The dependency was massively reduced just in 2022 post invasion, but you can’t just go cold turkey.

Don’t need a degree, but computer programming is fundamentally logic and algorithms. You need to have internalise reasoning logically. In some ways critical thinking is closer to programming than trig is.

So how will you know if he changes anything?

The US isn’t in anything right now. It’s deployed (it always is), but not in active hostilities.

(Unless I’m missing something in Central or South America)

Honestly. No country should have the military spending that the US does. It’s too much power in one place. I understand the cold war made it necessary though.

Not ban. Regulate, like food. Have standards and enforce them.

Secondhand nicotine does you no harm. The reason cigarettes are so bad for you is that you’re smoking tar. That’s what makes the walls of a smokers home yellow, and what gives them cancer.

Nicotine is addictive, but largely harmless at the levels in cigarettes and vapes for the primary smoker. A secondhand smoker will be getting almost nothing. The problem with vapes is, I suspect, the flavourings. I’m aware of mounting evidence that they’re not harmless, but I think that’s only to primary vapers, not secondary.

I think that last point is an important one.

Banning things often does more harm than good. In your case “Nicotine Bad!” as a policy removes your options.

So regulate them and enforce it.

Oh boo hoo!

People being mildly annoying means they should be banned? Cigarettes were killing smokers and those around them. That’s the line for me. If your actions harm others, then it gets restricted.

Vapes are nowhere near that line. They just smell weird.

You know this, but nicotine isn’t the problem. It’s all the other crap in them.

I’m not sure there is. The whole point of these anti-cheat systems is to detect running on modified setups that allow for the injection of code. An emulator is one such system.

Anti-cheat “compatibility” means allowing software kernel level access and after Crowd strike I think that tide will be turning even on Windows.

Anti-cheat will change. Not Linux IMHO.

…and let me guess. Critizing Israel’s actions is tacit support of Hezbollah?

That sounds like policy written by somebody who has no idea what the reality of software development is.

1 year to rewrite critical software in a new language?

It was a death sentence leaving NK. They were never going to be allowed back in to tell others of the outside world. The only question was how long they’d last.

personally i don’t agree with sanctioning foss communities.

Foss communities aren’t being sanctioned. Whole countries are. It’s the same limitation whatever enterprise you’re in.

If Olympians have to renounce their country to take part in global competition, why do you not think a software developer wouldn’t have to do the same to be involved in a global project?

Lol! Why should software get an exception over any other industry?

You mean the ones building massive LLMs with all the data they’ve scraped?

Lampposts will remain in place in many locations where they are necessary, such as in cities where CCTV cameras rely on good lighting.

Booooo! CCTV is deployed far too broadly.