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.

For deaf, since one of the features is captioning a speaker.

On the one hand, I know all too well that the AI will screw it up some.

However, if you watch closed captioning, you know that the captions are already frequently messed up, long before even AI was a possible strategy. Usually the live captioned stuff had lower quality, but you'd see it in scripted shows too.

I also wonder about the converse, captioning someone using sign language for those that don't know it.

But that FOV is just so tiny....

Since the Mickey Mouse character has changed over the years and has been quite different from the Steamboat Willie version it might be considered to deviate enough from their logo to be considered no longer protected.

For a work in the Public Domain I understand why Disney don't answer. Anything they say could be used against them in court.

Also realize that the hardware constraints are fictional. I have installed 24H2 Enterprise LTSC on several computers that shouldn't allow it on my workplace.

I'd consider to avoid C/C++ for anything but the most time critical functionalities.

Given his other examples were mostly containing real stuff, you seem to totally agree.

The railroads continue to be key to this day, even if they overreacted in the day.

The Internet infrastructure absolutely is critical now, despite the somewhat false start.

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.

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.

We live in the Max Headroom world.

The offices in other places will also be a lot cheaper.

Even if you have logs you need to have someone able to process and interpret them.

I'm just waiting for the day someone successfully makes an intrusion and then locks out everyone using Entra / Microsoft Accounts from their computers. If you can't log in anymore and you have bitlocker enabled on your hard drive then you'd lose everything.