The article mentions an "AP Computer Science" curriculum that it claims does not cover programming and is not actually APCS, but is instead AP Computer Science Principles, an "intro to computers" for less stem-oriented students that was introduced last year. The actual APCS curriculum mostly involves learning basic programming constructs and some Java APIs, and is done solely in Java.
Also, there used to be AP Computer Science B covering basic algorithms and data structures, but CollegeBoard killed it because barely anyone took it.
(not GP) I'm actually building something that would require running large amounts of containers of varying usage (some almost never used, some constantly queried) that serve up webapps and other network services, and being able to run services inside of containers instead of functions from fission would be awesome.
I'm currently pretty familiar with webapp backend development with Python, Flask, and a bunch of its plugins (SQLA, WTF, Jinja, etc) and Python in general. I'm also exploring Rust and am beginning to feel comfortable in it. I have experience with all sorts of miscellaneous stuff, but these two are the ones I'm most involved in at the moment.
I'm currently working on a CMS-ish style scheduling platform for CTF competitions, an ptrace-based application sandbox in Rust, an online judge system (like a programming assignment grader), and an IRC server in Rust with Tokio and futures.
I have a good amount of experience with cybersecurity and algorithms and data structures too despite a lack of formal education in them ;)
I think one can do this with current keyboard with individual-key backlighting.
I have a Logitech G710 (with a community-made Linux driver) and I can control the backlighting on some of the keys by passing a bitmask to something in /sys/bus/hid. A simple daemonized python script linked to this would replicate such behavior.
They (used to) make a custom Android distribution for manufacturers, CyanogenOS. They grew out of an open source project, CyanogenMOD, but their business people apparently could not find a good way to monetize a phone OS, so most of not all of their developers (30 out of 130 employeed) were apparently laid off or quit. They have apparently turned to providing system-level apps, and a Reddit user who claims to have been a former employee says that they plan to create a Google Now competitor by mining data from 3rd party apps.
The company has completely withdrawn support from the open source OS it grew out of, but some of its developers will continue its development under the brand LineageOS.
Scarcity seems to be the reason why anything has value.... No forget that I kind of forgot what I was going with that.
What I did want to bring up is this argument of land vs. population and energy/raw materials.
If energy is neither created or destroyed, it's just moved around, and assuming we still have the sun, if we're just using the energy from the sun through food, then as long as the sun exists, aren't we fine? Same with water. Water might be transformed but it returns. Where it would it go? There is also salt water sure you have to take energy/time to desalinate and purify it.
I just don't get that argument of resources if you have an ineexhaustable supply of energy as the sun for 5 billion years.
Also humans compared to the size of the Earth, we don't even begin to cover it as far as human size compared to land size eg. continents.
They're probably claiming that using a lockfile excessively would put less incentive on library developers to keep backwards compatibility, because nothing would break if the user doesn't explicitly upgrade.
