When you get control of the money, you get control of the means of production. That's literally what capitalism is for.

Cursive is shit though and people should stop using it. If we're only keeping it around for signatures we should just learn to accept doing them without. They can learn fine motor skills in an art class.

Communications development.

If it doesn't have military applications then it doesn't get funded.

Keeping it going costs peanuts compared to the PR.

I think pupils should learn to hand-write. It's a useful skill to have. What I think should be done away with is torturing children with dictations and other non-sense that are basically speed-writing contests _without_ teaching them to type and giving them the option to chose typing over hand-writing.

Insert simpsons meme here: Largest prime number so far. A native English speaker would understand this to be the meaning unless they were trying really hard to be obtuse.

No, I'd say NASA is a military organization because it exists first and foremost to support our military. Anyone who believes differently has proven their vulnerability to gaslighting. Our spaceflight projects all have direct military applications.

Microsoft keeps claiming they're changing and then I keep seeing new ads for functionality I don't want to use pop up to distract me while I'm trying to work, and yes this is a locked down work environment where an effort has been made to turn all of that shit off. But you fire up Teams after some trivial update and it wants to tell you how you could use AI in it, no I am literally never going to do that on purpose. If Microsoft has changed it's only that they're adding more gaslighting.

It's easier than washing one's balls.

el Bunko's achievements:

1. he or his companies being convicted of fraud.
2. bankrupting a handful of casinos (that took some doing but he found a way).
3. stiffing myriad small businesses out of bill payments after service had already been rendered.
4. stacking the Supreme Court with Nazis.
5. defiling Christianity by convincing the Evangelicals they really hate migrants, people whom them deem to use the wrong restroom, minorities, etc.
6. screwing up the U.S. and the World's economy.
7. handing Ukraine over to those nice Russians.
8. blowing up boats with people in the Caribbean because they MIGHT be carrying drugs, when in fact he simply hates non-whites.
9. making the former allies hate the U.S. to the point they are refusing to share intelligence information.
10. royally pissing off the mild-mannered Canadians to the point the only thing that would make them happy about the U.S. is his death.
11. destroying health care in rural counties by taking $1 billion out of Medicaid, and that doesn't even cover trying to take away ACA subsidies.
12. backing Israel for killing over 50,000 Palestinians.
13. being Putin's bitch.
14. saddling the American people with a value-added tax int the form of tariffs.
15. destroying health and food aid for foreign countries so that he could crow about how many billions he's saved (less than $30 billion) and thus causing the deaths of at least 200,000 of those non-whites he hates.

I could go on but it is too depressing.

They know how to put a stop to all this evolution nonsense. If they would just get on the ball.....maybe use a few prayer seances....they could prevent evolution from happening. And they'd be so happy they'd Rapture themselves and ascend to.....errrr.....well wherever it is they ascend to. And the rest of us could all be happy for them.

Haven't you done enough damage already? Stop, just stop.

Speaking of pollution, sending up zllions of satellites with maybe several missions for one is sure to pollute the Earth's atmosphere. The scurvy little bastards that will do it to us won't care as long as it turn them into billionaires.

I don't think its savviness, simply that Rust's compiler is way more stricter and the language itself strongly avoids things that plague C/C++ programming like NULL, raw pointers, pointer arithmetic, dangling references, memory alloc/free, data races, and so on.

I think there is a learning / unlearning curve since the language can be very frustrating for people used to throwing around pointers or references without regard to their lifetimes but once you're over that it becomes a lot simpler. I think also, making people think about lifetimes also makes them better C/C++ programmers at the same time.

I've written lots of Rust and I've encountered exactly one hard crash - when I was calling an unsafe function in OpenSSL and messed up the parameters. When it happened I searched the code for "unsafe", found the culprit quickly, fixed the problem and was on my way.

The compiler has certainly kicked my ass plenty of times for doing things I shouldn't but if it compiles I'm pretty confident that any bugs there are caused by application logic issues, not language issues. Rust will not help if I meant to spin the motor clockwise and sent it spinning anti-clockwise, or if I forgot to check if someone was permitted to do the thing before doing the thing. For that I need to do testing but fortunately I can also write unit tests with the code it's testing which also cuts down on issues later.

So all in all I'm not surprised developers report higher quality code which goes out the door and doesn't come back because it's broken.