From Pittsburg to the Lake!

Remember when the internet was the best communications tool ever devised by man instead of just another way to funnel advertising to you and a mechanism to control what you are allowed to speak about? I do, too. :(

If O'Reilly ever publishes a book on e.g. ChatGPT, this needs to be the cover.

The rich always had gated communities and clubs.

nuf sed

He's manufacturing illegals:

On May 30, the Supreme Court granted temporary approval for the Trump administration to revoke a program known as "humanitarian parole," which had allowed more than 500,000 migrants feeling political turmoil in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to quickly get work permits if they had a fiscal sponsor...[emph. added]

= a lot of noise and pain with nothing of importance gained (unless you are a white supremist).

Other examples of boondoggles: F-35*, "War on drugs", CyberTruck, Afghanistan war, CA Speed Train, Vietnam war...

* Yes, it's starting to work good-enough, but took too damned long to get there.

one year ago, Ada was ranked #24 â" but on this month's index it ranks #9.

Doesn't Tiobe have a small investigative team to find out why the grand shift? A shift that big with a legacy language is either a surprising trend or a boo boo, most likely the latter.

Or was it Yado?

The jamming of radio remote control has already lead to the use of fiber (they literally carry miles of fiber optic line that unspools as they fly...

Counter-measure: flying scissors. Which then results in flying rocks to knock them down, but flying rocks are stopped via flying paper that blinds them.

Projection, Aduff

[Delphi]...In an alternative universe, these languages have been dead for decades and no sane business would invest in writing software in those languages.

Delphi/Lazarus is one of the most stable GUI development platforms. MS changes its UI engine & tooling more often than I change my underwear, and MS killed the other commercial GUI competitors using bundling and size.

Delphi/Lazarus may not be esthetically shiny and new, but it works and has been working. Most complaints are for fairly obscure needs. Some things are successful simply because people don't keep fucking with it based on Fad of the Month. It's a GitOffMyLawn tool.

Hint: "We're there now. Oops, not, Okay We're there now. Oops, not, Okay We're there now...."

Let the greedy foolish West be the guinea pigs. If it works, copy, if not, laugh at CowboyFailGPT over sake.

Which part of people flying FPV (first person video) drones into the enemy wasn't clear? They're not delivering to a GPS coordinate. They're being flown.