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Comment Re:Rust is a waste of duplicated effort (Score 4, Informative) 83

Improving c compilers is a useful exercise, and should continue happening anyway, but that doesn't solve the same problems that Rust solves.

Regardless of how good a c compiler is, it simply doesn't have the information available at compile time that a Rust compiler has available, enabling it to offer unique safety guarantees.

As for missing drivers, I don't see any suggestion that those working on adding Rust support would otherwise have been working on wifi drivers anyway.

Comment Re:My first (Score 1) 523

Same progression here, though I was a bit older.

Started with Trash-80s in High School. Networked off of a cassette tape player. Finally got my own IIe when I was a Senior and the school switched to them. The IIe carried me through college, until I was able to get a blistering fast 286 once I had a real job & income. How far we've come.

Comment Re:They have a point. (Score 4, Insightful) 239

Imagine we were talking about building a swimming pool, but the city built the swimming pool so far out of town that only people that had private transportation could use it (there are no city busses that go there in my hypothetical), would you be cool with that?

Since that's the situation 80 to 90% of Americans find themselves in with regard to getting pretty much anywhere, it wouldn't seem to matter whether we're "cool with it" or not.

As for the imaginary free gas stations, you seem to forget that billions if not trillions of tax dollars have gone into building and maintaining roads and right of way suitable for IC vehicles. (Ever stop to consider just how much land area all our roads and accompanying infrastructure occupy? I'm willing to bet it's not a small number.) That's been going on since at least the 1940s. Not to mention all the tax breaks and other incentives handed out to automobile manufacturers and petroleum companies over that same span.

Comment Thanks! (Score 1) 4

Appreciate the commentary minus any spoilers, as I'll be watching the last 2 eps this evening.

And yes, SNW brings back something episodic of the original series to Trek, and that's a good thing. Picard was pretty good up until the last 2-3 episodes of the 2nd season, where they tried to cram in about twice as many tie-ins to other series as they had any business doing.

Comment Re:Genius! (Score 1) 53

You do understand that firearms are as important as a symbol of the sovereignty of "We The People" as they are a physical object.

Only to gun nuts. Other free societies manage to get along just fine without them. Having lived in a couple of those places, I've seen for myself that it's quite possible to get along without everyone packing heat.

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