And in a single threaded loop it feels like unnecessarily having one hand tied behind your back.

To be fair, C practically insists that you use raw pointers. I think the C standard should allow references. Also some way to handle unique_pointer and shared_pointer. (I mean a way that's standard for the language.) But this would require that the pointer know how large a chunk of memory it was pointing at.

More specifically it's worse because you can't have multiple references to the same memory location even within a single threaded piece of code. It's like uselessly having one hand tied behind your back.

That would, indeed, probably be a good solution. The doing of it, though, is "not simple".

If you could trust an LLM not to hallucinate, that would be a good job for LLMs. There was a system called PLATO that tried something like that several decades ago, but it was both much too expensive and much too limited. Also much too inflexible.

While that's true, you should also expect a huge number of species to go extinct during the change. I expect humans and cockroaches would survive, but that our civilization would is much less certain.

I *think* you missed the sarcasm. The Mesozoic isn't exactly recently.

OTOH, it has a half-life of (IIRC) less than a decade. Of course, it decays to CO2.

Awwww. These non-Americans are sooooo cute. Where were millimeters and kilograms when the Reich Fuhrer and Emperor were on your doorstep?

Granted, that sort of save likely wouldn't happen today, but we are like your uncle who lives off their championship playoff run in high school 50 years ago. Except we have nukes. So don't be Bill Hader at Conan's party and start something you can't finish. Oh and good luck with the new German military build-up!!

You want to sign an NDA to stop your business secrets from getting out? Fine.

But that should not let you refuse to talk to the law.

Imagine a crook that says, "I am sorry, but my NDA with the Cartel prevents me from revealing how we get the Cocaine here."

That is NOT any different from a car repair business saying "I am sorry, but my NDA with TESLA prevents me from talking about the safety issues with their breaks.

Or a cop saying his NDA prevents him from revealing how he suspected the criminal.

No I am saying that no single database should exist for all of their customers.

Amazon does not need to store passwords in the same database they store the sales information in. One database could contain just their encrypted passwords and the emails.

Another could store customers names and addresses.

And each database could be under the control of a different director who gets to maintain their security in a different manner.

Also, Amazon has different businesses. No need for the kindle unlimited accounts to be in the same database as the music accounts. No need for the Whole Foods to be in the same database as the Amazon Fresh. No need for Amazon Medical to be in the same etc. etc. etc.

What is going on is that the businesses are doing things for their own convenience that endanger their customers. NO!

You want to run a business with a million customers? Fine - more power for you. But you do NOT get to run this massive industry in a way that saves you a ton of money but also puts all your customer's privacy in danger.

Just as a small business is required to take minimal steps to ensure the safety of their customer data, you - being a huge business - is required to take HUGE steps to ensure the safety of customer data.

You do not get to use your economies of scale to endanger your customers data.

Do you know you have TDS? You are having an argument with voices in your head.

Literally nobody is saying any of this.

I'd almost feel sorry for you people, you're obviously suffering from mental health problems. But then I remember you told us men can get pregnant and mutilated children's genitals.

There is no punishment we Americans can give you worse than the one you already have.

Trying to increase penalties is incredibly stupid. That only makes things worse. Let me be clear There is NO way to stop this kind of breach from happening again.

The problem is that morons believe they will never be robbed. There is no one with perfect security. The more valuable your data, the more likely it WILL be broken into. Every security professional or database designer (AND their bosses) should be required to sign a statement that says this every year.

AI will only make it worse as bad actors / governments will begin to set AI to find the exploits.

The only solution is to prevent companies from collecting and maintaining this level of information.

There was no need for a single database to contain 34 million people's key addresses and key codes to enter residential building. No need for a database to contain more than keycodes for more than a single building. Even if your company owns multiple buildings or runs security for multiple buildings.

The proper solution is to outlaw the creation of such massive databases. You want to contain information on more than 1 million people? Then there should be massive limitations on what it can contain. No passwords at all for something that large. Name, Address and Phone numbers should already be suspect at 1 million entrees.

If you have 34 stores, then keep 34 separate databases that have a different security system for each of them.

Oh, I long for the day when the US president had scandals about things like pronunciation, spelling, or clothing.

Can we please go back to arguing about the lack of of a flag pin rather than war crimes?

I don't believe it's been proven that Trump is personally a pedophile. Merely that he is friends with a few.

Sunk costs can make it hard to withdraw. I wouldn't read too much into that. And the precise number isn't as important as their size, which doesn't seem to be mentioned, or at least featured.