A phrase used by every science denier in history.

Have some education: The world of science is split into direct research and incidental discoveries. A lot of your life is attributed to the latter. There's no causal reason why it "wouldn't have happened anyway". Many of these discoveries took years for their actual applications to become apparent and as no one was seeking these discoveries there's no reason for any sane person to believe they would have been discovered.

As for return on investment, that's not yours to decide. We spend a lot of money on science that leads to actually zero discoveries. If you want to do simple division you'll realise that the ROI from space tech is infinitely larger.

Anyway you want to impress us, stick with your convictions. Next time you're in hospital with a complex break and the doctors wheel you to that CT scanner, refuse. Tell them no, you don't believe the science funding that made that machine possible was a good use of money and stand you ground. Don't let yourself be a beneficiary of money you think is poorly spent!

That's your confirmation bias. Back in the day people specifically used hardware RAID precisely because it was faster, measurably so. Also I/O performance wasn't the only metric. Software RAID consumed considerable CPU resources back when we weren't running threadrippers with half their cores idle. Not only was I/O performance better on hardware RAID but your CPU utilisation was lower allowing for more cycles to be dedicated to the application (quite critical for database servers of old).

Why so stupid?

YOU do. Most people don't. Most laws and rulings don't deal with individual cases attempting to bypass it. A very significant portion of the population have no idea how to change their DNS settings.

That said this is becoming a bit more pointless in the past 2 years with major browsers shipping with DoH enabled by default.

In most cases politicians have no obsession with DNS. They simply recognise that DNS services of ISPs is one of the few things they can control for any company that's registered within their country. It's not like they have authority outside their borders. The fact that *you* can bypass it is irrelevant. Most people don't. It's a solution to the uncommitted, and an attempt to block incidental piracy, not to put in place a technical solution that would stop the highly technical folk of Slashdot or those committed to finding a source of pirated material.

The actual alternative is build a great firewall, and politicians are clever enough to know that won't fly.

Your obsession (actually not just yours, it's a wide spread trend here on Slashdot) with absolutism is what is really stupid.

When all sides of the debate are equally stupid ignorant dolts it's not whataboutism.

Comparing WWW to Gopher is like comparing the car to a horse.

No. The idea of using a CDN stems from the game of Whack a Mole. It's so quick and easy to fire up a CDN again when it gets taken down.

Life didn't arbitrarily draw lines around the planet that prevented animals from migrating. Americans loose their fucking shit when a couple of thousand people walk in their direction. Climate change won't kill us, we'll nuke each other to oblivion first, ... because of climate change.

Well to be fair she didn't have to contend with strange undocumented behaviour from the Electron framework when programming a guidance computer. ;-)

I'm only going for partially funny here. The requirement for debugging tools is proportional to the complexity of what you're trying to do. In simple cases, especially the kinds which result in calculation output, you don't actually need debugging tools. You can work backwards from the output (or pipe an intermediate stage of your software to the output) and work backwards from there to identify the bug.

That's not to belittle here truly incredible achievements though. She should be an inspiration to all, and a wakeup call to every vibe coding moron who creates a weather app that uses 1GB of RAM to tell you it's fucking raining.

Errr no, it takes 2 days to post virtually anything on this site, including Tesla and OpenAI rubbish.

It's not impressive, it's essential. Taxpayer funding for things people have considered irrelevant have incidentally lead to a whole world of real world benefits for average people.

Take for example the International Space Station. Many people think this is a waste of money. Those same people now benefit from:
- HEPA filtration in vacuum cleaners and cars (originally developed for long term space survival)
- Better medical diagnostics (space based sensors for science no one though relevant led to modulated x-ray rings essential in modern CT scanners)
- Cancer, Asthma, Heart Disease, all these have taken leaps forward in research thanks to zero gravity research and monitoring of astronauts.
- Water purification systems for disaster management.

The wider space program is responsible for memory foam in the couch you sit on, food preservation, heck the scratch resistant face of my watch and your phone has the Apollo program to thank for it.

Only the short-sighted thunderfucks at DOGE think you can judge the worth of science funding based on the title of the project.

Well a significant portion of H1-B immigration occurs due to the pathway to a Greencard it provides. There's a very small subset of people who relocate across the globe without a path to permanent residency, and they typically chase contracts and projects and aren't directly employed by the companies themselves.

Your entire post begged the question. This practice never stopped.

No one is doing anything illegal here (and even if they were it would be impossible to pin it on the CEO unless they directly stated to do that). The problem is that the intent of the law isn't followed. The letter of the law however very much is which is why these companies were very much getting their visas issued in the first place.