I dont know, I would like to have a an HTML page back as an option. Active Desktop was removed after Windows XP. I ran a simple web server which monitored my backup jobs for servers I administered, listed all services and hosts, some loading time statistics, and had links to view drill-down statistics. I also had some utilization graphs. Lastly, I had a security camera that took a picture every minute overlooking the view to the ocean (in San Diego where I was) that refreshed the image on a corner of my "dashboard" wallpaper. It was so nice. Whenever I wanted to check on anything, I simply minimized my windows and looked at all the green signals, and if anything was yellow, or red, it was what I paid attention to. Otherwise, I could see out the building's roof, at the beautiful ocean and skyline.

I wish they would bring a modern Active Desktop back. If they want a video, you could just run an RTSP stream or an embedded video in a web page. I miss that.

I currently work hybrid. It reduces my effective pay by around 10%, which is a hell of a cut. It gains me nothing, since all meetings - even when we're all in the same room - are via teams, because company policy.

I see no added value from visiting the office.

Once you realize it is the governments of the world that cause tribalism, and pit us against each other, you will realize what a folly it was to go to war so some politicians and can win over some other politicians. Sorry if that upsets you, but the stupidest thing you can be is patriotic. Even in America, we are far from free, and far from the sort of men who went to war over a 1% tax on tea. Our governments own us. They are in control, and we cant do shit about it. They are evil, regardless of which side of the aisle you think your side has the moral high ground. You are wrong. No peoples want to harm you, no peoples want to take what is yours. Just governments do (unless you are Palestinian, and there are Israelis around). I commend your bravery for going to fight, just not the wits you used to decide to do it for some shitty politicians. They are all shitty. All of them.

Indeed, No True Scotsman would use STL with C++.

The last job I had where I had to use C/C++, we automatically ran an expensive static analysis tool every time we checked in code. I'd estimate that it only found about half of the potential segfaults, and it made up for that by finding twice as many false positives.

Nope. If I had used st::list instead of std::vector, it would have been perfectly fine and officially supported. (Assuming I changed "i+10" to "i+11" in order to make the algorithm actually terminate, although that change wouldn't affect the vector crash.).

The problem is that there are dozens of different rules you have to remember to apply to the different types of lists and iterators. And that's only talking about that one topic. There are hundreds of other rules covering a multitude of language aspects that you have to mentally apply against every single line of code you write, many of which can potentially cause memory corruption.

Ish.

I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.

There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.

IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.

That is a dangerous misconception. You don't need to use any pointers to get memory errors in C++:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <vector>
 
int main() {
    std::vector<int> v = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
    for (auto i : v) {
        if (i % 2 == 0) {
            v.push_back(i + 10);
        }
        printf("%d\n", i);
    }
 
    return 0;
}
 
$ g++ -Wall -pedantic t.cpp
$ echo $?
0
$ ./a.out
 
1
2
-947527061
1600570778
5
6
7
8
9

Are you seriously trying to suggest that never allocating memory is not also a "straight jacket"?

You seem to be saying that a currently existing bowdlerized version C++ is safe for close-world problems. Possibly so, but that still leaves C++ unsuitable for open-world problems. That makes C++ only suitable for niche applications. Why learn it?

If you just use Rust or any other memory safe language, you won't have to worry about what kind of "world" you're writing for, or about choosing from a range of increasingly dangerous "profiles".

Oh, absolutely. These days, I spend so much time checking the output from computers, it would normally have been quicker to do searches by hand. This is... not useful.

I can fully understand that.

MS knew about it on July 14, the CVE came out on Sept 4. They were trying to save face.

It's not the fault of EVs but the fault of Regulators giving electricity generating and transmission companies what they want. In California (the canary in the proverbial coal mine for the rest of the country, just you wait), the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) hamstrung solar, by getting rid of net energy metering (NEM 2.0 here), and ushering in "net energy metering", (Nem 3.0) which makes solar name almost no sense, unless you can perfectly predict your usage and can spend a fortune in batteries.

They sell you power at $0.28/kw but but it back from you between $0.06- $0.08 which means you have to produce 4x what you need to have a 0 bill, unless you can store all you need at night, when base-load is cheap for them to produce anyway. If they wanted cheap electricity, they would encourage solar deployments everywhere, charge people for grid-connections at a size (200A @240V for example), and just charge people for the delta they consume. They would still make money, and the deployment of solar wouldn't have been halted. Batteries to some degree (1x your solar production maybe) should be mandatory but no, they screwed it all up, making the worst possible solution. Solar is no longer worth it, and the grid is only more expensive. We are idiots, governed by fools.

No matter what, you're still going to need someone in a red shirt to duck into the circuit bays and reverse the polarity.

They got what they wanted, union dues. The companies were strong armed by California, which used Insurance requirements that were absurd to force the companies to agree to unionize the drivers, the unions got the dues which they spend on non-union supporting things like political activity, and the democrats gain more union dollars and more union voters. Welcome to Commiefornia.