People who think they have a right to deface other people’s property say the weirdest shit.

I applaud the writers of that episode for doing that, but I’ve seen too many episodes/movies where people use alien technology with no indication they have a hard time with the interface, or where a Federation ship outright trades equipment with previously uncontacted aliens, and it just works. Hell, even Trip’s reproductive system is so compatible with an alien’s that she can get him pregnant! And don’t even get me started on how often people just walk up and use a control panel to access sensitive systems without needing to present any kind of credentials.

Maybe make an exception for ads that consist mostly of artwork that customers are being sold? I’m talking about things like album covers and book covers that are often works of art in their own right.

I’m now imagining advertising being carried out the same way prostitution is.

“Hey sailor, want some good product recommendations?”

Graffiti, you say? So it was probably illegal.

I know the rule of law is in sad shape right now, but companies still avoid doing illegal shit right out in the open, and that’s all that’s needed to cut back dramatically on advertising.

That’s called having just one distro.

I’m not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.

I love how evocative the word tornillo is. In my mind it translates as “little twisty thing”.

whether the software is memory safe depends on the expertise of the devs

No. Just stop. If a language depends on the expertise of the developer to be free of memory bugs, then by definition, it is not memory safe because memory safety means such bugs are impossible by design. Quit trying to redefine what memory safety means. A program being free of memory bugs does not in any way imply memory safety.

Ah yes, I love how C++ is has so little boilerplate. Sometimes I can even write several statements in a row without any!

If the standard is “you know what you’re doing and never make mistakes”, then all languages are memory safe. All you’re doing is arguing against memory safety as a concept by redefining the term in such a way that it becomes meaningless.

It’s the only operating system with that much market share to lose.

I’m very experienced with C++and I still feel like I’m juggling chainsaws every time I use it. And I’ve personally run into into things like use after free errors while working in Chromium. It’s a massive codebase full of multithreading, callbacks, and nonlocal effects. Managing memory may be easy in a simple codebase but it’s a nightmare in Chromium. Tools like AddressSanitizer are a routine part of Chrome development for exactly that reason. And people who think memory management is easy in C++ are precisely the people I expect to introduce a lot of bugs.