They'll just move to Israel or whatever lackey is willing to suck off Trump

Not only are we starting to look for these kinds of things, we're rapidly getting better at it in terms of precision, accuracy, understanding, and rate. There are around 30 billion stars in the Milky Way that could potential have a truly Earthlike planet orbiting them (not Earthlike as astronomers use the term, but as in theoretically the same in all the characteristics that caused us to be here talking about it).

Would like to see some references, and your qualification of "Earthlike" There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. You are claiming 1/3 of them have potential for Earthlike planets.

One of the big problems is outer gas giants kicking out the rocky inner planets by inward migration - our solar system may be rather rare in that regard - Saturn. just happened to be in the right orbit to prevent Jupiter from doing just that.

It could be less than 1% of systems even has rocky inner planets. So know we're down to a billion.

Then you have the other filters which we don't know about - e.g. perhaps the early collision with what later formed the moon was necessary to generate plate tectonics, and events like that are rare or don't occur early enough in the life of the system

Please give us money for this project which will produce tangible results within a human lifetime

And that water will have to be pumped over a mountain range ... not cheap at all.

If the farmers can't get their water cheap, their product is not price competitive

The problem with these internal organ cancers is they are hard to detect, but the time you exhibit symptoms its already spread everywhere.

Yeah, we've been trying this for 50 years.

It doesn't work.

Microsoft's hiring standards are amongst the toughest in the industry with corresponding highest salaries and even they couldn't "fix" the bad programmer habits.

C++ smart pointers partially solved this issue. But 1) You have to use them and 2) references can actually create the same problems, in very tricky and non-obvious ways.

Thats backwads, if you want to write a CAD program from scratch, learn geometry first.

All this means is some middleman are going to make a killing, and it will be slightly more expensive for China. You can fit a few of these things a briefcase. Try enforcing outgoing customs on every single country that claims to be complying with the export ban.

Revision Control System, didn't that become obsolete in the mid 90s ?

I went there for work, stayed there 10 years, left there because I couldn't find work after a layoff, and was paying $3k/month in rent.

Its just that simple.

Well no shit Sherlock. C has worked very well, and still works well, for what it was designed for. Not so much an "abstraction of assembly language" but a static, but somewhat weakly-typed language that compiles to efficient native executable code. And there's no way getting around having to detail with the internal details of how processors work at some point. Other languages "solve this problem" by relying on C libraries. And then they claim C is the problem ? If C was such a barrier, there is nothing to prevent anyone from creating a new language and reimplementing native everything, short of OS calls, so they can free themselves from libc (or msvcrt on Windows). Its no wonder anyones bothered (looking at you Go and Rust). I don't even think its a cost/benefit problem, its that the benefit is zero to start with.

The whole artilce reads like some Javascript monkey who first started learning C or C++ then crying about "this stuff is too complicated, why can't it be simpler" without doing any sort of research..

They do:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus...

"With a diameter of 21.3 feet, the telescope's mirror is the largest mirror ever launched into space — a joint effort with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency. "

Huh? I know the US has become a dirty word, but JWST is primarily a NASA effort (e.g, as in US. James Webb was the NASA administrator from 1961 to 1968.

Unless they meant only the primary mirror? I don't know who is responsible for that.

I found Windows NT quite solid for its time. If I remember right, it was impossible to run DOS programs on it but at least what was supposed to work on it, actually did.

I was had been running Windows NT and Windows 98 at the time, and had no compelling reason to upgrade.

I did get sucked into both Vista and Windows 8 unfortunately. At least Microsoft admitted the mistake with 8 and gave you a free upgrade.