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Comment Re:It's already sooooper safe (Score 1) 45

if you work on a big project with a large team with high turnover, mixed levels of experience, and pressure from management to get stuff out the door and worry about technical debt later

Then you have lots of bugs, including security bugs, and a language with more abstractions to make it "safer" will result in higher short term output and potentially even an increase is bugs.

Also in that scenario Rust is probably being used in unsafe mode anyway, because they needed to link in legacy libraries.

The bugs it addresses only exist if you're not following best practices in the first place. If you're already not following best practices, none of this is likely to help. There is nothing there that implies anybody starts to "do it right."

Comment Re:What high IQ sociopath could genuinely repent? (Score 5, Interesting) 181

He's far too intelligent to not have believed he was "right" to murder or he would not have murdered, therefore all repentance gestures are attempts at duping the credulous.

When I was a teenager I lived on the streets, and I had a number of friends who went to prison for various crimes.

When in prison they would sometimes make a phone call or write a letter, and 100% of the time they talked about how changed they were, how different their life was going to be when they go out.

Not a single one seemed different at all when they were released. The ones who didn't go back were not better people, they merely learned specific behavioral boundaries related to felony crimes that are easy to prosecute. If asked about "that letter you wrote," or "that stuff you said on the phone," they'd either laugh and say, "Hey, that's what you gotta say when you're in there, they listen to/read everything," or else, "LOL OMG it was so boring in there!"

Comment Re:3rd parties (Score 1) 83

Google just has absolutely terrible lawyers, because Apple managed to beat the same accusations and sideloading

One claims to be a walled garden, the other claims to be the mainstream internet. You're not a lawyer, but that's not enough of an excuse to think those are the same.

Comment Re:Forever Trusts and legacy frozen land tax (Score 1) 221

doodoo - a JarJar Binks term.

LOL wow, wow, I didn't know there were kids on slashdot so young they could think that doodoo was coined by Jarjar. What a world you live in.

Please, never read a book, you're soooo precious, we don't want to lose your innocence to the ravages of knowledge.

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