With crap and hassle like this in the year 2017 for something as "simple" as a web browser, be sure to remind your boss Ray Kurzweil at Google, "the singularity is near" ROFLOL
At the risk of looking like I take the "Singularly" at all seriously...(and putting aside the non-sequitur about Kurzweil having anything to do with Google's shipping software)...
The implication you're making is that because computers have weird little glitches that pop up to cause havoc every once in a while, then it must be laughable to imagine they could rival the marvels of human intelligence. What that tells me for certain is that you haven't paid much attention to human intelligence.
There are flat-earthers, anti-vaccine nuts, and people convinced we faked the moon landings. We'll happily argue for thousands of years over whether the kid a virgin had is or is not the same person as his dad, but not that dad, the other dad. Show me someone who intuitively understands probabilities, and I'll show you someone who incorrectly assesses how people understand probabilities. I'm pretty sure the odd bug here and there doesn't disprove the ability of machines to outthink us.
> MacBook hard drives can be removed and replaced.
This is not entirely true. The flash drive on the 2015 and 2016 Retina MacBooks are "soldered to the logic board" according to iFixit [1], [2]. What happens to the soldered-in flash drives if a logic board from one of these MacBooks fails and is swapped out by Apple under, say, AppleCare? is it desoldered and removed from the logic board, or does the entire MacBook logic board get shredded in one fell swoop?
> nobody is going to let you write a critical system in some new relatively unknown language.
Whose permission do you seek who will "let you" or not "let you" write a critical system in some new relatively unknown language? What if you work for yourself or are creating a startup?
Obviously a startup with no history is a totally different context. The parent commentator did mention "industries". Power in particular (think nuclear power especially!) are... necessarily conservative.
I recently invested in learning Clojure, enough to get some practical things deployed, but I am far from being a Clojure advanced developer. I wanted to learn a Lisp dialect and am glad I chose Clojure. Rich Hickey is a guru. I don't have any gripes with Clojure but I'm not too deeply invested. Several years ago I was also enamored with Julia, which I was investigating for CPU intensive programs, but never had the time to commit and I was concerned about Julia being too youthful and possibly not getting enough traction. Should I learn D for CPU intensive programs? Also, with Clojure I can make use of the many Java libraries for I/O due to Clojure's good Java interop. Does D have the analogous benefit of tried and tested I/O libraries? Thanks for any suggestions, D has me intrigued.
I recently (past few years) invested in learning Clojure, enough to get some practical things deployed, but I am far from being a Clojure advanced developer. I wanted to learn a Lisp dialect and am glad I chose Clojure. Rich Hickey is a guru. I don't have any gripes with Clojure but I'm not too deeply invested. Several years ago I was also enamored with Julia, which I was investigating for CPU intensive programs, but never had the time to commit and I was concerned about Julia being too youthful and possibly not getting enough traction. Should I learn D for CPU intensive programs? Also, with Clojure I can make use of the many Java libraries for I/O due to Clojure's good Java interop. Does D have the analogous benefit of tried and tested I/O libraries? Thanks for any suggestions, D has my intrigued.
How fascinating considering Facebook sends emails to those who have resigned from Facebook, playing and preying on people's emotions with marketing messages the likes of, "you may have more friends than you realize awaiting you on Facebook", implying more is merrier and inducing the emotion of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). Hmm, this is Zuckerberg's way of profiting off of people's emotions eh?
And just think ... Uber and (mostly Silicon Valley) companies like it thought all along how easy it would be for "software to eat the world" and thus merely "disrupt" the establishment, "disrupt" the old school, "disrupt" and "democratize", "disrupt" the 1%'ers / elite power structures which pull the puppet strings of the state and federal regulators. Meritocracy eh?
Good to know they are "literally" re-writing code instead of "figuratively". Why is the adverb "literally" overused so often?