You are doing exactly what they are complaining about, dismissing complaints from atop an ivory tower. Rust has an evangelical cult problem that really pisses people off.

If you are running into memory overruns et al in 1 in 1000 lines of C++ code, you are doing something DRASTICALLY wrong. It's 2024 not 1996.

I mean those seem crazy. When I was in school, they called the police if you didn't have an excuse and went above 10 days absences - and the police had truancy officers who dealt with things from there up arresting/fining the parents. My kid's schools basically don't have absences, kids in Japan straight up go to school sick. There was a big deal when absent students hit 3% who had been absent and that was during COVID.

Huh? They are a $24 billion company. They are still one of the main telecom network vendors. They basically did two things: sold the licensing of their "brand" for cash and then sold their Mobile Phone business to Microsoft (with a license of the name, it's since been licensed to HMD.) They have a ton of fundamental telecom patents and of course those are always core to Wifi/5G/etc/etc/etc and so they license them. Ericsson is much the same kind of company. Nokia though has also become a NPE licensing lots of patents for stuff they don't use.

I suspect the primary problem is all the other places with lots more people than Oregon that didn't decriminalize. Pot decriminalization is mostly working out fine because so many other places ALSO did it. That's really all there is to it. Everyone I know in Portland says the same thing, tons and tons of out of towners basically coming in to feed their addictions.

It definitely is. Sure OS/400 was also dragging along a bunch of compatibility stuff from prior IBM systems, you had the whole TIMS nonsense, it suffers from all sorts of bizarre architectural limitations (and architectural forward-lookingness that still isn't useful) and it's "everything is an object" architecture make porting software to the platform arguably nonsensical. Also database tech moved on from where it was, but due to the incessant need to maintain backwards compatibility it is held back by it as well. It's cool that we bought a new 2023 IBM server pair, but we're also running an application that was last updated in 1993. Hopefully this is much more like the DB2 in a Box thing that IBM was going to release but never did. (Except Postgresql in a box, but whatever.)

We have no clue what actually went on at Apple. Nobody who's ACTUALLY at liberty to talk about anything has said anything at all. We just have rumors from Apple Rumor Mongers who are regularly wrong, wrong to the point of being wrong for years about the same stupid stuff. The people I actually know inside Apple have said since forever that you just don't know anything outside of what you are ACTUALLY working on except for rumors which are just as bad if not worse than the outside rumors. It's only just leading up to actual announcements that things tend to leak internally.

There's a sufficient amount of evidence that the pilot was suicidal and planned it, so nobody is concerned about any of the other possibilities at this point.

There was no surprise to anyone involved in any of that sort of monitoring, tracking, or operations of modern flight. Everyone is aware of where the holes are. Not a single actual professional involved with anything relating to this was ACTUALLY surprised other than has so rarely happened. The Southern Indian Ocean hole is there because normal commercial planes don't fly there and adding sufficient coverage would cost money. The Southern Hemisphere in general is lacking monitoring - there's a similar issue with the North Pole, though both poles have other issues relating to geomagnetism and the magnetosphere.

It crashed in the Indian Ocean with like 99.99999% certainty.

Epic is trying to make more money, there's ZERO altruism in anything Epic is doing. They are just doing whatever $0.10 ask them to.

There's an idea in labor law that if you're a "contractor" and the contractee has anything approaching individual control over your situation and "employment status" that you are a joint employee of both companies because each has control over your employment. This is pretty much the employment law everywhere. If this were just a service Cognizant was performing, but Cognizant controlled 100% of the people aspects, then there would be no discussion and there would be nothing to talk about. These deals are just ways for companies like Google, Microsoft, and the like to not have to pay benefits to their "warm body" employees that they view like cogs they can just replace with another cog. It should 100% be illegal. They also use contractors because of the tax deduction differences, so it's more tax advantaged as well.

The less obvious racist groups (like not the KKK types) tend to happily include Jews and East Asians because in the Western World at this point they tend to be wealthier than other groups that they hate on. But they will happily hate on Hispanics despite the fact that in certain areas the people are practically straight up Spanish with little to no indigenous genetics. The more modern less obvious racists will also point to the fact that they will happily cozy up to wealthy black people because of course this stuff is more class warfare than anything else.

Dell has tons of remote workers from before the pandemic, so are they telling those people they also have to move and go back to the office? My guess is this was a company wide announcement that also included some statement about "any exceptions will be sent in a separate communication." They have field engineers and customer engineers that are in all sorts of locations, are those people going to move to Round Rock? My guess is there's so many exceptions to this that there's probably some actual document that explains things in a way that makes thing a bit more sensible. I'm glad my company is not doing this stuff. We sent out surveys about who wanted to come back to the office and determined if we needed to keep all of our buildings and stuff like that and mostly we got rid of the buildings (or trying to.)

I suspect that even if this thing were the ACTUAL bee's knees, it would have a high return rate. New laptops also have high return rates. There was a rumor that the first M1s had super high return rates at some stores, like 33%+.