Comment Re:False (Score 3, Insightful) 184
because for the planet only the absolute matters
The planet will be fine. It's its suitability for our habitation of it, in the manner to which we are accustomed, that is at stake.
Comment Re:Gait (Score 1) 32
Comparing to the anatomy of a typical quadruped it looks a lot like the hind legs, so it is already running on it's toes. Given that the gait doesn't look too bad.
A major difference with this thing and creatures of nature is that where it has stiff tie rods they have stretchy tendons.
Comment Re:This virus isn't going away (Score 1) 229
I'll bet that was pretty good for their economy.
Business is booming (soon to be was, I guess) for pretty much all small businesses except those related to international tourism. Some of that is due to money saved during the first lockdown and some of it is the money that was going to be spent on overseas holidays is now going on home renovations, etc, and local travel.
Comment Re:"Two" times, not ten times (Score 1) 203
Toughness is a perfectly good engineering term with a defined meaning. Look it up. Wikipedia is a decent start. "In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing."
It's typically measured by an impact test.
I wonder what a "plastically deformed, but not fractured" phone screen would look like?
Comment Re:I always wanted to go to Australia (Score 1) 329
Why would you go to Australia when you're already in New Zealand?
To get a job.
Comment Re:Dear US of A (Score 1) 508
Other countries manage it just fine.
Comment Re:Next, paper. (Score 4, Insightful) 352
I hear paper mail and its infrastructure is in decline too, but many slashdotters wailed about a country needing a national paper mail pushing system. But reality means cuts will further erode revenue in a negative feedback spiral. USPS is going down, hard
Really? In my country the decline in letters has been compensated for by an increase in packages, from online sales. So the postal system is changing but not declining.
Comment Sofa (Score 2) 146
Comment Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal (Score 1) 538
Well said.
Oh, as a bonus, you can use that same tool to format code the way you prefer, and switch it back to whatever style your company requires at the press of a button. Why is this a bad thing?
How would that work out with revision control? Your copy would always show as modified, unless you did some other trickery.
Comment Re:Astrolabe, Inc. v. Olson et al (Score 1) 433
Looks like the Plaintiff's Lawyer don't care about a lot of things: "Sandwich Planning Board Member Julie C. Molloy Fined $3,000 for Improperly Representing Clients Before the Sandwich Zoning Board of Appeals"
You can't even plan lunch now?
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