Exactly. It's just circle jerking.

I agree with everything but "this is the purpose of making functions as small and single-purpose as possible and antithesis of C++ classes". A class has no relation at all with a function size. Class is just an abstraction to group similar functions and variables, similar to a C interface.
Small and scoped function/procedure/method/put-here-how-you-reuse-code is a must have on any language.

For this reason, here in Brazil gov is taxing Chinese cars at 35%. While they're not obliterating other manufacturers, they're increasing EVs market share and, more important, clearly forcing prices to go lower.

Brazilian here. Pix requires a bank account. And it's an interoperability protocol ruled by the governement, so each bank has to update it's own system to "talk" to the pix system. Yet, still revolutionary, because (aside a bank account), it requires only a mobile. So every single person that was using cash payment because they're not eligible to handle any kind of card, uses it. Yes, a huge success.

So, the agency doing unauthorized and illegal access to citizen and companies data suffered unauthorized and illegal access to its data?

I started lurking in 4K enthusiast groups to see if they were all cracked up to be. The arguments about relative quality of various BD/4K releases isn't even the most interesting part.

It turns out that there are a lot of issues with set top boxes playing particular disks. The disks themselves also seem terribly fussy.

He is just wrong about who will be surpassed. Considering that AI is based on human output (until some time ago), and that now most open source repos are consisting of low quality AI shit, AI will be feeded with crapy code generated by AI. So, basically, AI coding is at its peak right now.

Yes, but on this case it was a B2B theft. Only C2B theft has penalties.

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This! I wish to have more kudos to upvote you.

Educational standards have been declining for a long time. It hasn't just recently gotten bad because of Corona. Both math and English instruction have declined to the point that people like you are making excuses for remedial instruction in college.

The sabotage is intentional even if those doing it don't think they are engaging in sabotage. This is painfully obvious if you interact with the K12 education system.

Parents these days have to more to repair the damage done by professionals.

Not, it's not: the first to talk about this oversupply was the Chinese GWM manufacturer, talking explicitly about a crash of several makers on Chinese market, like the building sector.

The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.

Sometimes experimentation is the only thing standing between you and certain death. None of us would be surviving cancer if not for patients being experimented on.

Beyond terminal illnesses, the regulatory burdens should be very high and not lowered because something shiny and new comes along.

Very interesting! Do you mind to share one of those sub links?