Why would you presume *that* from what was written?

What?

The perchlorates are a serious sticking issue. While I continue to be amazed at human ingenuity, the remediation problem for Martian soil seems to be very difficult. Not only that, but the perchlorates are *everywhere*, which means the entire environment is fundamentally poisonous to humans. That doesn't make it impossible, but it raises the bar another notch where we are already potentially dealing with low atmospheric pressure, extremely high CO2 concentration, very low O2 concentration, serious cold, etc. Again, not impossible, but Mars is almost as inhospitable as the Moon.

Yeah, their assumption that a sterile planetary body will not spontaneously develop this chemistry is not a really solid null hypothesis, especially given the number of demonstrations that amino acids fall out of proto-Earth conditions.

The destruction was with the previous Doctor, under Chris Chibnall.

$diety, I wish I had mod points right now -- that's brilliant!

Maybe it's because I'm a scientist, but I had to use a bot to distill down the example for me:

I had to press it to simplify a few times, and it came down to:

And also, maybe because I speak science-geek, the quote from the abstract ...

... makes perfect sense.

The ribbon format is just bad. There is no uniformity to the UI. You have to spend time learning the UI, rather than just using it.

This is definitely a situation where simpler is better, and it's very hard to beat the standard drop-down tree'd menu with modal dialogs at the leaves.

Japan really doesn't span enough longitude to warrant multiple time zones, unlike China which spans something like 5.

Yes, and with DST in the dead of winter, dawn in Boston won't happen until 8 AM. Full on daylight won't be until about 9 AM.

All it will take is one cycle of DST during winter, and everyone will clamor for either going back to the semi-annual shifting, or Standard Time. That's what happened last time this misguided experiment was actually tried.

Oh, dear readers, you didn't realize? Yes, the very same argument --- exactly the same discussion --- happened in the early 1970s, and, for exactly one year, 1974, we went to Standard Time nationwide in the US. Lasted one winter.

So, to everyone who is reading this and was born after that time, for the love of everything holy, look back to learn from the mistakes your predecessors made. You are not nearly as special as you think. This is not the first time.

"Go away! Batin'! ...
Please."

is not politeness. What this plan *may* do is rotate out people until the ones who are genuinely polite get to the customer-facing positions. It may also devalue politeness to the point of being worthless. Regardless of the mechanism behind the scenes, people are going to be suspicious of whomever is interacting with them.

You forgot to mention random ficticous meeting cancellations.

This has been happening on the Outlook via Web interface for a long time. Total PIA, it is.

Actually, cursor and mouse handling by that web app is a god-awful mess.

> and making sure the code is both commented
> well and self-commenting where
> thatâ(TM)s possible -

I can and do agree with you 100% on the rest, but this made me LoL. Enterprise code being documented is a unicorn.

Frankly, Iâ(TM)ve thought about seeing what caliber of docs come out of handing some AI a codebase. Even if itâ(TM)s half-wrong, itâ(TM)d beat the nuthinâ(TM) I usually get.