And in a single threaded loop it feels like unnecessarily having one hand tied behind your back.

To be fair, C practically insists that you use raw pointers. I think the C standard should allow references. Also some way to handle unique_pointer and shared_pointer. (I mean a way that's standard for the language.) But this would require that the pointer know how large a chunk of memory it was pointing at.

More specifically it's worse because you can't have multiple references to the same memory location even within a single threaded piece of code. It's like uselessly having one hand tied behind your back.

That would, indeed, probably be a good solution. The doing of it, though, is "not simple".

If you could trust an LLM not to hallucinate, that would be a good job for LLMs. There was a system called PLATO that tried something like that several decades ago, but it was both much too expensive and much too limited. Also much too inflexible.

While that's true, you should also expect a huge number of species to go extinct during the change. I expect humans and cockroaches would survive, but that our civilization would is much less certain.

I *think* you missed the sarcasm. The Mesozoic isn't exactly recently.

OTOH, it has a half-life of (IIRC) less than a decade. Of course, it decays to CO2.

I don't believe it's been proven that Trump is personally a pedophile. Merely that he is friends with a few.

Sunk costs can make it hard to withdraw. I wouldn't read too much into that. And the precise number isn't as important as their size, which doesn't seem to be mentioned, or at least featured.

Pretty much agree, except that I'd use a continuous equation, probably a logistic function, have trades of over 20 years have a negative tax, and have trades of under 10 ns have a tax rate greater than 100%.

They've also removed, or made more difficult to use, features that I depend on. Probably to satisfy the phone market.

Perhaps you need to submit some stories that you thing would be more suitable. But I would only work for one of the named companies if I were desperate.

It's not clear that when you include all externalities fission power is the cheapest way to power the grid. But there are places where it probably is the cheapest way to power something. (Or if not cheapest, has other overriding benefits.)

OTOH, including all externalities is tricky. I'm always dubious when I read a claim that it's been done.

The FORTRAN IV that I wrote in the early 1960's would still compile and run today. The FORTRAN II that people were writing a few years earlier wouldn't even compile and run by the time I started programming.

It may be temporary (I doubt it), but it's not "very temporary" as the same thing has been reported for months with pretty steadily increasing urgency.

OTOH, the AIs clearly aren't good enough to replace programmers, or probably even coders. So what's currently happening is probably jobs being redesigned to use an AI where it makes sense. Expect LOTS of failures in this redesign, but it will be the successes that shape the future...unless the AIs get a LOT better. (Currently they don't understand the problem they're trying to answer.)