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Selling leasing/licensing rights is fundamental to many industries and the government itself in many cases.

There's already regulation we can use to combat what digital "ownership" is: bait and switch.

> Just remember they signed Joe Rogan for over 200 million and he's not brought in nearly that amount for them.

The fact that they signed Joe for that amount, and continued to air everything throughout all the controversies, throughout all the COVID years, and through some artist departures over him, signals that he has more than recouped that investment for them.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-more-popular-ever-statist...

Another lesson we can learn from Sci-Fi is very often different species on a planet would have their tribal / local languages and dialects but all spoke a common tongue. I think this is the more humanizing approach, rather than delegate even more of our fleshly processing power to machines.

Nothing to do with the media platforms, and everything to do with commercial property owners and commercial real estate. Commercial real estate has big influence in this country and they won't go down without a fight. Media platforms are just shills for whoever is giving them most of their money.

This is a perfect case of thinking you are doing a net good, but in actuality just doing more harm by pissing a lot of drivers off and potentially causing a road rage incident. Do this in a large northern city and you may even get more than what you bargained for.

The size difference is like Sutter Buttes versus Mahalangur Himal, so unless it's accelerating at the speed of light, C++ will be dwarfing rust's usage for many years to come.

This is the umpteenth time large tech companies have sponsored C++'s successor. Go was famously created to eventually supplant C++ at Google (or more specifically, solve the issue of long build times). Over a decade later, C++ is very much still in heavy usage at Google.

If I were a bettin' man (or if I were trying to increase my general employment odds), and the choices were between Rust or C++, I would pick C++.

That being said, if I were in a comfortable financial position, wanted to scratch a nerd itch, and have fun programming again, I would absolutely pick Rust over C++.

But those are two very different scenarios.

> Does it make sense to still invest time to learn C++ when Rust exists?

Yes. The overwhelming majority of industry is using C/C++.

Rust is still very much niche when compared to the overall market.

Additionally, (Someone can correct me if this is wrong) IIRC, mozilla, was initially one of the biggest proponents of rust, but still just uses rust in a supplementary role. C++ still powers the heavy lifting.

At least in my case, the point being made when I say "Just remember it's not out of altruism" is to remember that it's not out of altruism.

Just remember its not out of altruism. It's very beneficial to Valve to be able to eliminate their Windows dependency. I will say, it is good when incentives align for the benefit of the consumer.

Have you ever worked with someone who treats their work as their life? They are borderline psychopaths. As if a health condition or accident will stop them. They'll be taking work calls on the hospital bed.

Or people who cannot afford unlimited data plans.

Preempting because I know we tend to be a little out of touch here: yes there are still plenty of cell plans without unlimited data, mostly among the pay per month options.

This is false, and I see the corollary as a project having a BDIF, especially if the leader is effective. Sam is unmistakably effective.

I don't think in the case of airlines we have the option to care. We are just kind of stuck with whatever the government-backed airline oligarchy chooses to do. The airlines would be the ones to have to care for it to matter. When the 737-MAX crashes occurred many frequent travelers, including myself, flat out refused to fly 737-MAX even after we were given assurances by the regulatory bodies. But after a while it just didn't matter. Life goes on, your company will book you on the plane that's the cheapest or part of their plan or whatnot, and you just get stuck being a cog in the wheel again.

The terminal is a UI, but it didn't forbid the development of GUIs and IDEs.

but the oil is to get the wheel's performance back in order. Oil isn't a reward in this metaphor.

One thing to keep in mind is a lot of the anti-covid vaccine crowd was not anti vax in general -- just anti covid vaccine.

It's the exact opposite. We former J2EE developers found Go to be a safe haven. I don't know where this is coming from.

The thing is though, it used to be the norm to pay for software. At some point, I think with the rise of "free" social network platforms that gave you tons of features, people then began expect high quality software for free (obviously not realizing they are the product).

It's ironic isn't it? On one hand we lament the plight of the OSS developer getting a pithy amount of donations relative to their value added, on the other hand if someone dare try to charge for their work, out come the pitchforks.

I have been pretty happy with the Solo Stove, but there are lots of options now.

This is why I bring a smokeless fire pit with me camping now. I swear it makes a difference, but could be placebo.

> Then again, as I said, I don't have much experience with Terraform so maybe I'm way off?

Yes. HCL is the easiest part of terraform.

State management / knowing what a particular tf apply is going to do and if it will put your stuff in an irreversible state where you have to go in and manually fix it is the hardest part. For us, we are forever struggling with IAM policies and KMS key aliases, especially if there is also a developer boundary coming into play as well.

We have no problem personifying/anthropomorphizing A.I., touting it's "brilliancy", and "creativity" and even going at great lengths to create new definitions of those terms so they can be applied to AI...until it threatens AI, then all of a sudden it's "simply a function of it's inputs!"

Which one is it?

Well, right. Avoiding is different than limiting.

FYI There are still options for nonstick pans without PFAS: https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/cookware/best-fr...

You simply cannot avoid plastics in the US, or probably anywhere in the world at this point. The water we drink, unless we have sourced it ourselves from a spring or well will come into contact with some kind of plastic tube, pipe, component, or bottle.

I live in the bible belt and visit the north frequently to visit family and I sometimes get a kick out of how most of the things I expect to be closed on Sundays where I live are closed on Saturdays. It's fun to experience.

You also get signs like "Will be Closed for Yom Kippur" like you see signs for "Closed for Easter" etc.

Google cares in as much as it helps facilitate free labor for open source projects they heavily use themselves. I would venture to guess if its critical software to google that google group is going to be nice and tidy and free of spam.

There's a whole 'nother issue here and that is in America in particular, you tend to think you have to eat "breakfast food": bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes, cereals, oats, juices full of sugar, etc.

Just eat regular food, during breakfast time. (Although eggs are fine)

> I have zero faith that they move the gaming needle

My faith is placed in the fact that they have been pouring resources that amount close to billions on making gaming a thing on iPhones and Macs.

As a long time Mac and iPhone gamer, I have seen slow and steady incremental progress. I'm personally excited for the new GPU.

Besides, I think they get the benefit of the doubt at this point. This is Apple, not Google, after all.

wow.

> https://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/

> He is best-known for the development of the storage and query execution engines of the C-Store (column-oriented database) prototype, which was commercialized by Vertica and eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, for his HadoopDB research on fault tolerant scalable analytical database systems which was commercialized by Hadapt and acquired by Teradata in 2014, and deterministic, scalable, transactional, distributed systems such as Calvin which is currently being commercialized by Fauna.

That is as an impressive of a resume as I have ever seen. Dude spawned 3 successful commercial database offerings.