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The Honor Harrington series, by David Weber, also gets into the effects of longevity.
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Apparently someone thinks a recommendation of a series on books that were first printed in the previous millennium is spam.
That person obviously likes following rules slavishly. 
Good books, by the way. I've read all of them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Who really wants to live forever?
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Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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If we're limited to the Earth, no. I would think the old proverb 'familiarity breeds contempt' would hold true. Eventually you'd have seen everything and pretty much done everything to do, so why stick around? Heh, everyone would be a know it all, and you know how hard it to be around them!
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I'm already tired of being a responsible adult...
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It all depends on whether or not there is a purpose for continuing in this body. I am not my body.
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I am financially planning to reach 80 though I honestly doubt that I'll make 24 more years: overweight, inactive, diabetic, etc. I have already thanked my doctor for achieving the goal I requested of him many years ago: keep me alive until my kids are adults. I pointed out the rest is just gravy to me; however, he contends that, like most, I will become greedy for more life as I get older. Time will tell, but any way you look at it, there are a LOT more years in the rearview mirror than ahead through the windshield, and I am fine with that.
Tuesday, January 19, 2038, might be a concern for any 32-bit systems remaining. That's coming sooner than we might think, and heck, I might live to see it.
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What is it to live?
If loss starting not being painful.
Also at which point would your view of the world start leaning toward causing genocide for the ridiculous things humanity has done to the plant?
As a lover of computers, I also see my own contradiction in that one they have provided significant benefits but also the environmental cost has been hidden for a lack of another term.
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Is a C programmer's lunch an ampersandwich?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And a web programmer's breakfast is a full stack and bacon
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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true, and the hash defines and controls a lot of what they produce
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OK - brace yourself for this: If you look carefully, you'll semicolon this a silly TOD. Perhaps you need a few pointers ?
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They just don't have no class!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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That's a little derivative, don't you think?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's inherited!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Sure, and that means we don't need to stand in line.
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Nothing to add - I just wanted to be included.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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That's such a bad idea...
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Does it have a death ray on board?
Asking for a friend. Yeah, a friend ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Traditionally, large satellites are configured on the ground for specific tasks that cannot be changed after launch, even if market demands evolve.
I don't agree with that. When I worked for a major satellite manufacturer, the satellites would often launch with just basic capabilities and the final operational software would be uploaded once it was in orbit. That way, the software could continue to be developed while the satellite hardware was dealt with, decoupling the launch schedule from the software development schedule.
The whole point of a communication satellite that has a 15 to 20 year (or more) lifetime is that it can be configured as requirements change and as hardware fails on the satellite -- that was the part I was working on, testing different end-of-life failures of the high power amplifiers and being able to switch to spares -- one of many things that can be reconfigured once in orbit.
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So what you are saying is that satellites are nothing more than orbiting JavaScript libraries. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: while the satellite hardware was dealt with
IF the thing explodes while on its way, you did not have to check-in the last version of the code. 
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about time
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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