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That does not seem like even close to a fair comparison and makes me wonder how valid the conclusion is. Effectively this is two times n=1, if you use 'teams' when you actually mean 'individuals' then that's not really proper reporting.
I do applaud you for having the same work done twice but it would have been far more meaningful to have two actual teams of seasoned developers do this sort of thing side-by-side. The biggest item on the checklist would be the number of undiscovered UB or UB related bugs in the C codebase and to compare that with the Rust codebase on 'defect escape rate' or some other meaningful metric.
> With Linux, you have to target specific distros, do something insane like a giant bundle of everything,
This is what you do for Flatpack, Steam, or Docker. All these are popular options.
> Oh and I almost forgot.. install scripts that detect distros, install dependencies.
Most distros offer tooling to make packages for their package managers. With them you declare the dependencies you want and the package manager does the rest.
> And god help you if you need to ship a kernel module.
The right way to do it is to open source it and let the installer compile the software against the kernel headers. Sysdig and VirtualBox do that.
You have rediscovered the job of Software Analyst, which until the early 90's was a thing. Then that all got upended and we ended up with a mix between product owners, project managers and developers / devops but I think that that ignores the fact that Analyst is a different set of skills.
> solar panel installed doesn’t disappear if China changes their stance
Most countries have days to, at most, months of imports of oil in reserve. In contrast, a panel embargo wouldn’t have disastrous effects for years. But reliance it is the same. If you’re dependent on Chinese panels, China can cap your energy growth at whim. The degradation will be slow thereafter, but present nevertheless.
Using foreign panels for anything other than bootstrapping domestic or allied production would be the EU repeating its follies first with Russia and then with American LNG.
What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth ?
I had a look at the issues. I see comments added to each one of them. Some of them are already on the roadmap.
I think “cases where AI lets you escape an old tarpit” are interesting even if they are likely to remain tarpits.
> when you have only 32 GB for a 16 core/32 thread CPU, you must reduce the number of concurrent compilations
Also, depending on the architecture, avoiding odd(or even) virtual cores might free more L2 or L3 for the worker threads and speed up the process.
>Most of the stock market valuation is big-tech
Which is why most of it is a bubble
Why do you think it's definitely not?
I appreciate Rust for making affine types mainstream, and having at least the C++ community start caring about security, even if half hearted.
However I share your conclusion, outside scenarios where having automated resource management as the main approach is either technically impossible, or a waste of time trying to change pervasive culture, I don't see much need for Rust.
In fact those that write comments about wanting a Rust but without borrow checker, the answer already exists.
That makes no sense, though, and reeks of extrapolating a trend way beyond the conditions in which it is valid.
The simple truth is, cloud models are always going to be strictly superior to open ones, simply because cloud model vendors can run those same open models too. And they still retain economies of scale and efficiency that operating large data centers full of specialized hardware, so at the very least they can always offer open models at price per token that's much less than anyone else's electricity bill for compute. But on top of that, they still have researchers working on models and everything around them; they can afford to put top engineers on keeping their harness always ahead of whatever is currently most popular on Github, etc.
“The U.S. just recently allowed adaptive headlights”
My most-surprising takeaway is that anybody regulates headlights in America. The runaway-brightness problem is real, well known and totally ignored.
Unfortunately a whole new generation failed to learn the IE lesson, and are the first to complain when others don't follow the Chrome OS Platform wishes.
> Substack is mid-brow.
It is? I thought Substack was just Wordpress with a paywall.
C++ rules in the gaming industry, HFT, HPC, language runtimes.
Speaking of which what do you think all the languages that build on top of GCC and LLVM, depend on?
Proton represents Valve's failure to make Linux gaming attractive to game studios.
Not even those that have Android/Linux NDK builds, bother with porting to GNU/Linux.
Besides blaming Microsoft, look inside into the endless reboots of audio stack, GNOME vs KDE vs XFCE vs Sway vs whatever is cool in Linux Desktops this month, X Windows vs Wayland,...
I was a believer, until 2010, then went back into Windows 7. If it wasn't for gaming and .NET, I would probably be on macOS instead.
Taking care of Linux deployments is part of my job, so I know pretty well how it goes today, don't need the have you tried standard Linux forum replies.
Yes, however that wasn't a relevant feature for 1980-90's workstation market, like under which user the printer daemon would be running under.
Yeah, even .NET is now plagued with AI, see AI dashboard on Aspire, AI components on Blazor, .NET upgrade assistant now being AI agent,....
