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MySQL is done. It's the Postgres Age. by dickeytkin programming

[–]sketerpot 4 points5 points ago

It's right up there with cu.nniling.us (SFW)

In around 120 years, every person currently alive will be dead, and the earth will be completely populated with people that have not yet been born. What other inevitable facts about the future do you think about? by diddletapflamdiddlein AskReddit

[–]sketerpot 10 points11 points ago

If you discover that life loses its meaning after 600 years, then you're free to set your affairs in order and end it. I'm not against that option; I just want it to be an option.

The idea is not to live forever. The plan is to live as long as you want.

What is the most computer illiterate thing you've witnessed? by Peppe22in AskReddit

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

Considering that Donald Knuth wrote TeX, and Leslie Lamport wrote LaTeX, that command probably exists. Those guys are legendary.

Russia, Japan aim for the Moon: "We're talking about establishing permanent bases." by mepperin science

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

What credibility are they risking here?

Russia, Japan aim for the Moon: "We're talking about establishing permanent bases." by mepperin science

[–]sketerpot 1 point2 points ago

Well, these guys are making space launches a lot cheaper, and they don't plan to stop there. All of their hardware is designed with eventual Mars missions in mind.

Of course, they're not the ones blustering about wanting to maybe do something sometime; they're a space program in full swing.

Russia, Japan aim for the Moon: "We're talking about establishing permanent bases." by mepperin science

[–]sketerpot 1 point2 points ago

Planetes is definitely a lot more realistic than most things set in space. I loved how they actually had people maneuvering in free-fall in a proper way, instead of some bullshit where everybody walks on the floor except for the ones who are floating.

Russia, Japan aim for the Moon: "We're talking about establishing permanent bases." by mepperin science

[–]sketerpot 14 points15 points ago

... And all I can think of is the horror of all those giant bureaucracies colliding; the hideous grinding as the paperwork-clad carapaces of the ungodly behemoths slide across one another, dripping money like decaying blood from lacerations that grow ever wider. A maw slowly opens, and tentacles of red tape fly out! You are ensnared! The international governance behemoth attacks for 47 damage!

...

I don't know what kind of things the future will hold, but I hope that it's competitive enough to run rings around monopolies -- governmental or otherwise.

Russia, Japan aim for the Moon: "We're talking about establishing permanent bases." by mepperin science

[–]sketerpot 2 points3 points ago

The Apollo and Minuteman missile programs were the early market for integrated circuits, and drove their development. Integrated circuits were smaller and lighter than the equivalent discrete-component designs, which was a big plus if you wanted to make a computer to launch on a rocket to the moon or Soviet Union.

Computers were doing fine before the Apollo program, but they did get a significant boost from it. Nothing that wouldn't have happened on its own, of course, but the demand for ICs for aerospace applications was a big help.

What is the most computer illiterate thing you've witnessed? by Peppe22in AskReddit

[–]sketerpot -1 points0 points ago

About four years ago, I saw someone programming a computer in binary because he didn't know there were easier options available.

What is the most computer illiterate thing you've witnessed? by Peppe22in AskReddit

[–]sketerpot 1 point2 points ago

And that is why my Operating Systems class ended up spending a couple lectures on the vitally important topic of tape drives, while somehow not having enough time to talk about networking. I got fed up and learned a bunch of stuff about operating systems outside of class, out of sheer spite.

What is the most computer illiterate thing you've witnessed? by Peppe22in AskReddit

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

Some schools don't teach runtime analysis.

Please tell me that this is a joke. You're trolling, right?

Right?

What is the most computer illiterate thing you've witnessed? by Peppe22in AskReddit

[–]sketerpot 2 points3 points ago

Well, that's a risk when the punchline might be heard before the set-up.

North Carolina Pastor Charles L. Worley Suggests Gays And Lesbians Should Be Put In Electrified Pen, Slowly Killed Off by colloquyin lgbt

[–]sketerpot 3 points4 points ago

Careful! You came dangerously close to disrespecting his beliefs.

US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Delayed: "After 6 warnings ISPs may take some repressive measures, including slowing down offenders’ connections and temporary disconnections." by maxwellhillin technology

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

And, I would assume, every other country which has a bunch of regulations that can be influenced by the people being regulated. America is actually doing a lot better at this than a lot of countries. Poorer countries are often the ones with the most nightmarish regulations.

A rather difficult manga recommendation situation... by thatotherstrangerin manga

[–]sketerpot 5 points6 points ago

No way, man, ten year olds love that kind of thing. They also love murderous pedo-clowns, so Hisoka is a great character.

Provision in House-passed defense budget bars same-sex marriage ceremonies on US military bases. by stevariusin lgbt

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

I've been reading some of the things that politicians have been saying to defend this part of the bill, and was struck by how reluctant they all seem to be to just come out and say that they want to continuously condemn the Icky Bad People. George Orwell put it very nicely:

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.

Ken Akamatsu: Future Negima! 'Revival' a Possibility. by F1CTIONALin manga

[–]sketerpot 1 point2 points ago

That would be great, but I would prefer Nodoka's adventures with that group of treasure hunters who were all named after James P. Hogan characters. I love dungeon crawls.

Gay Republicans Encounter Same-Sex Marriage Dilemma by davidmpickettin lgbt

[–]sketerpot 1 point2 points ago

It sounds like some of these gay Republicans are actually gay libertarians, and would probably be happier if they came out to themselves as such. (This does not necessitate voting any particular way.)

My Quantum Entanglement Device teleported me to a blank world with only a Panda who won't blink or look away. Can anyone send bamboo? by CaptainLawlessin fifthworldproblems

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

Write some Ranma 1/2 fanfiction that disses pandas, and shove it in the panda's face. It will close its eyes, allowing you to escape.

I went to M.C. Escher's gym and am now stuck on the stairmaster ad infinitum. by neuroghostin fifthworldproblems

[–]sketerpot 6 points7 points ago

Become a tessellation, then slowly transform into a different tessellation. It usually helps.

A gentle introduction to LDAP by sidcool1234in programming

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

You were too optimistic; this article is about the "Lightweight" Directory Access Protocol, a far more hideous sight than that man's by-now-familiar rectum. I will understand if you do not wish to know more.

Knuth: Structured programming with GOTO (1974) by josefonsecain programming

[–]sketerpot 1 point2 points ago

Those for loops result in a different number of calls to getdtablesize(), since one of them calls it on each iteration. I think that probably makes more difference than equality testing on whatever archaic computers were used at the time.

Better Drinking Through Data by gthankin programming

[–]sketerpot 5 points6 points ago

Using programming to do cool things is always on topic. I decree it to be so.

NAACP endorses same-sex marriage, says it's a civil right by BlankVersein lgbt

[–]sketerpot 0 points1 point ago

In the end it is not the slurs of our enemies that we remember but the silence of our friends.

That's going in my quotes collection.

Michigan is NOT permitting Religious Bullying!!! by OmniaMorsin atheism

[–]sketerpot 1 point2 points ago

The law sounds like unenforceable posturing.

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