And even this improvement wasn’t universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn’t ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate “the ease of programming” with the ease of making undetected mistakes.

This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.

(He manages to shoehorn in a “kids these days” paragraph too, though)

Yes, but quality takes actual skill to measure, instead of just a diff.

(Although I guess lines are still better than time in office)

Hmm, was the boss hoping to turn that into a “why do I even pay you” moment?

Maybe a large seal species. Something to ride in the water, but that could still come on land and fall asleep by the fire.

… Is this bestiality?

It’s could help lose weight, I guess.

The murderous insanity would actually be kinda funny if it was in miniature against, like, a beetle.

Clearly, Carney is basically the NDP.

Okay, I’m joking. But IIRC that was the Lemmy reaction with the Conservative floor crossers. The reaction to this one seems like barely contained salt.

Two are needed, two are safe seats, the Liberals have a double digit poll lead.

Uh, so other side of the border from me is red state Montana. Anyway, I think the idea is you load it onto something else once it’s in and take it to an actual target. It’s just a long border that’s hard to seal perfectly.

If there’s a note of disbelief in there, I’d like to point out America has nukes and uses them as a deterrent the same way. Like, whether proliferation is morally justified, of if we should just accept our fate in that scenario, is a serious question we should ask, but you don’t really have a moral highground about it. Obviously I’m not saying killing people is cool, and we know 2/3 of Americans didn’t ask for any of this.

Well, yes. I just mean that the only people who would make or go on such a thing are people who have a problem with anyone not white, so it isn’t a surprise it ends up being that way.

If you don’t care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there’s options like GrapheneOS.

TIL.

Delivery would be an issue for sure. Then again, if the potential target is America “guys on quads” would work. If the target isn’t America, America will do it for us. Edit: Because they own the Western hemisphere, and we’re their bitch.

I mean, they’re not wrong, they could get away with a lot less without the nukes.

North Korea will fall to something other than invasion now. For example, things usually don’t go too well for female monarchs, because the men around them are dicks.

How directly civilians are targeted and how formally varies quite a bit, actually, even in ancient wars.

Actually, Canada got in on the ground floor and we have everything we’d need. They say we’re about two months out at any given time, going the plutonium route.

Then again, we’re pretty used to the luxuries of not being an isolated pariah state.

And on top of it he could have retired like 10 years ago. Just having to retire now is getting off lightly.

Honestly, that’s great, but you might as well cut to the chase and switch ROMs as well. Google isn’t going to budge.

It’d be surprising if we haven’t either ruined ourselves or achieved an actual end of history by 2300. So, that.

The savings from completely ignoring space aren’t what people think, though.

Depends on how far you’re thinking.

Nowhere else in the solar system is anywhere near as habitable as Earth, and there’s still lots of empty space to fill on Earth. Consider for a moment how much easier a self-supporting city on Antarctica would be than a city on Mars. Human space travel is done purely for science or recreation, at this point, not for growth.

If you want to “disperse” in any significant way, you have to start looking at exoplanets, and it’s going to take centuries to get there, and we don’t have the technology to survive that yet. Once we do, there’s a strong argument for it, because our planet and solar system will only last so long.

True. A sufficiently low-pitch sound will travel just fine. In neutral gas, it only breaks down as the wavelength reaches the mean free path of the particles.

On top of that, space is usually filled with ionised gas, and sound could travel electromagnetically. Actually calculating what that looks like in near-Earth space is beyond me.