Sure that will keep the sort of monkeys that cobble together JavaScript snippets taken from Stack Overflow posts away, but C was already a hard enough language for them to learn so they were already kept away. The language itself still can't prevent people from doing stupid things or ensure that they follow best practices as the recent CloudFlare outage showed.

It may be slightly worse because there's nothing quite so dangerous as someone who believes they're not in any danger because they've got some kind of magic rock. I'll take someone who knows that they're handling something dangerous (bonus if they've got the scars to prove it) and treats it like it's something dangerous. Rust (or any tool for that matter) is of no benefit if it makes the people using it more complacent towards the problems it can't prevent.

Probably pretty good. Even if she's just an average developer (or average for Stanford) just having a father who started a business and a lot of other investments is going to give her a massive leg up on getting funded. Even if it's probably a crap product that won't amount to anything, VCs fund dozens of those every year because one or two don't turn out to be crap and pay for all of the others that lost. The description of what she's made certainly sounds like the kind of buzzword laden idea that attracts angel investors and that just leaves a matter of getting them to know about it.

It's probably a good investment if for no other reason than it will get loads of free advertising just because she's the daughter of Bill Gates. Half of the battle that all of these startups face is attracting users and she's bringing free attention to the product. She can absolutely milk the women in tech crowd if she wants as well for even more free publicity for the product. Even people who want to hate on her because of her father are just generating more publicity and when there's an ocean of AI slop apps out there, having yours be the one that people think of first and download is incredibly valuable.

Just because something was standard for centuries doesn't mean we should continue doing it if it's no longer necessary unless you'd like your doctor to go back to chiseling holes in your head to let the bad spirits out. There are still a lot of jobs that require people to work on premises because they need specialized tools or equipment that can't be operated in their homes. Software developers are not those people and while there may be occasional benefits to getting people together in person, that's hardly something that needs to happen daily.

Over time the companies that insist on this will go out of business. The best developers will tend to take the jobs that allow them to work remotely and the companies that employ more of those remote workers will have lower costs because they're not paying for expensive office space that they don't need. Perhaps none of the existing behemoths will drive this change, but some startup will figure out they can maximize their investment dollars by getting top developers who are glad to be able to work from home while saving a ton of money not having to rent expensive real estate. They'll be more successful on average than the startups that don't and over time their model will become accepted.

Germany's carbon emissions aren't good.

This isn't letting perfect be the enemy of good, it's not letting greenwashing be the friend of pollution.

They are worse, in many cases much much worse than the UK, France, Italy and Spain. You know the other of the top 5 Western European economies.

The way they got so big wasn't that they were super efficient

Joke used to be that they lost money on every sale but made up for it in volume. Turns out it's easy to beat competitors if you're not constrained by needing to make money.

Anyhow, it's been interesting to see Amazon's repeated forays into groceries in the UK. I remember the first launch with great fanfare and press releases about how amazingly efficient they were with their cunning algorithms and amazingly logistics etc etc an they the flamed out very hard after slamming into massive existing logistics networks already locked into brutal competition with each other.

Turns out Sainsbury's had been doing online deliveries since 1995, Tesco since 1997 and they were by no means the only entrants (e.g. Ocado from 2000 determined to do it all with robots). I think Amazon is now on its 4th attempt to get a foothold, and they've recently announced closure of all their stores, and delivery via their "partners" which are all well established supermarket chains.

If we had proper antitrust law enforcement someone would have noticed ages ago that Amazon was going around buying up competitors and shut that down but well, we don't.

Not just that: they can do other things like selling at a loss to put a competitor out of business, and make shitty clones of products which they will promote while suppressing the competing products.

I also use "foe" red dot as the idiot flag to remind me.

But in Snij's case I get a yellow dot which I take to be the turbo-idiot flag :)

If you get angry about real things, you might end up in an awkward situation where you have to eat crow or change your mind based on objective reality, you know if you were wrong, misunderstood or something changes.

Starting from the position of completely made up shit is the ultimate luxury here: you will never have to climb down from your high horse.

There are also more passive measures like making sure you have decent CCTV coverage, so they can't do easily sneak in.

Particularly one logging to the cloud in another country in near realtime.

If your case is bad enough that there's international cooperation in place to deal with that, well, you're so fucked.

Copyright? It's my book, I can feed it to a program if I want to.

For factual books, the potential usefulness is obvious. But even for fiction - sometimes you forget who a character is, or what exactly happened x chapters ago.

Honestly not seeing the problem here...

Given they have no monopoly on cellphones

Not this again.

The legislation isn't anti- monopolies, it's anti-trust. Are Apple big enough to have a distorting effect on the market? Yes. Do they make use of that for profit? Yes.

You don't need an absolute monopoly to be guilty of anti-trust violations.

Someone feel free to break it down to me why Apple can't set it's own price policies.

If Apple were one of 10 equal sized players, and demanded 30% fees, developers would leave. Because of their size developers cannot afford to pretty much no matter what Apple does. In other words, their size alone distorts the market. At that point, no you can't simply do whatever you like because of laws which have been passed for precisely this kind of thing.

I think there are aspects that have to be considered:

• - First, if it's on the web, it can be read. If it can be read by my browser, why can it not be read by my pet AI? Any distinction here is arguably artificial.
• - Second, copyright has been massively and abusively expanded. The original term of 14 years is - for today's fast-moving world - already too long. Yet it has been extended beyond all reason. Artistic works are an important part of culture, and it should not be possible for them to be locked up for decades and even centuries. Bad laws should be disobeyed.

Given those two consideration, I entirely support the use of copyrighted works for AI training, with zero compensation to the copyright owners. Copyright should be reduced to a sensible term, or eliminated entirely. Then we can revisit this topic.

There are two types of immigration into Switzerland, both problematic.

First, of course, the hordes of unemployable young males from Africa and the Middle East - the same problem as throughout Europe. The problems here are well-known.

Second: people immigrating from surrounding countries. Germany is much larger than our German-speaking region, France is much larger than our French-speaking region, etc.. People enter from these countries and fail to adapt to Swiss culture. Many Swiss feel like we are being culturally overrun.

Both of these types of immigration contribute to the problems of overcrowding, hard-to-find housing, etc.. Also to unemployment among Swiss workers (because EU workers will accept lower wages).

Back in 2014, the population voted to restrict immigration. Our government ignored this vote (which shouldn't be possible), because they didn't want to upset the EU. So here we are, voting again, in hopes of forcing some sort of solution.

In general, no, you very much do not leave things dangling or laying around. You always bring your kit with you.

Ah well that's somewhat different. It would be impractical for a workshop since that's where all the kit is. And some of it is quite heavy.

Anyway, if I may ask, wtf is a "generic dongle" in this instance that one is talking about, or not a special-purpose one?

Ones for more generic tasks :)

USB A-C and USB ethernet. Not for example USB to CAN.

This really isn't any different than requiring advertisements to disclose the use of paid actors. I can see it running into a few problems with internet advertisements though. I'm not sure it really matters though. Some people will buy stupid crap regardless of what kind of labels or warnings are put on something.

I dunno. They make decent enough output for shitposting on social media. While there is a certain amount of delight to be had in coming up with a clever limerick about someone's mother, some people really aren't worth the effort. The AI can do it well enough in a few seconds though.

I'm not sure I'd use it for any productive work though. Of course not everything has to be for work though either.