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That is the point of fun, only you (should) know, otherwise the more important point before is to find that out.. :)

> Even if I don't need the money, I would still very much enjoy making some.

It seems you and also that guy didn't yet?

Those articles and our experience about modern obsolescense and optimizing the last cent of products out increase... yet I'm not seeing really the counter trend, but maybe it is yet so hidden I have just not found it? If anyone has..

Why are there no companies claiming robustness / longevity above everything else? Really (my wife might have a say still), I would give a shit about the design and looks of a product if it guaranteed 10/20 years or even lifelong usage, and I would also pay double price at least for true guaranteed and proven quality.

And also why are not more test reviews / magazines focusing more on this aspect? I barely find anything about that. (Yeah, I know one part to this is you will often only find out after 10 years..)

But still, it seems so many peope would be interested in such products, longevity, repairability.. but from multisockets over fridges to cars, every company is just releasing a dozen different products a year (and often you cannot even figure out the difference between SuperDuperRaido1080 vs SuperDuperRadio1085+) that will break soon.

Besides it just making sense would also be very nice and important ecologically.. but where, how? HELP! I have gone on daylong web/magazine researches for all kinds of products, you get lost in advertisements, and usually you are still disappointed by quality 1 month or latest 3 years down the road :(

C seen by some for a long time as a "high-level" assembler :D, and if you choose a safe subset.. and given also e.g. how the LLVM pipeline and other compiling works, and how old and widespread C is, I think it is a clever portability and reuse a lot approach, and the fear of too many parts is exaggerated and not much different from other transpiling&compiling (that difference is also very blurry one and depends on viewpoint, don't think there is one precise definition for that?) pipelines... also not the first to do so.

They sent two flash chips full of names with the lander, they are transmitting whole hi-res pictures and even Apollo missions already had at least 1.6 kbit/s, sorry but those 64 bytes would have fit everywhere.

But yes, that message didn't exist for other reasons.

While true that most personal impact is tiny vs industry/the whole world we still just shouldn't be ok with dumping waste thoughtlessly?

In the end a lot of stuff is still caused by 8 billion insignificancies..

And imo also this straw (strawman) argument has been exaggerated. Yes, it is also a tiny and mostly insignificant bit, but where was it blamed to be the root cause of the plastic problem? It is another tiny simple thing one can just avoid without much personal luxury impact, so where is the problem? Trying to draw that into ridicule like this not much better, imo.

Proving what? With a sample size of 1 that is all just survivor bias so far... and after all we know it is ending soon

We need a real godly or technological wonder (a real wonder, not something like fusion what is on the horizon), or maybe just humanity coming to reason and agreeing and uniting and doing the right thing (ok yes, now I am getting really ridiculous, the least likely to happen) to avoid that filter.

With a bit of luck humanity may endure though.. in the hundred thousands on medieval level with some more luck..

Depends on what you want to achieve, but with that attitude humanity would not have gotten anywhere.

Yes.. there are definitely online-people, and offline-people, or text-async-comm people vs personal-comm-people: for one the one way of communication is more convenient, for others the other, and for some there is barely a difference.

But this is imo fully orthogonal to Juniors not daring to ask questions, and depends on personality, the environment, the mentors, and maybe also the online- or offline-affinity vs the most prevalent tools, but as far as I observed that is the least impacting it...

No you are right. All the fish were in there (and most now dead :(), this is a hotels lobby that maybe was a few degrees colder than previous winters, but still comfortable - and the fishes also need their temperature.

Except

> I guess its cylindrical shape is dependent on it being full of water

no, or how do you mean that?

This is really nonsense, and it was already nonsense shortly after it happened, why does such rumor even stick on HN? Most likely, and officials assume it too, is material fatigue.

That is one eventual first quick assumption by some (mostly nontechnical journalists), but nothing official and confirmed, or you have sources? Otherwise please don't sell this as fact. Knowing the place, it still had heating, so I personally find this also unreasonable.. would only make sense to me if it got to freezing temperatures or below 4°C, but that for sure wasn't the case.. I doubt that place was much colder than at other times, like maybe 2-4 degrees.. but if you have any real details on that this would be welcome.

Okok, amazing! But far from the controlled thing we'd like to have? :D

Yeah, on top of that add wading through legacy code, figuring out why wtf, this is crap, just to figure out most times it is actually crap, but then at least equal amount of times that there was a very good reason to do it that way, either technical or by business logic... cannot imagine how any AI system could have success there without getting towards the true AI singularity.

