ConcernedCoder

my money's on him being "suicided" with the cameras off before a public trial can take place...

this is the correct answer, as long as health care is for-profit we will always be the product instead of the consumer

so who's holding the $750 million?

The DOJ are apparently idiots that do not understand tech, let alone anti-trust or monopolies... for instance: I create a useful device that consumers love and use, I sell ads on the device to anyone who will pay, in fact I auction them to the highest bidder... DOJ: you are a monopoly and must sell the device... wtf?

almost like it's a business and they don't want to lose any customers...

Possibly related are silver coins called "trade dollars" that were minted in the usa and used for trade with china which exibit "chop marks" signifying validity: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=9cb25f21911ea42e&q=tra...

In theory, couldn't we focus on a perfect spot near a black hole where the light has been warped 180 degrees around it... i.e. if the black hole is 100 light years away, you'd see ( with perfect zoom, of course ) a picture of the earth 200 years ago...?

I understand that we'd have to account for the movement of objects, of course, but with computers, seems like a small hurdle...

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "Get'r Done" -- The ability to interate and solve individual hurdles and issues within the constraints of a system to achieve a grand idea.

people still folding@home <shrug>

ask them if they push back the same way with other knowledge professionals like the family doctor or lawyer...

I suffered insomnia for many years when working days, it seems I'm just a night owl and I've learned that working the night shift works best for me, midnight - 8am local time seems to be the sweet spot for me, in bed before noon, up for a late dinner and a night with family before they're all off to sleep while I work the night away in peaceful quiet... and no more insomnia, with black-out curtains in the bedroom and a running fan I no longer have trouble sleeping...

this is why we need a union

people got executed for EVERYTHING back then... sheesh...

I'm glad everything went ok.

now this is programming :) thank you!

For the curious, and to get a deeper idea of what's being discussed, (vamworld)[http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki...] is a website detailing the different known die varieties for Morgan and Peace Silver Dollar coins.

I often tell my wife my software job is like being a home builder, people think they know what they want, but it's not until they're standing in the thing trying to use it that they figure out what parts work and don't work well for what they actually need... and I spend quite a bit of iterating before we end up with the final working thing -- which is usually far removed from the initial design.

for anyone curious, this guy uses it all the time to refine gold, it's very interesting work: https://www.youtube.com/@sreetips

Continuous Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Concentrated Multi-carbon Products Using a Membrane Electrode Assembly: https://www.cell.com/joule/pdfExtended/S2542-4351(19)30365-4

so where's the virtual HUD ?

I see your point as higher temps == higher reaction energy levels, so I agree this is probably the case, but your sleeping bag had better be pressurized...

anyone have any solutions / ideas -- how would you go about locating the lost F-35 if you were so inclined?

IMHO, it IS premature if you believe he has some inalienable right to be on Youtube, he hasn't been convicted of anything yet, these are only allegations. Yet, it's a company doing it, and they aren't bound by any "must-be-convicted-1st" rules, they can just block someone for any reason, they ( and other companies ) do it all the time, and in this case it's probably "better safe than sorry" type of risk management.

upvoted, but honestly, the other side of that coin is:

"The author posits that if you make pile of crap monolith then all you had to do instead was make microservices and magically it’ll all be fine."

you just described the last 5 years of stumbleupon...

I find it weirdly theraputic to read things like this, and reminisce about loudly proclaiming the same a decade ago while being shushed as a non-believer...

Please excuse me if the paradigm of "microservices" has left a bad taste in my mouth, but I have real-world experience with the repercussions of whole-heartedly embracing the latest tech-dejour without completely understanding the tradeoffs...

Many years ago I was hired at stumbleupon around the time the leading compsci doctor decided to take a working and profitable monolithic php app and turn it into a scala/java microservices architecture... in fact part of the newhire process was a weird one-on-one with said mad-compscientist where he extolled the many merits of microservices and skillfully dodged questions like "why would you build a distributed service that just adds a list of numbers?" with a bunch of "you wouldn't understand why it's so much better..." type hand-waving. Fast-forward to 30+ new hires and 4+ long years of intense development and the no-longer profitable company was left with a new slower, buggier, impossible to debug distributed hellscape... as the main designer/architect of it all decided it was a great time to take a "sabbatical"... it wasn't long after that the Nth round of investor money ran out and we were all looking for work.

a little off topic but the mob has been operating this way for years when it comes to risk management... dead men don't talk, no matter how trustworthy the individual might be, it's easier to put a bullet in someones head and be done with it, than to worry about what could happen later.

omg if someone could just put some notes in their code... that would be a wonderful start...

I've played craps in las vegas, at a minimum:

1. you're required to throw the dice all the way to the end of the table so that they bounce back before coming to a stop ( this is to prevent sliding ) -- the ends of the table have what's called a "randomizer" to bounce the dice in a random way ( see: https://depositphotos.com/74686689/stock-photo-pair-of-dice-... )

2. the stickman or table boss can and will invalidate a throw if you don't do the above ( although in practice, I've only ever been "warned" to do it as above when my throw didn't quite make it all the way to the end of the table )

The fact that my touch screen will often display a distracting message that reminds me that it's unsafe to take my eyes off the road while driving and require someone to touch the "ok" button to dismiss it is the epitome of dangerous stupidity...