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Bring back Classic Visual Basic, an improved version of VB6
The silent majority of VB6 users did not ask for changes that came with .NET
the original request is probably trolling, but hard to say. in any event, it attracted the sorts of comments you’d expect.
Voters in Switzerland backed a proposal to limit immigration, in a blow for the government after it had warned that the measure could harm the Swiss economy and relations with the European Union.
switzerland, land of backwards bigots, i don’t miss you at all.
remember the premise of gravity?
Japan’s space agency will launch a space trawler that will drag a giant aluminium and steel net while orbiting Earth, hoping to bag itself some space junk.
there are 100m pieces of space junk.
2014-04-10:
Asteroids and comets that cross Earth’s orbit pose a credible risk of impact, with potentially severe disturbances to Earth and society. Numerous risk mitigation strategies have been described, most involving dedicated missions to a threatening object. We propose an orbital planetary defense system capable of heating the surface of potentially hazardous objects to the vaporization point as a feasible approach to impact risk mitigation.
including immediate applications like getting rid of space debris as you scale it up.
2014-05-03:
Abandoned artificial satellites. Tanks jettisoned from shuttles. Refuse generated during space station construction. This junk, space debris, is traveling around the Earth at speeds approaching 8 km/s. This is a story of 2075, a time in which this space garbage has become a serious problem. This is Planetes, a near-future hard scifi story that focuses on a small group of debris collectors who are part of a larger company. Both the original manga and the anime adaptation set small personal stories and dramas in the realistic context of near-future space exploration, complete with radiation sickness, impacts of growing up on the moon, and of course, the dangers of space debris.
2015-11-03: this is why we need giant lasers to vaporize that shit.
2019-04-24:
There are 130m tiny bits of debris floating in orbit that, due to their high velocity, can cause catastrophic damage to space vehicles and satellites. Researchers are developing a compact orbiting device to semi-autonomously seek out the debris and catch it in a net.
Observed unique behaviors include feasting on leopards and using tools to harvest giant African snails.
In one of the most dangerous regions of the planet, against all odds, a huge yet mysterious population of chimpanzees appears to be thriving. The chimps were completely unknown until recently – apart from the local legends of giant apes that ate lions and howled at the moon.
With little more than paint, planters, and a few well-placed boulders, Bloomberg and former Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan‘s street interventions have been some of the most evident changes around the city.
A new city is possible.
In Kinshasa, traffic congestion is a serious problem. Few drivers bother to obey signs, lights, or even human traffic directors. It was a snarled free-for-all. Until the robots showed up. Isaie Therese designed and built 2 2.5m, classic Robbie the Robot-style automatons to take over traffic-directing duties, and the plan is working.
this will be interesting to watch as the novelty wears off and the robot overlord has to smash a few things for “encouragement”
as the leverage of technology increases, this threshold will finally reach its culmination — with the ability of 1 man to declare war on the world and win. Edward Snowden proved it is possible to wage a one-man information war against a country that spends more than all other countries in the world combined on national defense. He was able to: steal the crown jewels of the US security system by himself, initiate an information war against the entire US national security bureaucracy while eluding capture, and initiate economic disruptions that have done $1Bs in damage to US corporations. However, his successes don’t end there, he’s winning the war
we could probably work far less, and still have just as much stuff, of just as high a quality, if only we’d sacrifice product variety.
that would get you huge economies of scale. if the few well-made things were tastefully designed it would be a win from that perspective too.
Okay, so you’re a CS graduate and you did a hardware/assembly course as part of your degree, but perhaps that was a few years ago now and you haven’t really kept up with the details of processor designs since then.
You might not be aware of some key topics that developed rapidly in recent times.
pipelining (superscalar, OoO, VLIW, branch prediction, predication)
multi-core & simultaneous multithreading (SMT, hyper-threading)
SIMD vector instructions (MMX/SSE/AVX, AltiVec)
caches and the memory hierarchyThis article will get you up to speed fast. In no time you’ll be discussing the finer points of in-order vs out-of-order, hyper-threading, multi-core and cache organization like a pro.
I realize it’s awkward, discussing these adult matters with your father, but have your buddies asked you to join a start-up? Be honest—Dad knows the HTML. Seriously, have you already started a start-up in the attic? I see you moved the family computer up there.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 