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.
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.
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.
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.
Now that you point it out, that seems to be the case. The fuzziness around the edges (the east and north especially) threw me off, though that could probably be put down to compression in the image that was used as the source for the crop.
A nit pick, I guess, but it’s a square, not a cube.
The edges are interesting. I wonder what part of the image processing results in the irregularity. Some kind of interpolation, I’d guess, but that’s pure speculation.
Dating myself, but I remember the first time I heard about mp3s. In a school trip, another kid told me that you could download songs in files that were only a megabyte a minute. I was incredulous. Up until then songs were wav files and video was in massive QuickTime files that took decaminutes to download for tiny snippets. Turns out he was right though :)
> "There are almost certainly multiple vulnerabilities at play here, since long gone are the days where a single vuln gave arbitrary code execution"
Could you go into this in a little more detail?
I'm inferring that chains of vulnerabilities are needed to go from some starting point to arbitrary code execution. Is that correct?
Have efforts to secure computer systems over the past ~2 decades succeeded, at least in that much more effort needs to be invested in order to get to the point of arbitrary code execution?
"We were surprised a little bit at how smooth things were off the pad. The space shuttle is a pretty rough ride heading into orbit with the SRBs, and our expectation was as we continued with the flight into second stage that things would basically get a lot smoother than the space shuttle did, but Dragon was huffing and puffing all the way into orbit and we were definitely driving and riding a dragon all the way up, and so it was not quite the same ride, the smooth ride, as the space shuttle was, up to MECO. A little bit less Gs, but a little bit more alive is probably the best way I would describe it."
Edit: Just noticed that that description is in the original article, too, fwiw
>> It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed
> That's... currently the case
Is it currently the case? I'm not seeing it, though it I may be missing it.
I do see, at the bottom of comments, something like
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The date the question was /asked/ does have an age, though, which may be what you're referring to. For the problem at hand, it's the age of the answers that matters more than the age of the questions.
> I don't find age has a 1:1 correlation with it being outdated.
It might be helpful to have the age of comments listed as part of their metadata, ie alongside the date the comment was posted. Some formatting could be added (eg red highlight for comments > x years).
I know this sort of feature is useful on newspaper websites - The Guardian will flag stories older than some limit as being potentially out-of-date.