A junior programmer measures himself on the number of LOC he can write in a day.
A senior programmer measures himself on the number of LOC he can remove in a day.

I'll second that it will always be easier to rewrite a C++ codebase using modern paradigms which make these memory issues nearly disappear, rather than rewrite in another language.

Also, why does C++ need relocatable memory? That hasn't been an issue in decades since all modern CPUs (except embedded systems) use virtual memory with hardware-based Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLB) which eliminates the bother of memory fragmentation (down to the page sizes).

Surround the heat reservoir on all sides with the TPV cells, and pull a vacuum on the chamber. Then the heat has nowhere to go but into the energy-producing cells, which (ideally) reflect back photons that are unused.

If anyone is basing trustworthiness on someone's face rather than their words and actions, they're an idiot in the first place.

I became excited about programming as a child, exactly because I _dreamt_ of the things that it would let me _do_, and I have done them.

Then it is suitable for Object Oriented programming. That's why it's so popular.

"...1 terawatt hours worth of storage ... That’s more energy than is currently generated by all the hydroelectric power stations in the world."
That's a meaningless statement: he is comparing watt-hours (energy) to watts (power). Two totally different units. Not a good sign when your "Chief Strategist" doesn't understand the basic science of energy.

If he had said, "That’s more energy than is currently generated by all the hydroelectric power stations in the world ->in an hour/day/week-." then the statement would make sense, but he didn't.

I liked Basement Jaxx's version better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Politics is the discipline of deciding how we as a species interact and what is acceptable behavior for humans. Disallowing discussing of politics at a place of business is stating outright: "We do not want any discussion of whether our behavior is acceptable."

"I was naive about this..."
"...we went through our thing back in the 1990s..."
"...this kind of activity..."
You mean lying under oath about your blatantly illegal monopolistic practices? Bill Gates and the other execs should have been in jail for perjury, I hope nobody is seriously listening to him now about how to regulate businesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Judge Jackson's response to this was that Microsoft's conduct itself was the cause of any "perceived bias"; Microsoft executives had, according to him, "proved, time and time again, to be inaccurate, misleading, evasive, and transparently false. ... Microsoft is a company with an institutional disdain for both the truth and for rules of law that lesser entities must respect. It is also a company whose senior management is not averse to offering specious testimony to support spurious defenses to claims of its wrongdoing.

https://tidbits.com/2002/04/29... ...the technical community immediately insisted he was lying when he said that Microsoft could not remove components of Windows such as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. In the Eastside Journal of the Seattle area where Microsoft is based, writer Cydney Gillis reported on people skeptical of Gates’s claim, including Dave Winer. At UserLand, Winer ran a survey on the topic, and out of 413 votes expressing an opinion, only 1 percent say Gates was telling the whole truth. 64 percent say he’s lying and 30 percent say he’s misleading by saying code couldn’t be removed from the current Windows without breaking it.

There already are many alternative periodic tables, which IMHO do a much better job of organizing the physical properties. Personally I've always liked the Left-step Periodic Table. I wish/hope it is taught in schools, it makes the orbitals make much more sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I think you are correct: "Big Bang" refers either to:
1) the theory overall
2) the initial singularity (the first 'moment' of the universe as defined by our laws of physics)
3) the entire time region from the initial singularity until the CMB forms (known as the 'ringing' of the Big Bang), about 400,000 years
This paper's author seems to be using the CMB date as the 'Big Bang' and declaring that inflation happened prior to it. This is disingenuous and certainly done to aid in sensationalist click-baity headlines.

Section 0.1: All values in the Bosque language are immutable!
Section 0.2: Here's how you make a mutable value:
        var! sign = 1; //declare updatable variable with initial value
        if(x 0) {
                sign = -1; //update the variable
        }

Heme is not a protein, is it a coordination complex. It can be part of a protein called a hemoprotein or hemeprotein.

Yeah that is awkward phrasing, I think they are referring to older communications satellites being mostly analog repeaters, limiting their signal processing capabilities, as opposed to new satellites using fully digital signal formats.