What do you mean "useless meetings waste time"? It sure does create a lot of jobs, drive up consumption and economy, boost GDP, and everyone is happy, no?

I've seen people whose sole job is to be in meeting, they have their calendar packed, from first hour to late evening, with meetings, and would never hesitate to set up lunch meetings (in the name of learning, of course) and late afternoon meetings, like at 5:00PM or 5:30PM and send invite to hundreds of people. Oh, and they look so busy, get accolade and promotion too.

Do the American people believe this kind of shit wholesale and don't have a brain to ask questions anymore? What do you think it would take to cramp in so much sophisticated components and a big chunk of even more sophisticated software into normal network gears to be able to monitor, recognize and disrupt nuclear arsenal communication? And, are Americans so dump to a point to run their nuclear arsenal communication without proper encryption and security infrastructure? For fuck sake, don't you think it would be a better idea to run this kind of communication on its own dedicated network? If such communication is so important, it's a question of life and death after all, what have all your security experts been doing? Didn't they have the fucking responsibility to audit every fucking component before plugging it to the network? Huawei is selling equipments, they are not running the your networks. Don't your operators test the equipment before plugging it in? Don't you have monitoring and alert systems in place to detect abnormal behaviour from those equipments, especially if they open communication circuit to some foreign destinations but not part of your normal communication service? Don't you lock down any unauthorized communication? Gee, I mean, if your institutions and operators are so stupid and your nuclear arsenal communication so easily disruptable, maybe you really deserve it.

Yet so few comments. I guess Slashdot can change its slogan now, I guess nerds are not lurking around anymore. Anyway, this is such a cool hobby.

Will there be sex scene in space, and how they would do it?

Why everyone in the west, from chief of state, to some low rank politician, to business people and every minion, has to think in terms of "countering this country and countering that country"?

A deal that's worth less than $100 millions, and it created such a brouhaha. Is it just because the acquirer has some relation with China and bashing China is an international sport now that this shit gets this kind of exposure? I don't see the so-called minister lift a finger on the ARM deal, no?

The fact that you have not heard of him is a problem with you, not that Yuan is not a household name. He is a household name in many countries, not just in China.

There are still people who die of hunger, and children who go to school every morning empty stomach, or children who had to work to have some food to survive. Is there any other animal which would die of hunger when food is abundant?

This is another example why social media is bad for you :)

Oh, my god, where to start?

If by speed of development, you mean working on a small project (e.g. prototype) that you write by yourself, or a small team of no more than three developers (who have similar level of mastery of the language and whatever frameworks you use). I can crank out 30K lines of Ruby/Lua codes quickly by myself and feel like speed of development is great too, because I know every line of code and what to expect of every parameter in every function and what to expect in return, etc. Try to do that in a multi-year large project. I'm working in a company where over 1000 developers are committing daily into a giant monolithic repository of Ruby/Rails code base. I'm not even going to go into how people abuse duck typing, pass hash of attributes from anywhere to anywhere without validation, include modules into classes with nothing in common, etc. Try to find where the function being called is implemented? Haha, have fun, especially when you have function names like "run", "perform", "execute" etc, with thousands of places called the same name, and especially when you have 3 dozens includes in that class. We spend so much time dealing with runtime exception that some "smart" people think we need to bolt the hacky Sorbet into the code base, while preaching the oh-so-great dynaminess of the language. Go figure. And let me tell you, adding Sorbet into Ruby is like dragging a huge metal ball behind while you run, and it was already slow to start with.

And maintenance. Man, I'm not even going to say anything.

In summary, use a typed language in large project with collaboration of a large team. It's stupid to use typeless languages in this case. I can't believe people jump through hoops to try to hack types into these things.

for sales too, that would fit really well with that rarest and well-positioned plots of yours. We got a deal?

Nothing is patentable, of course.

You know what, you are a piece of white trash who can't swallow the ego that western countries screwed up big times in this virus management, and you can't take it that other countries are doing well. Even Africa, which almost every western politician claimed will be in deep shit when Covid hit, is actually doing just fine. We, in these so-called first-world countries, despite our wealth, resources and technologies, can't manage that thing properly. We can't even have a proper contact tracing app, for fuck sake. I'm in Canada, despite our small population and all our resources, we are not doing a good job either. Our contact tracing app is a piece of junk too. And I said this as a Canadian. There's no one to blame but ourselves. So stop this finger pointing shit.

Every news outlet, every government agency and politician try to play on the "red alert" or "yellow plague" game, instead of owning up their own shit when they fail. Now, we see that every single bit of things from China is blown out of proportion. News outlets here, in Canada, seem to be playing the same game as well. And there are no lack of demagogic politicians playing on the fear of people. When people can't (or don't have the will to) detect baloney, and with the speed that news circulate these days, this seems like a dangerous time.

For those who want to know more in this domain, there's a very interesting book by Matthew Walker, called Why we sleep. It provides a very detailed description of what deep sleep and REM sleep do to your body.