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Comment Re: Nope (Score 2) 151

Not by a long shot. Unsafe is scoped. 20% of Rust packages may use unsafe, but the amount of code in unsafe sections is far far far lower. Unsafe means "I accept the risk of doing unsafe things" but because it's scoped, just because a package uses Unsafe, it's still benefiting from the memory safety of bounds checking and borrow checking 99% of the time.

That's a far far cry from "it's just the same thing as doing it in C"

Comment Re:Stop Having Kids (Score 1) 78

That is the only thing that will get the attention of oligarchs and politicians.

Sure, it will get their attention. Then what? Apparently you think: "well then they'll change conditions to make parenting feasible." No, they won't. They'll just do what they've been doing: import 80 IQ third worlders, preferably under a visa regime that makes them compliant.

Comment Related links (Score 1) 78

Among the "Related links" appearing on this stories page: "New Junior Developers Can't Actual Code."

No more fake-it-till-you-make-it eye-tee jerbs.

Also, what will India do? There aren't going to be positions for the hoards of $60k/year visa slaves and their "masters" degrees. There won't even be work for the remote ones: the language models are just as good, if not better, at copypasta "consultant" work as the remote Indians.

Comment Re:Dumbing down (Score 2) 118

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Comment Re:Hoping it succeeds (Score 1) 118

Like

ADC/DAC for agile RF, sensors and control systems. MEMS for gyros, etc. MCUs by the boat load. All the stuff Russia can't make in sufficient quantity for their nightly launches of hundreds shahed, cruise and ballistic missiles to conduct their civilian slaughter fest.

Probably 95% of it they can get from China. But there is a small yet crucial set of devices that they can't: high end ADC/DACs are certainly among those.

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