"Pick up that can."

I am a Bozeman resident, got my PhD from MSU and my wife works there. Really was not expecting to see something from MSU make the front page of HN, well, ever, really. This is pretty cool.

SSNs were never designed to be private information. There should be no expectation that they are.

Loving Ada without using exceptions or inheritance on embedded and desktop. Some love Ada full OOP tagged types. I love Ada procedural style with privacy and abstract data types. I wish Flutter was written in Ada but atleast Dart is better than JavaScript atleast for procedural code without it's oop boiler plate. You don't actually need OOP for widgets.

  Orwell being so right about governments using the constant threat of a virtual enemy has got to be one of the all time top on the money predictions ever.

Who is that virtual enemy for the US?

In communities near me, recent expansions of school vouchers has been a game changer. Public schools are struggling and private schools give students a much better education. Public schools were failing well before private school vouchers existed.

When you treat every negative outcome as a system failure, the answer is more systems. This is the cost of a blameless culture. There are places where that’s the right answer, especially where a skilled operator is required to operate in an environment beyond their control and deal with emergent problems in short order. Aviation, surgery. Different situations where the cost of failure is lower can afford to operate without the cost of bureaucratic compliance, but often they don’t even nudge the slider towards personal responsibility and it stays at “fully blameless.”

If it ain't broke.

USB and DP is driven by the demand for slimmer devices, and we don't need RJ45 on these devices... we use Wi-Fi.