Not disagreeing with your post: the problems are legion, and we're not close to a level of engineering maturity where we can solve them (all and well enough). Maybe someday.

I have heard, though of the suggestion of shielding the ship's occupants by surrounding them with what will be the water supply for the base. (Of course, that imagines no trip home...).

Any thoughts on water shielding?

Well, of course they aren't massless per se, but I think the poster was talking about situations where the ship doesn't carry the reaction mass supply, like solar sail, terrestrial laser powered, etc.

The issue is probably that the big bag won't fit in the overhead bin. Pull some of the matter out of the big bag and it might be able to be squished enough to fit.

Other black holes pack more slowly now, so everything fits.

If you insist on packing so much matter into the big bag so quickly, you're going to have to gate check it.

Still true as IQ is characterized on a normal distribution.

First, WTF is wrong with the other 50%?

Second: Oh. I see.

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

George Carlin

Well. I was one of those before retiring after a decade and a half of it, and that's far from correct.

This is a good summary.

I'll add that many XD people (eXperience Design: people who try to make software easy and pleasant to use, and better meet business goals with that software) take one look at a Bloomberg Terminal and just about have a stroke. For them, it's a coarse tool from another age that must be "fixed".

However, that impression is from a first glance with no user research. Terminal users love the Bloomberg for the reasons listed above. AND any change to it brings financial risk. AND they make a lot of money using it. AND (please don't discount the human element here), some get off on their mastery of a complex tool that most of us wouldn't touch. Mastery is a powerful driver here, just as it is in gaming. 'this is a tool for experts. I'm one and you're not because you can't.'

The way the Bloomberg terminal might get replaced is by new people who don't come up in the ranks using it, but using an alternative when there's a workable one, or more likely by AI trading directly (God help us...).

"Sure, your Mac can make text come out of that laser printer, but it's crap. Look at it! People will always need professional photo-typesetting. They won't settle for anything less."

No-mo Claw.

Wait, will AI finally bring the Slack?

So, a common voice prompt might be:

"No. Stop. What the fuck? NO! Don't DO that! Oh my God. I think I have a paper map in the trunk..."

Who does this?

Well, couldn't be updated to close a hole either - unless the PROM had a hook for add-on code from RAM or from storage...in which case you're right back where you started with installing vulns.

I agree. This has been going on for years. And there's just no talking to them.

I run a well-secured mail server, don't send spam, eventually had to forward through AWS SES, have working SPF, DKIM, DMARC and sometimes _still_ get 550.

I think they want to push you into a program where they get paid.

By my lights, Word reached peak usability with v. 3.1 for Mac. It's been downhill ever since.