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I just heard that Ellington Field, about 3 miles from my house is designated as a space port and might be the home base for the new Space Force as well.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Amazon is set to clear $258.22 billion in US retail sales in 2018, according to eMarketer’s figures, which will work out to 49.1 percent of all online retail spend in the country, and 5 percent of all retail sales. I don't have anything funny to say here, that number just amazed me
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Blockchain hype may have arguably peaked, but it is still tangible. Here are five questions to help you separate blockchain fact from fiction. Bonus #6: Yeah, it's all pretty much hype
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, it's all pretty much hype
It can't be. It sounds so good that it just can't be! 
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I wish people would understand that thing that "blockchain" provides above what a hashchain does is distributed consensus. So, in that article, between blockchain and database lives hashchain, distributed or not, that has its uses without all that consensus and mining crap.
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The internet offers the potential for constructive dialogue and cooperation, but online conversations too often degenerate into personal attacks. In 'The Soapbox': pretty fast
I'm assuming, I haven't looked in there in months
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In 'The Soapbox': pretty fastI'm assuming, I haven't looked in there in months
in the last time is a bit more "moderated" since Chris gave a "pay attention" call to some members (controversial debates are allowed, flame wars not)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The new app would reportedly allow users to run a full version of Photoshop on an iPad and continue edits on another device like a desktop PC. It should only cost three times as much as the iPad, and require you to uninstall everything else to fit it
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President Brad Smith also said its ICE contract isn't used for facial recognition. I'm sure what they heard was, "Use it regularly"
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Yeah, let's have more regulation (government exempted of course.)
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Machine learning is poised to change the nature of software development in fundamental ways, perhaps for the first time since the invention of FORTRAN and LISP. If I have seen further, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of an AI?
For those that noticed it was also in last week's Trending Tech newsletter: yes, but I thought it further, and felt needed a broader audience (even if it is long)
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So, if we repeat this often enough, it comes true!
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GitHub has updated its security alerts feature this week to support Python projects, after previously supporting JavaScript and Ruby. It warns you if you try to start a Python project?
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Add in machine learning and we can put a stop to all this python nonsense.
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Changing one line in an INI file noticeably upgrades the 2013 game's AI. That would ever happen with these blurbs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Changing one line letter in an INI file
FTFY
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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TypeScript 3.0, our next release of the type system, compiler, and language service, is fast-approaching The 'unknown' type? Sounds mysterious
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Guido van Rossum, the "Benevolent Dictator For Life" of Python, has had enough and is walking away from leading the popular open-source language. What part of 'Benevolent Dictator *For Life*' did he not read?
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Perhaps his tab key broke.
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No different than a lifetime warranty, that only lasts for the life of the object or until you get rid of it for something else.
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A hacker has gained access to a developer's npm account and injected malicious code into a popular JavaScript library, code that was designed to steal the npm credentials of users who utilize the poisoned package inside their projects. This would only be a problem if there were a centralized, shared location of commonly used packages that everyone trusts
Too wordy? Still trying for that bumper sticker certification
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Too wordy? Still trying for that bumper sticker certification
Poisoned Pez Pilfers Peoples Personals!
(Now too superfluous.)
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Microsoft Teams (free) is intended for use by organizations, such as small businesses or groups of coworkers and is limited to up to 300 users and features In case you're a little short on chat programs this week
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For the first time, we have an optical signal to match a cosmic neutrino. We need to respond. This is a job for Spaaaaaccce Fooooorrrrrrcccce!
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