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What is the chance that someone saves them from bankruptcy?

Not really. Watch: "Are We Really 99% Chimp?" https://youtu.be/IbY122CSC5w

Hanlon's razor never applies when politics or money is involved. Best to just suspend your judgement instead of giving politicians the benefit of the doubt.

This is explained in the talk he gave. One of the benefits is that with new syntax the semantics can change without breaking backward compatibility, e.g. [[nodiscard]] can become d…

I am curious about companies who survived/flourished despite seemingly key employees quitting or employees quitting en masse.

My impression from reading about chess engines online is that drawing is far simpler if that is your explicit goal. Several comments online on different websites claims that they a…

I agree. My guess is that institutional malice is fully explained by economic incentives 99% of the time. Which the version from the other comment cover: "Never attribute to stupid…

Yes, thank you, I was in fact primarily (but not exclusively) thinking of economic incentives! I will use your phrasing from now on.

I personally find this saying extremely overrated and damaging in many cases. Especially considering the pacifying effect it can have on attempting to undo certain injustices. Best…

Successfully? The last line from the AI indicates otherwise.

Yup agreed, commented the exact same below.

Agreed. But if you could maintain a system that avoids a very unlikely scenario with possibly huge disastrous consequences, then why not?

You are correct of course. The 3 children per woman limit is still the smallest number that accommodates for the 2.1 average required for replacement level. To achieve equilibrium …

It could also be that they see no scenario ahead where they want the average number of children per woman to be above 3. I don't think China wants back to exponential growth ever. …

Concurrency/Parallelism is the number one reason I move a project from Python to any other language. It's one the few areas where Python can't provide a gracious frontend or an acc…

New version bumps after 8 are not necessarily major.

Agreed. Just gonna drop this here: Nicolai Josuttis “The Nightmare of Initialization in C++” [0] [0] https://youtu.be/7DTlWPgX6zs

The problem is not just complexity, but complexity with tons of pitfalls.

Kind of ironic that I would agree with you. The reason I still wrote it is that my opinion just recently changed from liking C++ but understanding the pitfalls to a more pragmatic …

But that is not inherently a bad thing. If we look at programming languages as tools, it makes sense for them to get out of date and new ones taking their place, with all the lesso…