WTF? Nobody needs this in a text editor.

At some point, the cost trade off has to be considered. We can save lots of lives and make traffic accidents nil if we make car unaffordable. But how does this affect poor people's ability to get to work or go on with their lives. For the lefties out there, stop focusing on Trump and corporations and consider the negative impact on marginalized communities if cars are unaffordable to buy, operate, and maintain.

Remember when the "information economy" crowd told the laid-off factory workers to "learn to code". Ha ha. Now it's their turn to "learn to code". Turns out karma is a bitch.

So this is where the Duke Nuke'em Forever team went.....

Doch! Grundapfel!

So instead of a gradual rise that coastal dwellers can manage and adapt to over years, they are going to risk a catastrophic instant failure with massive sudden flooding?

NBCUniversal should cut them some slack and work out a payment deal or forebear for awhile. If they force Redbox into bankruptcy, they would probably get pennies on the dollar in a bankruptcy settlement and the revenue stream would be permanently gone. This is the classic golden goose case.

I've only ever seen GSA approved containers use old-style rotery dial locks; never seen anything electronic.

There is no such thing as a secure electronic system. All electronic systems can be hacked or back-doored. "But I audited the opensource code", you say? Did you see what is hardwired or hardcoded in all the chips? No? Then it is not secure. Also, many, if not most, affordable electronic locks can be defeated with a magnet becuse they usually work on a solenoid.

The problem with java is the 'conventions' that have arisen on how to use it. The convention in Java is to encourage over-abstraction to the point of absurdity. When you download and look at any project, you must spend considerable time trying to detangle and understand the thousands of lines of spaghetti abstract interfaces and 'helper' classes. It is a huge cognitive load.

There is a joke hello world at http://foreigndispatches.typep... that really isn't far from the truth about how java programs are actually implemented by some coders. I seems some java coders think: Why just print a string when you could instead instantiate a new string-writer class implementing an abstract string writer factory with a text-writer interface? And instead of hardcoding a constant value, use an xml or json configuration file, even if you will never actually change the value.

from the TFA:

So what went wrong? The single most expensive item that I could not predict was our ongoing litigation against the non-practicing patent entity that has never stopped trying to destroy us. If we had that million dollars we would be in a very different state right now

Adopting a naval rank structure would ensure the Space Force is indeed a separate service instead of an appendage of the Air Force. Compare the Navy and the Marine Corps, both part of the Dept of the Navy, but we regard the them as different services. While the Space Force is part of the Dept of the Air Force, it needs to establish it's own identify similar to how the Marines have established theirs. Different uniforms, different ranks, different traditions, and even different culture and ethos.

The only thing rocketing to space for this project is the astronomical budget overrun.

Many thanks to the author and to O'Reilly. Can some post the link to the pdf? Or do I have to start the trial at O'Reilly?

The data (USB-3 plug) is plugged directly into the Pi, but the Kinect has a separate 12v power supply (wall-wart), so I would not expect it to be pulling power off the USB port, but I'll check out using a hub just in case.