25 Years! Wow! Has anyone actually seen an Itanium machine? I thought it was still birth.

Back when the i860 was released I attended a 1 day workshop on its architecture and how to program it, in assembler, at Intel. That was enough to convince me that the thing was impossible to program if you wanted to achieve its performance promises. So it turned out to be, the compiler writers could not do it.

I was thinking kids had trouble with the Roman Numerals on analog clocks. But jees they have trouble with the big hand vs the little hand.

What, you don't have a Pi or other MCU or two in your pockets at all times? I thought every one did.

What do you mean by "social media"? For example I would argue YouTube is social media. YT is rapidly being swamped in AI slop. Soon it will be impossible to ever find anything real. That is a huge loss of a valuable resource.

I would argue that everything I can surf on the net is "social media". And that is rapidly being swamped by AI slop as well.

Basically I see AI making the entire internet useless. Or impossible to use. After AI has crowded out anything real as you say.

I wish we had an idea as to what to do about this.

Well, I was joking of course. But as it turns out my AI friend has actually manage to create tens of thousands of lines of Rust that does actually do what I asked for. It took quite a bit more prompting over and above getting things to compile though. Thing is knowing that the Rust compiler has caught all the silly type, mutability and lifetime mistakes the AI could sneak past me I feel a lot more confident in the working of the result. I'd be more worried if I were generating C or C++ or Python etc.

From the story:
"OpenAI said that, in a given week, the slice of users who indicate possible signs of mental-health emergencies related to psychosis or mania is a minuscule 0.07%."

So after 30 years AI will have driven us all insane.

I can believe that.

Or have they just discovered that about the same percentage of all humans are bat shit crazy, with or without AI help?

I feel your pain.

My solution was to ask my AI friend to only write code in Rust for me. With all the anal type, mutability, lifetime and other checking the Rust compiler does my AI friend can run around in loops all day trying to get it to compile while I do something else.

And as you know, if your Rust compiles it works.

Thank God our education is not run by some huge corporation like MS or Meta.
Can't we just have schools and teachers, universities and profs, like we had in the my day. A system that obviously worked really well, it educate the people who built the world we now live in.

That is so silly. Rust is the same safe/unsafe from a security perspective as C. What is really bugging you about Rust?

That is great and all. But:
1) You know there are ways to express happiness and humour in text right?
2) Your simple example is possibly acceptable but there are so many emoji in use I have no idea what they are supposed to mean.
3) Often they are so small I cannot make them out with my eyesight.

The only emoji I use, is U+1F4A9 :)

What would your hardened version of C look like?

I think that any harder version of C would detract from the C we all know and love.

Also I think a hardened version of C would end up looking like Rust.

In effect Rust is that hardened version of C. With a lot of other nice features on top.

The problem is that without allowing some "unsafe" operations in Rust or any other language it is impossible to do any I/O or interface with foreign languages like C. It would be totally useless. Certainly no use as a "systems programming language".

So Rust allows "unsafe" in such way that it is clearly delimited and limited to tiny areas of the code that the programmer has to pay special attention to. This is a far better solution than having the entire code base be unsafe as in C and other languages. I find this to meet Rust's goals perfectly.

It is not. Rust is a fungal disease in plants.

Nothing is over. Except perhaps your credibility. Rust has never claimed what you think it does. It has a very clear definition of what it means by "memory safe" and a very clear definition of safe and unsafe code (see "unsafe" keyword).

Where did you find the idiot who told you that? Not even the most rabid Rust enthusiasts I have talked to would say something so dumb.