And for a super tight kernel team with access to formal verification tools, I may want them to have rope, shotgun, nukes, and a paperclip (don't ask).

No way in hell I want the CS recent grad who spent a semester learning "operating systems" in JAVA anywhere near critical system level components (yes, there was a time when students were being taught "OS" dev without consideration of pointers or deterministic finalization - the 90's and 2k's were wild).

So youâ(TM)re just going to âoeno true Scotsmanâ anything that doesnâ(TM)t fit the urban design that you want, stick your head in the sand, and crap on everyone who finds practical solutions to real needs?

Individual/small-group on-demand transit is a valuable ingredient in an overall urban recipe, especially when these cities (and, yes, theyâ(TM)re cities) were started before mass transit was a foreseeable reality. Robotaxis en masse actually represent a mechanism that could satisfy an incredibly wide range of transit modalities, since they could form up into virtual trains if such an approach was called for. As it stands, when electrically powered, they present a very effective bridge from where we are to many versions of where we might want to be. Making a city less passable to *force* it to be walkable is just about the best way to kill the city outright. Iâ(TM)ll invite folks to witness Valencia st in San Francisco. Public policy canâ(TM)t just be idealistically wished upon the public. Theyâ(TM)ll just walk (or drive) somewhere else.

An NSA report pushing forward adoption of a language without formal specification that relies on toolchain magic? I love rust, but now I'm going to wonder if the NSA is working supply chain compiler backdoors into our codebases...

Source: basically the entire history of the NSA...

I'm starting to feel like The Onion was just a newspaper from 20 years in the future....

Whatever. She made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs...

Heâ(TM)s not your bra, bubâ¦.

YouTube is headquartered (with a big site) in San Bruno. Lots of companies have stuff down on Matilda, so they may have some offices down there. I think the big concentration is still in San Bruno, however.

Ahem... Possessive plural would be:

pedants'

Just sayin'

If hacked self-driving subterranean cars full of cash in Las Vegas from every casino at the same time doesn't sound like the plot of an Ocean's movie, well...

Sigh... Straw man.

I make my own coffee at home. It's still not five cents per cup. If I used Folgers, it would still not be five cents per cup.

Nice attempt to weasel out of your bullshit assertion, but, no. Not five cents. Businesses have costs. The $5 cup? Probably some margin there. $1? Maaaaybe, but probably not. Mcdonalds is probably loss leading in most locations.

5 cents per cup assumes no capital expenditure (coffee maker), no operating expenses (housing, energy), no per unit or batch amortized costs (cups, filters, energy), no labor costs (okay with me if you want to zero-value your labor as a reasonable approximation...)

Folks dismissive of retail costs by factoring in only one element of total cost of production are the ones who bitch about products that are "overpriced rip-offs", even when those products are loss-leaders...

A 5 cent cup of coffee in 2020 is quite a feat.

It's because they're bald with small penises and want someone/something to blame. The other people who might believe in this stuff are too busy having awesome sex with lots of people because of their great heads of hair...

Hey everyone! I found a guy who has never been thrown out of a track day!

This is a gallingly bad answer, believed only by those with MBA's who think they can manage anything. You know what? Lots of MBA's don't think they can manage everything, because domain competence is critical to being able to handle escalations and make critical decisions.

The best engineering Director I've ever worked with had never been an engineer (came up through customer service and shipping), but he learned how to code and worked very hard to shore up that gap. By the time he left the group, he could have served as a productive engineer on our team. If he'd just pitched things to the group and hadn't known how to call balls and strikes, we could have taken some really bad directions.

Maybe someone can go back to 1985 and fix that last angular bare steel design...

If only we had a time machi....