You can't know the eclipse's gender unless you know which bodies are involved...

The appeal of Mars is that it could theoretically be made Earthlike, with a bit of handwaving perhaps, but not wholly outside the realm of plausibility.

As the appeal is in sending humans someday, there's going to be little support for building a toxic atmosphere, especially one which is particularly unpleasant to die in.

Of course it makes sense. Giving it to the power industry means we need to make more, and he can award the contract on a bribery basis.

Absolutely not the point. That's not a small amount of money to have wandering around doing things.

Is the Shekel really stronger? Or is the dollar just going into the toilet? I'm seeing more and more international boycotts against Israel.

Coddling their little cupcakes until they become worse than worthless. Same as it ever was in times of plenty. Unfortunately, it leads to suffering.

He has been remarkably consistent for his entire tenure on Slashdot. His entire brand is not giving a fuck about anyone but himself, and he's proud to tell you so.

Anything that scares him is bad, and everything scares him.

Apparently the "hot fire" test was a great success!

Yeah, what that means is that they are going to be the de facto choice for pumps for european DCs, and yet they are asking the EU to build fewer of them, which will mean less business for them. This doesn't mean what you think it means. Unlike in the USA, a lot of major European corporations are still run with sustainability in mind. They would like there to be a tomorrow for them to profit in.

Sure, it's bought with money from drug trafficking.

I don't want the CIA doing that either.

They are both things, as they are both producing the product and delivering it to the end user, and they are collecting the revenues.

It means someone was being snarky, and if you can't parse it out, it also means you're not good at understanding English.

You trust what Zuck says? He has a name for people like that.

It's called personal experience. Bots like you don't, but real humans actually have such things.

Sure, so why are you bringing your feelings into this?

You actually have no evidence that he's never asked, "how do I avoid memory bugs in C?"

If I had to make a bet, I'd say literally every programmer that has spent a non-trivial amount of time in C has asked that question of themselves, even if only in passing. It is a constant fight, but it's also a deeply stupid fight to have if you have a tools--including a whole, purpose-built language--that allows you to elide that fight almost in its entirety. Like, you can CHOOSE to do it for fun if you like, but if your goal is to write memory-safe code, use all the tools at your disposal.

I'm a C++ programmer (that's what the games industry runs on) and I have the extreme privilege of only having to worry about keeping games from crashing, the most trivial kind of memory safety. It's a deeply stupid language (IMO) that has only gotten better by poaching the best parts of other languages. But I'd love to not ever have to think about weird crashes that are caused by people kicking the stack 5 minutes ago in some other game system. If I was told that Unreal Engine was being fully reinstrumented in Rust, I'd learn Rust. What a relief it would be.

Anway, tl;dr: you're the one that's got feefees about this. Rust is a demonstrably safer language in real-world use. For you to rail against it this much is just your feelings, not anything to do with facts.