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Comment Obligatory quote (Score 5, Funny) 32

by egilhh on Friday September 20, 2024 @03:21AM (#64801941) Attached to: Earth Will Get a Second 'Mini-Moon' For 2 Months This Year

"That's no moon"

Comment Re:C programmers tip their fedora (Score 2) 184

by egilhh on Friday August 09, 2024 @05:12PM (#64693426) Attached to: Agile is Killing Software Innovation, Says Moxie Marlinspike

If I were 20 years younger, I could probably write a doctoral dissertation on this.

No need, The paper "A principled approach to software Engineering Education, or Java considered Harmful" was written 16 years ago, see https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/principled_approach.pdf

Comment Re:Desert humidity (Score 2) 93

by egilhh on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:58PM (#62565362) Attached to: Cheap Gel Film Pulls Buckets of Drinking Water Per Day From Thin Air

up to 30% during the wee hours.

That's the wrong kind of humidity...

Comment Re:Lensing (Score 2) 87

by egilhh on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:09AM (#62147967) Attached to: We May Finally Be Able To Test One of Stephen Hawking's Most Far-Out Ideas

If the laws of physics are violated, then dark matter can be explained by purple elephants spontaneously materializing in space.

I think you mean spherical purple elephants

Comment Re:First Post (Score 5, Funny) 121

by egilhh on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:05AM (#61843399) Attached to: AI Study Suggests a London Gallery's Been Exhibiting a Fake For Years

First Post !

I'm 91% sure it's a fake first post

Comment Re:Over the air updates. To cars. (Score 1) 52

by egilhh on Monday June 29, 2020 @09:40AM (#60241696) Attached to: Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia Partner On Software-Defined Autonomous Cars

At least Nvidia will make sure their firmware contains as few bugs as possible... https://www.sae.org/news/2019/...

Comment Re:Can someboday please explain to me? (Score 1) 69

by egilhh on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:14AM (#59357366) Attached to: Physicists Simulate Critical 'Reheating' Period That Kickstarted the Big Bang

Or maybe, What's left in your wake after space-time accelerates past you faster than the speed of light?

Spaghetti. Or strings, as physicists like to call them... :p

Comment Re:Editors, are you serious? (Score 1) 166

by egilhh on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:35AM (#59277556) Attached to: Is It Possible To Build a Warp Drive?

For bonus nerd creds, I'm writing an essay titled "How hot would it be if Commander Deanna Troi made out with Samantha Carter?".

I would give that 7 of 9 points on the hotness scale...

Comment Red door (Score 2) 52

by egilhh on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:23AM (#59201774) Attached to: MIT Unveils New 'Blackest Black' Material and Makes a Diamond Disappear

Yellow diamond? Clearly, they should have gone for a red door instead...

Comment Re:Ada v. C Re:Not overblown (Score 1) 663

by egilhh on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:52PM (#57650318) Attached to: The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It

small, efficient binaries on bare metal, like the BBC Micro:Bit? https://blog.adacore.com/ada-o...

Comment Re:30 cm/s (Score 1) 102

by egilhh on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:06AM (#54989353) Attached to: Astronomers Detect Four Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting The Nearest Sun-Like Star

0.3 m/s * 3600 s/h = 1080 m/h, which is roughly 1 km/h...

Comment Re:Ada (Score 1) 505

by egilhh on Monday July 17, 2017 @04:44AM (#54823995) Attached to: TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust

Please produce real numbers for real programs demonstrating a significant cost from bounds-checking.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.d...

Comment Re:Ada (Score 1) 505

by egilhh on Monday July 17, 2017 @04:38AM (#54823985) Attached to: TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust

And it's illegal to modify Index anyway...

Comment Re:That's the state of the universe then... (Score 2) 268

by egilhh on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:17AM (#52403969) Attached to: Physicists Confirm a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, and It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever

Where the smeg is Nodnol?

In Dnalgne, on a planet called Htrae, of course

Comment Re:Yellow Alert (Score 2) 86

by egilhh on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:01AM (#49281315) Attached to: Most Powerful Geomagnetic Storm of Solar Cycle 24 Is Happening

Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.

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