VSCode hasn't yet been rebranded into VS CoPilot by pure luck.
Oh, a visa scam. Title is misleading.
It's not an Arab country at all. Iranians are Persian, not Arab. Iran is low-key at war with most of the gulf Arab states.
Because normies are easily persuaded by appeals to emotion.
The inevitable result of government setting prices is some combination of:
1. shortages
2. gluts
3. black markets
It doesn't matter what your or my opinion on it is, any more than having an opinion on F=ma. The Law of Supply and Demand is always in play.
There are thousands of years of history on this.
Except that Iran has been doing it since 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran
I agree with the argument that there are many more than two ways to do this. When I built my AI assistant (https://stavrobot.stavros.io/), for example, I implemented an architecture that has both the ways detailed in the post. The harness runs simultaneously both inside and outside the container (I didn't want the harness to touch the system, and I didn't want LLM-generated code to touch the harness).
It's all tradeoffs, and picking the ones that work for what you want to do is what architecture is. The more informed you are about the tradeoffs, the better you can make your architecture.
It's called a Hackintosh; there's plenty of information on that.
At least goverments are elected. Some private enterprise like SPLC could fuck people over and brand them with no accountability.
The usual ramblings that emerged when Dijkstra talked about the practice of the field in general as opposed about algorithms.
>(that and the fact that there is little else).
Is there a fuck-you option by which a large company can force escalating costs on you through small claims? Can they, for example, remove it to a federal court?
People have been bending over for policies and changes with way more impact to their everyday lives and livelihoods, and they'll rise up for this? That's daydreaming.
Yeah, every cable should have a 3 digit number of something with a unique capacity lookup.
In which case the market is working as intended.
>I asked Claude the great wall question, and the answer is not what the article describes:
One answer is not. Answers are semi-random due to temperature.
The answer also shows little understanding of the distance vs height issue. Or that the reason for the mixup could be that Spain and space sound similar, which is what a human would pick up.
With some resistance. Now they do it far more often.
Can you describe that utility?
640k … there is something poetic about that number.
Private actors working hard to censor political adversaries is not necessarily illegal, for what it's worth. You could say it's problematic for other reasons, and if you mesh in with campaign financing you start to face (long shot) bank-shot legal arguments, but generally partisanship is a time-honored American tradition.
There are other models. Eschew the sandbox. Give the agent a computer, with all the trimmings, but keep that computer segregated from sensitive resources. Tokens are a solved problem: tokenize them[1] or do something equivalent with a proxy. The same thing goes for secrets.
A lot of this post presents false dichotomies. It assumes the existence of a sandbox that is by definition ephemeral or "cattle-like". Why? There are reasons to do that and reasons not to do that. You can have a durable computer with a network identity and full connectivity, and you can have that computer spin down and stop billing when not in use.
There are a zillion different shapes for addressing these problems, and I'm twitchy because I think people are super path-dependent right now, and it's causing them to miss a lot of valuable options.
[1]: https://fly.io/blog/tokenized-tokens/ (I work at Fly.io but the thing this post talks about is open source).
They would probably start to consider installing automatic doors if enough people do it.
> Ever since Mitchell Hashimoto mentioned the harness in February
What. The idea is as old as anyone can remember, and wrt. LLMs, it was known to be important since at least as early as ChatGPT being first released.
My BYD has a 15" screen, it's very very nice for watching films/shows while waiting/charging/whatever. I even play Expedition 33 (and other games) on it with an Xbox controller via Moonlight.
I went to public high school in Cupertino decades ago and still have friends and family there. Tesselations was a well-known ego trip of a shitshow from the start.
The parent body was dominated by those more concerned with networking prospects than their kids’ education. (Lots of cocktail parties while the kids were on iPads in a separate room.)
The tragedy is despite that person dominating the parent body, they aren’t it exclusively. Well-meaning parents get sucked in. Their kids then pay the consequences. (Probably get a solid book of stories, though.)
A more pragmatic metric would be comparing deaths/mile for drivered cars against deaths/mile of driverless cars.
I don’t remember it as particularly surreal. They did a remote programming interview over Zoom (in 2014 or so) and it was a really interesting problem - to make a PRNG for a specific range of integers using two other PRNGs. Their solution had a branch and mine was branchless and decently random. It was, at least then, a very personalistic company, centred around Shuttleworth, but his influence didn’t usually extend more than two org levels, and different parts of it behaved as different companies.
