No, the letter is X.

It's like you aren't even paying attention...

Of course, it is only a matter of time before someone takes this and bolts an OOP system on top; the result will be called C3 Plus Objects, or C3PO for short.

In fairness, the cost of selling their souls to the Dark Lord Sauron also does not show up in this graphic.

Sure, but either you can pass, in which case you should do that, or you cannot; in either case, tailgating doesn't help.

Thank goodness, I was sick of how woke my current X server software was!

I cannot speak on behalf of the article author, but as someone who personally is an imbecile, the answer is: definitely!

It would seem that Nix has succumbed in this case to its Archenemy.

This seems like more time and trouble than just writing the code yourself.

(And while the same could often be said of assigning tasks to junior programmers, in that case it is an investment in the person rather than strictly a waste.)

That is a really dumb response to an article whose whole point was to argue that we have been thinking too narrowly about intelligence.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

I don’t see any other solution to the “exponentially growing power consumption” problem.

In the U.S., at least, power generation has been roughly flat for the last 20 years, not growing exponentially:

I appreciate this sentiment a great deal in general, but sometimes it is difficult to uphold when I have to regularly deal with "time vampires" who not only require that I explain the same thing to them over and over again beyond reason but who also show no willingness or ability to actually learn the thing that I am explaining to them; at some point I just run out of patience and start ignoring them to the extent that I am able.