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Tardigrades can survive extreme conditions, and scientists wanted to know if they could survive the impact after a trip between planets. Oh sure, that's what they *say* they were testing
They really just like abusing tardigrades.
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At the shooting things really fast support group: "It all started with tardigrades. Before we knew it, it was hippos."
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No, they want to send them back to where they came from. Too creepy to be from here.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: if they could survive the impact after a trip between planets.
Only if they've been infused with mycelium. 
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Microsoft has released SimuLand, an open-source lab environment to help test and improve Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender, and Azure Sentinel defenses against real attack scenarios. Or just wait a while and experience it for realsies
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Author is tired of world+dog assuming all task force docs are definitive, wrote a really weird one to make the point anyone can put anything in 'em Sharpening other stuff is reserved for v2
404 - humour not found
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Sadly, it doesn’t matter how suited to the job a language is, how much fun it is to program in, or how much you learn along the way. It's not, "can I get paid to use it?"
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Very true. Many developers (and their managers) seem to forget that the total cost of software includes maintenance of the software.
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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Facebook recently adopted a new language like this.
Quote: Mononoke served as a great test bed because it was naturally fairly isolated from other Facebook systems. As long as Mononoke could use the Mercurial protocol to speak with client services and the Thrift protocol to communicate with some storage systems, choosing Rust wouldn’t affect anything outside of the Source Control team’s work.
and then
Quote: With Mononoke as evidence that it was viable and lived up to its claims, over time, other projects considered and adopted Rust as well. At first, these were typically developer tooling projects that didn’t need to integrate with the broader service infrastructure, or small services/daemons that could do their work with just a few handwritten wrappers around some C++ client libraries.
Kevin
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If you are going to cause a major upheaval by introducing a new language for all your coding, starting small is the way to do it. Even so, it is a very high risk process, often with lower ROI than expected.
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: If you are going to cause a major upheaval by introducing a new language for all your coding, starting small is the way to do it
I agree. That's what they appear to have done at Facebook. Also they identified a problem for which the new language was a good fit and it was with non-production code and in a way (from their description) that appeared to be non-disruptive.
Kevin
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Quote: The thesis of this post is that you need to choose a programming language that your organization can support.
I'm sorry, I say BS. That's the worst reason to choose a programming language. If you're organization can't support the correct programming language, then tool up or get out of the business.
It's thinking like that of the author that keeps us, for example, married to fossil fuels. "Because it's what the infrastructure supports." 
We have lost our way as an intelligent, innovative, creative species.
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"The Insider News is for breaking IT and Software development news. Post your news, your alerts and your inside scoops. This is an IT news-only forum - all off-topic, non-news posts will be removed. If you wish to ask a programming question please post it here."
Where does it invite people to make political posts?
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- Is not working overtime a problem for many of us?
- Kent Sharkey makes snarky remarks on almost every thread. Is that privilege limited to him only?
- Plenty of topics (Mars landing, for example) have nothing to do with IT. I don't see them criticised.
- Lastly, I see my post was a Leslie. The same information was reported on 17-May.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 20-May-21 3:39am.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Lastly, I see my post was a Leslie. The same information was reported on 17-May.
How you dare...
Go to the corner and start staring the wall... NOW...  
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Kent Sharkey makes snarky remarks on almost every thread. Is that privilege limited to him only?
Not at all... but mostly really difficult to do it better  (and I speak ONLY of myself)
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Plenty of topics (Mars landing, for example) have nothing to do with IT. I don't see them criticised.
I see the insider more about technology than only IT.
Conclusion: I see nothing wrong with your post (beyond the leslie, and it can happen)
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: How would they know?
The italicised word is the problem.
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Since when do you listen to what WHO or the UN say, anyhow? I know I don't.
also, you are in a losing battle with the political posts comment. YOU (and I) are not allowed to make political posts, Bob, on the other hand, can do whatever he wants.
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Perhaps today will hold finer moments. 
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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released images and video snapped during the landing process and checkout of its Zhurong Mars rover. They have their own soundstage now?
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Shakespeare (almost) wrote: All the Universe is a stage,
And all the probes and rovers merely players;
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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After claiming quantum supremacy breakthrough in 2019 Don't we all?
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so u are telling me that the current one does or does not do anything usefull...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Ready to run (R2R) is the native executable code format for .NET. R2R code is produced using the crossgen tool. My code is always "ready to run", it just often doesn't want to
I guess it's easier to just transcribe a conversation than write a real article?
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but, when I came to this:Quote: Tomas: I guess we could split that discussion into blocks on typesystem / class shapes, GC vs. native memory allocation, generics vs. templates, managed code peanut butter, multiple inheritance vs. interface dispatch etc.
I had to go outside and do some deep breathing until it was okay to be a mere mortal again.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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