Somewhere in the history of computing between around 1970 and 2010 there was a tiny, fragile moment where we could have chosen sanity, and instead we chose C.

In our defense, sanity was hard work that nobody could agree on, and C was free.

gankra.github.io/blah/c-isnt-a

Anyway, because we chose C, which cannot be made secure, now every corporation is legally mandated for cybersecurity insurance and compliance purposes to hand all their data to Microsoft and ask the big AI in the sky to check whether any evil bits are set, or any words on the naughty list typed.

Probably nothing bad will ever come from this state of affairs! It's going to be just fine. The central mainframe in Seattle will know all, judge all, and love all. Flowers will bloom in every heart.

Don't ask what happened to "Cortana" though, or what "rampancy" is.

It probably won't happen again.

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What happened to "Cortana"?
What is "rampancy"?

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