> Now compare that to today, where code monkey with little to no experience and training slap together snippets they copy from Stack Exchange while having equally little to no idea what exactly that code does

I'm sorry, but your view on the world is simply too pessimistic. And your view on the past probably too optimistic too.

It is very much a project of the western world though. With a lot of help from the russians as of lately.

I'm already happy this is a thing that really exists.

As a belgian I have none of these extensive trainings and I can come drive 200 in germany after a 30min drive from my house.

An american can rent a car in germany and drive 250 without any extra training, in a foreign country, with rules and regulations he might not even be aware of.

Not really surprising. people are moving to internet based communications. calls and texts have moved to the background. I'm sure they have enough internet based spying systems operational.

> Politicians in the Netherlands have proposed a law

and it will never get voted into actual law... at least not for 2025.

>they're just stopping the sale of any new gas/diesel cars.

no they aren't. It's a proposal that will never get voted.

Well, they dropped support for the Radeon drivers, while the open source variant doesn't work yet... so it's an LTS that doesn't support one of the 2 largest graphics card producers........

They done fucked up.

Was it even ever alive? It has never been a usable piece of software on any of my linux installs...

I've also been benchmarking my full stack Symfony2 project, and HHVM and php7 are equally fast. (using apache)

The tag was made, but tags can change. no official release statement has been made yet.

Me and my girlfriend both both new cars this year. My experience has been horrible, they do not know what they are talking about and don't know how to communicate or just refuse to communicate after the deal has been signed.

I had to correct the offer my girlfriend got from the dealer multiple times because they just put stuff in there that was impossible, and refused to put stuff in there that was possible because they thought it wasn't. In the end I came with proof and they changed to offer as we wanted...

The European commision voted for new tests this week, and they are just marginally better than the current ones.

Heavy lobbies from Germany, France and the UK are holding us back.

is bic still trademarked? everybody calls all pens "bic" here...

This might be true for some, but it's not for me.

I will keep my adblockers for as long as I can, why shouldn't I. I do not care for your profits. If your site dies because you have no ad revenue, I'm sorry but then you've had the wrong business model all along, and somebody else will take your place.