *forever* on legacy hardware?

You must belong to one of those 'isms to think like this. Very black and white thinking.

The implication would look more like, "not putting arbitrary requirements on the ability to continue running the OS". Sure, when x86/64 is no longer the primary chip architecture, there will be a change in requirements, but that is not what is happening now is it?

Comment Re:It's been done (Score 1) 191

I do suffer jet lag flying east, but not west. I have no idea why they differ.

he insane people who think that they can legislate the value of Pi.

What I meant by that was that I experience cognitive dissonance (correct term?) in regards to time changes like that. It should be noted that I do not need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning before work. My body just does it.

Comment Re:Yeah... no (Score 1) 191

You are exactly right. I see non-curated videos of people all over the world. It is clear that American food is engineered to cause excess fat regardless of how much you eat. It is disgusting.

Conspiracy theory: They do it so that even poor people are fat so that everyone can point and say: see? they are fat, they are not starving.", despite the fact that indeed, they ARE starving.

Comment Re:It's been done (Score 4, Interesting) 191

Brazil scrapped DST a few years ago - did the research check against their data?

Who cares? I have lived without time changes for a little less than half my life. I HATE how I feel for about 2 weeks twice a year now that I am back with the insane people who think that they can legislate the value of Pi. Stop being stupid.

Comment Re:Everyone start handing out DVDs and USBs of Lin (Score 1) 137

I love how people are acting surprised when this was announced FOUR YEARS AGO FFS...

Why shouldn't they surprised? Windows 10 was guaranteed to be THE LAST VERSION THEY WILL RELEASE. It will all be incremental updates after that. If the government actually functioned, they would have sued Microsoft for lies and imposed a fine equal to replacing all of the PCs sold until that date.

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