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Comment Re:No. Of course not. (Score 1) 118

I used to think like this. But I've come to realize that editing, whether by a professional or an AI, is a good thing. It flags when I think I'm being clear, but I'm not. Sometimes that's as simple as reworking a sentence to be less verbose, but other times a simple edit can indicate that the entire paragraph is confusing. LLMs can be quite helpful here, because you can actually ask them what they understand, and they'll give you a good idea of what your readers are actually reading. Even when you are a good writer, it helps to understand what people are actually taking in. A good editor will do this, as will teaching students, but an AI will do it with you all day without complaint and without embarrassment.

Comment Re: Oh, now I get it. (Score 4, Insightful) 65

Because the point of Rust is that it's safe by design. In other words, once you've figured out how to structure your program to make it not do unsafe things, you have a design you can just implement in C and (as long as it's a faithful implementation), and it will also be guaranteed to be safe. The only reason not to is that maintenance is harder that way. It also shows that Rust has to many limits because code that is provably safe by a human cannot be written in Rust without a redesign to meet Rust's more limited understanding of safe.

Comment Caveat lessor (Score 2) 16

If this guy was smart enough to cobble together a game, he may also have been smart enough to include consent to the wholesale appropriation of your data in the software license agreement.

(I think this would make the charges more difficult to prove, but probably only enough to get him a better plea offer.)

Comment Re:This seems dubious... (Score 1) 49

Solar panels: The roof of a trailer is about 450 square feet. In the northeastern U.S., you would average only 3.5 hours of full sun, so you'd get only a little over 13 kW per day.

So the solar generation function of a panel is no sun, no power, partial sun, no power, peak sun hours, full power.

Well, I guess that you're the expert.

So in an entire day, covering the entire roof of a trailer with solar panels would add a whopping 7 miles of range

Maybe that's enough to get you over a time zone or so so that you get an extra hour of "full sun"? ;)

After all, it's not like trailers are ever sitting idle during loading, unloading, or waiting for loads. Always moving, doncha know.

Comment Re:The Slashdot title indicates... (Score 1) 251

Once and for all people: "it's" (with an apostrophe) is a contraction of "it is." "its" is the possessive pronoun, which was intended here.

Yes, it is. Now think of the rule for possessives with every other type of noun (ordinary and proper) - " 's ". It's like the "i" before "e" except after "c" (and sometimes "y") rule, irregular verbs, and a host of other landmines in writing down the English language.

It doesn't help that there's a group of people actively miseducating kids about pronouns and demonizing references to them. His, hers, its, yours, theirs, and ours are all bricks paving the shoulder of the road to hell.

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