> “The bottleneck is data.”
This seems to be wishful thinking on the part of Uber, and also Tesla. Google StreetView data is probably sufficient. Waymo's expansion into new cities does not seem to be delayed much by the need for more data.
Most of the reported problems with self-driving come from transient situations. More mapping data will not help with those.
China has the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone, where traffic cams and other sensors let vehicles see beyond their own sightlines.[1] That's been going on since 2020. That's the ultimate in sensing - full real time road info.
The Beijing test area is getting some expansion. The new direction seems to be to focus on airports and railroad stations, so that driverless cars can be aware of congestion in detail. That makes sense.
[1] https://sinocities.substack.com/p/inside-chinas-connected-ve...
The only question is "number go up?": will this result in more money from investors or not?
Java doesn't have unsigned as primitive types, because James Gosling did a series of interviews at Sun among "expert" C devs, and all got the C language rules for unsigned arithmetic wrong.
Yes I miss them in Java as primitives, however there are utility methods for unsigned arithmetic, that get it right.
Does that make the code uncopyrightable? Non-human authorship?
You have 67(!!) comments in this thread all of which amount to rabidly pro-nuclear and 'nothing to see here' arguments the bulk of which have been dealt with many times over.
I don't know what it is that you are trying to achieve but that last thing that people arguing for a balanced energy mix need is this kind of zealotry.
Nuclear works, we know it works. It is expensive. It has a waste problem. It is slow to deploy and there are risks.
Your head-in-the-sand strategy is not going to result in one more nuclear deployment, but it may convince a few more people that nuclear proponents are not rational about the downsides of the technology. Which is stupid because every technology has downsides.
Honest question, what's the problem with crash dumps that include no personal info? They just help make the software less buggy. I also don't see an issue with anonymized usage patterns (this feature was used X times this month, this one Y times, etc).
Can someone expound on what they see as a problem?
> Why 18-20 are isolated from 21+?
We have 18-year olds in high school in America. The headline risk from a 40-something sleeping with a high-school student is probably something Roblox wants to get ahead of.
> Even the UK and France spend 2% of GDP on defense, and they live under America's shield.
You mean: America lives under the UK and France's shield. The last time that US soldiers died to defend France or the UK is a long time ago, much more recently French and UK soldiers died for (amongst others) the USA. Not that anybody seems to remember.
Oh and on a per-capita basis more people from the UK died in the Gulf war than from the USA.
But this isn't a matter of keeping score it is standing together and at least trying to maintain some kind of world order. One problem with that is that you may have to refrain from threatening your allies with invasion.
Wow I’m glad it’s not just me. I thought my IP block had gotten caught up in some known spamming or something.
> If a human driver commits vehicular manslaughter, they get the book. What about AV?
They get their licenses pulled statewide [1]. Cruise's single negligent manslaughter event carried more consequence than dozens of human cases combined.
[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/dmv-statement-o...
> An OCXO will (usually) have less short-term jitter and better stability with ambient temperature changes than a chip-scale atomic clock module, but will drift more than the atomic clock long-term.
Indeed! And that short term stability of a (good) OCXO is most impressive, you can fairly easily outperform a GPSDO and with a little work and a lot of attention to supply voltage and other external influences you can even (short term) outperform an atomic clock. But aging is a thing, you'll need to re-calibrate almost every week if you care about that kind of precision. I have a bunch of different standards to compare with each other and the first time I got lucky with a very good OCXO I was wondering if I had made some kind of mistake, it was that stable.
That gravitational bias thing sounds very interesting, I knew it existed but did not realize you could trivially demonstrate it like that, I'll have to try this.
I thought it was familiar...
But yes, that's exactly it. Turn inward, define the world as 'the enemy' then start clamoring for some lebensraum.
That play works if you are in fact a PhD in a related field, but not if we're both reading the same study as laypersons and disputing its relevance and reliability.
What I suspect happened here is that you found this study by Googling for it, and forgot that it is in fact very easy to get a capsule summary of any published study posted on HN.
> There’s no reason for us to light money on fire having bases all over the world, when we have two huge oceans to protect us.
Yes, that helped so much on the 9th of September in 2001... MAGA is a fairly direct result of those attacks.
And I think you missed Afghanistan in your little list, which was not exactly a minor skirmish. Pax Americana was a massive net positive for the United States. That the proceeds were not shared equally is not the fault of the clients, but an internal affair. A diminished United States has a non-zero risk of collapsing much like the former USSR.
