Reading about async Rust is like reading about a large complicated infrastructure project that keeps getting delays and cost overruns. Rust will end up spending a significant part of its complexity budget on async alone. I wonder if it's worth it, for a problem that gets significantly easier if you are prepared to be just a bit more wasteful (allocations, memory, etc). Compare with Ocaml or Haskell for instance.
That's not because the french police is especially militarized or anything, it's just that they are under threat. Swedish police patrolled the streets and malls with submachine guns this christmas too, it happens more than you know. Islamic terrorism is a real and ongoing thing.
It also tells the story about how a Swedish man was accused of being the swatter based on no other evidence than an audio recording where he allegedly had a Swedish accent.
It would make sense to sell it at that price if you had competitors. So Musk was essentially saying "we are going to create a monopoly and then milk the market for all it's worth". I found it weird that nobody criticised him for that back then.
Yeah it's weird why they picked this as a demo. The model could not identify an everyday item like a rubber duck? And it doesn't understand Archimedes' principle, instead reasoning about the density of rubber?
Even that was using technology which haven't seen much use outside the UK. They were never truly commercial, supporting the nuclear weapons program was a requirement from day 1 and was the reason for some design choices that was suboptimal for power generation.
It trivial to project big profits if you assume a monopoly. The problem is that it's true for any sector, you have to justify why Tesla is the one to achieve it or else your numbers are meaningless.