The inability for America to comprehend nuance is starting to really piss me off.

Yeah we're not all immediately going to lose our jobs.

That's not the problem. The problem is we already are in a scenario where we have two good jobs for every five people. A good job here is something that lets you afford a one-bedroom apartment by yourself in a city that consistently has employment.

Oh here is where a bunch of people dig up lower cost apartments and places with little or no economic activity or job opportunities... Because every time I point out the reality of the economy somebody suddenly digs up a statistic out of context to prove what we all see with our own two fucking eyes isn't real because gas lighting is a thing. Also the president is a pedophile and they voted for him and they would really like to forget about that...

Anyway getting back on track, a small reduction in the number of available jobs that pay people enough to be functioning adults will have a huge impact on our consumer-based economy. Already the only people in the economy who have any disposable income to speak of or the baby boomers who got all the socialism from the New deal and the Great society before pulling the ladder up behind them because Ronald Reagan is so fucking awesome and Orange temu Ronald Reagan is even more awesome.

We have a major crisis coming in addition to all the others like the water shortages and the AI data centers driving up the cost of electricity and everything else and the fact that we've given so much money to the 1% that we can no longer function as a country...

In addition to all of that when the baby boomers die in a few years there isn't going to be enough jobs that pay enough to have disposable income to drive our economy or even our tax base. We're going to have to start cutting police and fire. And it's going to be a lot of desperate jobless young men showing up at your door armed to the teeth because we may not have food and shelter and medicine but by God we've got guns. All of us have guns. Including those desperate young men you abandoned because fuck those guys right? Bootstraps and something.

It doesn't take very many job losses from automation when we have already had 50 years of non-stop automation devouring jobs that nobody likes to talk about. Go Google the phrase 70% of middle class jobs lost to automation since 1980 and you can find the study assuming your Google isn't broken. For some reason every time I point all this out a bunch of people whose Google is broken ask for sources.

And this is why I hate americans. It has to either be every single one of us loses our job immediately tomorrow to a robot we all die in the streets or nobody loses our jobs and we don't have to think about anything on any of the complex interactions between gradual job losses due to automation and the inability to feed a consumer-based economy.

It's like how morons keep asking who is going to buy their products if we none of us have jobs. They don't want to sell us products they want us to go away and die so that they can have everything for themselves. They hate you and they want you to die. It's like none of you people saw the utter disdain and disgust in mitt Romney's face every time he interact it with regular people on the campaign trail back then.

Then again the current president is pretty good at hiding his contempt for you and when he lets it show like when he called the people in the army suckers the news media just moves on and pretends it didn't happen so...

It's frustrating cuz I'm sitting here trapped on this fucking train with all you morons and I can see the other train coming at us and I'm like hey guys maybe we should do something about that and everybody's like it's not going fast enough so it's fine. Then again there's also a bit of I got mine fuck you from all the old farts floating around here who think they're going to die before the shit hits the fan. And you absolutely do not believe in hell because with the shit you've done to your kids yeah if there's a help every one of you fuckers is going there.

And since I'm ranting fuck Reagan democrats too. Your grandpa who voted Democrat voted for Ronald Reagan and for Democrats who are right of Ronald Reagan. He was not a Democrat he was a fucking Dino. And he won't admit it but he voted for Trump at least once probably all three times.

So essentially the EEs have made a mess and now expect software to fix it? Well. If this driver really allows general hardware access, it is a security problem waiting to happen and should not be used at ll.

On a related note, I do not understand the point of colorful lights in keyboards and the like. But then, I am not mentally 5 years old.

The problem with C is that it is easy to learn, but hard to master. The primary advantage of Rust is that it is hard to learn and hard to master. That keeps the idiots out and it probably its most significant actual security advantage.

No. Not even close.

It can be. But it requires high coders skills and insights. In Rust the skill requirements are probably a bit (not that much) lower, but since Rust is hard to learn, you force competence in an indirect way. Yes, stupid, but that is one of the hoops needed to convince clueless "management".

It is not actually possible. Or rather unsafe stuff in C will remain unsafe in Rust. In addition, most/all other bugs (like logic errors, wrong use of system APIs, etc.) in the C code will remain. Rust does not magically make code secure. Coding directly in Rust has some advantages, as it is hard to learn and that keeps the prevalent low-skill coders out. Rust can also avoid some problems (not that many) when the code is designed for Rust. C code is obviously not.

That said, there is an application scenario for this: If you C code is in good shape, but you want to do additional development and maintenance in Rust from a certain point onwards. That does not improve the old C/Rust code, but it may have some benefits for new code and for changes.

Say EUR 5 is so. Voided for safe battery chemistries. Make everybody that sells any LiPo or Li-Ion batteries and devices take every one back, regardless of whether they sell that particular one. Yes, businesses will scream, ignore them.

I have a mug from a conference Startpage sponsored about a decade ago.

It's been in my Firefox at least since then. Did I add it manually?

I am actually surprised this is new!

I guess Mozilla was being paid to not do this? Ages ago we had Altavista, Excite, Yahoo, and even Google as options. I really had no idea how deep the anticompetitive tying had become.

BTW, if you want to search for anything counterculture Yandex Search will have it on the first page while the Western engines will gaslight you into believing you misremembered something.

Even 20 pages deep.

Fascinating. Is driver writing on Windows so utterly messed up that writing and maintaining what is a really simple driver on the functionality side is something nobody wants to do?

Yes, unfortunately. Well a big shakeup is coming and we will get liability and likely qualification requirements. The EU CRA (and also the GDPR and the DSA) are already starting that process. I guess a lot of bad coders will lose their jobs in the next 5-10 years. The same has happened in every other engineering field when society finally admitted to itself that quality matters in important technologies.

While the systemd-fiasco did nicely show that Debian has gotten partially corrupted, most package maintainers did still do a good job and Devuan gets around that Windows-inspired crap. But if they allow AI in, then they are going to get worse and worse and I am not sticking around for that.

I do not think you know what "doing mathematics" means. All LLMs can really do for mathematics is better searching. That will find a few overlooked things, because the mathematical literature is very dispersed and hard to search. But that is it. Incidentally, even a fields medal does not usually qualify you do understand LLMs. But many experts in one field have no understanding of how limited their insight is in another. So, yes, I am absolutely not above to call a fields medal winner that makes a stupid statement about LLMs a "moron". I could also call them "idiot savant" for something that sounds better but is not.

You are just a moron that does not understand Science at all. The actual state-of-the-art is that we do not know how a human mind works, despite your hallucinations.

Exactly. All these hallucinations about plausible deniability require somebody with an actual clue on the other side. Customs people generally do not have that. And, funny coincidence, they can still lock you up and mess up all your travel plans even when they understand the facts. A customs agent is very much not the person you want to try to assert intellectual dominance over. That is a really, really dumb thing to try.

This means despite all the assholes and all the idiots there, even the US is slowly going to green energy, fore purely economic reasons.