Meanwhile, you're lighting money on fire in Iran right now, and lots of it (though, according to Mike you are not at war and if you were it is over, a 'special military operation' of sorts). If only there was some kind of lesson to be learned from starting wars. Meanwhile, the oil people are making out like bandits, Israel is happy, what's not to like? And who cares about the price of eggs, gas, the Epstein files or immigrants. That's so yesterday.
Don't you have it backwards?
Isn't Roblox inherently for children, hence they'd want to ban the adults?
Ticketing is a weird thing to do with driverless cars.
If the violations are intentional and easily fixable, then just pass laws/regulations requiring AV's to follow rules or else cease operations entirely.
If the violations are unintentional but happen only rarely in weird edge-case situations, then just set low frequency thresholds for them to be allowed, the same way we allow tiny amounts of rodent hairs in peanut butter. If AV companies exceed the threshold, then they get fined at first and eventually lose their permit -- but these aren't tickets for individual violations, but rather a yearly fine for going above the yearly threshold.
If the violations are intentional but not easily fixable -- e.g. they're stopping where not allowed because there's no legal place to stop within 15 blocks -- then the laws/regulations are bad, and tickets are essentially an unfair tax. That's the case in my city where moving trucks are essentially illegal, because it's illegal to double-park them, but there's usually no legal parking available within any reasonable distance that movers could carry furniture. So you just know that the cost of moving includes a "tax" of a parking ticket, unfair as it is.
Finally, if the violations are unintentional but happen all the time, the AV company should lose its permit because its software sucks.
I don't see how ticketing AVs for individual violations makes any sense.
EDIT: for those who think I'm letting AV companies get off too easily, it's precisely the opposite. I'm saying that if AV companies are violating traffic rules all the time and can't fix it, they should be banned. Ticketing is not the answer, because ticketing isn't holding these vehicles to a high enough standard. It's letting the companies get off the hook by merely paying occasional tickets instead of improving their software.
The CEO gets charged with manslaughter? I work in healthtech and the responsible individual is certainly personally liable for any harm that results from reckless behavior, it should be the same here.
Same as if someone were driving, if a person just jumps in front of your car while you're driving under the limit/sober/etc, you aren't at fault, so the AV should also not be at fault if it couldn't reasonably avoid the harm. You balance these things, benefit to society vs harm to society, and you come to an acceptable tradeoff.
I have a happy story about Casio and college. I started college with a very limited TI-55 calculator: 51 steps and no conditional branching. The rich kids got HP-41 calculators, the average ones got programmable Casios. I got a Casio PB-700, programmable in BASIC.
Best gift ever. I could finish all numeric methods tests in a fraction of the time it took for others to use or program the ordinary calculators. It was a huge qualitative leap.
Ideally the fees would be similar to the Norway model, where some tickets are tied to the income of the driver, in this case the pre-tax earnings of the company that created the driverless car.
Their voting records don’t seem to bear that theory out.
I tried after reading parent, and the DeepSeek app refused and suggested to switch topics. I don‘t know if the chat interface uses v4, though.
Relevant for a lot of geopolitical and corporate strategic situations as well. The whole Mideast situation we're in now is because we were in zugzwang and a couple leaders felt the compulsion to move. Taiwan is a similar situation: the best policy is "strategic ambiguity", which is holding for now, but is a bit of an unstable equilibrium.
More relevant to a business site, this is the situation many large corporations find themselves in. Say you're Google and you own an immensely profitable monopoly. The very best thing you can do is nothing; anything you do risks upsetting the delicate competitive equilibrium that you're winning. If you're an executive, how do you do nothing? You can't very well hire thousands of employees to do nothing and pay them to do it. But if you don't have thousands of employees, and your job is doing nothing, how do you justify the millions that they're paying you?
The strategy many executives use is to set different parts of their organization at odds with each other, so that they each create busywork that other employees must do. Everybody is fully utilized, and yet in the big picture nothing changes. Oftentimes they will create big strategic initiatives that are tangential to the golden goose, spending billions on boondoggles that don't actually do anything, because the whole point is to do nothing while seeming like you need thousands of people to do it. And the whole reason for that is because most people are very bad at sitting still, and so if you didn't pay them a whole lot to do nothing useful, the useful stuff they'd be doing would be trying to compete with and unseat you. (You can also see this in the billion dollar paydays that entrepreneurs get when they mount a credible threat of unseating the giant incumbent.)
