Is the cure that bad? I think most of the west can afford a substantially higher electricity bill. And with falling wind/solar prices, it's not even that bad. Our rapid development was financed by trashing the planet for more than a century. We borrowed a lot, now it's time to pay back the debt.

Btw isn't the whole point of a battery to use corrosion while discharging? I wonder how it works if the gold can't corrode.

And I believe electric engines for jet-like aircraft currently require superconductors to keep the size practical. And that is a headache on its own.

This. And with C# they don't have the annoying habit of changing the core syntax with every language version in a breaking way. They literally just changed the syntax for for loops in Swift. I've never seen that done before, and I couldn't believe it. C# is fast, mature, and modern.

When I lived in Australia the consumer watchdog did a pretty good job at making sure cancelling contracts was easy. When I came to EU I was shocked by "auto renewing" contracts. That shit should be illegal. And the whole "please send us a signed letter in snail mail" to cancel a subscription is total bullshit.

It may show my immaturity, but I still giggle a bit whenever I type "pubic" or "cunt" while programming.

You can climb up onto your moral high horse and suggest that people get what they deserve. Or you can help people who need it, even when you don't have to. It's called not being an asshole. And if you can't do that, at least acknowledge that healthcare costs for everyone would drop if a cure was found, so it would still benefit you.

Swift is not a good example of an innovative language. Apple just wants something that is different enough to assist developer lock-in. That's what they used to love about Obj-C: it was resistent to being ported, thanks to its incredibly weird method-calling syntax.

I agree re figuring this basic stuff out before v1. Actually I wish Apple would save us all the hassle of sharing their experience of "learning how to make a programming language". Buy MS already and take C#, a mature and generally well-regarded language. C# 1 was usable and they didn't make weird fundamental changes constantly afterwards as Apple is with Swift. Making programming languages is kind of a well understood domain, but Swift smells like hipsters fresh out of uni to me, learning from their mistakes as they go.