I wonder if a country could just pass a law saying that from 1 year ahead all SW in public administration must be Open Source, as public transparentcy ought to demand anyway. I bet that it is far less trouble and loss compared to the trouble keeping especially MS around. If there is no way back, I am sure they will handle it, but if they keep MS as a fallback, nothing happens, because all the MS centric IT people will block it.

I am on both impressed and disappointed with AI software development. Impressed when it can analyse logs and code and pin point the course of a bug for so I can save 30 minutes. Or when it can give me a huge template for code I can start with instead of spending hour coding it myself and/or googling libraries to use. Disappointed in code generated too often doesnt work in the, and I have the feeling I should have done it myself - fortunately something discovereable up front most of the time. But also cost: For private, hobby programming the API costs are very high.

Most governments in Europe are "unelected" by your apparent difunition. The Secretary of X and Supreme Court judges in the US are all "unelected" as well. In principle PROTUS is "unelected" by that difinition. But they are all appointed by someone elected. The EU commision by the national governments ( which are apointed by national parlaiments), and the EU parlaiment. The democratic problem with EU is, that far most Europeans only care about their national government when they vote. When there is a unpopular dicision the national politicians blame on the EU. The press doesn't report well from Brussels, and noone can figure out who decides what in Brussels.

It's all crap. My experience with MS is that they make half finished solutions just good enough that all their users wont take the efford to change to something else. And as the barrier is very high due to integrations in various administrative systems and lot of engineers and IT people, who dont know anything else, they can keep delivering poor quality. Same thing spilled over into the cloud where all the MS dominated IT department choose Azure, they can keep push unfinished products there as well, claiming feature parity with AWS so the IT departments have their back free.

Replace the air with N2, no oxygen. The chance of a mold evolving to handle that must be slim, but it is still posible: https://biologyinsights.com/ca...

You sound like a certain orange man: People you disagree with are horrible persons.

You kind of understand why most phone calls are so easily compressable, when you listen to phone call between your wife and mother in law

I can see one thing for ReactOS over Wine approach: If they support Windows drivers. Otherwise it is waste of efford to reimplement hardware compability when Linux or BSD or Darwin kernels have already done that - and even added a feature in the kernel making Windows locking mechanisms "native" instead of emulated.

Wind power requires a strong net due to the flucturating output of the wind turbines. Maybe more modern turbines can regulate themselves better to avoid fluctuations. I remember that wind farms were sold with a large condensator bank to absorb the flucturations to avoid overloading the outside network.

It doesn't even help to get a democrat as president: US have shown, they can even re-elect such an unreliable president, running from all agreements, even those he made himself. To trust the US in the future will be stupid: The next president might do anything. The old check-and-balances system the Americans are so proud of, is clearly out of order. Plus - or due to - problems with totally biased press, given wrong and highly politically filtered information.

I can (at least could) faster than many of them on my racing bike. If they switch of the electric assistance at 25-30km/h they are just like bicycles. Otherwise, I agree with you.

For people to have children they need living space and financial stability. That is hard when all jobs move to the cities. You cant have kids and long commute times either. But due to high specialisation in the job market the jobs have to be in major cities.

They can also keep working much longer than blue color workers, who often get physical problems with their back, knees etc from working in not so comfortabil positions. As a software developer, I also feel like retireing here at my early 50s, but at least it is not due to any medical problems.

Because higher effectivness lower prices and therefore increase demand. But sometimes a new technology can replace workers, such they have to find new jobs. But I'm not seen AI replacing engineers, just a tool making trivial stuff easier. Therefore we ought to see an overall increase in engineering jobs, as the cost is lowered, and therefore it id more attractive to invest in product development.

To be honest, I dont like it either. And I dont like too many government rules. I like public funded social security better: If you have good enough unemployment benifits, you as an individual has a bargaining chip: you can simply quit your job if your unsatisfied with out becoming poor. But that goes away if you, for instance, buy a too expensive house and cant hold off the morgage for very long. In the big cities, people buy to their income limit and are therefore vulnerable financially.