Elon Musk openly daydreams about being Ma Huateng. What does that tell you?

Except Xi Jinping is not oppressing owners of capital. China has lots of oligarchs that in some ways have a tighter grip on society than their western counterparts. He’s oppressing people that are “inconvenient” to him.

Dead and buried?

3. Ignore the scary warning VS Code shows you when you press the button.

Trump is going to derail this, it’s basically “Microsoft Antitrust 2 - The googliest-orangest Boogaloo”

The elves and humans were significantly more powerful for most of the second age. The third age was an era of general decline.

I don’t know. Personally I’m a fan of Piyu style reeducation (or at least a more modern and humane version of it).

You can use git log --author=REGEX_THAT_EXCLUDES_DEPENDABOT ... .

If you put the phone on top of the glass while adding the Cesium it will reduce the lag by getting closer to Starlink’s satellites

AWS SLOs are going to shit aren’t they?

In other news: Chinese marketing departments caught up to Western marketing departments in overselling their products.

Lots of countries have deposits on bottles and they will very much be reused. If that’s not being done it’s a cultural/political problem not a glass bottle problem.

European Spanish calls it Piña, and Brazilian Portuguese calls it Abacaxi.

If you live in an house or a ground floor you can install a trap door right on front of the front door.

What about targeting door-to-door salespersons and missionaries?

The second from the middle is actually Czechoslovakia.

Unfortunately, despite its name, it’s a Thirth Generation Programming Language (you asked for it).

Ironically, the article claims the opposite - having sporadic (as opposed to regular or no) sex can trigger an heart attack.

So just don’t things half way.

Reading the actual article , it seems that the issue is doing some… strenuous physical activity when you are not used to it can trigger heart attacks.

It naturally contains some of the buzzwords of the time, such as fourth-generation programming language (4GL). If you’re not familiar with that term, suffice it to say that the Wikipedia page lists several examples, and Cobol has outlasted most of them.

Lots of 3GL outlived most 4GL languages, C, C++, C# Java, Ruby, Python, and even newer languages like Rust and Go are 3GL. In fact so did plenty of 2GL (assembly languages).

Programming language generations are about usage and level of abstraction not about being obsolete.