Do elaborate?

I wasn't "taught" it by anybody, just like you were never "taught" how to spell. But slavery exists in modern-day Western society, just as human trafficking still exists.

Nah, I'm pretty sure this one's a robot. But it's a robot that's purpose-built to run a half-marathon. Huh? What's the utility of that? And somebody's going to have to convince me that it's not remote controlled.

Put it to you this way: You know what else can beat a human in a marathon? A car.

Uh-huh.

Even supposing you are right (which you are not), it's not much of a badge of honor to end something you started.

Pretty much sums it up.

Perhaps, but PCoIP was a specialized protocol aimed mostly at niche markets. Graphics production for Hollywood movies was one, where leaks of pre-released materials could sink the whole project. With PCoIP, you can distribute your graphics work across multiple independent studios, and none of them actually keeps any of the assets on their own machines. They're essentially doing their high-res graphics work on thin clients.

Another market was testing for higher education, for similar security reasons. People try to cheat on tests all kinds of ways.

Teradici always kind of struggled to market PCoIP, though, because their primary "product" was really just a protocol. Their model was to license it to other companies, who then used it to build bespoke solutions for clients. There was a bunch of intellectual property behind it, but not everybody could see the value. They even considered open-sourcing it, but I don't think they were ever serious enough to get someone to consult them on how they could do that and still preserve the licensing revenue.

(Full disclosure: I spent about a year helping Teradici with PR.)

I hope you find something good soon.

The same IEA has warned repeatedly of the precarious position Europe has put themselves in with regard to fuel dependence. The Russian war on Ukraine and subsequent sanctions should have made that tangible but Europe just switched over to Gulf suppliers, exacerbating the present problem. In fact instead of reacting to increase domestic refining and reserves just last year Europe shut down 4 refineries (~400000 barrels per day) of capacity. It lets politicians pretend they are being green while actually just paying someone else to do the dirty work.

The US does all of its own refining and is able to send both crude and jet fuel to Europe to offset at least some of the deficit. The markets are rerouting and many of the global tankers (especially from Asia) are headed to the US to resupply, with the US set to almost double its exports. Unfortunately extra-crude doesn't help Europe's jet fuel problem much since they can't refine it.

Well, what are you waiting for? Step on it!

(The idiots may also have been algorithms.)

Go always seemed like something of a niche language to me. Some DevOps folks, and especially people working on cloud-native infrastructure like Docker and Kubernetes, and the tools designed to run on top of them, seemed to love it. I never really heard of it catching on outside that niche, though (except within Google).

Correct. The TIOBE index is currently compiled from results from 25 search engines. You see this in the way the rankings bounce around each time they report them, seemingly with no meaningful explanation. That's why TIOBE always has been and always will be a crappy indicator of which languages are the most used ... especially now that more people are using AIs instead of standard search engines to ask their questions.

However, the index looks like statistics, which makes it attractive to journalists who cover tech. That means it's useful for getting TIOBE's name in the press. (TIOBE is a software quality measuring company),

Everything 365. Literally.

I agree. Sure, there was no shortage of YA material when I was a kid ... the Hardy Boys, John Christopher's Tripods books, the Chronicles of Narnia, and even The Hobbit come to mind. But I also liked The Lord of the Rings, Asimov, and plenty of other adult fiction besides. I didn't need Luke Skywalker to be a six-year-old to relate to him when I was six myself.

But the thing is, I bet it's just more "audiencing" by the studio execs. They want all movies to appeal to the broadest possible audience. And what do all potential audience members have in common, whether they be make, female, LGBTQ, Asian, European, Black, etc.? They were all young once.

Except that was already done, and done brilliantly by Deep Space Nine. In reality, the Star Fleet Academy idea had a very old lineage, to the smoking shambles that was Star Trek V, when the idea was posited of having a prequel with the TOS characters, or at least the main ones, portrayed by younger actors, during their Academy days. It was pretty quickly rejected because at the time they didn't think audiences would buy the idea of new actors playing Kirk, Spock and Bones.

Of course, in the end, that was effectively what the first part of the 2009 Star Trek, which, for me at least, proved that the guys who rejected the idea in 1989-90 were spot on. But other people like the Kelvinverse films, so to each their own.

The real problem isn't writing per se. There were no lack of justifiable complaints against Voyager and Enterprise. The real problem is that no one really knows where to take it. The whole 32nd century gambit is because no one really knows how to portray the technology of the intervening period. The Enterprise temporal war rubbish demonstrated just how incredibly problematic it can be for an established sci-fi franchise to push itself across a broad timeline when you start with ships that go multiples of the speed of light, create holodecks and replicators and have computers so intelligent they can create conscious beings, and that's just by the 24th century.

With James Bond they can just keep resetting the character over and over again, and updating the gadgets along the way. Star Trek, for all its faults, has established a sort of permanent 70s-ish technology vibe, and because it's more fantasy then science fiction, the controls for the super planet buster never have to change! That franchise fell on its sword more because of a lack of imagination, lazy writing and an obvious desire not to pay Extended Universe authors some royalties for a cache of rather interesting ideas, and ultimately having to go there anyways.

In all cases, I think the fan base is the worst enemy. No franchise like Star Trek is ever going to measure up to the mythology of the older series. TOS really has entered the realm of cultural myth, and TNG, though everyone forgets how much the first season was disliked (and on rewatch a few years ago, I have to say it feels like a wonder that it ever got a season 2), isn't far behind. Even DS9's critics have finally stopped talking, and for my money, it is the most consistently well-written and well-acted of all the Star Treks. But that kind of legacy is absolutely toxic, because if you try to be too different everyone screams "It isn't Star Trek", and if you try to be similar in tone, then everyone complains "We've seen it all before!"