If you don't like C++ (and who does?) or C, what DO you suggest as a systems programming language?
Rule 1: If it runs under a VM, it's out
Rule 2: If it requires a garbage collector, it's out.
Rule 3: COBOL and FORTRAN are out too.
They should just leave the state and move to more friendly locations in which this is not a problem.
Just set up an Omni Consumer Products division and take over Detroit.
It's scary how much "cowboy configuration" there is out there, and yet in the programming world, "cowboy coding" is frowned upon.
Oh yeah, it's frowned on. Every senior developer will sternly tell you that "cowboy coding" is a terrible idea, then they will saddle up their horse and ride away.
Are we ever going to get an "oopsie, so sorry" from all the environmentalists who squashed the US nuclear power industry?
No, they and their heirs are too busy trying to keep wind and solar and geothermal energy down in the US. They'd like to stop oil, gas, and coal too, but those guys seem to have bought a better quality of politician. Shivering in the dark is the way they'd like us to live, if we live at all.
At that point, we can start imposing a much higher standard of driver education and much harsher penalties, and it will be what it should be -- simple revocation of the privilege of driving -- rather than an act that can potentially be financially ruinous far out of proportion to the offense.
If revocation of a drivers license couldn't be financially ruinous far out of proportion to the offense, it wouldn't be nearly so popular among the law-n-order crwoed.
But I'm a bourgeoisie materialist!
Anyway, when I see numbers like "multiple of 23.2", I know someone's playing fast and loose with the truth. Where's the buckets of blood if using a cellphone and driving is so dangerous? Personally I don't talk or text while driving, because I'm an asocial geek anyway. But I expect the main effect of the laws being pushed and passed is I'll end up spending a few nights in jail because I was using my phone as a navigation device ("a likely story") and told the cop so in rather strong language.
The crazy thing is, if we weren't spending trillions on the force projection necessary to secure our unsustainable fossil based energy infrastructure, we could easily use that wealth to build a sustainable solar/nuclear-based infrastructure - no drastic controls or raised taxes required.
And you know this... how? Anyway, nuclear is a non-starter politically, and for political reasons it is non-sustainable; we can neither reprocess waste nor store it long term. Thermal solar is a non-starter politically, as it impacts various desert habitats. PV... forget about it.
I don't believe there isn't a way to manage a peaceful transition. We went to the moon because we had the will to do it. We could do the same with our energy infrastructure.
The moon was a one-shot (well, six-shot) publicity deal. Energy infrastructure is an ongoing thing. Not really comparable.
You can't actually write "fish" as "ghoti" in English either, it's an exaggeration for effect; English is full of arbitrary rules and exceptions and inconsistency, but it doesn't go that far. Both 'gh' as the voiceless labiodental fricative typically written as 'f' and 'ti' as the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant typically written as 'sh' are context sensitive, and the context is wrong in 'ghoti'.
The vowel is unlikely too, but English is even less consistent about vowels. I suspect 'o' in 'women' ended up pronounced like 'i' in 'fish' to distinguish it from 'woman'; the different unstressed vowel wouldn't be sufficient.
I suspect you'd find high levels of illiteracy among the rural white poor subcultures (the ones who smoke meth instead of crack) as well. But nobody cares about them; they're too poor to concern conservatives and too white to concern liberals.
They tried to use 91.13(a) in the earlier case which they lost (in their own courts). In this case it was just "As I have told you before, UAS operations that are not authorized violate part 91(and some others) and hence are illegal."
The trouble with drones is that most of them don't have enough sensing to avoid other aircraft. Most don't have aviation transponders. Yet some of them are big enough that they're a hazard to other aircraft. Many of them can get 500 feet above ground level (AGL).
Many model aircraft can get above 500ft AGL. It's not a real problem getting them up there, it's a problem controlling them once they're up there if you're watching from the ground. Thus, "first person view" drones.
The Academy of Model Aeronautics used to have a 450' AGL rule, and the FAA has a clear rule about doing anything off the ground within 5 miles of an airport without coordination with the tower. That's enough to keep the little guys from interfering with aircraft.
The AMA is a bunch of irrelevant old retired guys; their main thrust is to convince municipalities it is too dangerous to allow anyone to fly model aircraft unless they have the AMA seal of approval, which they'll grant you (for a fee) if you're an old retired guy willing to fly your plane in a predefined pattern all day. They hate First Person View because they think it violates the purity of the hobby or something, and a lot of them object to anything that's not fixed-wing.
I suspect most people flying model aircraft in the US haven't heard of them; certainly few enough are members.
The FAA has lost the only court case on this matter they've fought.
It's worse than that. Not only did they lose the case, they lost it in their own administrative courts. But of course they can force everyone else go to through the exact same long and expensive process because there's no cost to them for doing so.
If instead of fucking around with putting MLK in jail for 30-60 days at a time, they've managed to get the laws changed so that organizing a sit-in was a felony, they could have kept him locked up, incommunicado or nearly so, for years and kept him on a tight leash (as a convicted felon) even if he got out.
The scarier people could either have gotten the message or been shot while resisting arrest.
We've got the necessary laws, 100 times over, by now. The protests that happen are ineffective because anything that threatens to become effective will be destroyed in no time.
I program, therefore I am.
