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So the FAA has changed the requirements for receiving an award that makes no practical difference. They seem to forget that space is (in theory) accessible from any place on Earth; if the US requirements for licensing are too onerous, commercial spaceflight will simply move elsewhere. There is no shortage of out-of-the-way locations to build a spaceport.
I would also note that one of the reasons for requiring licensing of airplane pilots was the inordinate number of crashes by barnstorming pilots in the early days of air flight. This was because almost anyone could either build or buy a propeller-based plane. The entry requirements for space flight are much higher; I doubt anyone (not even a billionaire) is going to risk multi-million dollar hardware on a "barnstorming" astronaut.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I doubt anyone
Don't understimate Einstein's quote.
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The project is led by Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who argued that interstellar object ‘Oumuamua might be an alien probe. "I'm not saying it was aliens, but it is aliens"
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The new SETI?
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I guess they'll be searching for magic.
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Web apps are at the heart of many serious security incidents *Have become*?
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I would say that the guilty are not the apps themselves, but the unprofessional programmers (and not to forget the users in some of the cases)
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Just like Windows 10, Windows Server used to receive bi-annual updates, but Microsoft will soon change that with the upcoming Windows Server 2022. That cheering you hear is from the sysadmins
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What should be a developer's focus? Performance or Clean code? "Both? Both. Both is good."
If someone puts a gun to my head and I do have to pick, I'm going with, "it depends".
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Clean code, first last and always.
Unless you are writing performance-critical code, the compiler will do a decent job of optimization (code inlining, etc.). Choosing the best algorithm for your data is something that the compiler can't do, and will pay much greater dividends.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Agreed. This was the only thing keeping me in "it depends": Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Unless you are writing performance-critical code
TTFN - Kent
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Intel is rethinking how it releases — and brands — its semiconductor innovations If the other guy stands still, we're sure to pass them!
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We want to be the home for .NET based Community Toolkits which are partnering the community with engineers, Microsoft MVPs, and the teams working on those technologies. "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood"
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They are focused on exploiting pain points in code analysis and reverse-engineering. Do they also keep tigers?
I'm sure that Go and Rust developers love to think of themselves as 'exotic' developers.
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After returning from the edge of space, Jeff Bezos has personally waded into Blue Origin's dispute with NASA over its decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX. If you can't beat 'em, pay people to pick you
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Back in the day, that was called a bribe.
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Let Elon get his stripes before getting paid by governmenents.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Bezos has only himself to blame. While SpaceX has been aggressive, Blue Origin has been taking it's time. (I'm not a big fan of Musk, but he did good by hiring Gwynne Shotwell and letting her run the company while he spouts off.)
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The No More Ransom project celebrates its fifth anniversary today after helping over six million ransomware victims recover their files and saving them almost €1 billion in ransomware payments. They have a particular set of skills
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Do they get a % of what they save others?
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Despite C++’s downward trend on the TIOBE Programming Community index since 2001, the language’s fall from the coveted top two slots in 2020, vociferous and persistent claims that C++ is “dead like COBOL,” and the inroads the Rust is making in developer circles – C++ is still as viable, vital and relevant as ever. It's the pluses
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It because it's object oriented!  (referring to your other post below.)
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And it can do amazing template tricks! What's not to love?
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Even COBOL isn't dead yet, so C++ will probably be around for a long time. Besides the legacy inertia, it has good performance and isn't paternalistic. For some things, it's the clear choice.
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It's deterministic--things happen predictably--with gobs of high quality extra stuff available.
(Except for template meta-programming, it's also really straight forward. Yes, sometimes the syntatic sugar gets crazy, but less so than many other languages.)
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