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Love this research. I often found I was pretty alone in swearing at code. Glad to know I’m not insane.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/is-code-that-contains-swears-higher-quality-than-code-that-does-not/

Do better coders swear more, or does C just do that to good programmers?

For open source C code, curses mean quality, a recent bachelor’s thesis suggests.

Ars Technica

Great news about Musk’s next Gigafactory in Monterrey!

AMLO really needs to work on promoting US nearshoring of tech companies and end his fixation on the past.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/1/23571725/tesla-gigafactory-monterrey-mexico-announce-investor-day

Tesla announces Gigafactory Mexico

Tesla’s sixth Gigafactory will be just south of the Texas border in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the new Monterrey Gigafactory at the company’s Investor Day event in Austin, Texas.

The Verge

Hurrah. Allowing the Figma acquisition to go ahead would be a complete travesty of competition law. But worse than that is Adobe’s abysmal engineering track record. The same old story of massive company giving assurances that acquired company will be independent and then inevitably destroying the product after a number of years is everyone’s chief concern.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/doj-preparing-suit-to-block-adobe-s-20-billion-deal-for-figma

DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal

The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Adobe Inc.’s $20 billion acquisition of startup Figma Inc., people familiar with the matter said.

Bloomberg

Just ban SUVs. They’re stupidly inefficient and way more dangerous to other road and non-road users alike.

In Mexico they’re especially terrifying when driven by people who don’t know how to drive and yet it gives them a sense of security.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/28/carbon-emissions-global-suv-sport-utility-vehicles-oil-climate

Carbon emissions from global SUV fleet outweighs that of most countries

Popularity of sport utility vehicles driving higher oil demand and climate crisis, say experts

The Guardian

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