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Comment Headline is wrong (Score 4, Informative) 14

Tesla did not "win" the lawsuit. They just advanced past the motions-to-dismiss stage.

The bad headline comes from TFA itself at cnet.com. (The rest of the article is not much better. You have to follow its link to the some real reporting to learn what actually happened.) Disappointing.

Comment Read this article (Score 1) 175

By all accounts of those who’ve worked with him, Harrison is a serious public servant with deep experience. And he was never in charge of pandemic containment strategy.

He was, rather, assigned a typical role for a cabinet secretary’s chief of staff, serving as aide de camp on a task force run by the boss himself — until Trump stripped that job from Azar and assigned the responsibility to Vice President Mike Pence.

https://www.dallasnews.com/new...

Comment No the "first credible attempt" (Score 4, Informative) 96

No, there is an earlier "credible attempt to displace C++": D. D was created by Walter Bright, who previously was "the main developer of the first C++ compiler to translate source code directly to object code without using C as an intermediate language" (quoting Wikipedia), and so is clearly "credible" by your criteria.

The thing about Rust is that the ownership/borrowing system makes it better than C++ in important ways. Programmers have to specify variable usage details, but this (1) makes the code easier to maintain, (2) gives you a much more powerful form of RAII, (3) makes reference counting work so well that you don't need a tracing garbage collecter, and (4) makes the resulting code significantly faster in many cases. That is why Rust should compete successfully with C++, whereas a "C++ without the warts" like D could not.

Comment Re: Shadow DOM is a W3C standard (Score 1) 145

Firefox's implementation is planned to be enabled by default in version 63. Safari supports shadow DOM already, and Edge is working on an implementation as well.

And Firefox 63 is due to be released in October.

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