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.

instead of "nearly 56"? K.I.S.S.

is what they really want.

PHB1: "We have to do something AI-ish, everyone else is!"

PHB2: "Here's one, have bots compile podcasts from our news articles."

PHB1: "Brilliant! Make it so."

[months later]

PHB2: "Um, the podcast bot has been making silly errors. Should we keep it?"

PHB1: "How is our competition doing with their AI?"

PHB2: "They suck also."

PHB1: "Okay, let's keep it so we can have AI on our brochures and resumes."

lost contact...after it passed behind Mars. When it reemerged from behind the planet, the spacecraft never resumed communications.

I toldja, never leave sight of Mommy! Space Ghosts eat little probes like you!

ICE probes Uranus and Myanus

I worked with a sociopath I'll call "Bill" who we strongly suspect deleted and sabotaged many things. Mayhem had a long history of following Bill, as we asked former colleagues to make sure we were not losing our minds. We learned to back-up and document stuff like crazy to work around it. Bill seemed to have a lot of experience covering his tracks, such as knowing which systems didn't keep logs.

Depends on how many RVs you give the Court.

Trump also uses an auto-pen, he's a hypocrite.

Probably because their rivals are also leaky?

I'm sure Pete Hegseth will "research" that question.

But we don't know how dangerous they are, as Xi suppresses news he doesn't like.

Let's take one at a time: show me one respectable or even semi-respectable economist whose model shows protectionism improves the average economy of a nation.