My car was hit two times. once parked, once standing still, being hit by an oncoming car driving into my lane. These things happen, I wouldn't know how to prevent those.

> but please, name a way in which the USA is worse than China Mass-incarceration.

According to NASA, having an artificial mangetic field on mars is not completely unfeasible: https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

They are improving, but most likely not at 8000, rather around 4000 cars per week: https://www.bloomberg.com/grap...

Firefox has been updated to not have high-resolution timers, so for private use, Spectre shouldn't be much of an issue. Since AMD's post on lkml, someone must have done that already, so 'seven days ago' is probably a reasonable answer.

for which you pay the price in reduced signal-to-noise in those frequency bands, making it roughly as simple as described.

Presumably, this is a poke towards systemD. It has suffered from feature-creep, which directly opposes the unix-philosophy of doing only one thing, but doing it well. Recently, there was a problem with, I believe the DNS server which is part of systemD.

Doesn't python secretly use semicolons to allow multiple statements in lamdba's ? If so, it'd only prove your point..

Adding hardware protections to software ones in order to block the ever increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea
No it doesn't. Fix the real problem

I'm quite sure it's an assert that triggers, which is something quite else than an exception. At least Torvalds is acutely aware of the distinction between the two.

Nope, falsifiable experiments are. That's what allows use to make predictions.

There's NaN (not-a-number) for that. works beatifully

I once practiced for 2 weeks on the pronouncation of a specific Shanghai subway station and failed. Chinese is for sure a very hard language for someone who's native language is western.

Probably from experience: Consistent use of stl memory classes (shared_ptr and unique_ptr) and containers (mostly std::vector) make it very hard to shoot yourself in the foot. Adhere to "Raw pointers don't transfer livetime from function to function" if you use raw pointers. These things are really easily spotted by code-review.

Well, they are moving in that direction with QML. For many apps, a native UI makes perfect sense. Not only if the UI is very demanding, but also when the UI is very simple: staying in one programming language keeps things simple.