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Comment Re:I do think this article is about right (Score 1) 155

Blockchain tech could help in the area of supply chain traceability, when you really need to prove the origin of each of your resources/ingredients/components beyond any level of doubt. It could be usefull for food safety and pharma industry, because you need to able to track down the source of a contamination, or be able to recall a specific batch. The airplane spare part business is also tracking intensive, and the need for tracking is real, at some point in the ninetees fake parts were found many planes, including Air-Force One.

Comment Re:This is why enforced code standards are bad (Score 1) 66

Do you even work in a team???

Moot point, I mean even if you're a solo dev, reading your own code from years ago which might have a different style than your current one is still a p.i.t.a

The best way to ensure a uniform bracketing/indentation style is to have no brackets, but instead use indentation at compiler level to identify code blocks. You can instantly see nesting level without scrolling or counting. You avoid those one bracket lines which improves code density on screen.

Even if you're stuck with bracketing, here's another idea:

Use a step in your compilation script to reformat the code you're about to compile, That stuff can be scripted if your preffered dev UI doesn't have this capability built into it. Built in is better the UI could then hide the lines with brackets delimitors after applying the indent code block formatting. The coding UI could even use a different style of formatting for on screen code vs code saved to branch,

Imho, lack of indent consistency is simply inexcusable. It belongs in a museum.

Comment Re: pander to republicans?!?!?!?? (Score 1) 391

He didn't apologize when visiting Dresden in 2009. Obama in Dresden: the Non-Controversy Controversy

During the joint press conference with Merkel, Obama noted that Dresden had overcome "great tragedies and is now this beautiful city full of hope."

I expect he'll deliver something similar in Hiroshima, an acknowledgement of their suffering, with absolutely no mention of the cause and sugarcoated with some positive comment about the present or future. Why would he change a winning recipe?

Comment Re:This the stupidest things I have read today! (Score 1) 382

Re-soldering a new plug saved my expensive headphones multiple times, simply by cutting the last inch of cord and soldering a new plug onto it. I would reuse the original plug if possible but they don't make them like that, so i gotta toss it but for 1€ I buy one I can solder and re-solder again later if a subsequent cord cutting patch-job is necessary. When the cord goes to short, any new cord will still only be a fraction of the original price. If Intel wants to make me adopt this scheme where I can no longer patch up my gear because the connectors has become too small and overcrowded with unnecessary wires and will even cost more to achieve the same level of audio quality as a passive system, because their stupid plug forces every headphone to have it's own DAC ánd pay Intel licencing fees and forces me to re-buy them after 2-3 years instead of patching them up when the wire goes bad, that extra feature better be a sonic screwdriver or a personal time-vortex manipulator.

Comment obligatory auote: (Score 1) 525

"And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachmentâ¦at this time, a friend shall lose his friendsâ(TM)s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight oâ(TM)clock... "

Comment Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out (Score 1) 787

There's no evidence to prove that it's causing environmental damage? There's no evidence that it isn't causing environmental damage either... If i were to build an airplane and never have it tested for safety, I can claim 'there's no evidence it's unsafe', but you'd never fly it if you knew it wasn't 'proven safe'. Well the earth is a plane with 6 billion passengers, we only got one of them, you can't get off it and they're doing stuff to it which hasn't been proven safe with the pathetic excuse that it hasn't been proven unsafe. The resource excuse doesn't fly either, the resources they spend now could cost less than what it'll take to fix in ten years from now when it's gotten much worse and they'll finally won't be able to ignore the proof any longer.

Comment backwards yeah, but not bizarre or bewildering (Score 1) 497

There's nothing bizarre or bewildering, It's just greed at work, they wanna make sure games have a 'best played before date'. They pull the plug on the server after couple years and launch the 'new' version of the game force people to buy their new crap which is the old stuff which has been slightly redone with more boobs explosions and walky talkies as guns..

Comment Re:Good ideas. (Score 0) 519

Here we are with a perfectly self-regulating ecosystem in the prime location with conditions tailor made for us (or rather us for them), and we can't understand it well enough or control our own impulses well enough to keep from fucking it up.... but somehow we'll be smart enough to go somewhere else less opportune and build one from scratch?

"Get us off this rock" attitudes are the product of denial, passing the buck to the our future victims, the ultimate expression of our throw-away consumer culture. We'll use up this planet, toss it and get a new one.

Exactly my thoughts, if we fail to manage one planet in a sustainable fashion, we shouldn't consider colonizing a new one. Period. That new planet is bound to be a worse place to live than earth, and if we can't make it work in perfect conditions, it's guarantueed to fail if we try it in sub-optimal conditions. But this time the fail will cost humongous amounts of earth resources, "lets waste 2 planets in one move", ... still seems like a good idea?

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