... with the voice control nonsense. If you're physically disabled then voice control is obviously a major win, but for everyone else its almost always much quicker to type with a keyboard or use a mouse/finger unless you're doing something like text dictation and even then its a PITA to do delete/amend. Car makers don't seem have got this memo either.

I really don't know why you have a problem with the analogy, the meaning of the word hypocrisy or you're just playing devils advocate because you're bored. Either way, I think I'll just file you under "idiot" and leave it there.

So let the developing nations pump the oil then. A nation with 2 trillion in the bank doesn't need to especially while pretending to be green by mandating EVs on the population.

Not sure whats so difficult to understand. Practice what you preach is a well known phrase, maybe you've heard of it. I'm not talking about overall oil consumption, I'm talking hypocrisy - google its meaning. You're probably the sort of person who'd see nothing wrong with a doctor telling someone to stop smoking for their health while sitting behind his desk puffing away.

Well done on completely missing the point. Its no different in principle to a group promoting healthy eating yet making its money selling burgers and doughnuts down the road.

If you believe in the enviroment leave the oil in the ground or make sure it only gets sold to companies for manufacturing purposes, not as fuel.

Norway polishes its enviromental halo in one hand while making an absolute killing by selling oil and gas to the rest of the world. Their sovereign wealth fund which is almost exclusively funded by fossil fuels is currently valued at 2 TRILLION dollars.

No one does enviromental hypocrisy like the Norwegians.

"Last I checked a website wasn't able to trigger NFC to authorise a payment terminal"

In world of comtactless cards NFC serves precisely zero purpose other than to be another way for crims to potentially rip you off if your phone is stolen and to piss off everyone else in the queue when the reader takes 5 times longer to read the phone than it would a card.

"this is a nasty one, the apps for charging your e-vehicle"

If ICE vehicles had just been invented in the last few years I can guarantee that there'd be a different app not only for each oil/filling station company, but probably different sub apps for whether you need to fill up with petrol or diesel.

"Not having my bank app on Android makes doing anything hard already"

You do realise you can access almost all banks via the web too? And IME the web page is often more functional than the app which is why I don't bother with the banking app. Sure , using a browser is a bit more faff but I don't have to worry about possible theft of my money if my phone is unlocked when lost/stolen as I clear down all cookies on the browser.

Plenty of microbes and tardigrades can survive extremely harsh conditions by going into a kind of suspended animation. Thats not much use for growing and reproduction however. "Surviving" in the case of this yeast seems to mean little more than not immediately dying.

I still don't see why white would quicker to render transparency, blur or otherwise.

"whose rendering time is long if the target pixel is non-white and short if it is white"

Huh? There's nothing special about white in the colour gamut, why would it be quicker to render?

Aside from that I don't quite follow how the attack works. Does it try and render pixels in its own window then these somehow slow down depending on the pixels beneath in a masked window? This is all done in the GPU surely, not software?

"Yes and not because "they are done","

They are done. "ls" for example doesn't need to do anything new.

"Or may be because C++ isn't fun to work with "

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise the appropriate language choice was one that was "fun". I thought we were talking about adults here, not preschoolers.

"C++ has no traits"

Wrong.

"no thread safety"

Wrong.

" no built-in utf-8 strings"

Plenty of libraries do it.

"no proper macros"

Define proper macro. C had them, C++ has them + constexpr which you've probably never heard of because you clearly know squat about modern C++ and are using something you heard about C++ in the 90s to form your opinion.

"no immutability by default"

Wrong. FFS what do you think the "const" and "mutable" keywords are for??

" it is still inherently unsafe even without using the raw pointer"

Vague handwaving crap demonstrating you have no clue.

"Why not, it will be an interesting project and I can only welcome it"

Err , maybe because python isn't shipped by default in a lot of distros so writing your utils in it might not be the best idea. Also in long pipe chains kicking off an entire python interpreter for each command would be hideously inefficient.

But then I wouldn't expect you to understand, you're just a clueless kid who is going to have an encounter with IT reality one day that will come as a shock to you.

You don't need to change your UID if you can do what you need using a specific GID. Looks like you're another one who doesn't understand the purpose of groups.

So much of your post is just plain wrong that I really cant be bothered. Go learn modern C++ then get back to me. In the meantime I'll mentally file you in the ignorant idiot section.