You mean, they think they're going to ride systemd's dick back into our hearts? That would truly be a first-class delusion.

Sure, from his point of view. But what's happening behind the scenes?

The only potential fundamental difference between a plot object like a crystal ball and a plot object like a transporter is whether there's a theoretical physical explanation for their function. If there is, then it's science fiction. If not, it's just fiction, and you may as well call it fantasy. It might not be witches-and-wizards fantasy, but it sure-as-hell ain't science fiction. You don't have to actually spell out the explanation, or even allude to it, but you should have one which works consistently with the idea of physics throughout your story if you want to be all sciency and stuff.

Wait, this is what this is all about? You don't understand hyperbole? Do you even English, bro?

This isn't about justifying deaths or winning friends. This is about if you want to try to help people, you have to craft your message in a way that they are ready to receive.

What. No, no they have not. They said it was specific to a technology, that's it. You then concluded that it was more along the line of "C# or Java: Haskell to the Rescue!". but it could easily be technology-related, for example automation controls. There's lots of reasons why someone in the public sector might have something to gain by visiting a conference being held in Vegas. It's just a common place to hold them for a broad variety of reasons. You don't know what the subject matter is, but you're sure you do. Why? The provided evidence is insufficient to jump to the conclusion you're now standing upon.

My site is not particularly safe. I'm using specious hosting and the most I do is occasionally log in and run updates.

However, my site is safer than my site plus some other sites, too.

That's a trivial fix with standard init scripts. In fact, why take down the interfaces at all, just reboot.

People get upset when you call them incompetent for sourcing stuff out to foreign CDNs, but stuff like this happens all the time. It's not safe to pull stuff in from other sites for reasons which are obvious to anyone competent.

If you dont have hotplug hardware with its udev nonsense, and you don't have a GUI, and your users don't log in interactively to the OS, why do you need systemd and all its crap? init + an rc script to launch $YOUR_APP and you're done.

Straw man. We don't know what kind of conference this is.

nVidia technology fell into the past through a wormhole.
Luckily it was properly static-bagged, because it actually went back to 1912 and had to be stored until a computer could be developed to interface to it

If it's so simple, why did you make such a sophomoric error? This is about the funding being available, but the decision not being made to spend it in this fashion.

So which is it, do you understand that the funding is available, or don't you?

Ignorance, you're displaying it freely. Every job pretty much demands that you take on other duties as required. The world is a changing place, and jobs change with it or companies go away. As the world changes, training is needed.

Your (note lack of apostrophe) employer is under no requirement to pay for training unless they want to stay in business. Then they should probably think about paying for people to have the skills they need to succeed.

If your company is laying stone or something, this may not apply to you. But if you are doing anything technical, then it does. If you think it doesn't, you are on the road to destruction.

CTO: Unfortunately, the world is changing, and we need to change with it.

Oh, no CTO? Too bad, so sad. Thou shalt fail, o maker of buggy-whips. Enjoy this moment while it lasts.