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Are you saying that you trust the government satellites up there?
(Trusting a government - any government - is prima facie evidence of insanity).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"I have certain rules that I live by. My first rule: I don't trust anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero." --George Carlin
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If you actually have a need for a satellite, that's not very much. We don't want the price to drop too low, or every high school in some countries will be launching their own vanity satellites, with results that are better not imagined.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I bug to differ...
As long as the cost are astronomical, we will not have any space development or infrastructure..
I look forward to the time where one can go to the moon! That requires much lower cost...
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Quote: ...every high school in some countryies... FTFY
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Language nitpicking: Wouldn't your correction imply that all those relevant high schools reside in a single country?
Certainly, "some countries" may refer to more than one country. "Some country" refers to one single country, from some more or less arbitrary selection of countries.
Or am I completely misled? English is not my native language ...
The way I read Daniel Pfeffer, he didn't intent to limit the high schools to those in a single country.
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You're absolutely right, and that's what I meant to imply, because I could only think of one country where something so frivolous would be done.
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Research using employee data reveals the top five predictors of attrition and four actions managers can take in the short term to reduce attrition. Apparently "unethical behavior" is part of toxic corporate culture. Like, swiping paperclips?
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Scientists from the Physics and Engineering Department of the UK's Lancaster University have published a paper detailing a breakthrough in the mass production of UltraRAM. Bob, what do you want to call this? How about 'SuperRAM.' "Absolutely ridiculous. But how about ..."
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Sam: Hey Jim, how about MegaRam. Better than Bob's Idea about SuperRam
Jim: You're fired...
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Apple hasn't stopped selling Intel Macs just yet, but it's safe to say that we'll never see a Mac with one of Intel's 12th-generation Core processors in it. Stay strong, Hackintosh fam.
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Improving Windows 11's visual and functional consistency is shaping up to be a major priority for Microsoft this year Because someone out there is super passionate about volume indicator UI and I don't want to deprive them.
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Files under “We don’t have any new ideas, and we don’t want to fix any bugs”
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I know I brought up an idea that would automatically adjust the volume lower. It got turned down.
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I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler. I know you wanted a “simple prototype” that would just add that one feature to your programming model. What did I just read?
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Well, I have actually been there a few times. And recently.
It goes like: "Hey, I got this non-specific task for users who somewhat know what to do. They got a pool of data to play with, and when they figure out what they want to do, they can bloody well do it themselves."
And one month later, I got a scripting engine that needs to take care of all the foolish stuff the users can dream up.
My last iteration of this type, ended up with a solution where the users could write extensions in C#
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein
"God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
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As software developers, we’ve all come across those annoying, not-so-useful error messages when using some library or framework: "Couldn’t parse config file", "Lacking permission for this operation", etc. "Error: Operation completed successfully. Code [object Object]"
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The International Space Station is now more than two decades old. And while primary construction of the orbiting laboratory ended a little more than a decade ago, before the retirement of NASA's space shuttle, the station has continued to evolve with smaller modules and an ever-changing array of visiting spacecraft. "We are unlikely to see a space vehicle in orbit as large or as capable in our lifetimes." And I didn't think I could get any more depressed during a pandemic ...
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Try your own father dying when you are ten of avoidable cancer...
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For the past few months, I have been working on a project called CAMLBOY, a Game Boy emulator written in OCaml that runs in the browser. Man, this would make a great article on CodeProject.
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As it turns out, though, we can absolutely avoid the gray dead zone. In this blog post, we're going to learn about why this happens, and how we can use color theory to create rich, vivid, thoroughly-alive gradients. I really, really like Mr. Comeau's "Me" avatar.
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PCI Express 5.0 has only just started arriving on the consumer side, but the specification for PCIe 6.0 has just been finalized. The PCI Special Interest Group has published the final specs for PCIe 6.0, doubling the bandwidth over the 5.0 version up to a theoretical maximum bidirectional speed of 256GBps on an x16 slot (128GBps in a single direction). And it feels like we’ve just barely settled in with PCe 4.0 devices!
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