• LongTimeLurker (unregistered) 
        if($frist_comment=='')
    {
      $frist_comment = $comment;
    }
  • (nodebb) in reply to LongTimeLurker

    That's way too straightforward. First you have to print out your comment, put it on a wooden table, photograph it, upload the photo to a server, download the photo, query the dimensions, resize it, and download it again.

  • (nodebb)

    I beg to differ. The entire point of launching evil into the sun is to destroy it; while you might be saving fuel by aiming for the Kuiper Belt, it will continue to exist.

  • LZ79LRU (unregistered) in reply to dpm
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  • Álvaro González (github)

    I've found more than enough programmers who cannot tell the difference between opening a local file and downloading it from the internet.

  • Argle (unregistered)

    One of my early face-palms on the internet was all the way back in the early 90s when I was still on dialup. I visited a website where the creator, for the sake of performance, had a thumbnail page for his many images. You know, just like the few professional sites out there. So did he create a collection of reduced images? No, he just scaled the whole collection with the <img tags. I emailed him and couldn't get him to understand why this made his page so slow it took hours to load.

  • Darren (unregistered) in reply to Álvaro González

    A few years back we had a mobile app - supplied by a third party - for part of the business to use. It was their app, but with our branding on and only for use by our internal staff.

    We discovered, while troubleshooting why it wasn't working correctly, that it was trying to load its local resources on the device by making a (web) connection to http://127.0.0.1/whatever.

    So rather than just using an in-built Open() function call they were spinning up their own internal web server just so it could load its own files.

    Very much a case of 'when you're only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'.

  • (nodebb)

    Yes, it should be launched into the Kupier belt (it doesn't deserve the higher delta-V required to launch it into the sun),

    If you want to meet the Kuiper Belt object (rather than just crashing into it)(1), the difference in delta-V isn't all that much. There's a path to the Sun via Jupiter that only costs 10.7 km/s of delta-V - you target a point just ahead of Jupiter, and your payload gets slowed to no more than about 600 m/s (what one might call a reverse gravity slingshot) at which point it falls almost directly into the Sun. (Er, after passing about 8.6 Jupiter radii from the planet...)

    See: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/55201/orbital-mechanics-and-launching-into-the-sun

    Addendum 2025-05-06 11:05: (1) If we're trying to rid ourselves of this code, crashing it into the KBO seems entirely appropriate.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Well, jeez, if you're gonna get it out to Jupiter, might as well direct it into/onto Jupiter. If it survives that collision, it's likely to survive a solar collision as well..

  • (nodebb) in reply to cellocgw

    Well, I gotta say that you're not wrong about that. But my comment was more about how the delta-V to hit the Sun is substantially smaller than the 30 km/s that's needed to cancel Earth's orbital speed if you don't care what path it takes. (I can imagine that some creative uses of tohsgnils ytivarg involving Venus and/or Mercury might even get down below the 10.7 figure...)

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