Serious question about hyperloop trains running in a vacuum. How do you cool the carriages?

What I got from this is:

If you want a working telescope for $small, buy a second hand one.

If you want to mess around with mirrors for hours on end then build one!

Absolutely, second hand is the most direct path to getting a telescope.

I found that Calibri looks better than TNR on a low dpi screen. The serifs just make the letters look jagged.

The Global impression of the US is down the toilet. This only adds to that. I kept being told that I was not American, and America didn't care what the rest of the world thought. Which is it?

An AI writes a parody of our entire community, and it is hilarious even to us. I love it

>The finance team wasn't going to stop using Excel ("how dare you suggest it"),

If the finance team suggested you have to write all of your code in C using Emacs would you be OK with that?

I would like to see the finance team that codes all their own C code and is adamant it needs to be in Emacs, especially because if they are that deep in Emacs I'd be wondering why they are insisting on C rather than Emacslisp or something even more esoteric like GNU Guile or someone's custom Forth to Fortran compiler…

But to answer the question, that is where I finished. We weren't "okay with it" that the finance team insisted on a C# to Excel files in SharePoint/OneDrive via Microsoft Graph turducken. We lived with it because the finance team had enough of the metaphorical keys to the car to be deeply in the driver's seat of that project. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and deliver what the customer wants.

It's how Linux is written so they must have great taste.

And a devops pipeline developed by a recent graduate is guaranteed 100% error free?

Perhaps serious finance professionals learnt double entry accounting, checks and balances etc. and know how to avoid those errors?

Software developers on the other hand never make mistakes

> Perhaps serious finance professionals learnt double entry accounting, checks and balances etc. and know how to avoid those errors?

Sure, but they also use accounting software, not Excel.

> Software developers on the other hand never make mistakes Sure they do, but they use testing and typed languages etc.

The problem with Excel is comma vs dot, locales, fat fingering, out of range errors, too easy to change a cell formula by mistake etc.

I'm an accountant, I get correct answers in Excel because I have been using it for 20 years and know how to do this.

When developers tell me that I could use Calc rather than Excel, I ask them if they would be OK being forced to use Emacs or Vim, whichever is the opposite of what they spent the last decade perfecting.