Are you referring to the president who humiliated himself and the US at Helsinki? The president who had a negotiation regarding the Ukraine war without including Ukraine? The president who admires Putin? That president?

try this with blind programmers that are accustomed to screen readers that read out their code at seemingly inhuman speeds.

example: https://www.vincit.fi/en/softw...

he probably hasn't even herded enough sheep or eaten enough haggis to be a scotsman, either!

de-ransomware = liamneesonware

Unless we know what his role in this startup is, it's hard to give really good advice. I'm pretty sure that he wasn't hired for his coding skills though, so any approach that spends a lot of time learning to program probably isn't a good use of his time. The question is, exactly what knowledge does he need to do his job? Maybe reading about some concepts like the "Mythical man-month" would be more useful than trying to grok introductory computer science?

Due to the fact that the post I replied to was modded "insightful" and the fact that you even exist I am done with Slashdot.

"I like objective truth and objective reality"

Yep, those are nice. And they're very helpful for about 1% of life. The other 99% is messy and emotional but still worth figuring out, because it's the 99% part that gives us the most trouble.

And why would you ignore the semantics of my sentence except to be obtuse? Quite likely my meaning was understood by everyone but you.

You and your hair-splitting ilk are what take the fun out of online interaction.

"It's not her fault she likes fucking"

It's also not her fault that if she even would be willing to admit that she'd be labeled a "slut."

Yep. From the article:

"And while no galaxy has literally disappeared to the point where it's invisible, 97% of them have disappeared in the sense that they're unreachable to us, and that the light they're emitting today will never reach us. The galaxies are still visible, but only due to their old light."

They're not disappearing from THE universe, they're disappearing from OUR universe.

"Let's say there are 10-15% of psychopaths in society..."

That number is WAY too high. If it was that high we would be in much worse shape than we are. The estimate is 3-5%. Isn't it amazing? It only take 3-5% of the population to really give a good go at ruining it for everyone.

I don't. And since everyone is just spouting opinions I'll add mine. We've been messing with the food supply too much. We're consuming vast quantities of starch and stuff sweetened with corn syrup and who knows what else. I think we might be engineering our way into bad health.

Also, and this is not a character flaw, I don't think people are honest with themselves about how much sugary stuff they consume. I've been thin all my life (for various reasons, not the least of which is a physically active lifestyle) but I went through a period where I was hanging out with some guys who went to the vending machines every afternoon. I ended up eating a lot of candy and I put on 10+ pounds in no time. The great thing was that I realized what was going on and stopped eating any sugary stuff and the weight dropped right back off.

At work I see people who talk about wanting to lose weight and yet get ice cream every day. It's not a character flaw, but it is a choice. If it's not important to you I'm OK with that. We all have our priorities.

You're playing right now, aren't you?

"No politician in this universe wants to be the one who willfully signs the death certificates of highly trained, highly intelligent and skilled people."

I don't know why. They usually have no problem sending large numbers of people to their deaths. All we need to do is convince them that there are probably terrorists on Mars and it'll be a done deal.

I don't know, but the poll question explicitly states "conventionally alive." At this point the usual indication of death is brain death. Even if you choose other indicators you're only changing the granularity of date of death by a little bit in the big picture.