Comment Obligatory quote (Score 5, Funny) 32
"That's no moon"
Comment Re:C programmers tip their fedora (Score 2) 184
If I were 20 years younger, I could probably write a doctoral dissertation on this.
No need, The paper "A principled approach to software Engineering Education, or Java considered Harmful" was written 16 years ago, see https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adacore.com%2Fuploads%2FtechPapers%2Fprincipled_approach.pdf
Comment Re:Desert humidity (Score 2) 93
up to 30% during the wee hours.
That's the wrong kind of humidity...
Comment Re:Lensing (Score 2) 87
If the laws of physics are violated, then dark matter can be explained by purple elephants spontaneously materializing in space.
I think you mean spherical purple elephants
Comment Re:First Post (Score 5, Funny) 121
First Post !
I'm 91% sure it's a fake first post
Comment Re:Over the air updates. To cars. (Score 1) 52
At least Nvidia will make sure their firmware contains as few bugs as possible...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sae.org%2Fnews%2F2019%2F...
Comment Re:Can someboday please explain to me? (Score 1) 69
Or maybe, What's left in your wake after space-time accelerates past you faster than the speed of light?
Spaghetti.
Or strings, as physicists like to call them...
Comment Re:Editors, are you serious? (Score 1) 166
For bonus nerd creds, I'm writing an essay titled "How hot would it be if Commander Deanna Troi made out with Samantha Carter?".
I would give that 7 of 9 points on the hotness scale...
Comment Red door (Score 2) 52
Yellow diamond? Clearly, they should have gone for a red door instead...
Comment Re:Ada v. C Re:Not overblown (Score 1) 663
small, efficient binaries on bare metal, like the BBC Micro:Bit?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.adacore.com%2Fada-o...
Comment Re:30 cm/s (Score 1) 102
0.3 m/s * 3600 s/h = 1080 m/h, which is roughly 1 km/h...
Comment Re:Ada (Score 1) 505
Please produce real numbers for real programs demonstrating a significant cost from bounds-checking.
Comment Re:Ada (Score 1) 505
And it's illegal to modify Index anyway...
Comment Re:That's the state of the universe then... (Score 2) 268
Where the smeg is Nodnol?
In Dnalgne, on a planet called Htrae, of course
Submission + - Amazon to Offer Sneakernet Services
blueshift_1 writes: If you have 50TB of data that you'd like to put on the S3 cloud, Amazon is releasing Snowball. It's basically a large grey box full of hard drives that Amazon will mail to you. Simply upload your files and mail it back — they will upload it for you. For $200 + shipping, it's at a pretty reasonable price point if you're tired of hosting your data and want to try and push that to AWS.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
