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There is no safe place in Gaza. On purpose. It is the IDF hunt&kill zone, nothing more, nothing less. Who does not get shot or bombed will get starved on purpose.

There is a very big difference between the headline of “Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk” and the real message “fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S.”. Turning potential health hazards and threats into harmless particles is the very job of pasteurizing. That is excactly why we pasteurize milk.

Heck, the virus particles could even evoke immune reactions, thus vaccinating us in a natural way. Just by drinking milk.

FTFY: 1000 years.

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That alone should be a reason not to hand him over to the US.

I don’t think “not being able to expand” is currently high on their list of worries in Grünheide. The more dire topic is that they might be closed down for environmental issues, as the communities threaten to cut them off the public sewer system for repeated violations.

Nice. Now I’m waiting for all the Rust or whatever “safe” languages environments for embedded systems to fall from the sky. And please some that actually work on small processors with little memories.

Been there, seen that, on an Arena browser on a black-and-white X terminal.

Do you have to break your fingers, too, to switch them off?

He said he has no idea how but they made him try anyways.

Uh, I’ve been present when such a thing happened. Not in the military, though. Guy should install driver on a telephone system, despite not being a software guy (he was the guy running the wires). Result: About as bad as expected. The company then sent two specialists on Saturday/Sunday to re-install everything.

My answer: “I don’t play Windows”.

One of the most common problems of government or other big organisation software is that they don’t scale, either “not well” or “not at all”.

Some guy hacks up a demo that looks nice and seems to do what customer wants, but then it turns out a) that it only allows for (number of open ports on one machine) users at the same time, and b) it only works if everything runs on one machine. Or worse, one core.

Apart from 3., I’m in full agreement.

If I have to work on an American QUERTY keyboard, I have to look for each and every special character. Because our QWERTZ-keyboard has them in other places to make space for all the interesting characters an American keyboard simply fails to offer.

Freshly certified like Staplerfahrer Klaus?

For those who don’t understand the language: This is the parody of an officially sponsored training/education film. The speaker is a well-known voice for a series of traffic safety videos that were shown weekly on TV in the 70s. It starts with the ceremony of handing out the forklift operator certificates, and then follows one of those nwly minted forklift operators, describing things one should not do around or with forklifts.

This so much needs English subtitles…

No, there is no benefit. Actually avoiding continue or break like statements makes code overly complicated.

Maybe she made a mental short circuit with constructs like set_jump and long_jump (which are evil).

I’ve 30+ years of C in my portfolio, with >1000 programs small and big, with millions of LOC, and I’d say her stand on break and continue is utterly stupid.

That joke didn’t fly, either.

As I described, I’d need way fewer, as the optimal computer counter-move would already be included in the next board.
So if you placed your X in the top left field in the starter image, the link would directly go to a field with the X in the top left, the O in the center position, and links in all the remaining seven positions. And of course the pre-calculation will eliminate some of the boards already, e.g. if the player or computer already won after the third move, where placing a fourth will not make sense.

Indeed. One could have done the whole thing with a simple, static HTML page.

On top an empty board with 9 clickable fields. Each of them links to a new, pre-rendered board on the same page, with the move of the player and the perfect reply of the computer already in place, and 7 clickable fields. Which link to other, pre-rendered boards with 5 clickable fields remaining, then with three. The last one only has one field open, so this could be pre-filled as a player move.

All in all this would result in 9x7x5x3=945 pre-rendered boards max on that page. And, of course, two links to “You won” and “You Lost”. I’m no HTML junkie, so I have no idea how many bytes one would need to produce such a board, but I’m sure this all could easily done way below 170MB.

Whoever invents sich a thing simply underestimates the target groups’ ability to analyzes this and in a not-so-far future will filter such things out.