Kodak??

It would seem that adopting Rust, which is supposed to be safe by design, would relieve developers of the duty to write safe code. After all, its Rust. None of these nasty null pointers and buffer oveflows are possible. Just like Python relieves developers from the duty of formatting readable code.

Developers should now be freed to make higher level, more difficult to find logic erors.

In my lifetime you could open a bank account with just a name, ditto for renting an apartment, and pay for everything in cash.

This guy is screwed unless he's only a guest of a patron.

Crime was lower and people were more responsible back then too.

All this control grid surveillance still hasn't caught the Building 7 people.

Maybe it's possible to decide a course of action was a bad idea and reverse it?

Thank goodness we made those leaps in microprocessor design and software back in the 1980s. So there's no need for further incremental improvements.

Typed on my $2500 IBM PC, with 640K of memory. Using MSDOS.

Sure that will keep the sort of monkeys that cobble together JavaScript snippets taken from Stack Overflow posts away, but C was already a hard enough language for them to learn so they were already kept away. The language itself still can't prevent people from doing stupid things or ensure that they follow best practices as the recent CloudFlare outage showed.

It may be slightly worse because there's nothing quite so dangerous as someone who believes they're not in any danger because they've got some kind of magic rock. I'll take someone who knows that they're handling something dangerous (bonus if they've got the scars to prove it) and treats it like it's something dangerous. Rust (or any tool for that matter) is of no benefit if it makes the people using it more complacent towards the problems it can't prevent.

Probably pretty good. Even if she's just an average developer (or average for Stanford) just having a father who started a business and a lot of other investments is going to give her a massive leg up on getting funded. Even if it's probably a crap product that won't amount to anything, VCs fund dozens of those every year because one or two don't turn out to be crap and pay for all of the others that lost. The description of what she's made certainly sounds like the kind of buzzword laden idea that attracts angel investors and that just leaves a matter of getting them to know about it.

It's probably a good investment if for no other reason than it will get loads of free advertising just because she's the daughter of Bill Gates. Half of the battle that all of these startups face is attracting users and she's bringing free attention to the product. She can absolutely milk the women in tech crowd if she wants as well for even more free publicity for the product. Even people who want to hate on her because of her father are just generating more publicity and when there's an ocean of AI slop apps out there, having yours be the one that people think of first and download is incredibly valuable.

Just because something was standard for centuries doesn't mean we should continue doing it if it's no longer necessary unless you'd like your doctor to go back to chiseling holes in your head to let the bad spirits out. There are still a lot of jobs that require people to work on premises because they need specialized tools or equipment that can't be operated in their homes. Software developers are not those people and while there may be occasional benefits to getting people together in person, that's hardly something that needs to happen daily.

Over time the companies that insist on this will go out of business. The best developers will tend to take the jobs that allow them to work remotely and the companies that employ more of those remote workers will have lower costs because they're not paying for expensive office space that they don't need. Perhaps none of the existing behemoths will drive this change, but some startup will figure out they can maximize their investment dollars by getting top developers who are glad to be able to work from home while saving a ton of money not having to rent expensive real estate. They'll be more successful on average than the startups that don't and over time their model will become accepted.

Piling on, Arizona Corporation Commission races are indeed contentious. They bring out activists that desperately want to turn Arizona into a California clone.

And I doubt the ACC will try to force this datacenter on Chandler. If you wonder how our Democrat Governor thinks of things, she is busy celebrating an "Ag-to-Urban” Groundwater Conservation Approval", just to ensure 825 new homes can be built in Buckeye, which were blocked because metro Phoenix does not have sufficient assurances of water supply for the next 100 years to permit further growth in that city.

It's darned hard to oppose development in Arizona. Too many stakeholders want to make their profits. Even Katie Hobbs will bow to them. Oh, wait, she bows to whoever greases the skids.

All I ever hear is bitching and moaning after Ukraine blew up the Nordstream pipeline about how energy availability is out of control and causing German companies to close or relocate to America.

But now that we get the real story: the green push has worked well. Germany is on the other side now and permanently off Russian gas. Not another eurodollar for them.

Ukraine is kicking their butts and refuses to give up a single hectare of land no matter how much Trump and Putin gang up on Zelensky the hero and try to force him to surrender.

Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

... is going. I read that as Phoebe Cates.

> Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store

Remember, when iPhone came out there was no App Store.

That was a separate business that came later, competition was prohibited, and by prohibiting competition rents were extracted.

This is called "illegal tying" in the law.

They're gonna install malware on your device but heaven forbid your website sets the wrong cookie, then they're fining you 6% of annual revenue.

When did East Germany win?

My guess: It's a scam, built on pre-existing 'bot technology.

When it's all done with, the "investors" will have a huge tax write off for their losses plus some neat new data centers, high end servers and utility resources to go into Bitcoin mining big time.

You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".