Rednax

The problem with C++ is not the lack of safety features. It's the ever lasting backwards compatibility that is keeping it both alive and down at the same time.

Having to support 50 year old code, is going to limit any restriction you place. But it is usually the restrictions that make a language good.

Example: You can write perfectly good modern C++ code without any pointers. But pointers are so ingrained into the language, that it is impossible to remove them.

Google is not a mobile phone network provider. SMS routing is not really their cup of tea. It is an industry with lots of established players, lota of local issues, and little to gain for Google. If it where up to Google, everyone would be using their app instead of SMS.

In The Netherlands, the power grid has been turned into a different company than the power supply company. Same for gas and internet. The infrastructure companies are tightly regulated, to the point that they might as well be gpvernment branches. The providers however, are free to offer whatever.

The result is healthy competition where possible, without any company gaining a monopoly position over the utilities of individuals.

The drawback is that they figired out that the best way to make money, is of the backs of lazy people. People who don't want to switch providers, cause that means effort. Hence, not actively looking for a better offer every few years is quite costly.

I love the fact that people joke about this nowadays. Because my mom still has bad memories from her childhood, where her teachers forced her to be right handed, acting as if it was a choice, and she was just really bad at writing. This was not a third world country either, but the Netherlands.

I think it's a fun game. But it certainly is overhyped as fuck.

But I love coding at work?!

The problem is that every living entity in a 10 kilometer radius around me, seems to be hellbent on getting me to do anything but coding. Refining work estimates, fixing badge access rights, fixing a driver issue, telling people that you cannot do 1000 things at the same time, teaching the new developer how shit (doesn't) works, mangling Jenkins into a functional state again, explaning that thing I did a year ago but is only now used (it was very high prio a year ago), writing documentation that noboby ever reads, progress meetings, specialty group meetings, knowledge sharing meetings, company wide meetings, etc.

While ill, and stuck on the couch, I watched the entire Eve Online video in 1 sitting. All 6+ hours of it.

I think it also boosts morale. People will be very reluctant to support the war, if they see that most of their efforts, money, or lives are wasted on corruption.

Which makes me want to try and insert a password of a few megabytes worth of text. Should be fine, since there is no max lenght defined, right?

My hypothesis is that people of fighting age, would be more likely to die in a conflict. I have no idea if it is true. The reason I mention it, is to point out that I did not establish causation between beeing a student and a higher death chance, only correlation.

With the numbers you mention, it still holds true that this group has a significantly higher death percentage than average.

At the end of november 2023, The Netherlands had a population of 17 947 406. In the schoolyear 22/23, it had around 821.1k students (hbo + wo). Source: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/cijfers/detail/37220

Meaning about 4.57% of the population was a student.

Gaza had a population of around 2,3 million according to wikipedia. Meaning around 105000 students if they also have a ratio of 4.57% of students.

According to the article, Pallestine claims that 4,327 students have been killed. This is about 4.1% of the 105 000 estimated students.

According to the following article, about 22.8k people have been killed in Gaza so far. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/08/the-numbers-that-reveal-the-extent-of-the-destruction-in-gaza That is about 1% of the 2.3 million.

So based on these napkin calculations, I'd say student are way more likely to be killed.

While this may be related to their age bracket, and not their scholar status, I conclude that they certainly are not spared.

I don't understand why someone would want to rent their car. Maintenance is not that hard, and companies always make you pay way more for their subscription models. By owning the car, you can pick who does maintenance. Meaning there can be competition, so prices/quality remains good.