I think I saw someone swimming in some sewage en route from scraping a bear carcass off the road, let me go check.

1. I got asked once if I played world of warcraft since they say a guy with the name "thegarbz" playing. I said no. By the way I know exactly who that person is because he impersonated me as a joke. I found that flattering and funny, but it has no impact on my life beyond that.

Reminds me of my first email account ;) One of my professors said we all had to register for an email account (this was in the mid-90s) so we could submit our homework to him, so I registered his name at hotmail.com to mess with him ;)

I don't trust single points of failure.

Yeah, this. If I have to sign up to some site that I don't care at all if it gets hacked, I use a throwaway password. Oh noez, someone might compromise my WidgetGenerator.foo.bar account and generate some widgets in my name, heavens to betsy!

Are these hypothetical babies likely to vote Republican?

Part of raising capital is convincing everyone that you need the money and have a good plan for it. We're probably better off if these companies don't actually buy even 10% of the things they are saying they will buy. The hype funding schemes are incredibly harmful to business long-term, but the short-term pay off is too attracted for them to ever stop doing it.

At my company we don't have any dedicated Rust programmers. We all have to learn it (eventually). So passing a review off to a Rust developer or dedicated team isn't an option for us.

C++ reviews go quick for us because we have 20 years of it in our code base. And our changes tend to either be a tiny increment at the core. Or a massive dump of support for a new feature or chip that not every reviewer is familiar with.

Get in early, get out early. It's a proven strategy for crypto and soon for AI.

The US is going to fall behind in tech if we can't keep our autism numbers up.

A little paint from Home Depot is all the White House staff has in their budget

You shouldn't give up your secrets so easily.

This.
Credit options are usually convenient, and often have other benefits like interest free periods, cashback or airmiles etc. Lots of people use them who could easily afford to pay up front.
If you end up paying the same, but get some kickback or defer payment until later why wouldnt you?
A lot of the users aren't people who can't manage their money, it's the opposite - people who know how to manage things optimally.

Yeah, I saw years ago when one of my in-laws was writing in it. I thought it was a joke or something but their humor doesn't really go that way. Absolutely mental looking when someone is a bit sloppy with their handwriting in Russian.

People can write in a neat and tidy way. And there are a few little marks people add when writing to make it easier to separate the letters. So be a little skeptical of the online examples, they're a bit contrived. Russian cursive is really difficult to read but it's not impossible.

The Soviet Union's collapse had more to do with them being a significant portion of the world economy but were frequently excluded in trade either because of their own internal politics or because of its poor relationship with the West. And the Soviet Military was kept at a top priority and tended to suck all the air out of the room when it came to investment in technology, leaving very little for pure civilian usage or for entrepreneur or peaceful long-term academic research. The workers' councils (Soviets) themselves were probably a good idea and regionally were frequently effective and represented the vast majority of people well. Actually turning many councils of industry and regions into a working country was far messier and less successful. But hey, our American democratic-republic is very messy and inefficient too and we used to make it work pretty well.

While an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There also needs to be a task force prepared to act in order to address incidents promptly, especially when it comes to systems that support government, finance and utilities; instead of waiting for bureaucracy to figure it out each time it happens.

A "signature" is just an arbitrary mark, and is in itself extremely archaic. Many people simply make some random swipes, doing it differently every time and noone cares.