jbv027

Exactly. I have always taken AoC as fun and time to learn. But there is so much going on during December and I do not enjoy doing more than one puzzle a day (it feels like hard work instead of fun). I usually spend time on weekends with kids and family and I am not willing to solve more puzzles during week days so I am falling behind all the time. My plan was always to finish last year puzzles to enjoy more interesting ones but it always felt wrong. So I hope I will have time to finish everything this year :-) But I feel pain from people with enough free time to go full on. I would love to be one of them but there is so much going on everywhere that I have to split my time. Sorry programming world and especially computers :-D

Linux for many years. Windows and Mac feels the same to me: they are not configurable enough. You just use almost default setup or you are out of luck.

Also technology provider is important. I doubt that government is able to self host face recognition. So the most common implementation would be microsoft (or any big corp good at lobbying in this part of the world) owning technology and data to preserve their vendor lock in. So there is high probability that those data will be used for other purposes (you can easily imagine standard corporate excuses if someone finds out).

It is not only about memory safety. C community is aging fast and young developers choose different languages. We started to rewrite all C and C++ code in my team because it is really hard to find people willing to maintain it. From my experience typical C or C++ programer is around 40 and not willing to switch jobs.

Also terminal sending telemetry. So many no goes.