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I think this is almost spot on.

There is also people with just toxic personalities that everybody tries to avoid. In Europe unfortunately, is not easy to get rid of such characters and they often victimize teams and jeopardize entire projects.

Septic avoidance and minimizing interactions, sticking to process and keeping the distance are absolutely necessary for mental health.

It looks to me like an alien smiley :) of course aliens have only one eye.

What is happening with QC is very sad.

Research on this topic should be a long term scientific endeavor, like nuclear fusion has been for many years.

Not the circus it has been so far.

The fact the department had to be dismantled to solve the issue indicates the bad actors had effectively taken over.

This is clearly a failure of leadership that dragged for way too long.

Those kind of personalities need to be punished early and decisively otherwise everything rots.

From my point of view YouTube with Adds is unbearable. And I don't feel the subscription service is offering as much value as any other streaming platform.

If it was a bit cheaper I would may be consider it, but for my specific use case (just watch random videos and some channels) at this price is just not worth it and I will just stop using the platform.

MSX was a Japanese home computer standard indeed, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, who provided the BASIC ROM implementation. It became very popular in Japan and in a number of European and South American countries. I wasn’t aware that MSX-DOS was also started by Microsoft but I am not surprised. Later versions of the OS were developed by ASCII corporation in Japan.

Fun fact is that the source was released not long ago with restrictions, and there is a newer version developed by an enthusiast called Nextor. Still in use today by many hobbicists.

The github project indicates "DeviceScript brings a professional TypeScript developer experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices."

If you tell me is a toy, and somebody's pet project: fine. Is all about having fun.

But then don't mention "professional" in the project description.

Is really hard for me to understand how running an VM on a resource constrained device has any benefit. There is a reason why those devices run using very lightweight "OS"s like FreeRTOS and Embedded C.

Why the constant obsession to apply a technology designed for a specific purpose everywhere else, even when it doesn't make sense?

They are a body shop. Subcontracting any crap permanent employees won't want to do.

That's why they have so many employees, that's literally their "stock".

I think indeed one of the starting points was UZI, it is mentioned somewhere in the readme or license files.

The speed of light is the frame of reference. It remains constant for any observer no matter at which speed is moving.

Yeah well, we don't really know what happens at high speeds. Probably biochemistry stops working at 0.3c? It doesn't seem structural materials would remain solid at 0.95c... who knows.

With a spacecraft big enough to live in, we are talking of a time frame not too different from the one from the age of exploration by sea. I have no doubt many people would want to take such a trip even if it takes 10 years to get back to earth.

Unmanned spacecrafts would be able to go much faster, sustaining more dramatic accelerations. So getting cargo and robots there for support would be way faster.