"I've seen the pictures" says another American who figures using the internet amounts to actually living life, going places, being less of a moron.

Seasoned C programmers create memory bugs all the time. I mean, the idea that "experience" leads to perfect code is bananas. There's a reason why static analysis is used in any serious environment. Rust just makes that part of the language without an annoying about of tooling/pipeline cruft.

The problem is he had never put much thought into how to actually manage memory in a reasonable way in C. This is why C code is bad, because C programmers never ask themselves, "How do I not leak memory?"

Honestly this reads like you've never worked with real programmers.

"Insightful" because this place is full of old people who really overestimate their abilities to know what is good.

The world is moving on, buddy. C is "fine" in so far as how amazing you are at writing code that doesn't have memory access issues. I'm not shitting on C. But Rust isn't crap - it's really very good and there's a reason why the active generation of big stakeholders (Linux kernel devs, MS, and way way beyond) are chuffed about the value it brings.

Ah, that's an interesting detail (one I agree with) - thank you for pointing that out.

If you need to force people to promote / accept your culture, you should be asking why people prefer other cultures and address those issues instead.

Need is too strong a word. Want is the word. And mostly its there to force content publishers to protect a culture - given the balance of size of American popular culture, American content providers, etc .. I think it's naive to think it comes down to "a free market would accurately represent the desires of a specific domestic market in which it operates"

Media/culture is not some giant buffet where people walk in and just take (and pay for) the plate they want.

"slavery" - how do parents raise such stupid offspring? did they send to you the wrong schools?

"... Canadian and Indigenous content, such as French-language ..."

This is why morons remain morons - they let their emotions run their brain.

lol, if you think Alberta is leaving ... I feel bad for you son

Every place on earth has the same problems. But if you think it's all in the same amount, the fuck are you doing on a nerd website about computers - one of the greatest gifts they've given us is the ability to more easily tabulate differences and trends.

But I'm Canadian. I'm happy for it. Put it in my bill, streamers, happy to pay it.

What on earth are you talking about? It's clearly a program designed to incentive streaming "your favorite artist" as much as possible in service of "earning" a reserved ticket.

Hard to imagine *that* won't just be yet another vector of attack for scalper bots attempting to score those tickets.

Obviously they mean the fans "listening to the artist the most on Spotify" because that's obviously the behaviour they're incentivizing with this program.

Although this just feels like it's creating up an incentive for scalpers to setup bots to listen to Spotify. If the scalper-bots are plausible deniably "legitimate traffic" in terms of being to charge those impressions back to advertisers, Spotify can probably live with that.

I don't think anybody reading that release would think, "Oh, Spotify and LiveNation are acting so selflessly in the interests of fans and artists" but in what other language can you expect them to couch it in? It's marketing.

We're you like, held out of school or something? It's hard to believe people can reach adulthood with such a hilariously shitty grasp of basic reasoning.

It's hilarious to see a federal government sue a state for banning an insanely unregularly shitshow.

"Minnesota banning prediction markets is like trying to ban the New York Stock Exchange,"

This is your future, United States. Just the dumbest shit spoken imaginable, in the service of protecting the freedom of separating people from their money, 24/7, backed up by an administration who nakedly wants dumb people to do dumb things - oh, the ways in which such policy posture enriches them personally? Totally unrelated.

lol, shashdotters are an adorable lot, forever living in the past