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Comment Rust organization (Score 1) 4

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.

Comment Engineers (Score 1) 6

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?

Comment Re:"Science" has the same problem, thank you RFKjr (Score 1) 101

LLMs are completely unable to verify.

That's an exaggeration. You can give a LLM access to real things and they can use those real things to verify. I just flatly do not understand why they are not. It wouldn't make them infallible, but it would go a huge way towards improving the situation, and they are clearly not doing it. They could also use non-AI software tools to check up on the AI output. I'd bet that you could even use a plagiarism detection tool for this purpose with little to no modification, but I'd also bet this kind of tool already exists anyway.

Comment Re:Idiotic statement (Score 1) 101

All research shows that increased penalties have no positive effect, but make the problem worse.

It also shows that if the penalty is insufficient then they have no positive effect. A fine that people with a lot of money can easily afford is just a prohibition which only applies to the poor, with a license fee. Look to speeding tickets which scale with income for a fair model.

Comment Re:Rustification (Score 1) 63

Breaking architecture to improve parsing security on files that are almost always received from a trusted source is really a horrible choice. It's saying, "Fuck you" to those users.

The engineering decision is made worse by the fact that making a fallback to support those platforms would be simple, and is already mostly implemented. It's a bad enough decision that I'd have to say the person who made it is not an engineer, he's just an asshole.

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