"What's sort of annoying about the whole thing is I'm not sure what's wrong with the current Air Force One," Aboulafia said. "Maybe if they gave it a gold makeover, he'd like it more."

I'm sure they have already done so. With trim adjustments, of course.

"More electricity was made from sunshine than coal..."
I'm confused because coal is made from sunshine.

"Companies like iMerit and Centaur Labs are recruiting specialists worldwide, from radiologists in Kazakhstan to agricultural experts in Bhutan, paying premium rates for domain expertise..."

Sounds like an expert system from the 1970s and 1980s. So what's next, a resurgence of Prolog?

You can tell that there is a true expert writing the story when they write about "storing megawatts." Energy is stored and is measured in Joules. Power is transmitted or used to run things and is measured in watts.

Ada users are mainly rolling their eyes at the Rust fad. And the gurus are happy to point out where Rust fails. But Rust is the right direction. It boggles the mind that we are now 1,000 years into using unsafe languages and there is finally some attention to the problem in the mainstream mindset. Oh, crap, this is going to get flagged as flamebait. Sorry. But still....

Maybe we should get everyone to use taller chairs.

"a pig rolling around in its own filth"

Pigs do not roll around in their own filth. Confined to a pen with a feed trough, they will poop and pee only at the farthest point in the pen from their food, then return to the "clean" portion of the pen. There is almost literal line of demarcation defining the pooping area.

"Any Slashdot readers have their own memories to share about Pascal?"

I had my first Macintosh in the Spring of 1984, and somehow a beta version of MacPascal was given to me. It later came out as an official release. It was a GUI IDE with debugger running an interpreter, doing 96-bit floating point. This evolved into an even more-capable IDE with compiler and linker and was called THINK Pascal. I used this for many years on a Mac II (80-bit floating point in Motorola hardware FPU). Eventually, this went away and I switched to Codewarrior Pascal which required a bit of recoding and emulating THINK Pascal's graphics window. When Codewarrior dropped support for Pascal, I was looking at yet another re-write to some other dialect of Pascal. Instead, I switched to Ada which I use to this day as my main language. (My work is technical calculations in signal processing—audio and radar). Had I known of the long-term viability of Free Pascal Compiler at the time of switching to Ada, I likely would have stuck with Pascal. But Ada is a lovely language IMHO and I have no regrets. Julia currently serves my small, one-off projects.

Wood is the future! https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

Discussions such as this Slashdot article and thousands of others over the years just leave Ada programmers shaking their heads in wonderment.

From TFA:

"Examples of memory safe language include C#, Go, Java®, Ruby, Rust®, and Swift®."

Mind-boggling that Ada is not listed as an "example."

Why?

"Compute" is a verb. Stop using it as a noun. It makes one look illiterate.

No mention of water resistance in the article? Apple prominently advertises that its watches are "water resistant" to 50 meters. It's even engraved on the back where there is little space for information. Many people have found this promise to be a big lie. My wife is one. After only her third time swimming in a 2 m swimming pool, where she was swimming _on_top_ of the water, her watch refused to sense the "raise" motion which illuminates the display when the wrist is moved upward for reading. Apparently the accelerometer had succumbed to the ~ 1 m depth. I supposed that the accelerometer is also used in a Kalman filter with the GPS and that the GPS would then also not work. That turned out to be correct. Of course this happened just one month after the warranty expired. There are a _lot_ of people online pissed about this problem. Maybe we'll get a little class action going....

What kind of technical advisors do U.S. lawmakers have who tell them that putting servers in the U.S. makes it impossible for them to be accessed from China? Or is this apparent ignorance purposeful?