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>Of course they had to take a stand for Biden, the only other choice was a lunatic. Love him or hate him, one thing Trump is, objectively, is a bullshitter (in the academic sense of the word). And scientists really just don't like bullshit.

There was an obvious third option: not endorsing anyone. There's no law that requires every publication to endorse a presidential candidate. In fact, most of them don't do that.

>If you get the feeling that Nature is politically biased (and I mean this in the usual everyday person sense, because of course any politics that affects science will be met with strong views), I think that should serve as a signal to check what your biases are.

I'm sorry, but this feels like gaslighting. GP has listed numerous examples of editorials that were biased in favor of a certain political platform, including an explicit endorsement of a presidential candidate. I really don't understand how, in spite of that, you could arrive at the conclusion they aren't politically biased.

>Remember that the people reading this are all the top experts in their own fields, so you can bet they'd love to write back and argue if some editor wrote something stupid.

Only if they don't mind committing a career suicide.

>Thanks to them being yet another attack vector and funny stuff like on this post, got demoted to optional on C11.

Sadly, the C committee doesn't really understand what was wrong with VLAs and a sizable group of its members wants to make them mandatory again:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2921.pdf ("Does WG14 want to make VLAs fully mandatory in C23")

You don't understand! Nadella's Microsoft open-sourced a few applications and created a popular text editor, which makes him basically the second coming of Christ in the eyes of a large portion of HN users.

Their numerous anti-user and anti-privacy practices are unimportant. Nadella's Microsoft is "cool" and that's all that matters.

This could mean that information literacy is on the rise.

True, but that's because history as a discipline has incredibly low standard of evidence. They collectively decided that since reliable evidence is often very difficult to produce, they will settle for what they can get. A lot of antique or even medieval historical figures are known from a single sentence in some chronicle written 100 years after their death.

>"As fast as C" is not a lie. It literally translates to C.

No, just because it outputs C it doesn't mean it's as fast as hand-written C. Using that logic, every language that outputs machine code is as fast as assembly, which is obviously not true.

>The language used on the main vlang site also seems calm, clear and unsensational (at least to me).

It wasn't always like this. Back in 2019, its website looked like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190303184805/https://vlang.io/

As you can see the website claimed that its compiler is "200x faster" than C compilers, while neglecting to mention that it merely translates V code to C, so you still have to run a C compiler.

"400 KB compiler with zero dependencies" (apart from a C compiler and libc).

"As fast as C" - a lie.

Apart from deceptive marketing, there were serious issues with the code quality of the compiler:

https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/d32e538073e55c603992b5b65ebc...

>and if necessary, turn off Fox News

Quips like this aren't very productive if you want to convince others of your viewpoint.

That's how it already works in Europe. Prices are set by the manufacturer and most cars are built to order. Dealerships rarely have their own branding, they basically work as franchises integrated with the manufacturer's network.

Their role is to collect orders, provide test rides and service the cars.