Some people still use it, as well as its derivatives (of which one I am the author).

R as a language has some huge problems, and APL is certainly a lot better. But where R shines is in the availability of utilities that are included. I wish I could promote my language as an alternative to R, but it would take decades of work to build a strong set of libraries for all the things people use R for.

Even Dyalog, which has been around for decades, has not had the community needed to build of a rich set of open source tools to do all of these things.

Typically you'd simply ignore any changes to Java unless it's an LTS release. That means that you only have to pay attention to Java 11 at the moment.

I thought the user id was sequential?

There is definitely a way to test it. There is a simulator of the lunar module that they can fly, and they have connected an actual AGC to it and actually landed with it.

The guy who did the work is arguably the world's foremost expert in the AGC, and has designed an FPGA-based hardware correct clone of it, and run the original hardware test equipment on it.

You can watch the video where he explains in detail how it was done, and why it is almost certain this is the correct version. I've linked the video to the part in the end where they show the lander simulator, since I'm suspecting that's actually the part that will interest most people: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F-JTa1RQxU04%3Ft...

No, but you lose a bunch of functionality if you replace the kernel.

That's not what would happen though. All that really would happen is that the tech giants will sign cross-licensing deals that protects them from any further lawsuits. They can then spend even more effort using these new copyright restrictions to squash any small upcoming companies.

The next step is then to designate commandline arguments. error message formats, and general structure of a software program as part of its API's.

Once that is done, GCC can argue that Clang is a derivative. But wait, that would make GCC a derivative of the C compiler in the original Unix.

It also gives them even less accountability. If anything does go wrong, they can just point to the AI and say it's its fault.

This will lead to even less interesting stuff coming out. If that's even possible.

"But for creative decision-making, you still need experience and gut instinct"

That is true, but what are the odds that the movie studios are going to use said experience and gut-instinct when greenlighting new projects? It's not like they do it even today, without any AI tools, and instead prefers to go with sequels and superhero movies.

That's such an odd thing. What possible use is there for a rack-mounted Mac?

I'm pretty sure Apple will invent foldable screens any day now.

Searching for the case reveals nothing but publications reposting the Reuters article. There is a site where the actual case details can be downloaded, but it requires an account that they apparently charges for,

Does anyone have the actual filing?

The absolute *maximum* that we could resolve even from very high earth orbit is at best something that is no smaller than about 50 meters or so on the moon...

And I think it's important to point out that this limit is not technological but physical. At a certain resolution you start running into Heisenberg's uncertainty principle which causes refraction to increase as you focus more precise.

How do you get from smartcards to blockchains? I mean, sure, smartcards can store data (in particular, but not limited to keypairs). Blockchains can also store data.

A common message from blockchain proponents seem to be: “X, but on the blockchain!”. But without actually explaining how X on the blockchain would actually work.

Are you suggesting that you'd use a smartcard to sign a transaction that in placed on a blockchain? What would that be useful for?

There are very few satellites orbiting the moon. The moon is much farther away from earth than even the farthest earth-orbiting satellites.

That doesn't mean that the original post made much sense though. I'm not sure what kind of secret activities you'd conduct on the moon that you couldn't just as well conduct in a secret lab on earth.