I was thinking that number is far too low

Ironically cars can park and navigate, but not drive.

This was 2005. It’s not new.

I remember declining a job offer (I had the contract to sign) long ago because one of the people I’d nominated as a reference contacted me and said “I legally can’t answer the questions they’ve asked about you”. Turns out their pro-forma reference questionnaire asked things like “Is this person punctual?”, “what issues has this person had?”. General dirt digging

If anybody were to answer that and the job offer got revoked, I could take that person to court for libel. Companies should know better than to ask anything but factual details in a reference.

So I turned it down stating that if they were so unprofessional around recruitment I wouldn’t trust them to be a good professional employer if I worked for them.

Manatees aren’t the only ones.

The encryption of streaming media is annoying, but it’s not what I fear. The ability to lock the software that I run on my hardware to “approved vendors” only is what worries me, and it’s what TPM promises. A security model where the only trusted party isn’t even the person owning the hardware.

I didn’t think Canada did “rely” on U.S institutions. They might work in partnership with them at times, but not “rely”.

No. Don’t buy them. The reason those are grounded is because maintenance is too expensive even for the country of manufacture. No other country will be any better off.

F35 is a money pit.

Signal groups?.. Oh! That’s why people wanted usernames.

No. Signal is for people I know.

Landlords would love it, at least.

And I thought you ment because the pubs would be full that week :-(

I recognise that different languages have different styles, strengths and idioms. One of my pain points is when people write every language as if it’s naughties java. Enough with the enterprise OoP crap.

I’ve also learnt languages like Haskell to expand and challenge the way I think about software problems. I learnt a lot doing it. That doesn’t stop a lot of Haskell code looking like line noise to me because it over-uses symbols and it being close to impenetrable in a lot of cases when you read somebody else’s code.

I think the aesthetics of Rust are the wrong side of the line. Not as bad as something like Haskell (or Perl), but still objectionable. Some things seem to be different even though there’s pre-existing notation. Things seem to be dense, magical, and for the compilers benefit over the readers (as an outsider).

I’ve been learning Zig recently and the only notational aspect I struggled with was the pointer/slice notation as there’s 5 or 6 similar forms that mean fairly different things. It has other new concepts and idioms to learn, but on the whole it’s notation is fairly traditional. That has made reading code a lot more approachable (…which is a good thing because the documentation for some aspects sucks).

Dynamic typing is a great feature at times. It’s a pain in the butt other times. One of the things I like about Zig is being able to have opt-in comptime dynamic typing. For a certain class of problem it’s really nice.

I think that’s a great set of criticisms.

None of these are sins of Rust, …

They might not be strictly language issues, but if they are symptomatic of idiomatic rust then they are “sins of rust”. Something about the language promotes writing it using these kinds of idioms.

Just like French speakers don’t pronounce 80% of the written syllables because it’s impractical to speak fast with all of them…language features (or lack of them) drive how the language is used.

(BTW the implicit return behaviour on a missing semicolon sounds like Chekhov’s footgun)

What language are they then? They’re not Python, JS, <insert any other language here>

Angstroms hurt my brain. A $10^{-10}$ of a metre, but not a nanometre or a picometre. Just…why?

No star = no charged particles = no lights. Doesn’t matter how big the magnetic field is.

That’s all he’s saying.

That there is an American Kestrel. According to Wikipedia…

… it is not actually a kestrel in the phylogenetic sense. Instead, a process of convergent evolution to fit a similar small prey niche in the ecosystem as the true kestrels have left it with similar physical characteristics and hunting methods.

No advantage over Arch IMO.

If you want to play with it, setup a VM.

This is why I focused on graphics hardware for so long… Then some arsehole came up with running AI on GPUs.

"our hiring system is even less discriminatory than our targeting system!" -their motto, probably

Bravo!