Memory related problems are what garbage collected language prevents and solves without an effort.
GoLang comes to mind and here we see what? Google does not see it as an obvious candidate.

Wow! Just wow!

Not really. There is an element of free choice with people - absent in pet's positions.

(As I expected, my original post is downgraded. PC police at hard work.)

And for "well in captivity". There are various kinds of captivity. Even humans have problems adapting to modern urban environments, and then they put a dog there? Most captive dogs spend most of their lifetime being walked around a single block, on a leash! 2, 3 or 4 times on fresh air per day!?
For 10000 minus 50 years dogs were bred to share big open spaces with people. They were not bred for 10000 years to live in apartments and get fresh air 3 times per day, on a leash. That is slavery, not living together.

Pets are ones without choice here. Not original ones, not successful and of course not unsuccessful clones.
People claim love for them when they only care about themselves. It is people who are hurt when a pet dies, and with lifetimes order of magnitude shorter, that is a natural thing to happen. When this happen - then they abuse many other animals just to keep themselves happy.
Pets are no more than slaves. And people, ready to discuss preservation of the habitat of this frog or that snail - they just keep silent. Because, you know, it is "love for animals", "humanness" etc.

Very nice analysis.
Little remains to be said.

These days it i actually pretty easy, if you plan some time for it.

You get a box, or one or more virtual environments somewhere (AWS free tier comes to mind) and start playing. Linux has changed in 8 years, but it is probably more about new things like Cloud, DevOps than about Linux.

My recommendation would be to get this AWS free tier and excellent Terraform book Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code - and start from this actual and fresh new perspective of what we did before IaaC. You will find your familiarity with bash scripting and your sysadmin experience to be very good stepping stone to this brave new world :).

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What about Australia law preventing preventative fires and cutting of trees for fire prevention?

Similar case in Califorinia - PG&E was forbidden to clear forest around power lines because, you know, trees. And then those forests were lost to fires.

This surely looks like a lot time, but why not "in last two thousand years" or something like that? Maybe because Middle Age was hotter or what?

It reminds me of this one country where some budget item of $800+ billion is shared between pals and intended recipient is happy if value he receives, after friend share this cake, $100 billion in equipment, salaries, etc. Hint: Not Russia :)

You think brain drain... There is good video blog, in Russian, explaining this, and I remember this recent issue - currently, some 250,000 foreign students study in Russia, and around 50,000 Russian students are abroad. That is a tendency, and it looks like positive inflow to me. I can be wrong, of course.

Also, 450,000+ engineers graduate each year in Russia, and some 53%+ adult population with a degree. Number for US is around 230,000 and it comes second on this list. US population is twice of Russian Federation. Relevant text is here.

Looks like they have a lot of brain so they can survive a bit of drain here and there :)

I can tell - this can be good. Of course, lots of action will be their attempt to seize narrative, but I think this is their survival battle in untold-billions-of-IoT-devices space before everything else.

Nobody serious about his work will allow them to dictate how to do this or that, but some standardization is always helpful. It can help people not to have to invent everything, and spend money on making everything. Various UIs on various platforms, dashboards and things, alert managers, gateways and bridges.... It will be good if they all can speak some interoperable protocols as it can make entry easier for small players. As long as we do not allow them to teach us how to do everything and wait for them to serve it to us, in exchange to our credit card details.

If this was any other company, I am sure attitude here would be totally different.

Especially since her team lead (still in company) approved and told this kind of behavior is something normal at company.

This was internally showing popup and, to whomever read more than "Google" it is obviously part of their internal culture or whatever.

Disclaimer: I do not seek a Google job. Many others here probably do or will at some time :)

Excellent article on topic, https://www.moonofalabama.org/..., from a veteran computer professional. He is foollowing this whole Boeing mess since its start, and lots of good information and insight on this topic is available on his site.

Maybe, just maybe...

1) Do not allow any single source of information to form your opinion on any actual subject

2) Read news, not only headlines and first couple paragraphs. If you really care, research at least a bit on your own.

3) Make your own personal rating of authors/sources. In future, more trusted sources can help you speed up step 2.

4) Always question what news says, try to learn more. Cui bono, why now, etc...

5) Do not rush, ignore herd. Use your mind, You've got it for exactly that reason!