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Your local bike store should have a nice selection. I use my EV bike all the time and the car I keep for those few trips where the bike doesn’t work just sits… You should too. Don’t forget to check out the local transit options (and if - as is likely - they are bad demand better)

The question is do you want that business to remain around? I buy things from the local hardware store because they have weird things in stock that I can get in 15 minutes if I need it. I want that business to stay around so I will pay a little extra even if I don’t need today’s thing now. As a kid I remember cheering when WalMart came in and ran several local business out of town - the ones that combined high prices with worse customer service (worse customer service than WalMart!) I say good riddance to.

Raid often comes with snapshots which can recover from your mistakes. Often the raid can even recover after malware encryhts your disk. you still need offline, offsite backups for the best protection but raid is still a useful part of your data safe

None of the the benefits you state apply to something a distribution provides and so I don’t understand why Ubuntu is pushing them.

my python doesn’t need to parse to pass cI, at least to long as I don’t write tests that run that code section. Checkmate all languages that have to compile. /s

Rust’s package manager doesn’t manage c++, python, or anything else. Since the real world should not be one language to rule them all any package system must handle all possible languages. Otherwist they are lacking.

I said this is a hard problem and might not even be solvable.

rust is not better than C++ if you are in any of those cases where rust doesn’t work. Not really worse, but not better either. If it works for you great, but it is worse for me as rust fight our homegrown system (which has a lot of warts )

Dependency management has to deal with the real world where what we didn’t know in 1970 hurts us.

I was a lot more productive in C++ 15 years ago when the current project was 100% greenfield. Now that the code is 15 years old I’m much less productive because over the years we have discovered mistakes we made. I suspect I’m still more productive than the average C++ programmer because 15 years ago modern C++ was known (c++11 was still a couple years away though) and so we didn’t do a lot of the mess that people hate on C++ for.

Which is to say I want to know how productive those programmers will be in 15 years when the shiny of rust has warn off and they are looking at years of what seemed like a good design but current requirements just don’t fit.

Added on top of that is a modern dependency management system that is severely needed in languages like C and C++

I won’t disagree, but what Rust did is not the correct answer. Better than C++ perhaps, but not good enough. In the real world my code is more than Rust. I’m having trouble using rust because all my existing code is C++ and the dependency management does not work well with my existing build system and dependency management. If you want a dependency manager it needs to cover all languages and be easy to plug in whatever I’m doing currently. This is NOT an easy problem (it might not even be possible to solve!), but if you fail you are useless for all the times where dependency management is hard.

Abuse. I don’t agreewithfree speach in all things. I doupt anyone does. I don’t want to see constant (to the point of only) ads for vbucks. I don’t want threats to my person. There are a few other things like that, that I think we all agree on., I then have a personal list of things like porn or swearing that iidon’t want to see but some of you do. Where to draw theelineethus isn’t clear but there is one.

Unfortuately c++ interoperability is hard. I wouldn’t write c++ without vector and other containers (templates). Or classes complete with inheiritance (rarely multiple) and thus name mangeling. I now have millions of lines of that stuff and it is hard to write anything else because it has to mix.

I like the legacy plan I’m on. I don’t get netflix included - but I never use that anyway, and meanwhile I get more data for the same price.

That missile may be used by Ukraine defending against Russians attackers trying to kill them. Sure people die as a result of your work, but you also allow others to live.

The real unethical thing is for anyone - regardless of where you work - to allow your military weapons to be used for “evil”. (Note that I didn’t define evil)

The romans made leap day Feburary 24th, and renumbered the days following that. So you are not asking the right question.

Crying over some C code I have to work with. I’m supposed to do a quick proof of concept but with all data passed by global variable.

Nothing is exposed. There are things I want exposed, but I don’t want to keep security patches up to date, even if there is a zero day. I’m looking for someone trustworthy to hire for things that it would be useful to expose, but they are hard to find.

So would learning violin though, and I personally would prefer to play violin.

300 indigenous languages in the US sounds about right. English would not be one of them, even though English is the dominate language in the US. There were a lot of different native tribes before the “white man” arrived, and they had their own language and culture, which a few people maintain (in some form) today.

What does normal mean in this context? There are many different languages in the world. Romance languages are all pretty similar, as are Germanic languages. English is a mix of Germanic and romantic languages, and very similar to both. Thus learning any romance or any Germanic language is fairly easy for someone who knows English. It is much more difficult to learn a language from a different family.