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Do you only consider fundamental research in maths or sciences worth pursuing? Do you even realise how much of your everyday life depends on the results of fundamental research in philosophy and humanities?

You need a steady supply of new grads to keep the research going. How many exactly is a different question, of course

At least, Google has the resources and the will to support all their implementations in the long run. I don't always agree with what they do there, but at least I can be sure that it will still work ten years from now. At some point it becomes more important than implementation details

The golang implementation of protobuf sucked historically (still does, but is improving) and gogo was an alternative that fixed a lot of problems and was nicer overall. Until its creator burned out and deprecated it. Chasing a constantly moving target that you have no control over is very taxing in the long run.

On the contrary, who else is going to fund fundamental research that is not immediately useful? Stuff that prints money will have no problem finding funding, looking at the greater picture is exactly what the government is supposed to do

After gogoproto I'm hesitant to depend on another non-standard implementation, getting off gogo was a pain. This thing may be better than the one from Google (gogo definitely was), but can we be sure that it will still be around in 10 years?

You really should check out the list of voters, you will be surprised who exactly voted "yes". The list can be found here: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chat-control-the-415-who...

How many child abusers do you think there are out there?

Most infrastructure in Europe predates the EU by quite a bit

Even anatomically modern humans have gone through similar events several times in the history of our species, let alone our ancestors. Climate change itself will not be the end of humanity, but it may be the end of the current civilisation.

To be fair the situation with the Internet in deep rural Russia was never great. Not everyone lives in a city.

> The plant will produce chips for intelligent power management

> The company ... sought to capitalise on the massive AI investment boom

These chips are probably very useful and important, but I don't see what they have to do with AI. Does everything need to have the word AI these days?

> The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots

If anything, robots will make rich people richer and their position more secure. Once again, you're hoping for a technological solution to non-technological problems

But not lagers, I think

No

Yeast are not bacteria, though

> Because large scale production is generally more scalable and efficient

Rooftop solar is an example of small scale decentralized energy production, maximum efficiency is not the only relevant metric.

> And you probably don't want dozens of "microreactors" scattered across cities

Why not? If they're considered safe and pass all inspections, what's the problem?

Yes, it is an object now, at least in my book. Public/private is less important, there are examples of OOP systems with private data being optional or non-existent at all, for example in Python.

Your example lacks data. An object is the combination of data and code manipulating the data with some syntactic sugar on top

And we have a perfect instrument to express this relationship: money. If the service is really important to people they will pay money for it, and the companies can pay some of that money to utility providers. The economy works as intended, everyone is happy. Absolutely no need to invent subsidies or move the burden onto consumers

The issue is the scale and centralization of information. Let's imagine that every bar has to not only check the id of every customer but do it automatically: every time you enter a bar anywhere in the country you must have your id scanned by a government-issued system. Are you still ok with it?

Humanity has been able to land stuff on the Moon for 60 years. It's not easy, but not particularly cutting edge as well. A modern EUV machine is much more complicated

> Different programming languages are very obviously not the same thing

It isn't obvious to me at all. The difference between Java, C# and Go is about as important as the difference between Makita and Bosch for power tools. Yes, some people swear by one or the other, but by the end of the day it really doesn't matter

Wait till you hear how many programming languages there are

It's called empathy, we don't have to experience exactly the same thing as other people to be able to understand them. The author himself never experienced the things he's writing about. Do teenagers lack empathy? Of course, but this is education, after all

Are kids "ready" to deal with organic chemistry? Or integrals? Do you think that more people will need the knowledge of the reproductive system of plants than the skill of reading and uderstanding large texts? Not simply understanding the words, but actually analyzing and comprehending what's being said

Out of 141000, about 15%

Someone stalking you is not cute even if they don't try to talk to you

> ICE -> EV is not a 30 year transition

> I’d be surprised if there’s a consequential ICE industry after 2040

It started in the 00s, really took off around 2010.

And don't forget that 2040 is in 14 years. You can buy plenty of brand new ICE cars today, the majority of them will definitely still be around in 14 years.

Also known as contract programming vs. defensive programming. This argument is very old, is not specific to golang, and I have found myself on both sides at different points in my carreer.