Elon likes his rocket toys, and thus needs money.

Doesn't Elon's pay depend on Tesla revenue? If for example BYD kicks Tesla's ass, Elon gets lackluster pay.

Java's Mono library is a poor substitute for C#'s async/await keywords

The Async/await stuff is just syntactical bloat for most typical CRUD apps. I suspect it's there to help MS save on cloud costs, rarely helps devs.

It probably makes more sense given their scale for them to have their own power generation -- solar, wind, and battery storage, maybe gas turbines for extended periods of low renewable availability.

In fact, you could take it further. You could designate town-sized areas for multiple companies' data centers, served by an electricity source (possibly nuclear) and water reclamation and recycling centers providing zero carbon emissions and minimal environmental impact. It would be served by a compact, robust, and completely sepate electrical grid of its own, reducing costs for the data centers and isolating residential customers from the impact of their elecrical use. It would also economically concentrate data centers for businesses providing services they need,reducing costs and increasing profits all around.

I wonder how TIOBE would measure this sort of work. As activity in the source language (C)? Editing language (C#)? Or both?

It wouldn't. TIOBE is bullshit, I don't know why anyone uses it. Look at what it is: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-in...

It's just searching various engines for "$LANG programming" and applying magic fudge factors. It searches multiple languages versions of Google as well as for some reason Amazon and Ebay. And it relies on the "$NUM results found" provided by those sites.

So at best it's a vague indicator of the language's presence. It doesn't say much of anything about whether it's in use. If a popular documentation site goes down it will note a decrease, and it's trivial to cheat by encouraging the insertion of keywords in websites.

It's more like "spell check my email" I expect. Probably not a lot of people actually pasting spreadsheets into context. I am guessing 100% of non-native and overseas users are using it to help them write English, at least based on one company I know (I think if they have a contract they figure it is safe...).

And as for myself I write a lot of documents and email in a second language. I am very careful not to post anything sensitive but have found Claude to be amazingly good at checking emails or installation guides I write in a different language which I write well (I have been a pro translator in the other direction even), but as a non-native actually still learn better writing style from Claude, in addition to finding typos or better words. It is to the point that translating as a job must be in dire straits. For non-technical users I am guessing once you drink the kool-aid you are going to slide towards pasting anything.

No, you can't.

It is nearly impossible to do the things you said unless you don't want to have a job, or eat, or participate in society in any way. I buy food at the farmer's market (when I can, which is to say, in the summer), I buy shampoo bars and get refills of various things in my resealable (plastic) containers. But my medication comes in a plastic pill bottle. I'm a programmer, so my computer has a certain amount of plastic in it. Even my bikes have a certain amount of plastic in them that I have absolutely no control over (or if not plastic, carbon fibre). (I have bikes because I haven't owned a car for 15 years now.)

There is no way out. The problem isn't us. We've been given no choice in so many of these matters. Particularly in North America, where train coverage is abysmal and the cities are built for cars. We KNOW who the 100 biggest polluters in the world are. We KNOW that carbon footprint is a scam concocted by the oil and gas industry to shift the blame from corporations to consumers, so people like you will do their propaganda for them. I want to keep living, so I buy things made out of plastic because I'm simply not offered a single other choice. I'll wager that my 'carbon footprint' is in the bottom quartile, and it doesn't matter, I still have to buy this shit and prop up the 'demand'.

"Stupid Woman Wins Lottery By Accident"

This is no different from using the numbers printed in a fortune cookie.

People are only annoyed because this is Apple.

If a clothing brand like Ann Taylor made an ugly $250 phone purse nobody here would bat an eye.

This particular thing has only been pushed recently, but various different visions of "interactive TV" has been a Thing for a very long time.

People were talking about it back in the 50s, probably earlier. But the earliest deployment in the US of something plausibly called interactive TV was Qube in 1977.

There's a parallel universe in which the US ended up with a cable-TV-based version of Minitel.

Politicians with crazy blond hair are FUBAR machines.

Banks are financial infrastructure. If they break, they take lots of businesses and customers with them. I'm okay with lone failures, but banks have lots of hooks.Please don't gamble with infrastructure!

Yet the world's average inflation goes around 5%

Economists don't run govt's, moronic politicians do, and moronic voters vote them in place.

You're ignoring everything I say. Bye/

You're not paying attention. What I said was that it is not beneficial to compel people who don't want to vote to do so anyway. Somehow you mutated that into "let's take away self-government!"

This is characteristic of your arguments: you take what I said, immediately jump to something different, and then shoot at that straw man.

I don't see that this discussion is going anywhere, since you seem to be primarily interested in not listening to anything. My thread was about the mathematics of voting, and you have hijacked it to be a platform for your ideas that it's important to make people vote whether they want to or not, that legislatures should be enormously huge, and that anybody who tries to analyze these ideas in any way is necessarily "authoritarian".

OK, those are your opinions. You're expressed them. I'm done. Bye.