I don't know too much about the RACS etc (father was a radiologist but can't recall him complaining about their equivalent in Aus too much, though it's likely the same).
If you have to be a member of this, and that's government mandated, then them profiting from that arrangement is a blatant monopoly isn't it?
I've only dabbled briefly in it and read various articles about the new features, but that hasn't been my very limited experience. The syntax and namespace constructs etc all look quite arcane to me, and then there's the borrow checker. Not sure I'd call it simple and intuitive (at least yet, for me).
> People do not grasp how much of this insanity is codified by law and rule, and when they are informed of it, they shrug it off in the name of "safety."
Not to make minimize the problem, but this feels a bit like privacy in IT (or lack thereof) due to government overreach.
People care much less about something when they are not directly impacted (or think they're not impacted).
This fuzzing is interesting stuff. Does anyone know of an in-process or otherwise lib for the JVM? Findbugs is mentioned in here but I'm not sure if that does fuzzing (maybe a plugin?).
Seems in my mind to be a nice complement to achieving code-coverage with testing i.e. whereas unit/integration testing might test the various code paths with a few good/bad values, this then throws every possible input value at them to see what breaks.
I guess you can determine how many people are around you, that have a phone and it's switched on, with the wifi on as well (I personally turn off everything when it's not being used, mostly for battery reasons on this old clunker).
And unless I see a different selection to everyone else in Australia, the offerings have rapidly gone downhill, C-grade/fire-sale content. Some gems from time to time, but 98% unwatchable rubbish.
Edit: For the price I pay, I don't mind that too much though.
Personally the Nords seem to have their heads screwed on correctly to me, from what I can tell. Sweden or Iceland need any developers?
Australia has gone down the same path, both parties are in agreement on this stripping back of privacy, metadata collection and (what feels like to me) moving to a totalitarian regime. I don't think this can be fixed.
"NSA hoard their knowledge of weaknesses in Microsoft Windows, a vitally important piece of their own nation's infrastructure, in case they'll come in handy againt some hypothetical future enemy. (I'm sorry, but this just won't wash; surely the good guys would prioritize protecting their own corporate infrastructure?"
Lol. I'd hate to rebutted by a publisher under any circumstance, but under ignorance would hurt more.
Edit: I think this went over my head while the Guinness was going down.
Windows Update can get itself into a state at times where it takes a long time to 'do its thing', I'd leave it an hour or two. There's a debug log under the Windows folder somewhere.
https://github.com/ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver