We all have to rely on somebody to be an expert in fields outside our own. Years ago, if Elon said “Falcon 9 launch yesterday failed due to xyz”, I assumed he had the actual experts giving him notes. The Xhitter debacle showed how much he doesn’t listen to those people.

PHP did that same thing. It was a big problem when algorithmic complexity attacks were discovered. It took PHP years to integrate an effective solution that didn’t break everything.

Y’all think Riker got around, but Picard is the real ladies man on the ship. He’s just more discreet.

Yes.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs makes a distinction between recursive procedures and recursive process. A recursive procedure calls itself, but the compiler or runtime could potentially process it in an iterative way. The stack won’t blow up. A recursive process, however, will always blow up the stack if left unchecked.

Yes. Day one, he was the “anybody but Duras” candidate. Worf easily took the guy in a fight on a few occasions. He later upended the Dominion War effort by throwing ships into bad plans that would be blamed on Martok.

Gowron is a petty politician who sucks.

Yes, in fact, there’s a formal certification process by the IEEE and the Open Group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#POSIX-oriented_operating_systems

Mind you, I think only one of the fully-certified OSen has any substantial use these days (MacOS X). People tend to overvalue it, IMO.

It’s a beautiful, clever, and groundbreaking game. Its puzzles, however, are taken in game design as an example of what not to do.

The clocktower combination puzzle, in particular, still makes me angry.

It was never fully compliant. POSIX threads, in particular, are a long time sticking point on Linux.

I once ran into a bug in an Arduino program where it wouldn’t compile. The author blamed my “broken environment”. Turned out, he had included “arduino.h” instead of the correct “Arduino.h”.

Afraid not. Decipher apparently had a second edition, and those are the only ones that are playable. My Future Enterprise is just cardboard.

Majel lived until 2008, long after the show was over, but yeah, it was such a disappointment.

That show had a great first season. It also lasted five seasons.

Oh, man, did they fuck it up. The final season is partially about taking down space vampires, and partially about watching clips from previous seasons.

There’s a revival group out there that keeps rules updated. I was very excited to use my old cards, except that they’re all in the first series of expansion packs, and those are considered badly balanced and taken out of the game completely.

An awful lot of that growth is drivers. Consequence of being a monokernel.

I don’t believe Elon. I believe in the process. Look back through NASA’a history of testing rockets and you’ll find plenty of stuff that blew up on the pad.

SpaceX has launched several missions into gto, Lagrange points, and even Europa.

Compared to NASA, SpaceX is developing at a breakneck pace. The SLS has its roots in the Constellation program from 2005 which itself came from the 2004 report “Vision for Space Exploration”. That was when NASA finally admitted the Shuttle was never going to live up to its original goals and it had to go.

Ares V is a reconfiguration of Shuttle hardware into a more traditional rocket. It’s still taken two decades and has one test launch to show for it.

SpaceX is the only Musk company I’ll defend, and it also seems to be the one that’s best at keeping Elon from fucking around with them internally.

That said, the whole point of commercial launch systems is that it’s not just one company doing it. Blue Origin might finally have something to show off soon, but there’s nobody else at a reasonable development level. Virgin Galactic only seems interested in space tourisim. (Edit: for completeness sake, I should also add that ULA is a joke.) A bunch of small companies are doing R&D, but few have even a single small launch yet. If it’s just going to be SpaceX, might as well make it a government-run company like the USPS.

As bad as it is, when it does work out, it’s way, way better than flying.

Took a trip to Minneapolis on Amtrak from Columbus, WI (closest station to my house in Madison). Everything is so much more low key than air travel. Seats are fairly comfy, and have legroom that might even beat first class air travel. Food is . . . no worse than airlines.

Most of all, I didn’t feel tired at the end of the trip. Air travel always makes me want to spend the rest of the day in bed.

We’d probably go out of Wisconsin Dells next time. It takes the train an hour to go between the Dells and Columbus, and the extra drive time is less than that. But we also found this wonderful pizzeria not far from the station in Columbus, so idk.

Wait until you hear about mushrooms. This one tastes great. This one will send you to a deep mind state for an afternoon. This one will melt your liver. They all look the same.