Or they do in fact want that clause just as it is. By design. They simply don't want to change it.
This likely isn’t about having different contracts for different hires. Its about their intrinsic need, or more precisely, their deep requirement, to have that clause in.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as by definition, if this constant is valid for how this universe is as it is configured now then significantly changing the universe will likely result in a different constant. How you might change the universe enough to cause a variation is a bigger question. Concentrating all the stars (mass) to one place might do it. Maybe not.
The flip side of that question is the larger and generally accepted as obvious statement: a constant with value "x" determines or reflects how the universe is as of now. The duration of that "now" is likely much longer than the earths entire existence.
"I expect scientists will be working hard to propose non-biological processes that could explain these results."
If scientists don't attempt to explain a dramatic claim using other mundane explanations I'd be very suspicious of calling them scientists. Occam's razor is a useful tool. Be very suspicious if dramatic claims aren't tested. Otherwise I have a bridge for sale...
"I also expect some new Venus probes real soon now."
Maybe. You should also expect a lot more telescopes of all descriptions and varieties to be pointing at Venus. Multiple compute clusters are likely digging through old and new imaging data even as I write this.
Love their trackpads. But their mice... not so much. I have a tiny travel mouse that has 4 buttons, scroll mouse and much better acceleration and surface detection and was bought for likely half the price. That travel mouse is deadly in games. The apple mice? Not as accurate.
But they look good and that is what Apple were aiming at.
I think we learn more about the assumptions of the complainer rather than who wrote the "witty reply". That and the spoiler can be applied to any number of people in government agencies who are meant to be taking precautions and setting up contingencies.
Well, I could go on a rant around their purpose and some of us would ultimately decide these files like so many others are actually just debris.
Instead I will say we can have a set of critters that cull them in various interesting ways. Critters that watch filesystems for these files and remove them if they still exist an hour after creation. Or remove them all on a schedule. Or block list them via .gitignore and similar. Sync scripts that have block lists for files and folders that match names. The solutions are endless.
This isn’t only a mac thing either. Other OS create their own variations of debris.
Draconian/authoritarian responses are becoming more common online. Offline in meatspace people are also becoming more guarded and wanting bans for all sorts of slights. These are not good signs for society in general.
These tools are worthwhile additions. Vscode is a important toolkit item for many. Just having it on multiple platforms is a useful common denominator that reduces friction.
Medium is a bit backwards. Their intention is to clean up commenting but all it really does is raise the bar of entry such that people often don't even bother regardless of intent.
A lot of medium posts/articles that should have opposing views as comments are often one sided echo chambers because of this.
The problem with Jones is that he is like a Wheel of fortune. He mixes truth and half truth and everything else. Spin the wheel, reveal a truth, whether its true, nobody knows.
Then there's his previous(?) suboptimal opinion on Sandy Hook. That excessively muddied the water.
It worries me that most of tech was so quick to cancel his online presence. I prefer his type stays in the light rather than forcibly moved into the shadows. Real court jesters/tricksters exist to provoke the king using satire and humor and its a bad sign when they disappear into a dungeon, metaphorical or not. It would be interesting to see which "king" made the actual decision.
You forgot to mention IEEE 488 which was both a great thing and the cause of many failed experiments. But I digress. Yeah I saw all those and a lot of others you didn't mention. Remember DIN connectors? They were nicely round, dimpled and standard. Didn't stop students plugging them in upside down. Students also plugged vga into 25 pin serial! Or 9pin serial for that matter. I've seen students try sd cards into usb then complain it didn't work.
You didn't address microusb or even its cousin the lightning cable. Talk to anyone who fixes phones and, after the screen or battery, those damned connectors are broken by design. Flimsy. They are D shaped but only barely. I can easily plug microusb in either way. Oops. Lightning breaks because you unplugged it too many times. Its not D shaped and works both ways. Still made-for-landfill.
Yeah, Usb was a game changer went it came out. Intel did that design for size, cost and just plain "ability to get it out there". Firewire didn't really pan out. Too expensive.
So many attempts at the perfect cable. They all work in their own way. USB A did ok in general.
This likely isn’t about having different contracts for different hires. Its about their intrinsic need, or more precisely, their deep requirement, to have that clause in.