Now every hundred thousand years we are going to have slashdot filled with posts saying "the leap second is stupid! It causes accidents and increased stress!" while a wave of others insist we need the leap second or our children will be standing waiting for the bus in the dark.

If ai kills all these stupid fucking crypto currencies, I'm on ai's side.
Finally a positive use case.

Not everyone is purely driven by ideology.

I saw the video before anyone else on the internet told me what it was going to do. Total surprise.

I was totally amazed.

I am quite curious about the active downforce fan system because those have appeared in real race cars and real road cars - although not to the extent seen in the Tesla demo.

You always hear that an F1 car creates enough downforce (at speed) to drive upside down on a ceiling. Last night we saw a car actually drive up a wall and then drive upside down. Not theory - real car, real result.

Of course its completely ridiculous to have thrusters on the car. That's ok. It's ok to make ridiculous things. I was more shocked by the reveal last night than by the chopstick rocket catch. (I knew that was coming.. i had no idea what they were planning with the Roadster)

It's ok to do something for no other reason than "it would be cool".

I am disappointed that so many people here are shitting on it because its Elon. When someone - anyone - demos a car with fucking thrusters that jumps/flies/whatever, it is cool, and you're allowed to like it.

You're allowed to be amazed by things. You're allowed to experience happiness in life.

This is nerd stuff. This is science and engineering turning "magic" into real things.

Celsius

So like Celcius and the superior Kelvin

All the mice I use are hardwired.

Reminded me of the Cadillac Halo from last year. Which is a personal flying car. It has to actually fly because it does not have wheels.

The borrow checker hates anyone that wants to make a doubly linked list. And pray you never need to make a complex crosslinked graph. Even an AST optimizer needs to jump through a lot of carefully designed hoops if you aren't willing to cheat and wrap all your unsafe code.

Ada and SPARK are easier and you can still make code that you can verify and reason about. But you still need some discipline to avoid leaking memory. And of course there's the lifetime safety profile for C++ that gets you like 90% of what people want from Rust without the paranoid baggage.

That said, I like Rust macros a lot. Enough that I made a very dumbed down version for my toy language.

No need to argue, gentlemen. These are all testable claims. And if we're to be thorough, we must test this in all levels, from wig to mustache, all the way to full face. And in sufficient numbers so that our conclusions are robust to statistical noise.

Now we need a thousand or so volunteered, maybe split up in groups of a hundred.

The first control group does nothing.

The second wears a mask.

The third steals hair.

The fourth steals faces.

The fifth chops off heads.

And so on.

Get crackin' folks. And if you get caught and convicted before you can report in your results, well that's on you for being sloppy.

Let's s/robot/broomstick/ into this story and see what we get, paraphrasing:

Police seized a broomstick [as physical evidence] and suspect's phones after the suspects filmed themselves touching a woman's ass with the broomstick and making thrusting motions.

Hmmm...seems like a slam dunk case of indecent assault in most American jurisdictions. Whether it was wooden broomstick, a WonderMop, or an ai-internet-connected-ninja-robot-vacuum-whatever.

No sensationalism required.

Debt is indeed a rising threat. Us federal debt has reached $40 trillion (greater than the total GDP), with interest payments now the second-largest expenditure after Social Security. The bill works out to $4k per person, or $12k per tax return filed.

Really consider that the first $12k on your tax return bought you nothing. Not just nothing personally, it funded no library, no road, no food stamp, it just evaporated into financial fees. And we're hitting a higher-interest era where borrowing is more expensive.

AI related growth and investment is what's been keeping the present economy floating in the wake of tariffs, accounting for something like 30-50% of recent GDP growth and hundreds of thousands of jobs.

It also the only thing that could possibly result in enough growth to offset the rising debt ratio and prevent a painful economic future. (Even then the growth will have to be on the very high end of projections.)

So it's weird to come away from that and imply AI is imposing an existential risk ("The Real AI Threat") due to "weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence". That's like if your take on medicine was "medical research is a catastrophic thing to get involved with, instead of curing all cancers we might only cure certain varieties, do you want a future in which you die from those cancers?"

100% Rust coreutils is great, because as an end-user it is important that I know that if anyone implemented a doubly-linked list that they were suitably punished by Rust for doing so.

Yes, absolutely. Advertising is unethical. It is psychological coercion designed to make people buy stuff they normally wouldn't think they need.

The only ethical ads are PSAs that impart helpful and useful information, but they're not really advertising in the commercial sense.

-1 click? into the complex number system? 3i - 2 clicks?