Comment Re:Apple Missing The Boat (Score 1) 18
Wot? Wasn't it Apple's CEO who presented la Presidenta a shiny token of support for being a Nazi sympathizer?
Wot? Wasn't it Apple's CEO who presented la Presidenta a shiny token of support for being a Nazi sympathizer?
It's the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, "an initiative we'll shape in close collaboration with the Rust Project Leadership Council and Project Directors
It is surely meaningful that a leadership council and directors got funding before the people who were actually doing the work maintaining the code.
Bankers in America at least don't really do that. What you're thinking of are large investors. People with net worth over 500 million.
I should have said "the financial industry."
a genuine acceleration of discovery. It's the quiet kind of progress engineers love — invisible, but indispensable...
Who said that engineers love indispensable things?
My observation is that engineers like well-engineered things. I've never heard any engineer anywhere say they like indispensable things. What was the source of information, Gemini?
BZZZT!
I was talking about commercial space, not residential. The residential space tends to get rented.
Given the current state of the art, there's not even a guarantee that the real harm won't show up in the 2nd or even 3rd generation. Not all state of the art modifications prove to be stable.
If something goes wrong and the child needs expensive lifelong medical care for an unanticipated problem, guess who will be first to shout "NOT IT!"
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso