I'm a pretty liberal guy. Black Lives Matter, etc. I'm afraid I don't see the harm in using master/slave in computer nomenclature when it properly describes the task at hand. There are multi-master systems we don't seem to have a problem with. My thinking is this is just a never ending hole to dive into. At some point we won't be able to say that the colors of this text aren't black on white.

Missing Option: What's a browser?

Much like what K says: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.".

I think it's always been this way, but the Internet (FB particularly) has enabled "people" to have a voice they would not have otherwise had.

I appreciate that FB is trying to help silence the dumb, panicky and dangerous posts, but I suppose we will always have it - I don't see it being successful in the long run. It's disheartening knowing this is the case, but I suppose it's good knowing how dumb the general public can be. Observing things like this helps to spot them and perhaps help educate them. Maybe?

That sounds cool!

Just to be clear, over half of the country didn't want him as president the first time around either.

While not realistic, I thought Queen's Gambit was a superbly done series. The right amount of protagonist/antagonist storyline, well acted, well shot, and a very satisfying ending. Left room for another series, but ended in such a way that it could just be the one season and it would be just fine.

Depends on the theatre. I've found that many theatres are really trying hard to make movie going an enjoyable experience. Large recliner chairs that are well spaced out, stadium seating (tall people in front don't block the view), amazing sound systems, and relatively reasonable prices. I seek out these places and they are great. I'll be happy when (if) they reopen again.

On OSX it's bad in the way that when you bring the application into focus, you then have to click in the text box to start typing. If I switch to another app and back again, I have to click *yet again* to start typing. Infuriating.

<sarcasm> As a first language, Scala will be effective at halting future programmers from pursuing that career, and will make this space less crowded. </sarcasm>

I've been programming in multiple languages for decades, and Scala, while the academic goals were admirable, has resulted in a mess of a language - to the point of where you need a syntax analyzer to understand what was written. Therefore, a pointless language. We started using it in some projects where I work, and now they are going back to Java - because it's unmaintainable.

Time Zones are not that hard. I live in Arizona which bounces between Mountain and Pacific time, and travel all over. Would like to get rid of DST but still - not that hard. Learn it.

And you can verify this hypothesis? Your post is invalid unless you can verify that you actually had it. My wife had something pretty bad for a while in December too. I didn't develop anything from her sickness. I'm in the high-risk category. It crossed my mind that she had COVID, but I don't think it was.

You have WAY too much faith in the automotive industry.

Choke?

Inheritance has its uses in a very narrow band of computer science, but for the most part, implementations of an inheritance structure are just balls of tangled yarn. Perhaps the kind of work you do lends itself to inheritance. Good for you. Inheritance for most things is ridiculous.

Why? Because Rust doesn't need it. If you take some time to learn how Rust works, you will understand that Rust does not need a garbage collector, and that makes it perform better and more reliably overall.