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For it to be bait and switch someone should've said "Rust will forever be only for drivers". Has anyone from the Linux leadership or R4L people done that? To my knowledge it has always been "for now".

Activist shareholders can claim whatever they want, at the end of the day it's just noise, founders control the company completely.

> That said, I do not think AI weapons are a reasonable thing to build for any war, for any country, for any reason - even if the enemy has them.

So you're in favor of losing a war and becoming a subject of the enemy? While it's certainly tempting to think that unilateralism can work, I can hardly see how.

Here the author did a small comparison between the languages in the context of TigerBeetle: https://matklad.github.io/2023/03/26/zig-and-rust.html

Building a lot of compute will likely end up more useful than Apollo & ISS, which were vanity projects.

The article is deliberately written to try to evoke an outrage, but I also don't see what is actually damning about it. The comparison with store brands is the first thing that came to my mind.

I don't think the article showed that listeners are unhappy.

> I thought L4 was Tesla Autopilot style, someone in the driving seat, hands on the wheel, ready to take over with half a second's notice, and taking liability for insurance purposes?

That's L2.

I live in Switzerland which has a reputation for having good public transport. Still own a car because in many cases you can't beat convenience. Can't wait for Waymo to come here.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

> I still see a difference here: the blog post author isn't claiming that we will never have quantum computers.

He's very much claiming this, e.g. https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/TEACHING/VIDEOS/Kalai-...

Try looking for NetUP in the sanction list, whose employees (including a former one who's actually working for Amazon) were removed. You won't find it. I'm surprised nobody called out James Bottomley on this bullshit answer.

It's not accurate. Everyone with .ru email was removed regardless of actual sanctions, including people who currently live and work in US.

The trick is probably not to make PETN, but to package it in such a way there are no traces of it outside?

There are likely no implications for air travel. At least I always assumed that advanced state actors can make explosives that are undetectable by airport security scanners.

> Most are more interested in driving academia/science forward or generally on other social goals as long as they have enough to pay for the house and car.

I don't know about you, but my impression is that people who ended up in academia are mostly there because it seemed like the path of least resistance. They were indeed not optimizing for wealth, but optimizing for comfort by not making the scary decision of quitting the track they've been on their whole life.

> According to the BBC, of the 12 killed by pages, four were doctors, so it looks like Israel targeted hospitals as part of this attack.

Someone being a doctor does not prevent them from being a Hezbollah operative, al-Zawahiri was also a doctor. The proportion seems to be too high for that explanation alone, but also could be a coincidence given the small sample.

> They also must have known that many of these bombs would detonate in public places where they would injure many civilians. I suspect the be breakdown of the thousands injured will disproportionately be innocent bystanders.

Why do you suspect that, given that on all videos of pagers detonating in public places only their owners are injured?

Hezbollah has been firing rockets at Israel, how more active does it need to get? The notion that Israel just need to take it and can't go after the organization that conducts such attacks is absurd.

What prevents anyone from sequencing anyone else's DNA with the current system?

Europe stopped believing in it and "interests involved" couldn't do anything about it. As a result their military-industrial complex has atrophied to a point where without US goodwill they would not be able to protect themselves against the belligerent neighbor with much smaller economy.

The slippery slope scenario you described didn't happen with the Down syndrome for which there is a reliable screening. There are a few people want to ban that screening and they use exactly the same arguments (also it's eugenics!). We're lucky that at least these people are rightfully viewed as insane.

> On the other hand, if "prevention" is about culling the gene pool, I'm dead set against that.

Well, you can be against it by raising autistic children yourself, it seems you're in a perfect position for that. Why people feel they have the right to demand that from others is beyond me.

I guess you can wait for metastasis instead for easier access. /s

> Given the total failure to achieve any of its stated objectives, has this use of AI benefited the IDF at all?

Their invasion of the Gaza city went way better than expected by most analysts, with minimal casualties among Israeli. So probably? Hard to compare with the alternative reality where they select the targets the old way.

That their stated objectives are likely unachievable is a different issue.

You're right, I need a coffee.

Whether they are efficient or not entirely depends on the company. For every NVidia you can find another company (or ten) that reinvests inefficiently because managers tend to like building empires at the expense of their shareholders.

> On the other hand, a buyback should lower the market cap of a stock

You got it backwards. If a stock is priced fairly, a buyback is value-neutral. Reduction of the cash on hand is offset by the increase of future cash flow per share. It's dividends that reduce the market cap.

> (Which, I know, being retired on crypto, I also feel ick about taking the subsidies to begin with, but that's a different issue.)

One qualifies for subsidies regardless of how much wealth they have? Sounds like US welfare system is a joke.

This is a different argument, and a bit weird one. Why do you want to shout at other people for having preferences that are different from yours (or rather your wife's)? For me personally supervising small kids 12/7/365 sounds like hell on earth, I'd prefer almost any other occupation.

Children were pretty much never raised exclusively by their parents throughout the history of mankind, were they? So I would put quotes around the word "need" instead.