And you should learn to spell. And why are you obsessed with my sex life? That's a little off. Not that is any of your business, but I average three times a week, although it varies depending on my wife's and my schedules. Sometimes more, sometimes less. And she usually initiates.

So fantasize on that for a while, weirdo.

I think it is a bit more nuanced. Some older people like Feinstein, McConnell, and You Know Who are definitely dotard, and some are batshit crazy, like RFK.

That being said, there is a good possibility that many people equate all older people as senile and incapable, and younger people as smart, and knowing how it is.

It's definitely more nuanced than that. I go along with most Democrat touchstones, other than a few problems they had following ivory tower far left wing academics, abandoning the working class, and a couple other awkward positions they took the last general election. But I don't want to get too far into the weeds here.

I believe in complete separation of church and state, single payer health coverage, a woman's right to choose abortion, Most of the touchstones, with a few exceptions.

I'm 72 years old, an age based enemy according to many. According to the people I work for, I'm at the top of my game. Which is part of why I was sought out post retirement because all the young and less expensive people washed out badly.

I always remember doing financial work with my 85 year old terminally ill father who died the next morning. He was old, sick and yet sharp as a tack.

My point in all of this is that there is a really important and complex problem of trying to figure out how people like Feinstein, McConnell, and Cheeto. can be removed from office without a simple reason of age. Because just as age doesn't by itself indicate dotage, youth does not indicate ability.

One way that doesn't attack anyone's mental state is term limits. Even then, you could lose some very competent people young and old. Not a simple problem to fix.

Feinstein is obviously demented, McConnell is now looking animatronic, maybe something stolen from Madame Tussaud's wax museum, and Cheeto is obviously suffering from cognitive issues, delusions of grandeur, probable heart failure, and neurological problems. And there is the common thread, mental incompetence, not based solely on how many years they have been on earth.

"review the recent changes, looking for: gaps, flaws, inconsistency, or overtuning."

"oh shit! update the tests and docs too."

Based on what? What makes something wrong or right in production providing the toolkit works and exists to allow it to be widely adopted and mass produced, and the end goal of the device is achieved?

Exactly. About the only thing that matters for "in production" is "meets requirements", whatever those may be. It's pretty rare that one of those is "squeeze the maximum possible performance out of a single-cycle multi-hundred MHz MCU". Sure for mass, low cost consumer products, it's worth pending a lot to save 10 cents on the MCU but it isn't for most of us.

I've seen similar complaints before: "Arduino has no place in production,

I've seen that too. I now point them to Finder PLC. It' an industrial unit that is basically an arduino with relays etc in a nice box.

Dude.

Back in the 80s I was running basic on a machine with a tenth of the RAM and less than a thousandth of the computing power. It did not "confound the learning process". These days I also often use the Arduino environment because the performance is adequate for me needs and so it's a waste of time to slog through the datasheet and do it all by hand.

Who cares if they are a bit different from python? I don't write C++ on an MCU in the same way I'm writing it on the server because I'm writing very different things.

This really sounds like nerd snobbery to me. Modern microcontrollers are so ludicrously powerful now many people dipping into them won't need to scratch the surface of the performance on offer. And that's ok.

The very rich intend on owning serfs. People keep telling me how California is full of far left liberalism, but that is not what I've seen living in Silicon Valley for almost 30 years.

You can use non-standard extensions with C++ today to cover some of what Rust does, like -Wlifetime in C++ for something roughly equivalent to Rust's compile-time borrow checker. UBSan/ASan lets you enforce address and undefined behavior with runtime checks, it's useful and easy to use, but it has a big performance impact so you normally turn it off in production code.

Google Carbon seems promising, but it deviates enough from C++ that it feels like yet another language. But theoretically you will be able to have a project that has a mix of C++ and Carbon and it should Just Work(tm).

Ada / SPARK is an alternative to must of what Rust offers, it's a wildly different approach and not a 1:1 equivalent. But you can make reliable software and even do some formal verification and static analysis on it. It's easier to deal with violation messages from the Ada compiler than with Rust. But it's also a lot more work to put all the contracts and declarations in place (you need multiple files just to make a module, so it's a very different workflow compared to C/C++/Rust).

Coming from Pascal where write/writeln is a special language construct that doesn't work like any other function/procedure, it's refreshing to see that Rust made printing a macro, and that you can roll your own easily. That every macro ends in ! makes a lot of sense in terms of transparency, but it was a confusing little doodad in the syntax to see on my first day.

And I prefer C to C++ or Rust. And I prefer shell script, awk, or Lua to Python. So I'm a bit of an odd duck.

But Rust is pretty good. It's tedious at hell to write anything safely, but you can do it and you can have high confidence in the results. (obviously you still need a full test suite)

When I was in school, a local company donated some core memory units to us. A couple were kept for display, but we got to dissect some others. It was pretty darn fascinating.

But he lives rent free in their heads.

Yes, I know a few Dems that expressed concern about people like Bill Clinton, but everyone I know and I know a lot of people want all of the pedophiles identified and punished if possible (might be statute of limitations involved)

I'm not a Dem, but I can't come up with a good political reason to not punish people that screw underage people. I can come up with a lot of ethical and moral reasons that they should be pointed out and punished.

One thing I do know is that the Dems would never bring out Weekend at Bernie's Mitch McConnell.

So some say. Unless he declares martial law and the military enforces it (and don't be too sure they will), his power is going to be rather constrained. At that point, it might be a race between him emulating Mitch McConnell and impeachment. His health both mental and physical, is deteriorating, and at an accelerating pace.

I ended up with a bad taste about tape backup after several failed restores from the institute's IT department I need up setting up my own servers with redundant backup. Maybe they had a bad implementation on their part. I dunno, but I didn't trust it.

This! Early on in the cloud era, I tried to point out that the claims of perfect security was utter bullshit. That you might have some pretend unbreakable encryption, but if your data is lost through bad actors or calamitous loss, you still don't have it, and that means no real security.

In discussions with a provider, I asked about this hardware security. Eventually he said I should have a local backup of everything as well. Which kinda defeats the entire concept of storing possibly critical data on someone else's computer.

The only purpose of the cloud is getting rid of employees, and most importantly, the CYA of having someone to blame when the inevitable happens.