Oh thats already happening. https://www.reddit.com/r/simps...

The Hegnet and Orangenet

I agree with every word you just said, except one.

This will help the US economy, not hurt it. American businesses paying for a commodity as mundane as Microsoft Office, year after year, is an unnecessarily taxing parasitic drag. If this can be eliminated, all the better for every American.

(Well, except for the ones who own a piece of that one company, but fuck them.)

The alerts are so much worse too like "Hey, looks like you slept like shit, should probably take it easy today." thanks google but not really up to either of us. Already knew that and fitbit was a lot gentler about it...

Probably in here somewhere: "run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud"

EU techie: "We did it, we replaced Google!"

Boss: "Good job! Are there any other US dependencies?"

EU techie: "Um, yes, it runs on top of Bing."

Boss: "Microsoft!?"

EU techie: "Yip. We couldn't get our home-grown one to work right."

Boss: "Uhgg, well, don't tell anyone and you can have a Citroen."

Russian citizens have no incentive to push innovation, the war's potential prizes give ordinary Russians no notable advantage, yet Ukraine is fighting for its survival: it's adapt or die.

California joined Canada. The orange thing is now all yours!

Which will come first?:

1. Practical flying cars
2. Practical fusion energy
3. Robot that do can dishes
4. Useful quantum computer

...the Higgs BSOD

Ukraine is affecting their daily lives, by hitting their pocketbooks instead of wasting their attacks on "war crimes," i.e. hitting worthless targets which don't help end the war at all.

Murder a civilian and all you do is slightly sour their family against the war. Blow up an oil storage tank and you just made thousands of people have to suffer through inconvenience.

And worst of all, you heartlessly, viciously left them alive, where they'll remember how much poverty sucks, and they'll complain about it too. Good luck achieving that level of sadistic manipulation through mere murder.

Hey, you just solved the Hormuz Conundrum, congratulations! Both sides get a better deal than Obama's deal, so can now brag and move on with life.

Maybe the mathies will enter our field and force the industry to factor out all the repetitious bloat found in current stacks. All that repetitious verbose shit just cannot be the pinnacle of software development, I'll bet my Vulcan wanker on it (a transplant). It might require new programming languages, but so be it! Or burning the damned DOM?

Kind of like going from Perl to Java?

Politicians already encroached on that.