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Comment Re:There is already a safe subset of C++ (Score 1) 51

If you put programmers inside the Rust straitjacket until they understand the nature of it and the reasoning behind it, and then let them use C++, they'll probably be conditioned to be memory safe. Rust forces you to do what you should be doing anyway in a language like C++. And Rust can compile-time check that stuff.

I'm very much a 'do the experiment' person when it comes to C++ vs Rust. There is plenty of will to write stuff in Rust, so the rest of us can grab popcorn, watch, and then observe the outcomes. (Personally, I rarely stray from bash and python most of the time. Except web stuff, where it's then PHP and vanilla Javascript.)

Comment Re:Growing body of evidence of damage to humans (Score 0) 15

> Isn't capitalism great?

Capitalism doesn't let you buy laws, that's Corporatism, a subset of Fascism, which is in turn a subset of Socialism.

A proper Capitalist systems speaks to economics, not poltiics.

Reconstruction US, Post-Mao China, Post-Soviet Russia all embraced capitalist economics to lift the vast majority of their population out of abject poverty.

Societies which did the opposite mostly killed their middle class ans then half the population starved to death.

Comment Aspects (Score 1) 36

Having lived through the Dot-Bomb it's basically the same.

You're not going to get a valuation bubble without a hype bubble. And nobody is buying companies for that much who have zero infrastructure. And the stock price is what they use to buy the infrastructure.

These are inextricably linked, not separate phenomena.

This is what Austrian Economists call the 'malinvestment' part of the business cycle. It's caused by artificially cheap money (not set by a market) and will unavoidably be cleared.

Our Orwell is so strong the eggheads artificially setting the price of money call themselves "The Open Market Committee". Because an open market in lending rates is de facto prohibited.

Comment Re:There is already a safe subset of C++ (Score 1) 51

Ish.

I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.

There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.

IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.

Comment What comes next (Score 2) 45

Libraries nationwide are fielding patron requests for books that don't exist after AI-generated summer reading lists appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer earlier this year.

Step 1: Find out which fake titles received the most requests
Step 2: Have AI write books to go with the titles
Step 3: Profit?

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