Or maybe it should challenge their dating techniques. I can't say I know how long ago dinos walked around since none of us were there, but maybe it was a lot less time than 115M years ago.

Yes, legally it's still your code since you're the one that approved it to go into the project (even if you automated that).

Interesting that you don't think human reviews help, especially on complex tasks where domain knowledge is really important, but perhaps the projects you work on are not like that.

I am curious as to how well junior and/or new devs do in an environment like that, as well how they ever make progress to becoming senior devs that can handle more complex tasks and architecture. Reviews are 1 way I mentor the juniors with things like "while what you have works, those 5 lines can be done with 1 line like *this*" ... or "did you know we already have a tool that does that, which you've duplicated so you need to use that?" ... or "I see you've solved for the happy path, but did you consider what will happen when you get input like *this*, which I've seen with 3 customers?" [Yes, the juniors use AI to help solve their problems, but they don't have the experience to know if what AI gives them is always good.]

BTW, if you have automated testing for *all* of your code, count yourself very lucky. No company I've worked at in my 35+ years has ever given me the time to create everything needed for full testing (most don't even care about tests at all); not to mention that some of the stuff I work on is next to impossible to write tests for, as we'd have to coordinate multiple services, inputs, and have something that can watch a front-end for the correct real-time updates all at the same time ... not impossible but so difficult I imagine it'll never get written.

So you don't have code reviews where others have to look at your code? I guess you must be doing a hobby project.

I was thinking of something like: why not pay for solar panels on people's houses (or in their yards). That will lessen what those in the house need, and perhaps even more than needed will be generated to go to the grid (and them). It would also be a 1 time cost to write off not some ongoing payment. (Although I wouldn't be surprised to find out they somehow weasel their way out of paying for electricity they make people give up for them.)

Then I guess it's good I'm going to retire in ~5 years. I haven't used C professionally for larger programs in some years (just small ones), but I still remember it well enough from the 10 years that I did that I can look at a C program and know what's doing in fairly short order. By changing programs/libs to Rust, you're limiting the number of people who can/will work on OSS projects, as I and I'm sure others don't know Rust and have no plans to pick it up.

There are a number of other tasks I can do for OSS, but are you really sure limiting the number of developers is what you want? If it is, enjoy the work but don't ask me for help with the code.

To take up extra space, use more electricity, and give me wrong answers? I don't think I've missed that point. In fact, I experienced it twice today where AI gave me factually wrong answers.

You don't live far enough "out" then. If you lived rural or even semi-rural, there are no sewer or water systems to every house ... only electric lines thanks to the REA of last century (in the US). So you have to do those yourself. I have well water and an anaerobic septic system (older places use leach fields). As long as you have electricity you have water and sewer covered (and as long as the systems don't break but they have fairly long lives).

I actually read the article (I know, the the summary should be enough here. :) It's not any more specific only saying "cancer". If they're not going to say what type of cancer a more sedimentary life causes, them I'm going to call BS on it. At the very least they are too vague and really mean "a slower life means any cancer you're going to get anyway will advance a little faster"; but I'm not sure they even mean that. Think about an easy example, smoking can cause cancers of the body parts the smoke comes into contact with: lungs, mouth, throat; that makes some sense. But what does a slower life effect directly that could cause cancer *there* (wherever that is)? Cancer of the butt muscles?

And how many vulnerabilities in Windows 11 have "no patch available"? The problem is that we can't know what the number is because it's all closed source and MS doesn't want to show their dirty laundry. Sure, we know some via open CVE's, but there are others that I'm sure MS knows about that aren't on the list. I will say that if I search for "open CVE's on Windows 11" I get a list of about 2800.

I don't worry about missing Linux patches all that much because I work on stuff behind firewalls with no incoming exposure to the internet. It probably sucks to have to support any server with any OS with internet exposure now days.

You must be doing something unusual then, because any thing I've ever done in Oracle (SQL) is available in Postgresql. Postgresql can also do DDL in transactions, so you don't have use some 3rd part tool to change your DB. There there are all of the non-standard things in Oracle starting with NULL and '' being considered the same thing and no real integer types (those get silently converted to number), and... (I have a good-sized list of things Oracle does that is non-standard or really annoy the heck out of me, none of which are a problem in Postgresql). If Oracle works for you and you like throwing away money, enjoy it. Me, I'll take the ease that comes with Postgresql, and the not having to fight the DB software.

I can't speak to APEX.

