That one sides have savages doesn't make the other side less savage. The terrorist attacks from Hamas are just as real as the massacres committed by Israeli soldiers, and both need to stop.

That index is so out of touch with reality that it looks like its only purpose is to generate engagement by having people talk about how bad it is.

The Pypl index is debatable, but at least, it kinds of make sense. TIOBE doesn't.

It is not a "disaster". No one was hurt and passengers were able to get to their destination in the end.

I wonder how often incidents like these happen? Boeing is in the spotlight now, so these are likely to be reported more than usual.

Also, Airbus is not totally clean either. There is a reason the Airbus CEO is unhappy, as incidents that happen at Boeing may very well happen with Airbus, even if Airbus has objectively better safety overall, which is not a given, it is not perfect either. Which mean Airbus will be on a higher scrutiny too, and may also get more bad press for minor incidents. Overall, it may end up being good for air travel safety (maybe less for air travel costs), so that's not all bad, but I understand that it is going to hurt the bottom lines of the whole industry.

And in fact, this particular incident may not even have to do with Boeing, in could have been improper maintenance, or most likely, as it is often the case, shared responsibility. But of course, since Boeing is in the spotlight, the fingers points at them.

What French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said is also very telling: "I prefer Airbus' situation to that of Boeing,". Which could be interpreted as "Boeing had a stroke of bad luck, good for Airbus that it didn't happen to them instead". A very cautious phrasing.

Come on, it is not Joe Biden himself who decided to learn about C++, Rust and memory safety.

He is able to appoint experts, or more likely, experts at appointing experts. He then signed the report not because he understands a word of it (he probably didn't even read it), but because he trusts the people he appointed. It is a perfectly normal way of doing things. Heads of state can't be an experts in programming, orbital spaceflight, microbiology, climate science and logistics all at once, no one can, but they have to make decisions, that's why they have people who know these fields working for them.

Sometimes (often) it is far from perfect, corruption is a thing, but here, the report is reasonable. Debatable, but reasonable. I mean, if Stroustrup himself comments on it in a serious, technical manner, it means it is not completely worthless. It it was, the entire tech world would simply point the finger and laugh, as it sometimes happens, but not here.

Dacia doesn't make cars with a modem, in fact, many don't even have an infotainment system. The latest model can communicate with your phone (which becomes the infotainment system), but it is entirely optional.

I don't think Dacia sells in the US, but it is popular in Europe because these are cheap, reliable, non-nonsense cars. Tech-wise, they are usually one or two generations late, which can be an advantage as they are built on proven technology, but don't expect high performance or anything fancy, at all. They also have what may be the cheapest electric car on the market (less than $20k).

On Apple, I don't think much can be done, but on Android, Signal is supposed to have reproducible builds, so you can see if what you get from the store matches the source code. And once you have done that, disable auto-updates. I don't know if anyone does that though, of if it works at all.

Most likely the cause of that sudden increase.

The Steam Deck is usually counted as a Linux desktop, because, well, under the hood, it is a PC that runs Linux.

Considering the reputation of the company, remote work is still allowed:
- On week-ends
- During the night (though staying overnight at the office is still encouraged)
- On sick days (only for contagious diseases)

On that one, TSMC and Samsung upped Intel when it came to lies.
Intel's 14nm was about equivalent to the others 10nm. 10nm to 7nm, etc...

Of course, Intel couldn't have the worse number, so they followed what the others were doing. In the end, I think manufacturers officially dropped the "nm" thing, so now "5nm" is just "5", and the A is just an A. The abbreviation for Angstrom has that little circle on top of the A (it is a Swedish letter), it doesn't appear in official Intel communication, nor do they say the word "Angstrom", so it is just an A. It is reminiscent of the distance unit, but less obviously so.

And it is not like it should matter to customers either. Especially not Intel since they use their fabs only for themselves (something they wish to change, but that's not easy). The overall performance of the chip is what's important to the customer, not the distance between transistors. It may matter to investors though.

The sad part about games is that Disney inherited LucasArts, a legendary game studio, just to promptly kill it. Granted, it wasn't at its best, but it was still active. They didn't even try to do something with it.

There are cases where owning an electric car makes a lot of sense. The ideal situation is:

- Having a charge point at home, usually meaning an individual house with a garage (the most important thing)
- Frequent commutes within the range of the EV (to maximize the benefits of having an EV, like fuel cost savings)
- Few trips beyond the range of the EV (to minimize the downsides of having an EV), or having a second car with an internal combustion engine

I think most of new EV sales come from people in that situation. But once that market is covered, for the remaining people, owning an EV doesn't make as much sense. For instance, in my situation, I live in an apartment in a city, and while I have a space in a parking lot, it doesn't have the necessary infrastructure to install a charge point, so until someone does what's necessary to install the necessary wiring and all that, it is already a deal breaker for an EV. It probably won't happen unless there is a government intervention of some kind as it would mean getting a lot of people to agree on sharing the costs for some expensive works. Also, my commutes are rather short, but I occasionally make longer trips that exceed the range of most EVs. So either I get a small EV with a small battery that's fine for my commutes, but inadequate for my long trips, or one with a big battery (ex: Tesla) but that's complete overkill for my commutes, and way over budget. So, no EV for me, for now, it simply doesn't make sense.

If you are looking closely at how the world is evolving, we expect the world population to increase to about 10 billion in the next 50 years, then decline. And it doesn't involve genocide or any catastrophic event. Just people making less babies. Which, by the way, is a problem, because also means an aging population.

The late exponential increase is due to the world going through a demographic transition. Europe and America have already completed it and their native population is shrinking, Asia has just completed it and is about its peak, and Africa has started it, so essentially, a lot of Africans will be born in the next 50 years, many will emigrate to other countries, which will offset their population decline, and then they will also stop making babies, and the world population will decline and age.

No one ignores the real cause of the disease here, and no one is suggesting a replacement to decarbonization.
Problem is that the cure is a lengthy process. The idea is to make it less painful in the meantime.
It is not shamanism, it is palliative care.

My company, and pretty much all companies I work with still use Windows and MS Office. And despite some awesome work by Valve, PC gaming is still more or less synonymous with Windows gaming. And I mean, they have something like a 80% market share for desktop OSes, and if you take away Macs, that's something like 95%.

And they have cloud services like Azure, they are on top of the game when it comes to AI, they have a very significant social network with LinkedIn. And they have GitHub, and I mean, in the 90s, who would have imagined Microsoft hosting most open source projects... For gaming, they have Activision, Minecraft, and they didn't let go of Halo and Flight Simulator. And despite the speculations, the XBox is not dead yet. They still sell some computer hardware too.

They failed on mobile, and it explain their poor growth of 10 years ago, but what I am seeing now is definitely solid, long-term work despite a few letdowns. I can't predict the future, but I see no short term collapse, and neither do the markets.

Of course, people are different, but when we are talking about generations, we are talking about overarching trends, mostly in western countries. And they are real. Except for baby boomers, who you can clearly see in demographic charts due to people making more babies just following WW2 (hence the name), the period is fuzzy, but it gives an idea of what are the defining thing about people who were born in a particular time.

It is kind of important for things like politics and economics. In an election for instance, everyone have different ideas, but in the end, the votes are counted and only one candidate is elected, and he will make decisions based on global trends, not individuals. And back the the subject, that's the kind of thing that may tell if the next thing to open in your neighborhood will be a library or a movie theater, or how profitable writing fiction may be.