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This is interesting to me, as someone moving from a company that uses C++ to one that uses Rust. It feels like the whole culture of the former company is built similarly - no guardrails, no required testing, or code review, minimal "red-tape".

In effect, the core principles of the company (or at least, the development team of the company) end up informing which programming language to use.

The slim PS5 uses USB-C on both ends.

I'm stunned so many people here can remember details as fine as the colour grading of a film. I couldn't remember specifics like that from 6 months ago, let alone 30 years ago when I was a child and wouldn't have had the thought to watch for cinematographic touches.

Side node - I wonder if it's a millenial thing that our memories are worse due to modern technology, or perhaps we are more aware of false memories due to the sheer availability of information like this blog post.

But humans can do things Turing machines cannot. Such as eating a sandwich.

Norway recently(ish) privatised its trains too.

The UK cannot just "be Singapore". What happened in Singapore was a specific, unrepeatable combination of its geography, the needs of the region, the size of the country, and the culture.

To maintain its wealth today, Singapore relies on a large underclass of underpaid non-citizens. Around 40% of the country are non-citizens.

In addition, London sort of has its own Singapore(s) in the form of the City and Canary Wharf. That's great for those who work there, but it's not feasible for a country of nearly 70 million for everyone to just work in finance.

Final comment:

> Singapore did not depend on neighboring countries to climb out of 3rd world poverty

Singapore's wealth is built on trade and foreign investment. To assume that without other countries it would be equally successful is absurd.

Around 15 years ago, as a semi-joke, my Mother bought a wireless doorbell and put the speaker in my brother's room to announce dinner was ready. It turned out to be quite handy actually. I think Alexa is a bit overkill for that usecase.

> never about Scots, either

Scots _are_ Brits.

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So our team switched to vcpkg recently and, while it has improved certain parts of our dependency process, it has also made other parts more complex. Notably when something suddenly goes wrong it is far more complex to figure out what actually happened (Though to be fair a lot of these issues also come from combining vcpkg with cmake). This led to most of my team revolting against vcpkg and now it looks like we might go back to just vendoring our libraries again.

I suppose I just yearn for an all-in-one build system + package manager like exists in Rust or Go. Once you've seen what can be possible when these things are integrated from the ground up it sort of ruins your C++ build experience!

Thankfully it is so easy to quickly import libraries into C++...

The things the above poster suggested are largely man-made, artificially complex things seemingly designed to trap people. Things like paying taxes and handling healthcare are pretty much automatic in most European countries for example.

I found it very freeing when I moved country to leave almost everything behind. It really helps put into perspective what is valuable and what you know you would miss, and to reduce dependence and attachment on possessions. I think it has helped me become generally more minimalist in my life too.

> If the poem was written with full self-consciousness of word choice, then the meaning really is lost by “updating” it, and where the poetry is best written, the meaning will be most lost.

Tolkien essentially said this in "On Translating Beowulf". That it is essentially impossible to capture the artistry and effect of poetry by translating it, not only because of the flow and meter but also the specific choice of vocabulary.