Man this Superman marketing budget must be crazy. Or possibly it's an F4 promo? But then it would be a little late.

You can hear the difference by flipping them too. More danger of them rolling under something that way though.

I still see cash and coin, but I haven't seen an actual silver coin in the wild for at least thirty years now.

Prepare for decades under the red glow of an Ur-Quan Kzer-Za planetary shield, fellow humans.

Kind of funny to see how AI's improve by re-writing themselves, following immediately a story from earlier today about humans being driven into psychosis by AI's.

This claims it uses empirical evidence to judge improvement but why would an AI not be as much a cheerleader for anything it does as it is for any human?

Just another example of why having watched Star Wars is such an important aspect of lifetime mental health...

When exploring deep philosophy with an AI and ending up down rabbit holes, Yoda's warning was always there to moderate you ahead of time...

Luke: "What's in there?"
Yoda: "Only what you take with you".

Other than the SwiftUI framework, approximately everything that's in Swift was in Objective-C 5â"10 years ago.

Not the concurrency framework (GCD is not the same), SwiftUI doesn't have things like Swift structs, only supports integers enums, Generics, no guard statement. Also finer grained access control.

Mind you they have improved Objective-C over the years by bringing in some Swift features as Swift improved! Like nullability annotations.

I still do like Objective-C as a language but even with Swifts advanced areas and quirks, I still think it's more straightforward than Objective-C for newer users. And I think finally with the new beta version of Swift they have a concurrency model that is strong but also friendly enough for people to work with.

That constitutional amendment was NEVER meant to allow any foreigner to come to the US and drop a kid and have it be a US citizen ......

It was to ensure the slaves were treated as citizens...they were forcibly brought here....

Very different.

SCOTUS didn't actually rule on this.....but they need to and change the misuse of this that has haunted us till this day.

What other countries allow this so readily....that a non-citizen drops a kid in your country and it has automatic citizenship and full rights??

So remind me again why trans people acting on their own fundamental and unchangeable mental processes that don't hurt anyone are bad? Maybe also explain again why respecting these people is "identity politics" while hating on them isn't as I didn't follow your logic there. I also don't follow how struggling to find new terminology to cover a minority group that has only been recently recognized (despite having always been there) is hateful.

For grown adults...no one gives a fuck if they want to play dress up, or call themselves whatever they want to call themselves (pronouns , etc).

The problem is when they want to force the overwhelming majority of normal people in the world to play their game with them....

Throwing fits when a normal server at a restaurant calls what looks to be a male "mr" or "sir"....trying to get them fired, etc.

It comes when men calling themselves women, start to intrude into real womens' spaces...locker rooms, competing in women's sports....etc.

The real thing that sank that ship, is when they started coming for children.

Trying to force books on trans and queer on school children.....in some states, ruling against parents that refused to permanently harm their kids with medical "trans help treatments"....hormones, surgery.

Allowing ultra left teachers to hide secrets on sexuality from parents while allowing them to speak sexuality into the children's ear....

People tend to get really fucking uptight when you start fucking with their kids....and moving to that plane was a bridge too far for normal people and parents.

Again, if you're a grown adult...you can dress and act how you want to....you can chop off or surgically do whatever you want with your own body and no one care.....aside from not wanting to PAY for it....that's on you too.

How hard would it be to pull all their servers OUT of the country...and just allow connections to continue to servers outside the country?

Sure, response times would drop some...but how much response time do you need for FB??

Serious question: Is there a boat to be missed with solar and wind? That is, given that China is ahead and pulling further ahead, does that relative success present any roadblocks for other countries to do the same? China does have industries that manufacture and support solar and wind, but same question there, is there an impediment to other countries ramping up in manufacturing and support? Are the current reasons for China's current strength intrinsic or more a matter of relative national will?

For example, if the UK or the US decided to be serious about solar and wind, could they scale up quickly or are there intrinsic impediments, like technology, natural resources, insurmountable supply chain issues, etc.?

Well to allow the industry to grow in these countries, you'd need a bit of home grown protectionism...tariffs, etc....to make anything made domestically in the same price range as the Chinese stuff...

Couple this with tax breaks and other incentives and you could grow your domestic capabilities....and, considering energy in all forms is a national security interest.....I think both US and UK would be wise to do this.....

When you get older and wiser you see the benefit of putting a unsolvable problem away for a while. I've also worked out things while hiking, exercise seems to help.

'What is my future' is a much more complex question and is made up of numerous (hundreds and thousands) of smaller decisions. That 2x multiplier goes geometric.

Sometime, if we are lucky, we will get a small programming language that does not collect new features every year just for the sake of progress

Swift does get new features every year but I would argue most have been good quality of life, or quality of code improvements. Especially the latest changes around concurrency are really good.

Avoiding the pyramid of 500 third-party packages for a mid-sized application is a good thing.

Totally agree but that is where Swift has been really great! It is VERY practical now to build a medium to large application with only handful of third party packages. That was very much not the case 5-10 years ago. If you look at any modern Swift app it looks nothing like the swirl of madness that is a modern React application.

They turned me into a newt.

....I got better....