Well, that's already the case. You cannot start an identifer with a "number" in many languages (C included). A "number" is an arbitrarily defined subset of all glyphs. Also, one might not use a "whitespace" in an identifier. Guess what a "whitespace" is? An arbitrarily defined subset of all glyphs.

So what you are describing as utter nonsense is exactly what is going on under the scene right now with pretty much all languages.

Wow. The day your bubble burst is going to be hard for you.

Bitcoin doesn't lie on what it is and what it does. AI companies on the other hand ...

It’s almost impressive to hear you complain about “political indoctrination” while your post is a textbook example of it.

Your country (The USA) used to be the leader of science. That is one big reason it was so successful and is now the major power in the world. Seeing you and Trump tear all that down is really frightening. Jesus won't come to save you, you know? It's just a fairy tale just like Santa Claus.

Exactly. This press release is just a convoluted way to advertise how badass their product is.

Whether or not mathematics qualifies as a science is more a matter of philosophy than definition.

When a scientific theory is proposed, you can choose to believe in it or not — but belief doesn’t affect whether the theory accurately describes reality. As independent experiments accumulate consistent results, confidence in the theory increases because the data keeps confirming it.

Newton’s theory of gravitation, for example, turned out to be incomplete when tested at extreme scales. Still, within the limits of everyday experience, it remains perfectly accurate. For centuries, every possible experiment agreed with Newton’s equations, so people accepted them as “true” — and for practical purposes, they still are.

Climate change follows the same logic. It’s supported by a vast body of observations and consistent models grounded in well-established physics. Most scientists accept it because the evidence is overwhelming. Yet some, like Trump, reject it — not because the data is lacking, but because when facts clash with ideology, the mind often builds a comforting alternate reality instead.

The thing with science, is you can stop believing in it, it still works. Trump doesn't believe in climate change. That doesn't prevent the climate from changing.
2+2 is 4. You can ignore me and think it's 7, but if you got 2 apples and someone gives you two more apples you still get 4 apples in the end, not 7.

office365 on the web - while not perfect - works on all OSes and printing is just about generating a PDF, which you can pring no matter the OS you're using.

Now, sharing files is a pain since you can only collaborate from OneDrive (or SharePoint) with office, but still. It kinda works.

Also I almost laughed at that one: "Google's free Sheets product, launched in 2006, captured casual use cases like potluck sign-ups but failed to dislodge Excel from enterprise work"... Google apps were excellent for a V1. We've been waiting for a V2 ever since. It is terribly lacking in functionality.

Steve Mann apparatus was medical, nothing to do with Meta glasses which no one needs. And it was 12 years ago and nobody could corroborate any of his claims. Not saying he is a nutjob here, but he may have blown this thing way out of proportions.

I don't feel Microsoft engineering quality has been declining. It's the same crap again and again.

Airbus scenario:
- Airbus: "Hey, there might be a problem, let's recall 6000 airplanes."

Boeing Scenario:
FCC: Hey, one of your plane fell down.
Boeing: Fucking thrid world pilots don't know how to fly.
FCC: Hey, one of your plane fell down once again.
Boeing: Hmmm? What?
FCC: We ground all of your planes
Boeing: Ok, we will do a recall. See?

I'll take Airbus scenario any day.

If only I had to do it once. But no, most updates (especially dist-upgrades) have me do that all over again time after time.

Also, the fact that I gave only one example doesn't necessarily mean there is only one. I could talk about having to troubleshoot grub in busybox because an update borked the config. I can imagine my father in front of the busybox shell all day long. He'll just buy another computer.

Just try to configure a 4.0 surround sound setup. On windows it's just a couple of clicks. On Ubuntu it's at least a couple of ChatGPT questions involving a new software to install and obscure settings to define.

No, it's nowhere as complete and polished from a personal computer peripheral point of view.

That said, printing on my epson network printer required no download whatsoever, so I guess YMMV