Most slow CRUD apps I've seen are from people who don't know how to use an RDBMS properly, having their app do database-esque things instead of the database. Right-Tool-For-The-Job.

If you electricity is that expensive, you should get solar panels. Plus California is so sunny, it's gotta be a good investment.

It's too expensive to have much of an effect. The eye feature adds weight and expense, that could have otherwise went into making better LCDs and lenses. Put it next to the Mac Pro's that didn't make any market sense either.

...into its five year mission.

The "childhood trauma" excuse may be horse hockey most of the time, but the human mind is more nuanced than this. There are situations where childhood trauma affects a person's judgement or even sanity in ways that reduce a sentence to be reduce if it is to be "just" in any meaningful sense of the word.

That said, any medical professional who gets on the stand and gives such evidence better be basing it on sound science. If the doctor is found to be doing sloppy science, he should be barred from being an expert witness and should be reported to the medical board for possible sanctions, at a minimum.

Most common languages are full of kludges and ugly add-on syntax. Expectations, fads, and state-of-the-art changes over time. Even a brand new language today will look out-of-date or over-kludged 30 years from now (when AI takes over and consumes our bodies for energy).

Yes, Python sucks, but so do existing competitors. I welcome decent alternatives, but have yet to see them.

Pass a freakin' *law*. You know, the way the EU did, and eliminated every separate vendors' multiple plugs for each model phone.

Yep. I was there in the standards meeting when the feds turned up and gave a talk about the mandatory LA features we had to add. We all pointed out how this was stupid and would be exploited by everyone and anyone to spy on everyone and anyone including those feds demanding we add LA.

And here we are 20 years later.