justaaron

I simply meant that Crystal lang features ultra high performance, and yet shares much of Rubys syntactical elegance. Much is built into the standard library and I have to ask what your experience with Crystal has been like so far? I find pretty much everything I need, and the easy FFI with C takes care of most of the rest (see the Mongo.cr wrapper for the C mongo driver, for example...)

despite it's pre 1.0 status it's arguably more production ready than php ever was/will-be etc.

What is astounding to me, both in O'Neills plan and Bezos offerings (and Silicon Valley Solutions in general, LOL) is the level of social and historical ignorance on display, as if we don't currently contend for control of resources, as if we are currently managing anything responsibly, and as if the political and social implications of such a project are occurring in the literal vacuum of space, rather than in the highly politically charged landscape of human endeavors.

These folks appear to avoid current events like the plague. Jeff Bezos is still highly involved in assisting the US government and it's various military and intelligence entities in seeking advantage versus other nations.

Taking nationalist ignorant policies and mentalities with us into space seems... retrograde, stupid, and doomed to failure. Inelegant.

There is a reason that all seriously futuristic sci-fi puts us WELL beyond this petty nationalist nonsense currently causing people to re-re-visit the 1980's yet again...

Even given lunar materials etc, if we are incapable of altering our current industrial trajectory from the top down (lack of political will), what on earth makes one think we could direct any space activities from the top down? It's currently sufficient for human leadership to favor selfish and group-harming goals, and there is no indication that this would change in orbit, lol

One currently sees the opposite of top-down coordination of space activities, after an initial cold-war-inspired display of bravado etc. (private ventures contracted to life public sector payloads into orbit) and you can be assured that plenty of both consumption of earths resources and pollution of earths atmosphere and water occur as byproducts. Private enterprise would seem to offer a "willy nilly" approach to anything, as such.

vastly underestimating the resources required to lift each kilogram into orbit, let alone the development cycle to get there. and shall we start all this now here on earth just adding to the plight I outlined just before?

again, no sense of proportion of the actual issue here. we are DESTROYING the earth, not mildly scratching it etc.

establishing a space society is a hugely intensive operation that dwarfs the hundreds of millions required to put a few folks and some trinkets into a space station etc.

"tolerated" nothing like we've thrown at it in exponentially increasing form every year since 1900... and by all accounts it's not "tolerating" it very well at the moment. Fisheries? Sea water contamination? Air pollution? Groundwater contamination (fracking? agricultural runoff?) Rainforest loss (The Amazon! how many hectares lost per day? Palm oil plantations supplanting Indonesian rainforest, etc...) all on top of human caused climate change...

How about they make a thinkpad laptop up to the quality standards of the old thinkpads? I have several lenovos, all of which exhibit "case flex" syndrome in which random typing occurs, and jacks come loose etc, as in cheap netbooks. They are simply not built robustly as the IBM thinkpads were, regardless of the manufacturer being Lenovo in either case. There IS a market for a quality non-luxury workhorse for those who work for a living.

news flash: the entire tax filing and tax payment industry, to say nothing of tax code itself, uses dark patterns to this effect.

that is a seriously skewed candy budget... do you have any teeth left?

yay!

i love you

... although i have to wonder about the sanity of companies willing to pay for viewing their own messages past 10k on a threaded messaging app, one level above to-dos-mvp and 2 above hello world... the css is nice, i guess....

the name gives you a clue...

"captain obvious called"

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of COURSE the Beeb isn't taking comments upon this article. I built a "super-adobe" or "earthbag" house, here in Portugal. It was utterly destroyed by the bush fires of 2017, and I do not recommend this technique for multiple reasons:

1)no structural integrity to the actual fill of the bags, unless you add cement, in which case why are you building with earth bags?

2) poly bags are very un-eco, as I'm still cleaning up the remains of my house. It degrades under UV light and many bags burst before being rendered even, and had to be replaced.

no, it's called a "search result"

Unless one literally does not care about computers AT ALL, and is content with front-end development, having no hobbies involving any OTHER kind of development etc, one will end up being a bit of a "full stack developer".

I, frankly, don't trust career coders who don't have an active interest in the broader activities around coding, software, hardware, maybe HDL's and FPGA's, or low-level stuff with microcontrollers etc.

as it appears that a career coder who specializes and then expresses no further interest in branching out is merely milking a perceived cash cow and not going to show an interest in how even the specialized piece they are building inter-relates with the other pieces of the puzzle.

Here's some additional unsolicited advice: Work on your own skills instead of dishing out advice on how to approach systems you appear to only superficially understand :)

totally! that's a useful sized pickup.

it must have been a "we'll show you!" moment after Tramp ripped on Ford for being uncool after the "tariffs bite" fiasco circa 6 months ago... speaking on compensating for small xyz's

except that developing for ARM SBC's natively is normal these days. Even the lowly Raspberry Pi encourages you to plug-in an HDMI monitor, a USB mouse and keyboard, and boot into Raspbian, where things like Wiring-Pi further extend your cross-development reach (LOL), while you develop the code for your peripheral directly on the computer that's going to run it. It's a bit of a Matryushka doll in that I have both Propeller chip and FPGA "Hat's" for my Pi and use both propeller IDE and the Icestorm toolchain to natively cross-develop for ACTUALLY embedded devices, as the ARM device is the main computer already and not the embedded device anymore lol

This is objectively untrue. The wealthiest corporations and people overwhelmingly pay the LEAST share of taxes.

Your shifting of the playing field smells like an excuse.

1) Whereas the federal budget has not been reduced.

2) Whereas the large monopolies and billionaires pay less (see: the $1.5 trillion tax cut for the top, and how it's hoarded rather than invested) tax

therefore we are compensating for Amazon and Netflix etc paying less tax.

Corporate taxes should grow with the size of the corporation. We should encourage small businesses as they spur innovation, mostly fail, and are the backbone of a stable economy, vs slave labor for globalized zombie corps like Amazon.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/09/28/wh...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/now-we-know-how-major-corpor...

by all accounts, the opposite of an economic "pump" is when you give a tax cut to the already filthy rich.

The tax base has been shifted to the middle and lower class. Plain and simple.

1) Acquisitions of actually innovative tech corps and their products, which may be incorporated into Amazons products or simply killed. Microsoft is quite good at this.

2) Monopoly means no competition = bad for pricing, quality of service, and ultimately, the market.

Are you unaware of federal anti-trust law and it's history?

Clearly, this is not the result of creative accounting, but merely displays just how SKEWED the playing field is in favor of large parasitic corporations, that kill innovation for each small company they acquire or quash.

I don't see Amazon as rogue here, just as taking what they are allowed to take, and this is the problem, not the particular anecdote mentioned here in this articles healine.

So, essentially small businesses and lower/middle income folks will pick up the slack on the missing revenue, and in general in terms of the tax-base tilt: In essence you are excusing a heavy tilt for the large global corporations that 1) constitute monopolies, in many cases, which are anti-innovation and kill innovation, actually. 2) are killing mom-and-pop small businesses left and right.

"lower taxes for corporations and individuals" which one is it?

I've never seen a lower federal budget, and the "small government" party has brought us 2 wars costing over $7 trillion over 18 years, and a perpetual war on an emotion that has caused an INCREASE in governmental size and spending, overall.

Can you explain your stance a bit?

cool!

"baremetal"?

I don't think our definitions of "baremetal" are the same here...

yeah, I got the part about the American mythological construct of the Meritocracy being deeply ingrained in your brain.