Seems some still can't quite seem to grok the difference between ethnicity, language and nationality.

General Syrskyi for example current commander and chief of the Ukrainian armed forces is "ethnic Russian". His day job is overseeing the transformation of Russian invaders into fertilizer.

As for the Donbasssss rallying cry of every feller who can't be bothered to check basic facts there is help and at least some hope for redemption.

https://ukraine.un.org/sites/d...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

While ultimately Albert Hofmann is to blame for your remarks I happen to know the real reason for the pending invasion of Canada. Trump is jealous over Trudeau banging Katy Perry.

Marketing. There is no sane reason to reimplement things in Rust, unless they have been a constant security problem. For example, reimplementing Bind would probably a good idea with their constant crap. But you can just move to alternatives. Same for Sendmail, but Postfix is an excellent replacement.

Reimplementing commandline-tools that are not a problem is pure insanity.

It very much does not. And Rust is not "safe by design" either, that is nonsense. It can prevent or reduce some forms of problems, mostly from the areas of memory safety and effects like race-conditions. But look at PHP, which is completely memory safe and still one of the worst source of security problems.

What Rust does is to allow actually competent secure code developers to focus more on the remaining problems, of which there are many.

What Rust lacks to be taken fully serious is a specification. No, an implementation can never replace a specification, that idea is amateur-level.

Was Devo right, we're devolving?

Has anyone compared non-AI hallucinations to AI's? For example why is my car MPG calculator hallucinatory compared to a manual calculation based on dividing indicated mileage (which is also hallucinatory compared to mileage markers on freeways) by gallons pumped (and how accurate is that?)? Are hallucinations in the real world much more prevalent than your mood allows you to see?

In my lifetime you could open a bank account with just a name, ditto for renting an apartment, and pay for everything in cash.

This guy is screwed unless he's only a guest of a patron.

Crime was lower and people were more responsible back then too.

All this control grid surveillance still hasn't caught the Building 7 people.

Maybe it's possible to decide a course of action was a bad idea and reverse it?

Are your wind turbines frequently curtailed, as are Wa state's?

"Limiting Balancing Reserve Deployed or Regulating Reserves Deployed"

https://www.bpa.gov/energy-and...

And if you look at a generation graph, can you see that hydro alone in Wa state can easily satisfy all load, so wind, nuclear, solar and biomass are really superfluous vanity projects for political reasons?

https://transmission.bpa.gov/B...

Actually, that would be a lie by misdirection, because the actual competition are renewables and storage and there nuclear does not look too good. Not that the nuclear fanatics are above lying ...

So did bin Laden have the right idea?

On logging roads in Washington can I pretty much guarantee you'll find a discarded culvert somewhere?

Did I claim I've seen scrapped wind turbines or culverts? Could you go out to public forests and notice discarded culverts? Why don't they haul them back on the same equipment used to bring out the replacements?

These people operate on the same level as clueless major software makers like Cloudstrike, Microsoft, etc. Hence while this could be done a lot better and competently, these people just do not have the skills.

Some still do that. And some send ransomware threats when there is no attack. Apparently the both approaches continue to work to some degree.

Otherwise they would be able to make more money (as soon as you take risk-costs into account) in a regular job.

I agree on that. But I do not think the tool choice plays a role in whether people take something seriously or not. Some people do understand risk and risk management, but most simply do not and nothing will change that. The benefit of Rust is that it is likely quite a bit harder to learn that C and that selects the people for those that actually want to do this right and are willing to invest significant effort and bring significant talent to the table. And that may make a significant difference. In any case, I do not think it will make things worse. But we will find out.