I've noticed this in C/C++ devs since at least the 90s. Coding in C/C++ is seen as a Hard Thing To Do, and becomes a foundation of their self esteem. These people get quite arrogant and refuse to let it go because it means kicking that Jenga block out from underneath their towering egos.
I quite like that Rust is disrupting these little fiefdoms. C-like languages have had 30 years of memory unsafety and it's been a shambling disaster. Let's turn the page.
Yes a 10-year old could probably circumvent this fairly easily, but I'm not so sure an 8 year old could, and a 5 year old certainly couldn't without help. That still has value. Even a slight barrier to entry would be helpful, if not foolproof, for keeping the younger kids from accessing it. The effectiveness is a sliding scale, not black-and-white.
I don't mind my workplace, it's nice enough. It's the 1.5hr commute that's a hard no.
There's no answer to this nonsense except to codify the right to flexible working in law.
This bunch are in the midst of an emotional panic, as they see remote working as a 'loss of control'. They will not listen to reason or evidence on productivity. It's a feeling for them. And once other companies start doing it, they don't want to be outliers.
This same lot would roll back holiday, sick leave, 8hour days, the weekend and the minimum wage if they could, and if the law didn't prevent them from doing so. This is the same thing.
Put the right to flexible working in law. The Labour party in the UK has already promised this and they look set to win the next election by quite some margin.
The equivalent human dose is stated to be 3-6g per day which is entirely achievable via energy drinks (although gross). 3-6mos of Taurine supplementation at 3g/day can be had for about £35. I know because I just bought some.
The dev team over there spent years fighting the use of *environment variables*. As in, setting environment variables to pass config to the service at startup. Bloody mental.
Much of the damage to the brain after recovery from oxygen deprivation is actually a result of bringing oxygen back into the organ. It sets off waves of apoptosis. Until you do this, the damage to the brain is not quite so extreme as you're making out.
Drugs that suppress this apoptosis show great promise.
People who have had no heartbeat for an extended period may still be revivable with the right techniques, even at room temperature.
The employment lawyers will have a field day with this one.
Banning AI doesn't work.
Our only hope with this stuff is that ethical organizations/people are able to get and keep the most advanced AIs, so we can always have an edge over the bad actors who would never respect a ban anyways.
There is a tendency for humans to attribute more authority to a machine's interpretation than is reasonable, especially if the machine is a black box and generates authoritative-sounding text.
Using this in a military context is fine as a planning aid but it must NEVER be relied upon as a single source of truth in operational matters, like whether a nuclear attack is incoming. That is extremely dangerous.
Well maybe that's a bit strong. It certainly still has a few legitimate uses. But outside of embedded systems and specialist applications, nobody should be using memory-unsafe languages like C or C++.
Even the NSA agrees.
Not many countries limit the amount of wealth you can grow within a tax wrapper. ISAs have no limit either. Having one for pensions makes no sense. They are already annual contribution limits.
As much as I despise Elon Musk he seems to have hired competent people for SpaceX, or at least accidentally allowed competent people to hire competent people.
Unlearning legacy practices can be important if you've reached a developmental plateau but there's not really much evidence SpaceX has plateaued.
Russian Imperialism created the Soviet Union, and Russian Imperialism survived its collapse. It is a cancer on the world, the war in Ukraine being only its latest metastasis. The Russian world is a corrupt, totalitarian hellscape on par with Naziism, where individual rights don't exist and human life is expendible.
Calling someone "The Last Soviet" has the same energy as calling someone "The Last Nazi".
No good person should or would appreciate it.
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
