bgongfu

There are different qualities of salt. Some contain additives, sea salt contains plastic particles. I eat plenty of salt, as much as I feel like; but it's all mineral salt without additives.

Everyone likes to pretend they can predict the future for a while, to the point where they will stop at nothing to make it conform to their predictions. Then comes the part where they will defend their choices to death, no matter how much evidence to the contrary is piling up. Once you start seeing the entire chain of consequences, it becomes easier to discipline yourself; it's a process of growing up and taking responsibility.

The whole discussion is a side track, the essence of who we are is and always was immortal. Do you honestly believe in a universe that would throw away the results of the experiment?

There's no proof either way, but it seems the least likely alternative to me. As to Buddha, Gandhi, Tesla, Einstein and many more otherwise respectable thinkers.

Examine what you're not supposed to think, what is collectively ridiculed; that's where truth is hiding in plain sight.

I get what you're saying, and I get the same feeling from most modern languages. They lack conceptual integrity. It's sort of spreading like a virus, even C++ fell into the same trap lately. Whole system design is difficult, really difficult, tear your hair out difficult. Accumulating features is a Sunday walk in the park in comparison; until the pile tips over, that is.

It sort of makes sense in an engineering/programming context, but life in general doesn't really lend itself to that level of control.

Did you ever try thinking about how they might turn out for the best instead to compare results? Energy follows thought, the more you focus on it the more likely it is to happen from my experience. And the only place and time you're ever going to stop failure from happening is here and now using up to date local knowledge.

Take it or leave it...

Two words, nested functions. They should have been in the C standard a long time ago, solving the same problems without them is a major pain. And even though Clang supports most of the rest of the GCC extensions, they stubbornly refuse to touch nested functions. That and the code of conduct social justice warrior bullshit they've been pulling lately keeps me away from Clang these days.

I wouldn't trust any corporation with something I couldn't afford to loose, Microsoft or not. Corporations, by definition; have no souls.

I guess the question is if they actually changed or just retreated back to the Embrace phase with plan B.

I'm split on this one.

I lived through Microsoft's dark ages, when the victory of open source was still hanging by a thread. The reason we're seeing a softer Microsoft is that they lost, they were forced to change. And the open question is what they learned in the process.

On the other hand, they're producing pretty decent software these days; dotNet Core, TypeScript & VSCode just to name a few solid projects. Open source, no less; imagine that back when monkey boy was running the show, literally.

But then I keep hearing about shady Linux licensing deals and endless privacy intrusions over in Windows land.

Tricky indeed, I think I'm going to leave my code in there for now and give them a chance to redeem themselves.