Nope. I am somewhat in disbelief about the level people here downgrade the recent Bing upgrade. The chatbot feature is a such a time saver for jobs where you need to write tons of abstract surface-level content. Just yesterday, I tried compiling a monthly teachers working plan for some local school in Ukrainian language. What it spawned in a minute was at least a day of typing work for a human. This is especially useful when you don’t know the formal language. And the quality of this was good enough for bootstrapping.
Why is the past year and a half of ratings while working remotely enough "proof" of productivity? Really, why is my opinion as an employee about how I work best not enough? You are exhibiting the same issue described elsewhere in this thread - you do not have enough trust for your employees to allow remote work.
M1 is such a smooth ride. I didn’t expect everything would just work. I use R and Python for computational biology and didn’t have a single issue with installing packages.
The D programming language has from the beginning built-in support for UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 code units as basic types (char, wchar, and dchar). This was when it wasn't clear which encoding would dominate.
It's pretty clear today that UTF-8 dominates, and the other two are useful only for interfacing to systems that need them.
Once a SE discovers that they can learn, quite significantly, in a language that may have very little practical day to day use, it's a powerful moment.
Sometimes the best tools for teaching aren't the tools we need in our day to day work, and that's ok. When you're in learning mode, it's about discovering those foundational blocks upon which all else is built. Those fundamental blocks are never the actual programming language itself.
