It's popular for some of the cool kids to posture and kvetch about it right now, but no, normal people really don't care - as long as it's a good game.

Java also has double and Double though (and outside of char and Character all of the other classes have the same name as the primitive with the exception of the capital letter), so I don't think that's it, or at least not entirely. For the most part (there are some exceptions) it doesn't matter since the compiler will implicitly handle conversions between the two. Syntax highlighting or other IDE features are likely more helpful at distinguishing between the two anyway.

I haven’t dug in to Rust enough or all that recently to know if there's a deeper reasoning behind the difference. Unless you can see the declaration it's the same problem as Java where you're probably relying on the IDE to inform you what type you're dealing with if you happened to forget.

Let's break down how these thousand "technologists" will be tasked during their two year stint:

All of them will spend the first one or two months waiting for their super duper secure smart cards with FIPS compliant crypto. Add another month for waiting for keys/certs to be reset a couple/three times.

In the remaining time:

About 30 or 40 of them will take a month or two to do something cool and practical in a sandbox environment where it isn't actually useful in practice.

And then they will wait the remaining 18 months for the other 950 or so of them to check all the compliance boxes, consult all the lawyers, make sure all the private sector contractors aren't being unfairly competed against by government employees, that properly written requirements were duly announced on Fedbid, etc.

Oh and also allow a couple months net downtime for mandatory windows and office updates breaking everything.

Good ol' government IT.

About 30 of them

I was similarly underwhelmed by the first. It was technically impressive, particularly considering it came out nearly 15 years ago and most computer graphics are lucky to hold up for a decade. However, narratively it was bland and from what I've heard the sequels are worse. It seems like Cameron has aimed the films at a younger audience, which of course is going to limit how complex they can be, but there are plenty of Pixar films that do a better job with their storytelling even though they're animated films designed for a family audience.

The film has already made $130 million globally for the first night release according to Box Office Mojo. It will probably do just fine. Everyone else in Hollywood would kill to be in Cameron's shoes right now. His film will likely end up subsidizing a lot of other crap that lost the studio money this year.

To be honest, I didn't much care for movie going then either, lol. But the wait for some other method for any given movie was considerably longer.

Society itself has changed.

For the shared movie going experience in a theater to be enjoyable, that depends on most people following largely unwritten and unenforceable (except socially) rules. And we mostly don't have that anymore, as a society.

OK, so if you disagree with 99.9% of what I write, tell me do you agree or disagree with this thesis I wrote a year ago about Islam being at war with the rest of Civilization:
https://slashdot.org/journal/3...

this position on the government being 'necessary' evil that needs to be controlled because left to its own devices it causes millions of deaths by war and other means:
https://slashdot.org/comments....

this position that government promoting consumption rather than production with 0% interest rate policies, getting off gold standard, laws and taxes leads to economic destruction, that there are no savings anymore
https://slashdot.org/comments....

position that government selecting losers and winners by choosing businesses to fund ends up creating inefficient monopolies (space x comes to mind, but this comment is from 2010)
https://science.slashdot.org/c...

position that USA is printing the dollar into oblivion, gold is real money and should be used as standard to prevent countries from inflating the money supply, that USA bonds are junk, of-course this was 2013 when USA's debt was around 16Trillion, today it is over 38Trillion, things have gotten worse by a factor greater than 2, the world is getting off the USD standard, using other currencies more, bond yields have at least doubled due to the falling bond price:
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

You can say whatever you like about my intelligence but if you disagree with 99.9% of my comments you are quite a bit off.

That's not even the problem, the biggest problem is it doesn't reach its own goals. You should be able to use Rust without using Unsafe, otherwise it doesn't solve the problem it claims to solve (or rather, it solves them in a "good enough" fashion, the same as smart pointers in C++ and there's no reason to switch from one to the other).

It's pretty clear you're lying.

After a few failures, I generally give up using an LLM and look elsewhere.

Always P=NP is true for some subset of the problem.

Every time I see someone talking about AI being a junior developer, I am quite certain they have never worked with a junior developer.

You are accusing MIT of committed scientific fraud. You better have evidence if you're going to accuse someone of that.

But you don't. You didn't even read the paper. You're just an asshole.

Most of the Indian H1B visa holders I've worked with have been pretty good at their job.

I've come to accept that this as true, and further conjecture that bloat is often a corporate/institutional goal.

This seems to be a joke, but in reality corporate incentives are aligned to make things more bloated. If you're a manager, then the more people you have under you, the more power you have. This means you want your people to go slower so you have to hire more of them.

I don't have a solution but there must be one.