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Comment Re:Can the F-35 do anything on time and budget? (Score 1) 17

I don't know it's anything with the plane, the F35-C first launched from the land-based testing version of the electric catapult back in 2011:

http://defensetech.org/2011/11...

and has been taking off from carriers with steam catapults for over a decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Workers still at the company claim they are inc (Score 1) 48

I read the article. The gal being interviewed said the job description was vague, then they bait and switched her into content moderation, essentially

And she immediately quite because nobody sensible would tolerate that kind of lies from an employer. Right? No? She chose. Choices have consequences.

Comment Re: Is there anyone here that voted for Trump (Score 1) 263

If you'd like to emigrate to another country, I'll buy you a first class, one way ticket to anywhere in the world that will take you, on the condition that you forfeit you US citizenship so you can't ever come back. Seriously. How can you stand living in a country you hate so much?

Comment Re:Do it yourself (Score 1) 85

You oversimplify. I despise Rust, but it does address real problems. (I'm not sure how well, because I won't use it.) I'm thinking of thinks like deadlock, livelock, etc. As someone above pointed out, there are lots of applications that don't need to deal with that, and subsets can work for them. (The above poster worked in a domain where all memory could be pre-allocated.)

Rust felt like programming with one hand tied behind my back. So I dropped it. Only one reference to a given item it just too restrictive. Perhaps it is really Turing complete, but so is a Turing machine. But multi-threaded programs really do need a better approach. (My real beef with C++ (and C) though is their handling of unicode. So I'm currently experimenting with D [ https://dlang.org/ ], which seems pretty good for the current application (though honestly since it's I/O bound Python would be quite acceptable). )

Comment Re:Is there anyone here that voted for Trump (Score 0) 263

Is there anyone here who has served in the military (not you, certainly, they wouldn't have you) in a combat zone (where you'd piss yourself to death in fear) that doesn't understand that leaks to (or by) the press kill people?

But I suppose you approve of killing US soldiers.

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