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Comment Re:Poor design, not impossible (Score 3, Insightful) 43

Traditional Saudi Arabian architecture is based around keeping things cool. Like the high walls in this building complex keep everything in the shade, and retain the coolness from the night as much as possible (because hot air rises, the cool air stays in the building). At the same time, it still allows natural light which overall makes a very comfortable effect.

Having a line allows you to enforce hierarchy. The people at one side will never want to go to the other side, that's where the lower class people are.

Comment Rust organization (Score 2) 12

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) 20

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?

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