> ubisoft is in fact not in your house with a gun to you head demanding you play assasins creed 15 but if someone else enjoys the "woke nonsense" who are you to complain, just dont play it, let other people enjoy things, nothing is ruined for you.

Isn't that exactly what happened?

Setting aside the absolute purist position of Stallman, the point of the copyright law was to give protections to the creators with the understanding that the created works would enter the public domain so that they can constitute a common culture. This was initially 14 years, which was quite reasonable, that later turned into life + 70 years, that is the cause of distrust in that law.

If you polled non-teenagers, I doubt that the majority would suggest a 100 year copyright protection was a fair period. Laws should reflect the consensus of fairness, not behind the scenes deals with politicians by organized power centers.

> gamers suck, the worst and most annoying and most entitled group of fans who never know what they want and demand everything

The customer is always right.

It's not a monolithic group. Almost 50% belong to it. The gaming marketplace has a lot of choice. So studios actually have to compete. They should be glad that their customers are letting them know exactly what they want and if they can't, they will lose business to someone who can. That's the essence of a free market, no?

> all they demand is whatever the next trash from unisoft has

They are not, which is why Ubisoft is crashing to the ground.

> while not paying any attention to the entire mid and indie level scene where there are also really good movies being made

But that is exactly what is happening. Indie segment has had a resurgence because AAA has lost the plot. Indie segment is set to double over the next 5 years while Ubisoft is going underground. That sounds exactly like what you want.

Early adopters of computers did not get much of a return of investment either: expensive machines, each vendor had their own ecosystem, far fewer features than today, employees had no prior skills.

It's being comfortable with someone who rants about his personal political views that don't align with me.
James Watson was humanity's finest. His contributions defined science. He said a few controversial things, late in life. I felt the response was excessive. It's not as if he actively harmed anyone. He said words, disagreeable things, over things he had no power to change, .........in his 90s.
The cancel culture should at least make exceptions to those with outsized contributions to our species.
Any one in their 90s earned the right to be cantankerous, just as it is normal for little children to throw tantrums.

Or... people change. We become cynical as we age.
He had a lot going wrong in his later life.
I just remember him for the artist he was in his early career.

s/is/has/

I agree with all that.
Underpowered studies are a bane in medicine and nutrition research is ruined the reputation of science among lay audience.

I disagree. I see both sides. Medicine and the computational side.

Research in medicine is full of con-founders, inadequate samples, and imperfect experiments. The confidence you bring from clean and sophisticated methods and analyses misleads you in interpreting messy evidence (I understand that you say that education research is similar). I care as much or more about where the research was conducted than what they wrote in the paper because most research in medicine is plain wrong in its conclusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The statistical methods used medical studies are relatively much simpler than in say, engineering. That's not where gotchas are. So we need robust studies, a convergence of evidence, and meta-analyses from competent centers.

> And C++? I am not even sure you can port that to Rust without essentially writing a compiler that adds all the missing OO features. Rust has limited and very non-standard OO. Which makes sense given its aims, but not when you come from C++.

GenAI will generate the code.
Rust makes most sense to C++ devs since it is essentially encoding C++ best practices into a nicer, more modern language.
People who have migrated C++ to Rust have reported good experiences for years. Microsoft had plenty of experience in the area.
AI can sort out the necessary transformations in type structure.

Not really. Rust was always built to gradually replace C++.
They don't need to do a complete rewrite of anything at once.
It will coexist in each C++ project, slowly replacing things, few types and functions at a time.

It still would have been a mammoth task in the past. But GenAI automates much of this.
Rewrites aren't as big of a deal now, compared to 3 years ago.
This is what GenAI is supposed to do. Improve agility. Better conform to best practices etc.

On the up side, it means they won't layoff devs too much, since keeping up with changes is still lots of work.

Everyone can read papers. Not everyone is qualified to understand them in proper context.

Unless you have at least a masters in the related subject, ideally a PhD, your ability to vett the papers in that domain should be assumed to be rather limited, especially when you are arriving at conclusions that the experts aren't by consensus.

In biology and medicine, evidence works differently than in tech. Controlling for confounders is much harder.

You might have misremembered it. Or the author was dumbing it down for the ease of the audience, especially if it was a lay-public science magazine.
It's a scientific category. Legal definitions are local. The term did not originate in US and it took a while to take hold in US.
Here is the Brazilian epidemiologist who coined it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

> things that couldn't be made in a normal kitchen

It's a definition that a random influencer would give, not one used in science.

Nova is the most recognized classification/definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The stuff you mentioned fall under: "minimally processed foods". That's the healthiest category.

Cottage cheese is in the minimally processed category.
Cheddar is processed. You don't need any special technology to make it. It was made by aging it in damp caves in the 12th century.
Cheese singles are ultra processed.

> Although I don't buy the worst food because we have health standards here

We have health standards to protect us from food poisoning and poisoning from additives.
We don't have health standards to protect us from chronic diseases.