I have an alternate explanation. With the rise of AI recruiters, there is no cost to them to contact you. They don't even have to do the search and compose the message. They're basically reaching out to everyone.
At first I found the AI recruiters impressive, because they tricked me. I thought the recruiter had really done their homework and read my profile deeply!
Now I know that an AI is reading it, picking random things to highlight, and then composing a message. But they're not real. They're just trying to connect to you so that they can say you are in their network when they go to sell their services to hiring managers.
I wonder what the prevalence of these IoT devices is doing to internet security. Your router firewall might prevent incoming connections, but these stupid devices are always dialing out to god knows where. Can that be used to compromise security?
I recently installed deep packet inspection in my firewall and it’s quite illuminating to see all of what’s going on. Why are devices in my home connecting to India?
I just did that today. See https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...
A few environment variables and Claude Code uses DeepSeek. I was actually surprised how easy that is.
Well, that, and the CEO of Sears was an Ayn Rand fan who decided departments needed to fight each other over everything.
If I have a hose and the other guy has an RPG I’m probably not starting shit.
The average of a bunch of lies is not truth, and the median of things that people have made up is not worth one source.
Circle of life isn't going far enough, though (and is usually used as a mystical device anyway).
If you want to go to the furthest defensible extreme[0], then all of life is just one long, violent, ever-expanding chemical chain reaction, that started some 4+ billion years ago, and shows no sign of stopping[1]. What we call life - cells and plants and fungi, bacteria and cows and people - are just stable-ish substructures you could identify within the fractal complexity of that chemical fire, that completely enveloped the surface of this planet, cracked it and reached deep underneath, and recently even started spitting bits of itself to the Moon, Mars, and even beyond the Solar System.
This framing isn't particularly useful to us most of the time, but I find that occasionally invoking it helps really understand that there is no such thing as "an individual" or "a specific object" in the physical universe, no true boundary separating this fox from that squirrel, or this person from another. It's how we perceive the world because the approximation holds up at our time scales, but on occasion (such as when discussing nano-scale things, or evolutionary biology), it's worth remembering it's not true. Nature doesn't have boundaries.
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[0] - Going further makes things too generalized to be useful. Like, yes, we're all made from star stuff.
[1] - Think of it like of the "Game of Life" or such simulations, where most states quickly decay to nothing or some static form, but every now and then you'll find a configuration that just explodes and keeps going, expanding its borders and perhaps leaving behind some further explosions on a fuse, recursively. Life is like that.
Whatever the entity you're thinking of that sells exploits/"CNE enablement packages", they're not in the same bucket as entities that find and disclose vulnerabilities.
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We've had community members bring this up[0].
While there are a variety of approaches, currently our recommended solution is to use the Watch API[1] to create Leopard-style (matrix) indexes in the client’s database to enable efficient permission filtering using schema and YAML-based index definitions.
We started down the path of building an example watch consumer[2] but both the team and the interested community members were pulled off it for reasons, but not for technical ones.
This FAQ may be helpful to learn more about leopard indexes[3].
0: https://github.com/Permify/permify/issues/2681
1: https://fusionauth.io/permify-docs/api-reference/watch/watch...
2: https://github.com/Permify/indexer
3: http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.5840/2023/papers/zanzibar-faq.txt
I don't know, I thought the design looked really nice.
Admiral Ackbar has entered the chat.
Making something has a well-defined end. Packaging something for distribution is an easy way to walk yourself into a long-term commitment.
Anthropic's and OpenAI's costs seem to include a fairly ok margin, from the very fourth hand info I have.
> Although surely you would need to make the steam from steamed steam for optimal results?
Well, it's a complex question. I'd suggest to start from plotting your favorite coffee hardware brands and barista youtubers/tiktokers over the phase diagram of water, and continue from there.
Once you get comfortable with thinking about coffee in Scientific Terms, one avenue to explore is to try and embed the aforementioned phase/opinion water diagram plane into the larger Great Material Continuum hyperspace. To do that, you add a third axis: price (for hardware obviously by MSRP/catalog price; for vloggers, plot specific tips or steps by price of ingredients they use).
Having done that, you should have all the tools needed to make informed decisions in this space - just compare the paths water takes through this enriched 3D phase diagram as it turns into steam and then your beverage using any given method and combination of equipment :).
