ringshall (u/ringshall)

ringshall commented on Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topi... · Posted by u/naetius

ringshall · 5 years ago

You (and seemingly everyone else compiling news-from-2020 lists) forget about the discovery of signs of life in the atmosphere of Venus. Not to be grandiose, but, if true, in 500 years this will likely be the only thing generally remembered about 2020.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02785-5

ringshall · 5 years ago

Forget I said this. Clearly it’s impossible and the cranks at mit and nature should not have announced their findings.

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ringshall commented on Images of the the samples returned to earth from the asteroid Ryugu hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topi... · Posted by u/naetius

dusted · 5 years ago

I was thinking the same thing "probably scraped it off of itself" xD

Mostly, because this is 2020, and finding any indication of extraterrestrial life is out of the question in this burning trash-heap of a year :)

ringshall · 5 years ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02785-5

ringshall commented on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? · Posted by u/karamazov

535188B17C93743 · 5 years ago

Futurama also had a fantastic ending.

ringshall · 5 years ago

I agree. (Edit: to add to this, I've always thought that the third-last episode of Futurama, 'Murder on the Planet Express', was a return to form and reminiscent of the heyday of the show).

On the subject of tv shows, ‘Peep Show’, the British sitcom, also had a very strong final season and final episode.

ringshall commented on Boeing 'inappropriately coached' pilots in 737 MAX testing: U.S. Senate report reuters.com/article/us-bo... · Posted by u/nabla9

ringshall · 5 years ago

I find this really disgraceful.

A flaw in procedure that led to the initial catastrophes is at least understandable in terms of insidious errors in complex systems.

A continuation after the initial error is hard to explain other than by deliberate personal moral failure.

ringshall commented on Norman Abramson has died nytimes.com/2020/12/11/te... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

ipsum2 · 5 years ago

afaik ARPA was before ALOHA.

ringshall · 5 years ago

He says in the Computer History Museum talk that (paraphrasing) ALOHANet was eventually connected to ARPANet, making in effect the first connection of the Internet.

ringshall commented on Norman Abramson, Pioneer Behind Wireless Networks, Dies at 88 nytimes.com/2020/12/11/te... · Posted by u/augustocallejas

ringshall · 5 years ago

Surfing and invention sound like makings of a good life.

Speaking for myself, 'underappreciated' is the right word to describe his achievements. Quoting the article,

"Metcalfe and his colleagues at Xerox PARC adopted and tweaked the ALOHAnet technology in creating Ethernet"

ringshall commented on The cost of fixed-line broadband in 206 countries cable.co.uk/broadband/pri... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

ringshall · 5 years ago

It's an odd colour scale on that map, red, then light blue through black. Usually it's something simpler, like blue through red.

It takes a look at the scale to realize that the former Soviet Union countries actually have the best price rather than the worst price.

Might be good to have a 2nd map adjusted for PPP as well.

ringshall commented on Best aspects of C · Posted by u/_obre

Cloudef · 5 years ago

Locale handling and most of the str* function in libc indeed are quite bad. The only sane function for "C strings" is snprintf.

ringshall · 5 years ago

It's been a long time since I've used C, but I recall strncpy being safe. I assume from context that I'm wrong, though.

ringshall commented on Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index astrosociety.org/file_dow... · Posted by u/firebaze

aaronblohowiak · 5 years ago

can you explain a bit more ?

ringshall · 5 years ago

Nature at least used to publish a single-page science fiction story at the back of every issue. They still publish online, though they've dropped it from the print edition.

edit: https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures

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