Well, yeah - I've seen AI actually write decent code... without error conditions, or bounds checking, but following the happy path, it really does work. Still needs to learn how people with bad intentions get in, but, you know, the happy path code is serviceable. Can save me a few hours, but I still need to program in sad paths. Don't know if that is more time or less time, really, but it kind of negates itself, I still need to code review and fix shit.

I haven't been to a Chuck-E-Cheese since the 1980s, I'm joking with my subject. I've seen them, but terrible pizza, old video games, no reason to go in.

Well, Siemens shutting down their nuclear division (probably with Merkel at the whip) didn't help. And yeah, they restarted multiple coal plants to replace that power. Good choice, Germany! (BAD, BAD, BAD CHOICE YOU IGNORANT FUCKS). OK, as someone with German and Austrian ancestry, I 100% think I should voice my opinion here. Fast fission is a great solution, fusion isn't bad either, both have ~100 year waste issues if done right.

It took the life of Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, now the computer gaming world :(

Communism? It sounds like it lines the wannabe dictator's pockets. Remember, communism is supposed to redistribute the wealth to the people (and yeah, most don't). The Amish and Mennonites do it right, albeit with some crazy shit attached.

That may very well be the point, they can get you for anything now.

Search: Mommy says Daddy was killed by Al-Qaeda, what's that?
Result: Child S-214, you have searched for a forbidden word. Please report to reprogramming center 201592 for reprogramming or termination. The Benefactor thanks you for your service!

Since I'm sure most people haven't read it, that is a direct reference to the Yevgeny Zamyatin dystopian novel We, which Orwell and possibly Huxley borrowed from to write 1984 and Brave New World, respectively. If you think Putin is bad now, wait until he starts putting people in glass buildings for surveillance with a number for a name and making them apply for impersonal sex visits...

Yeah, well Linux was even worse, lol. It did take a huge chunk of the *nix market at one point, though. I'm actually doing work on Linux servers and did support on mac OS X servers, no bias, I'd prefer *nix/Linux for servers.

There is something seriously wrong with this crash, the pilot didn't pull in the landing gears and seems to have intentionally crashed it by descending intentionally into a housing area. Sorry, but blaming Boeing, I really want to see the evidence. No Dreamliner has ever crashed until this, and everything is suspect. Having door bolts blow out on a different plane is a totally different issue. Sorry, but I've worked with Boeing for years and while they have fucked up, they've tried to put safety first IMO. I know of entire planes that got reworked due to safety issues, costing them billions, and you probably never heard of them. I worked for Lockheed Martin, which Boeing bought and never actually worked for either until recently, but have always had ties.

Yeah, I can get 3/3Gbit now, or 10Gbit with Comqworst, which is more like 1.5kbs/2kbps on peak hours. Not great choices, T-Mobile has a horrible rate of like 1..5Gbs max but it is half the cost and beats both on throughput. Qworst, I mean US Worst, bought by ComQworst, I mean Q actually gets the best pings right now, 50-60ms, not 2-3s on peak hours for ComQworst. My experience is probably outdated, but god were they bad when I had them. Then again, the godawful almost outage with AWS was all on the Qworst side (sorry, Q is still Qworst to me).

.NET was actually designed as a programming language specific to Microsoft Windows. Python was designed as a scripting language because perl tried to be a programming language and grew into an unusable mess. Python then mimicked perl and did the same thing, becoming a travesty of a programming language, IMO. So many bad design decisions trying to make it a programming language, ditto with perl.

He *expletive* co-founded General Magic with Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat, which was an Apple spinoff that basically invented the smartphone. Apple cannibalized their work for the iPhone and EDS for OnStar. You can watch the documentary about it on NetFlix and YouTube (look for General Magic).

Heh, they'll incorporate the latest FreeBSD changes and tout it a miracle in security. Actually, they can't, most of the subsystems are modified or rewritten and while there is some compatibility, trying to port C++ STL libraries to mac was pretty much impossible, at least OpenOffice said that, I didn't fully try it. I was told the same for OpenGL extensions and I found a way to do it (annoying, heavily modifying the header files every time they updated, but doable). I also frequently rebuilt OpenSSL because waiting 12 months for Apple to release an update was too big of a security risk for me. Note I haven't had a mac since like 2010, so 15 years behind. I have Linux and Windows boxes (I tried multiple times to build a hackintosh, but they all failed - one passed boot loader but failed due to too new of graphics card :p - Apple didn't support that card for 3 effing years).

Ha, yeah, nuclear powered spacecraft can do the trip quick, like 30 days, but beating public indoctrination of anti-nuclear is probably impossible. An ion drive (with a fast nuclear fission engine) was actually in Popular Science like 20 years ago, with 30 days to Mars, I'm actually applying to fast fission and fusion nuclear jobs, so I've done a ton of research.

A nuclear powered spaceship for this exact task was also in Popular Science like 20 years ago. It has nothing to do with the 1950s drop a nuclear bomb behind you to propel you faster, it was using a nuclear reactor to power an ion drive with a time to Mars around 30 days. Gen IV fast nuclear reactors may even speed that up. Russia has the advantage there, since the US government abandoned fast fission in 1994, but private companies may catch up (they are behind, BN-350-800 leads the US by far).

Especially on Windows, I've used 0 day exploits to take control of the machine, mainly for white hat purposes (sorry, college, more black hat then). One of my friends even got fired over white hat hacking and revealing security holes in the enterprise software we were developing and eventually whistleblowing when they tried security through obfuscation rather than fixing the problems. He sued and got like 6 million dollars.

On UNIX/Linux, it is mostly an admin problem. Setting up a web server that issues web pages as root, for example, then injecting code that gives me a root terminal. I exploited that on the same system as above, but I wrote a bug and recommended it not be installed to run as root and they fixed it instead of calling it out in meetings. My 6 million dollar error.