Is it just me, or does it seem like a problem they are putting a digital marketing person in charge of a car company?
Sounds like they will be dead within the year.

Even modern systems are Highly Available, not "Always Available" - nothing is 100%, but there are procedures and designs that protect and minimize the impact of mistakes. Change Requests and "manager over the shoulder" aren't really going to improve anything except creating paperwork and job angst.
I'm not generically a fan of remaking working systems, but there does come a time when the requirements or outcomes have shifted far enough that throwing a system away and restarting is the better option. In my field that's typically 5-7 years at most, as technology moves on. In life-critical systems that can be a longer cycle, but even a 1990's system still operating is pushing it.

Pet names for employees - has this trend been around more than 10 years? That's when I started to notice it being forced upon a company from above in a "We have no ideas, so we'll do this" management move to attempt to force a culture where one doesn't exist, or has been destroyed by MBA's. The longer I stay in the tech world (and it's been a looong time now!) the less impressed I am with tech management - and with tech workers in general actually. I've seen more company-closing moves in the last 10 years, and a complete lack of leadership (not management) in a lot of companies. Yeah, Yoo is probably right because he's seen it before - it's very obvious once you look.
And don't get me started on "Irrational Optimism" in management. What makes you think that your lackluster lukewarm business plan is going to work in the absence of good products and people?

I think Rust is a little off-track and going down the C++ route now. It started as a simple smart language that would be safer than C and reduce the number of initial avoidable bugs. Now it's a super semi-functional-generics-driven-wizz-featureoftheday language and I think that it's less approachable and usable because of that. I'm sure many will disagree with me, but my personal experience as a C programmer (and later Java then Scala) is that Rust isn't today what it initially advertised and has grown too far beyond the original design.
Yeah, I'll get roasted and toasted over that, but remember people its an opinion and its born from my actual experience in looking to use the language. Not looking to ignite a flame war and really not interested in participating in one if you do. And yes, I know what this feature does and how it's used, and that's not the point.
Again my opinion but C was powerful in its simplicity and approach-ability. It fell down because you could put a hole through your head and feet really easily by simple mistakes like pointer malpractice. Rust was supposed to help with that and I feel it did - but its losing that simplicity factor. It shouldn't be competing with C++.

In hospital, automated medication dispensers have existed since at least the early 90's - These were created to reduce medication errors on the wards and reduce the pharmacy workload during peaks (morning/evening typically). These machines can also track schedules and usage, of course.
How hard could it be to adapt this technology to the public pharmacy? For commonly dispensed meds, I would think this is a solved problem.

Right next to the Batgirl movie, and near Superman Lives and Spider man 4.
There must be a lot of money out there right now seeking a home, because it's amazing this one ever got past the "Oh, here's an idea" stage.

I don't see how this would survive a legal challenge - the publisher has no rights to profit from a resale, nor restrict it in any way. This is well established in the United States, and I think most other countries have something similar.

It goes back to the 1908 copyright law, established as 17 U.S.C. 109(a). To wit:
"Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106 (3), the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord."

There's no clear law on digital assets in the US, but it generally understood that as long as the "original" is what is being transferred and the initial purchaser no longer retains access to that, the the doctrine will apply. It hasn't been tested in US courts, but the E.U. has defended this clearly.

This is also why "tricks" such as licensing and such are employed rather than purchase agreements. As a licensee the laws under ownership no longer apply, and only those covered under the license apply. We're quickly moving to a world where you own nothing but some restricted rights of use.

So, do you own that book, or just the license to read it? It will matter - Libraries already are struggling with this today, and it won't get better for the consumer.

I think the original comment is still valid - There's a difference in architecture that goes beyond scaling - starting with ACID vs. CAP as a fundamental change. If I need transactional boundaries then a web-scale DB is a hard sell, or at least requires a architectural shift. Back to topic tho- Replacement of Oracle isn't free, but neither is keeping it. I guess you need to decide where the tolerance for lawyers is...

Management views with alarm that people actually thought they were allowed to take alternate Fridays off, and seeks to clarify that they weren't actually serious. Please note that the bi-weekly prostration before management policy remains fully in effect and desk floggings will resume shortly.

Superior is very subjective - for me, none of the other live tv streamers can touch Youtube TV except maybe in price. Roku is just a device to facilitate streaming, and none of their content is even a factor for me at all. I like the hardware and would stick with it, but I'd toss it overboard to be eaten by sharks in a hot moment if I can't get the services I want. Just facts.

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"Basic tears" - Oh, how close to truth you are here...
("Tiers" for non-English first language people...)

So you propose... fences?? Yeah, that works. Belarus is trying that right now - go join them.

"And nothing of value was lost..."

It's all marketing, ain't it?

Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks

I had zero confidence in this "collaboration". I say this because I have some firsthand experience, having interviewed for a position. Without going into specifics, I had some serious concerns about the management of the company, and really about a lack of vision for the "how" this was going to be successful. Build a digital platform and... magic? I've seen that pattern in quite a few startups from my career, and none of those survived either. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if you're not thinking deeply about the problem set and have something to say about it, then you got nothing. Haven had nothing, and was bogged down in "How many years of experience in X do you have?" and "Tell me about multi-way joins and Cartesian product result sets". Technology could never solve this problem itself.