Sorry I answered the wrong comment. To answer what is so bad with that, say you do "cat > file_you_want_to_keep". Now how do you save the file? You can't. Even pressing CTRL-C will wreck it.

Yes of course when there is a skill and no standards of training, some people are bad at it. Technology companies failed us all in the sense that they were more willing to pay the minimum for average workers rather than raise the bar on expectations of talent and try to get more by paying more. Rust is really the epitome of what has been wrong with the technology industry in the first place.

Because now you are fighting a language that is trying to prevent you from making mistakes and not getting any benefit out of it and you are reinventing the wheel for little reason. Furthermore you are limiting yourself in terms of the ecosystem. You can't use anything really powerful like Qt because then you are just admitting that C++ is better in the first place.

What's the point of making assertions about me that I can't prove. Rest assured that I am worth millions to my company and you will probably be using my software soon.

One thing I noticed about modern Linux is if you "cat > file" and then press CTRL-C it overwrites with a blank file. It's not supposed to do that. It's not supposed to create a file at that point and it's supposed to leave the file untouched if it already existed. It's actually a little worrisome that such basic things are wrong.

If your developers are so bad that they can't write safe code, from what I see from the outside Rust isn't going up be enough to save them. They are free to make their code "unsafe" from one end to the other and do what they always did.

Everything in America fails.

Most entertainment has always been slop, this is nothing new at all. A decade ago it was reality TV, before that it was gameshows and daytime soap operas.

The interesting story here is how this demonstrates the basic different in attitude between the US and China when it comes to new technology. In the US the established players are very concerned that new tech will affect their business model, so they try to hold it back as much as possible. In China it gets embraced and there is a rush to adopt it.

You are not in the industry. Mutual funds have strict rules about what they can do with the money.

Basically, the manager has to comply with a TON of regulations which control what they can and cannot do with the money. Even things that they can invest in require a lot of reporting. If you ever look at the financials of a mutual fund they tell you things like Net Asset Value, Yield, % large cap vs medium cap, vs small cap vs bonds, etc

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Exactly. For example, spreadsheets were often used day to day but the accountants kept the actual books as books and had the final word. That changed over time, only after spreadsheets proved out (and got the bugs out).

Also, humans stayed in the loop. Sure there were occasional funnies like a medical database claiming a few male patients had a history of pregnancy, but humans were in the loop and cited those as obvious errors. There were still backup paper records to fall back on.

But a lot of people when they hear someone say "it's nowhere near ready for prime time" will claim the person is saying "It'll never work".

Back in the day when the "Board of Education" was an actual wooden board.

If they really wanted to serve the user, it would understand "Hey Google, lockdown now" and would power off and require a PIN to restart.

Long press doesn't do anything so low level anymore, it just signals the management processor in the radio that it should force the application processor off. The management processor keeps running.

The power button on the phone really is just a suggestion. To actually power off the whole phone you have to remove the battery (if possible) or let it run down to zero.