You need to understand how amazing zombo.ai is going to be. You can do ANYTHING.

Many of us have been trying to make things better, and end up feeling squeezed by the economy, or AI job losses, or whatever. With that said, I wouldn't mind trying to be a rich asshole as a change of pace, because I'd probably do more positive things with the money than the rich assholes you hear about in the news all the time.

Well, the question really is do you want to be (a) a rich asshole with negative value to society or (b) somebody useful. I guess there are enough evil people who like (a). But what keeps society, and really everything, going is people that chose (b).

"Sells software" is even more wrong. One should think Slashdot is a site for nerds that post stuff that matters and check the basics before posting a news.

You get models at Hugging Face. OpenRouter is a router to the cheapest API provider hosting a model for inference.

That also makes quite a bit of sense. Desperately clinging to "Intel and MS are without flaw". That signals a deep insecurity and possible incompetence he does not want to admit to. Also "hide behind the big bully in an attempt to be unassailable". Obviously, that does not work.

This is mostly old news. The fact that blind people can echolocate has been known for centuries. This study reveals some interesting details about the neurological impact, though.

In the .com era, you could make money by building a company that did $ANYTHING$ but on the internet!

I'm about to launch an AI pet company. If you want to get in on the ground floor, go to zombo.com to invest. You can do anything you want.

It's worth mentioning that everything you learn rewires your brain. This one rewires it in the hearing/vision parts of your brain, but every time you learn something, your brain gets rewired a bit.

Hmm. I think rewritable loses data after some time. Maybe other "solid state" methods of storage? I guess one could push the limits of optical storage a bit more, but not as much as future (and some current) games will need. Or we just use larger media and design a BluRay with the size of an LP.

It's not impossible, it takes 10 weeks.

For infrared sensors, it depends how hot the object is.

There's a platform without a C compiler? What?

Rust does not depend on a commercial C compiler, and couldn't use one for anything even if it was persent. The only rust toolchain uses LLVM, the open source toolchain for Clang. There is no Rust-to-C compiler; the only Rust compiler is native, and works on any platform that LLVM works on (which is all of them).

(The fact that only one Rust compiler exists is a common criticism of the language, though I've yet to understand why it's a bad thing. The compiler is open source, uses the LLVM backend which makes it possible to easily target any ISA / environment, and is very high quality. The error messages are incredibly good, I've never seen anything like it. There is an effort under way to make a GCC front end for Rust, so eventually we'll have two.)

Can you tell me what exactly you're talking about? You mentioned AIX... IBM has a fully-supported Rust toolchain (which is just the open source toolchain, packaged and distributed by IBM), available free of charge (I only know that because I googled it; I haven't touched AIX since I left IBM in 2011). Well, they only provide support if you pay.

Why, are you doing lots of hardware interaction, writing to device registers and whatnot, or calling C APIs, or exposing C APIs to callers? Outside of those cases, I think I've only needed unsafe once or twice in the ~100 kloc I've written in Rust.

Nothing weird about that. Domains are not just for the web. foo.bar can be internal use with www.foo.bar being the website.

The way Google selects routes is always at odds with my preferred route - it sends me across railroads tracks which it does not monitor for trains crossing, or stopping within the crossing, a frequent occurrence here. Or it will send me on a route with 30% more miles and a toll because it's 2 minutes faster (which it isn't even). Selecting the "avoid tolls" option only partially alleviates this problem, and it excludes other tolled routes I am fine with using.

I check the traffic manually before leaving and don't rely on Google navigation in the car. If it had a mode that was "Follow this specific route, unless there are major traffic issues, then re-route within these parameters" - that would be useful for my daily drive.

I can see, if you are not a regular driver and knowledgeable about traffic pain points at different times of day and week, how you might feel the need to check every time. I guess I'm more of a power user, but the software kinda sucks.