This kind of code that I'd believe makes up 99% of all code out there that is worked on, is not available to the public for training. What to do about that? Rewrite all?

> I can't imagine the amount of corporate brainwashing needed to get to this level of thinking.... Not having to be a wage slave to survive is a good thing for humanity.

Corporate brainwashing, why? That is just realistic. I mean we know earlier people with much harder lifes actually had more free leisure time.. and even Ford imagined with all the automation we may be able to work much less and have better lifes.. still here we are: A few people making tons of money, some soing very good to okayish, but the vast majority doing 2-3 low paying crap jobs to survive.. and we all even workong more than decades ago. How?

I claim pipe dream, otherwise AIs can program themselves and we will have the singularity. Will it be good or evil?

That, but also mimicing the pressure of the sun here is just not possible (yet? :D), why we need to play with higher temperaturs with different problematic consequences.

Seconding... WOW JUST WOW.

How can this not receive more attention here? (everyone had "root" to production with all user data, without any approach to limit that if they wanted, nothing what could be called staging/dev envs, employees installed spyware regularly only caught by incidents and self-reporting, and they never made an effort to buy licenses for the software used).

Sorry, but in most other business except tech, that's just fraud on many levels?

Sounds like a massively failed company, making one wonder how could this be running so well for so long? And puts another question mark on what the thousands of employees had been doing.. and also on all the "we were such a nice community posts"? Not? Someone tell me this is business as usual?

> If you had the hardware, would you rather see it used or see it dog slow trying to load UI components from disk?

Fallacy already starts at this assumption?

And then there is also the one more/bigger whatever I'd want to open and be happy when that is available right away.. memory efficiency also usually often correlates quite perfect with runtime and power efficiency and even responsiveness..

> but on a machine with 8 GiB of RAM, would you not rather see it being used?

Definitely no, wtf is that? :D At least not for the DE that should enable my work..

> but in practice, every company I've worked for has modified it to suit management desires

I agree that is the way it is often, but that is to the argument to the poster before: not SCRUM anymore.

reread post above please.

Doesn't need kids to cringe for one's life is all I can say, and fine to take any fun for that away :p

Come on, the dentist is also the dentist... taking those titles to personally imo is a too big identitiy to start with. We know you are all individuals ;)

Sounds like a threat, and that something is what?

Also seeing enough whole companies buing fully into remote, and more and more remote teams happily working together.. and tbh there sure are jobs/people for which this doesn't work out - but then good that there is more for both sides?

For those it works it is not just a lot of saved time, the flexibility to hire anyone anywhere (a lot of people are not ready to move their whole life for a new work) but also just great for environmental impact, imo.

and what is 3int16? nint16? you want to have an own calculation system about sizes in your calculations? Either go straight just unbounded ints like some languages (e.g. Python) already do, or nothing.. and it comes with a cost.

Very ignorant! One can avoid wasps initially, or also later move them more peacefully. They are very important pollinators (we lack more&more) and even have more cool duties. Not sure about your wasps over there, the annoyance factor of the wasps in Germany is usually heavily overdramatized and human arrogance at its best.

The title said "evolutionary response" not active response, which is a fine term in that regard, but others said enough to that.

However, I don't get how this is anything clickbaity here over your title, please explain!

Its almost Godwins-law-like now that every article mentioning evolution will have this nitpicking.. Is it pedantic monday already again?

You are overly pedantic as well :D

(Noone thinks that "getting born" involves intelligence choosing, the point you are repeating applies sometimes, but here out of context imo.)

> Maybe I'm being a bit pedantic here

Not only maybe a bit.. every evolutionary response is surviving and passing on something beneficial for survival/reproduction, which includes new born with it then.. come on!

They "believe" the major shift is due to Rust, while they continously improve also their C++ tools, and the count in also all violations (even mabe more theoretical ones?) found by those .. I have no doubts about the actual claim, but especially this quite sounds like they may have made more out of this correlation==causation than there maybe is, I believe ;)

If it was about a semicolon it even sounds more like running with not all warnings on. C++ is "bad" (shorting a lot) due to its compatibility being able to also compile last centuries code.. but if today on active code bases you are not even running with at least that, why would you ever switch to Rust?

And full agree, all what cppcheck does imo should have long gone into the warning suite, and Werror and Wall should be the default..