In Germany, everybody has a family name. When you get married, you pick one of the two possible family names. And then you can pick oldname-hyphen-newname if your family name wasn't picked The children get the family name, which is never hyphenated.

Either the man marries his wife or he marries his job. Keeping his surname is disrespectful to his new family. Iâ(TM)m surprised thereâ(TM)s public support for this kind of legislation.

That's what API's are for. You can run amuk all you want on the outside, then you ask the kernel for information or to take action by calling an API. There the system's code runs, which we expect will already be carefully tested and validated before it momentarily elevates privileges to do the work. If you made a stupid request, it gets ignored and control returned to you instead of crashing the kernel space. Then do whatever stupid things you like after the API return. At that point the system doesn't really care if you blow up because life will go on without you.

API's allow for "compartmentalization" of execution, and keep the dirty little fingers of random developers out of sensitive areas.

You can make good decisions if you follow two simple steps: 1. Decide what you want. 2. Decide how to get it.

In my complete worklife I've always run into too many people who were exceedingly bad at (1). Their first question was always "what should I do". Instead of asking and answering the real question "what do I want to achieve".

Except this wouldn't actually solve this. You'd be able to share the business logic, which would be a benefit. But you wouldn't be able to share any of the UI, system, or OS interaction code which is where all the incompatibilities come. If you just wanted to share business logic, there were already ways you could do that (write it in C would be one way).

Also, if they really wanted to do that, they should consider going the opposite way and bringing Kotlin to Swift. Kotlin also has a significant server side use that's growing (mainly by replacing Java), Swift is iOS and Mac only. They'll find a lot more people willing to learn Kotlin than Swift. Of course Apple won't consider that due to NIH and control issues.

"why was it in the kernel to begin with?"

kernel changes should be tightly controlled. Not pushed out anytime a vendor has a (poorly tested) update they want to blast to the masses.

Keep outside party code out of the kernel !

Agreed. I'd be happier if they instead updated Google Earth Pro for Desktop to natively support ARM64 CPUs like the Apple M series.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

What about following the law and picking (c) avoid accidents.

Not sure how this story cleared that bar. Nothing techie for the nerds, and not a name anyone here recognizes.

TL;DR: Some rich guy you've never heard of died when his superyacht sank.

As of today, this dataset is not yet included in their list:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Pwn...

What did they think Google would use, old VHS tapes?

One possible solution is to use RFC-1149...

This whole presidency has just been one big grift. Being a US senator has been widely understood to be a very profitable position, but this is really the first time we've seen the oval office get turned into a money-printing machine for the sitting president.

Other presidents have suspended control of their businesses while in office to eliminate even the appearance of conflict of interest. But this one, every decision he make seems to revolve around figuring out how to funnel more money into his family and businesses.

Unfortunately, it doesn't do any good to try to "expose" him on it, he has NO shame and doesn't care what anyone sees since his appointed buddies aren't going to hinder him. He's just going to keep doing it and throw a tantrum anytime he gets blocked. And that isn't happening nearly as much as it should, since in the past even the congress-critters maintain very relaxed laws to give themselves a wide berth to grab some money. But he's just going all-in on those weak laws (and lack of willingness to enforce them) and is going to wring every penny he can out of the country and its taxpayers.

On the bright side, he's made American History class a lot more interesting. And I'm taking bets that we get a whole rack of new laws on limiting presidential abuse as soon as he gets done robbing the bank.

Is that a fact? When was it checked the last time? No doubt someone got that result at some point in the past, but is it true today? For example reference counting on ARM-Silicon is about 5 times faster than on Intel.