The memory leaks that never get fixed. They've gotten a *little* better lately, but FF still sucks down memory from time to like like a process gone rogue. The about:processes page generally don't tell you which tab, but only confirm you do have a problem.

FF just stops working on some pages from time to time while the pages work in Chrome.

Lately there have been more *extras* that have been thrown in, stuff that really doesn't belong in a browser and I have to go hunting to turn them off (e.g. I didn't ask for that weather pop-up and I'd swear I turned it off before but maybe that was on the work computer). Most of the time there is a setting but sometimes you have to go into about:config to really stop them. Their "DNS on HTTPS" broke a few sites at work which was mystifying until I found it and turned it off, because it prevented finding local servers. None of these things is large individually (not even Pocket because it was easy enough to ignore), but it's a large number of annoyances ... as in "death by a thousand cuts".

There are a number of defaults that are annoying, made more annoying because there used to be a setting to control them and make them better (like controlling upgrades) ... but those settings were removed. So now if you're lucky you have to do things to a userContent.css file to "fix them"; or if unlucky then there is no fix. And then FF keeps changing the names or something for no obvious reason because those settings break, and... (it never ends).

Found a icon up top the other day, to quickly bring up extensions, as if the option in the Tools menubar pulldown wasn't good enough. Since I almost never bring up extensions after I do the initial customization I tried to remove it and ... you can't. Why not?

The thing about FF is that it's generally better than Chrome in that you generally have at least some choice ... cue the topic of this article which is a big negative and "kills the user" in 1 blow. OTOH, FF likes to "kill the user" with a thousand little cuts. So with FF at least you survive a little longer, disliking it the whole time.

Sure, for some people their location and circumstances work against them. Live in an apartment or condo and the owner won't help with a charger? You're going to have to rely on public fast chargers or charging at work (if the company does that and most don't) ... if this the case, an EV may not be a good choice for you. Live in house that has a small (100A or less) electrical mains? Yeah, that can get expensive to upgrade and it sounds like what your father ran into. That's a sucky situation also.

However, if a person lives in a home where they have an electric dryer in the garage, plug into that when you need to charge and you'll probably be good. You can even purchase your own charger box with a dryer plug and install it yourself. Don't have that or have a small mains? Consider plugging into a 120V receptacle. Sure, you'll only get about 30-40 miles of charge a night, but that's the average of what most people drive per day. You can double that by getting a small charger device that plugs into 2 120V receptacles which are on different breakers (and don't run anything else on those circuits) to get a low 240V circuit for 60-80 miles per night. They also make these "collars" for your electric meter where you can connect a new circuit and then run that to a 240V plug if the run isn't too long. If you're in a home, there are enough options I'd be surprised if 1 of them didn't work unless there are very exceptional needs.

Looking that course up it seems that's about proving algorithms and other stuff, so maybe you do need more advanced math skills for such a theoretical course. My 39 years of experience is that 2 years of high school algebra is good enough for the typical programmer. I've worked 2 jobs in my time where higher math was needed, but the employer hired someone with a Phd in math to figure out what needed to be done, the rest of us did the UIs, the DBs, the infrastructure, etc. I'm not dismissing higher math, there are places where it's useful, but most programmers don't need it. Hmm, I also see that course isn't required to graduate, so some of those students shouldn't be taking it if they're not sure of their skills/knowledge.

I admit I've not worked in this sort of business, however I have worked on defense contracts where security was priority #2, right behind making the thing we were working on work. Convenience was far down the list. You can have a connection that writes outward only, hence you can get your data in near real-time but the system itself can't be changed from the outside. In the worst case, you copy the needed data to some media that is moved to an outside network, do that on whatever frequency is required, whether hourly or daily ... that's what we had to do on the defense project and we used mag-tapes and printed reports (ugh). I'm sure there are other ways to accomplish the needs and still be secure (your VPN idea is probably one). The point is there are ways to make breaking into these sorts of system dang near impossible by people sitting in another country; we just need to spend some money and do it, which I suspect is what's really stopping it because many won't see the need until some place is broken into and people are injured or killed because chemicals were dumped into the system incorrectly.

I wished I had mod points because you deserve a +5 Insightful for that. Really, why are we so lazy? I understand wanting all of that stuff on a network, but put it on a private network that you can only get to if you're at a company site. No bridges either, it's special terminals on the private network or you can't access it. Yeah, it makes things more inconvenient, but that the way it goes: it's always security versus convenience ... pick one.