In an alternate world, Ethernet took on the role of the universal serial bus, and we have laptops that charge via PoE, but only possible on one of their ports (the others are usable for peripherals --- with protocols running over Ethernet too, of course.) But the same confusion regarding power and speed capabilities exists.
Just a few hours ago, Spirit execs were saying everything is just fine. At noon yesterday, Trump was saying that a bailout was still likely. (The first time I read about Trump saying that "we" were going to buy Spirit, I thought he meant him personally, or The Trump Organization. Spirit only needed about $500 million, and Trump could afford that.) That nobody wanted to buy a major airline for $500M means it was a really bad deal and not worth saving. They were already in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the "debtor in possession" reorganization mode. Not yet clear if they just went to Chapter 7, liquidation, but that's probably happening within days.
Still, a zero-notice shutdown is a bit much. Some people who have tickets for tomorrow probably went to bed already.
There's still the mechanics of winding down. All the planes have to be flown to suitable storage locations. With such an abrupt shutdown, they'll have mis-positioned aircraft all over their route system. Many planes are probably leased, so the lessor may have to arrange to take custody of the aircraft. It's probably better if the aircraft are leased - there's some lessor with funds to take care of the job and the knowledge of how to arrange it, since a handover and move happens at the end of each aircraft lease. Aircraft Spirit actually owns will have to be moved by a bankruptcy receiver, which is a lawyer trying to run what's left of an airline. Most major airports charge very high parking fees. LAX charges $1000 for the first day, and that goes up to $5000 a day on day four. They're not in the storage business.
There are probably a lot of middle of the night phone calls and meetings going on right now.
Next, Yahoo Search? (It's still live.)
What did they write that article with?
The year is 2026. The unemployment rate just printed 4.28%, AI capex is 2% of GDP (650bn), AI adjacent commodities are up 65% since Jan-23 and approximately 2,800 data centers are planned for construction in the US. In spite of the current displacement narrative – job postings for software engineers are rising rapidly, up 11% YoY. ... We wrote last week that we see the near-term dynamics around the AI capex story as inflationary, but given markets are focused on the forward narrative, we outline a more constructive take on the end state below. Before that, however, it’s worth reflecting that the imminent disintermediation narrative rests on the speed of diffusion.
The chart "Job Postings For Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising" seems to show a rise from 65 to 71 for "Indeed job postings" from October 2025 to March 2025. That's a 9% increase. Then they inflate that by extrapolating it to a year. The graph exaggerates the change by depressing the zero line to way off the bottom and expanding the scale. This could just be noise.
The chart "Adoption Rate of Generative AI at Work and Home versus the Rate for Other Technologies" has one (1) data point for Generative AI.
This article bashes some iffy numbers into supporting their narrative.
Suggested reading: [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics
"Anything but Perl" was common
I would probably be the one to choose x86 Asm or APL... or even a mix of the two.
I remember AltaVista being the only really credible search engine prior to Google (I took a brief detour to Excite but kept going back to AltaVista). Jeeves I only remember for the freeform query gimmick.
And to demonstrate the awesomeness of the crew unity, from the post landing press conference:
Reporter: Whose Nutella was that, that was floating by you in space?
Crew: That was ours. Yes, we do everything as a four-person crew.
Summary of the comments in here:
* I used the programming functionality of the calculator to get around the rules
* I didn't care much for the math, but my TI calculator was my first programming experience and it's what got me to love programming
My experience is similar. We were allowed to use our TI-85s in class, but we had to go up to the teacher before the test and show him that we were running a factory reset, to prove we had nothing programmed in it to cheat.
My buddy and I had made a two player blackjack game and didn't want to have to retype it after every test. So instead we made a program that mimicked the factory reset process. You would run the program before walking up tot he front.
The only indication something was different was the three little dots in the corner indicating a programming was running, but we just covered that with our thumbs.
Ironically we never used it to cheat, only to not erase our game that we programmed!
I suggest "black coffee electrochemical quality appraisal"; as-is, it made me wonder what "electrochemical black coffee" is.
I wish projects would have a short "what this is" paragraph. Right now, the front page is a forum, "docs" says the documentation is maintained by users and links to the changelog, and there's nothing anywhere that tells me what this project does.
I am much, much less afraid of paying a little more on transactions, or of card theft resolution, than I am of racking up credit card debt. Everybody I know that got into a hole on credit card debt was smarter and better organized than I am. I see it as an inherently predatory product.
And quite possibly your vehicle will get impounded and sold at auction.