It's all about money, as usual. They want the family of a deceased person to get a check in case their likeness is used after death. Which sounds like bullshit, but I can imagine getting highly personalized popup ads featuring the photo of a loved one, and then deciding to never do business with that company.

Next week we will be interviewing a tomato

This law is the modern-day equivalent of the Red Flag Act—designed to protect the horse carriage industry from the terrifying menace of the automobile. Just like taxi unions tried to outlaw Uber, or record labels panicked over radio, Illinois is trying to legislate away progress. Spoiler: it never works.

Why would you need electric lights when a candle is just fine for reading!

But it will be easy to contact Google support and have them correct any mistake. They do have support, don't they?

People who use developer tools without using git or backups are just plain stupid and should be banned from using computers entirely.

Really? I am expecting the Ada, VB and Delphi job openings to explode.

In an alternative universe, these languages have been dead for decades and no sane business would invest in writing software in those languages. This Tiobe index is a bunch of crackpot science based on early 2000's web searches. I have never seen it featured anywhere besides Slashdot, it may be the longest running trolling campaign in history.

I'll wait unboxing mine until someone finds a buffer overflow in their Bluetooth driver

Nintendo is definitely not a small game company. It is the largest company in the entire world that focuses exclusively on gaming.

Nobody wants to be publicly associated with Oracle.

Here's how the tech giants will roll out the models:
Microsoft: Releases a number of models, all with the same confusing name, they all crash in weird ways
Apple: Arrives 5 years later than the rest, with a dumb model, but they claim it's "50% faster"
Google: Releases a model in beta only, but it's so beligerent and condescending that even their greatest fans don't use it
Facebook: Invests billions into a model that completely missed the mark
reddit : Releases a chatbot that will proactively ban you from all social media and censor you for your own protection. No recourse.
Twitter : Releases a far-right Grok/NaziGPT model
Oracle: Doesn't release shit, but trademarks the name "GPT" and sues everyone

You are just a sad racist throwing around stereotypes.
Going by your rant, you assume that all white people are racist, all large companies are owned by white people, and that non-white people are unable to start successful companies. But you write it in such a way that you think others won't notice.

Came to comment on this as well. Left satisfied. For years, ESR meant something completely different. Now that the kids are taking over, we can see how clueless they really are.

Loaning 500K to 19 year old students without a degree is always a bad investment. But if you want to have educated adults at a certain point, you are goung to need to make these loans attractive, or risk becoming an uneducated nation. Not everything is zero sum.

The only useful metrics would be "Total corporate spending per language", "number of professional developers per language", "number of autocomplete prompts completed per language" or "Average ROI per musd invested per language". In other words, does it help generate profits. All other stats are vanity or just showing that the documentation of the language is inadequate (requiring SO searches).