No wonder they haven't cave to Trump's lawsuits about their Epstein articles. :-)

More to the point, if one is interested in who/what won what award - for some reason - it's easier to simply wait until the next day and read an article about it online somewhere. Same goes for any performances that may be entertaining. Why waste X hours watching either linear or streaming, especially if it contains commercials/ads. Personally, while I can see a point for the actual awards - it's nice to be recognized by your peers for your efforts - I can't really see a point to a (live) show about them. Same goes for all the other award shows. /$0.02

Tell Python programmers that white-space block delineation is dumb and braces are better. :-)

At which point, you're (basically) using C - again. Not saying that there's no benefit to Rust and its safe(er) sections, but being a good Rust programmer doesn't make you a good C programmer, which (I'm guessing) is what you need more of for the unsafe sections. Rewriting things in Rust for the sake of it probably hinges on the ratio or safe to unsafe code, where those are and how they're maintained.

Rewrites always carry the risk of new problems as well as old problems in new ways.

Just curious; was there a reason this coded needed to be rewritten or was it a failure to apply "if it's not broke, don't fix it?"

Or Michelle Obama tried to get kids to eat healthier and exercise more - and got roasted by some on The Right. (but they're cool with RFK, Jr and all of MAHA)

Republicans will fight for it - when a Democrat is in office. Note that I'm not declaring that Democrats are definitely better, but more that Republicans aren't thinking the statement below through. Congressional Republicans are okay abdicating their authority and responsibility now, under Trump, but probably not so much when they're no longer in power, especially if (when) they lose the House and Senate in 2026 and the White House in 2028.

Republicans aren't thinking ahead and may just have to suffer through learning what things like the following mean: "reap what you've sown", "good for the goose, good for the gander", "what goes around, comes around", etc...

Indeed. And "Boner Killer" would be too "on the nose," so to speak, though I guess all glasses are the latter. :-)

Linguists happier than a pig in dictionaries.

Ukraine is doing something like that... Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral'

A BBC article, Kill Russian soldiers, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war? notes:

Google: Ukraine earn points

I think people in other countries generally buy their phones outright, rather than via provider payment plans, often at a discount, like in the U.S. and I think SIM locking is to prevent people from switching providers before those phones are paid off - and so the providers don't have to sue to recoup that money. That's probably reasonable, but doing it to just make it harder for people to switch is not. Of course, most phones smartphones probably aren't paid off after 60 days, unless providers have another avenue to recoup the money for the device, so I don't know how a policy works in that case.

From Cell Phone Unlocking:

As for me, I bought my three successive cell phones over the last 26 years. unlocked and in full.

Many of the lower court decisions seem pretty solid, reasonable and thought-out, but SCOTUS, especially Justices Alito and Thomas, is seemingly just making stuff up, or misinterpreting things from Medieval England, to support their agendas.

Alito's Roe attack betrays a medieval ignorance of ancient history
Google: alito medieval england roe

Many of their rulings that specifically favored Trump seem like stretches, like the near-total immunity for the President and limiting the application of the insurrection clause for presidential candidates. It'll be interesting to see how they re-interpret things when a Democrat is in the office - I'm guessing 3-6 will then see things differently.

That's gotta really torque Trump off. :-)

Sure, but companies only have to wait 3 more years ...

Then it's convenient they're all sitting on a girder, from which they can be strung. :-)

Ironic that they chose this image as if their work compares, at least in effort and danger, to the iron workers building skyscrapers in the original b/w photo: Lunch atop a Skyscraper. None of those "AI Architects" would ever have lunch there.