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Comment Re:How to Make Rust Grow (Score 1) 21

That's not even the problem, the biggest problem is it doesn't reach its own goals. You should be able to use Rust without using Unsafe, otherwise it doesn't solve the problem it claims to solve (or rather, it solves them in a "good enough" fashion, the same as smart pointers in C++ and there's no reason to switch from one to the other).

Comment Re:Faster, no. Multi-tasking yes. (Score 1) 78

As a human, AI workflows let me have a life. I can let the agents knock out the easy things while I'm working on other tasks. I still need design out what's to be worked on, review the code, fix bone mistakes they make, etc. It's basically like having a junior developer assigned to you.

Every time I see someone talking about AI being a junior developer, I am quite certain they have never worked with a junior developer.

Comment Re:Bloat Industrial Complex (Score 1) 78

Very few in the industry are interested in parsimony.

I've come to accept that this as true, and further conjecture that bloat is often a corporate/institutional goal.

This seems to be a joke, but in reality corporate incentives are aligned to make things more bloated. If you're a manager, then the more people you have under you, the more power you have. This means you want your people to go slower so you have to hire more of them.

I don't have a solution but there must be one.

Comment Fascinating! (Score 1) 32

Now, yes, there are predictions that you could get a supermassive black hole launched into space, especially during a galaxy merger if the velocity of the smaller black hole exceeds the escape velocity of the combined galaxy.

But I'd be wary of assuming that it's a launched black hole, unless we can find the merger it comes from. There may be ways for such a black hole to form that cause the stars to be launched away rather than the black hole being flung, and if a galaxy isn't rotating fast enough to be stable, one could imagine that a sufficiently small galaxy was simply consumed by its central black hole. Both of these would seem to produce exactly the same outcome, if all we have is the black hole itself and a velocity.

I'm not going to say either of these is likely in this case, or that astronomers haven't examine them (they almost certainly have), but rather that we should be cautious until we've a clearer idea of what the astronomers have actually been able to determine or rule out.

Comment Re:What could go wrong? (Score 1) 112

This quote from the summary about two engineers with an AI assistant being more productive than ten engineers without one just doesn't add up. I have done vibe coding both on hobby projects and at work, and it doesn't make me anywhere near that productive.

I've wondered about that, too.

Comment Re: so dumb (Score 1) 155

It's not a paradise either, so you should have known there was something wrong with that phrase.

(Fun fact: the Soviet Union never claimed to be communist. They claimed they were working towards that goal, well aware that they hadn't achieved it. The goal? A world where man does not exploit man. It's still a worthy goal)

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