That tirade? ranting? outburst? says more about you than it does about Alan.

> tirade? ranting? outburst?

I never used those words, so I don't know what you are talking about.

Of course you didn't. Those words are describing you, not quoting.

A bit of hyperbole, regardless.

I think the more salient observation is that the author is completely detached from reality. Him writing:

"shoulder to shoulder with incredible engineers, planning ways to make web developers life's easier while raising the quality level of the web."

when Google is primarily responsible for flooding us with ad capitalism and ruining the web, portrays not only a profound ignorance of how corporations work, but a total dissociation from the -very damaging- effects of his work-seen-holistically on the real world. You don't get a free pass working for Google just because you can rationalize your particular niche as "educating users" and "raising the quality level of the web".

Towards the end, it seems to dawn on him that yeah, he "was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp". Let's hope he carries that understanding forward and distills it into a moral and ethical framework that can make the world better.

Reuters is turning into a rag. The vast majority of cutting edge research is not taking place in ossified academia these days, and most Oxford/Cambridge PhDs get on a plane to the US the moment they're done with their degrees. How is that for brain drain?

I used to live in Cambrige, several friends had PhDs. None went to the US when they got their PhDs, and some even resigned from UK jobs when their multinational employers tried to relocate them to the US.

One's in Sheffield, another went to ITER.

Citation would be helpful for these two claims

If you go to foxnews.com and read long enough you'll believe it. Does that count as a source?

But seriously I'd bet it's just the typical conflation of "innovation" of new consumer-facing products with fundamental research. A sad example of Dunning-Kruger.

The underlying strategy is so sound that Russia now effectively owns 20% of what used to be Ukraine, ground which is never going back. Their military has gained extremely valuable experience in fighting a modern war. Additionally, European economy has been decimated and the second order effects (weapon proliferation, criminal syndicates, immigration, societal effects) are yet to play out.

Throw in the ever-present threat of small-yield tactical nuclear weapons being used by Russia if it ever thinks it's in danger of losing and I fail to see the logic behind all of this. Unless of course weakening Europe, utterly destroying Ukraine and strengthening Russia was the point from the get-go. Or you just need to admit that the US fucked this one up badly (as it has almost every other war it's been involved in over the last 40 years).

How is the European economy decimated? Not saying you’re wrong, but that’s a bold statement especially without receipts.

This 20% was captured before any aid was granted.

See my previous comment, anyone learning C from K&R should not be writing C period.

That book is legendary only in the magnitude of financial damages it (directly and indirectly) enabled, caused by people who read it and thought that they could now write C.

Terrible overall and entirely wrong in multiple places. If you learn C from this book, you should't be writing C.

The last bit is also true for K&R The C Programming Language (avoid at all costs).

You're better off with:

- Modern C (whatever edition is current)

- Seacord's Effective C: Introduction to professional C programming

- C Programming: Modern Approach 2nd edition (bible)

Idiomatic to you perhaps, to me this looks ridiculous and unnecessary, bordering on masochistic.

DOGE operates in advisory capacity, it's the -elected- executive branch that has the authority to follow through and act on said advice.

You are correct about DOGE being advisory, but also mistaken that anybody other than the president is elected in the executive branch. The president is the only elected official in the entire executive branch and the only elected official elected by the entire country. All the whining about “unelected Elon” is hateful hogwash and betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about how our government works. I was honestly super confused but I guess unsurprised at this point when Warren introduced that rage bait.

> legality - RE is « forbidden » - bannable so in which you do not want to lose your account in which you have spent tens of thousands of hours or more, breaking authentication and DRM flows is [DRM, auth handshake, protecteions] illegal in USA

You are confused. Reverse engineering is perfectly legal in USA, but that of course is irrelevant when it comes to losing your account (which isn't yours to begin with).

There are no Rust bits anywhere outside drivers, and hopefully that will continue to be the case. This means that mainline Linux kernel has no hard dependency on Rust whatsoever, which also means that Rust can be excised at any point with a minimum of effort.

I'm 100% behind Christoph, the last thing Linux needs is the extra complexity that Rust brings. I'm fairly optimistic that Rust will never be a hard dependency for the foreseeable future.