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Makes sense here, then. Apple is primarily a luxury fashion company.

> Rust also has this feature, with conditional impls. Rust's approach seems more similar to the approach described in the section on extension methods, which the author admits solv…

The US continues to cede the energy revolution to China.

I'm not sure it's any more objectively gross than normal textile materials. Imagine you lived in a hairless, furless world where nothing like wool was a thing, and then suddenly we…

I'm not referring to the verb form, I'm referring to the people who call themselves things like "prompt engineer" or "software engineer" with a straight face, draping themselves in…

I hope that the people doing real engineering work out there have started thinking about a new term to describe themselves as a result of the irreparable harm the tech industry has…

Shades of "KENNEDY SLAIN BY CIA, MAFIA, CASTRO, LBJ, TEAMSTERS, FREEMASONS ": https://theonion.com/november-22-1963-1819587981/

Slapping ads on a tool doesn't improve the functionality of the tool.

Yes, they know what ar and nm do. Whether these things are relevant for day-to-day compiling of C code is watching the goalposts sail over the horizon; the original statement being…

It's not. The majority of people regularly using GCC to develop C code (IOW, the primary use case of GCC) are familiar with assembly.

The great sleight-of-hand of the 20th century is that it never went away, we all just collectively decided to stop thinking about the fact that at every given moment for the rest o…

I want to believe this is sarcasm, but it's so hard to tell these days.

No, it's clear that you haven't actually read the article. You appear to be laboring under a sort of delusion, which I advise you to do your best to remedy.

Fall how? Please be specific. The people will rise up to take down their evil leaders? With what weapons will the people be armed? With what weapons will their evil leaders oppose …

The belief that autocracies will inevitably fall (or perhaps that "the arc of history bends towards justice") is hopelessly naive. Technology is a force multiplier with the power t…

Surely you realize that this article is, in fact, about the ongoing decay of the West.

To be clear, this is absolutely not adding any sort of C++-style overrideable implicit move or copy constructor to Rust. There's not really any relationship to C++ in this proposal…

For fiber, the main costs were not the fiber itself, but acquiring the rights to lay the fiber and the labor to do so. The equipment at either end has a lifespan of somewhat less t…

All robotic home appliances will feature cameras with which people will be watching you and microphones with which people will be listening to you, all the time, forever.

I think seeing subtext here is an error. This reads like a historian who wanted to talk about a cool book they knew about, and who knew that drawing a tenuous connection to AI in t…

It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't even want to be in the consumer desktop OS market anymore, they'd rather pivot to being pure B2B like IBM did. Likewise, it's obvious that the f…

While the potential for fires shouldn't be dismissed, for batteries designed to be stationary rather than mobile (such as in an e-bike), you can use a chemistry optimized for stabi…

Free markets tend to produce monopolies. You know how economies of scale are a thing? That's another way of saying that small companies lose to large companies at scale. "Disruptio…

Even being able to simply do the task isn't enough here. It also has to do the task while also never, ever, ever accidentally folding your toddler as though it were a towel. Having…

> With a robot housemaid, I wouldn't have to get dressed. :-P Well, as long as you don't mind the workers in the robot company's telemetrics department whacking it to your robot's …