my son's teacher told us that it helped with developing fine motor control, particularly in children that had below average motor control.

For one, is this based on research or speculation? Second there are different kinds of motor control. Following an existing pattern or shape is one type, while cursive is another because one tends to develop patterns based on personal preferences.

Are the loops male, female, or something else? (ducks head in FL)

In 5th grade my teacher wanted to wring my neck because I was growing quite skillful in drawing and art, yet my cursive writing was worse than a drunk doctor's. I didn't see them as connected, but it was in the teacher's mind. I had a semi-impressionistic art style such that stroke precision mattered less.

CursiveGPT

By definition, conservatives prefer much of the past

I'm glad Oracle is keeping the async pollution out of Java. Java is more of a business or admin domain language, and less for systems software. You don't really need that for biz/admin coding, and there are ways to still implement for the rare cases.

I guess I'm not working on "typical CRUD apps" then?

Based on your description, no, you are not, other than maybe "data stores". Sounds like systems programming. And it's rare to need such for app-level database access (unless you did something wrong or bad).

other than async and await keywords here and there.

It tends to force the need to parts that have nothing to do with asynchronous programming other than being referenced by parts that do. It pollutes and spreads like prions in a brain.

... which, to be clear, is a good thing. Working around the compiler is dangerous and a code smell, so it shouldn't be something that is easy to do. It usually indicates that either the compiler's capabilities aren't sufficient to meet your needs (in which case, a better solution would be either a better compiler, or to re-evaluate the wisdom of your approach), or that you are doing something the wrong way and should find a way to do it that works with the compiler, rather than around it, so that you get the benefits of the compiler's co-operation.

Could also run some World Community Grid tasks on BOINC, that's what I do.

But if you just want to heat your house nothing beats a heat pump for efficiency.

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.

Yeah, but hard to compare apples to oranges here....

These Nordic idiots are the same folks that ride fucking bicycles in ice and snow in the middle of winter too....

Yes. I remember seeing a movie that took place in rural Arizona in the early '50s. Part of the plot had to do with moving a small herd of horses across country to a dirt road that was good enough that they could drive a truck up it and load the horses on it so they could take them to market and sell them. One evening they stopped at a ranch house that was still lit by kerosene lanterns because the team stringing electric cables wasn't due to get there for another six months.

Fear or corruption?

This isn't some Manhattan style project, with great secrecy over methods, attracting the best and brightest.

It is a MASSIVE wealth transfer though, disregarding law and scrutiny, with some of the most dubious leading the charge.

I would rather that it was fear driving this as there would be more evaluation of how this will play out globally instead of an endless black hole to dump the nation's wealth.