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For pondering trolley problems, maybe?

> You just listed examples of unbounded lifetimes. You're just splitting hairs and trying to weasel around the fact that yes, you really can create any lifetime you want using unsa…

Please try to interpret comments in the context of the discussion, not floating freely in a vacuum. The context of the discussion is the Bun port's excessive use of unreviewed unsa…

> The only thing unsafe does is let you have an unbounded lifetime. No, you're wrong: You can create any lifetime. Proof: fn oof (x: &u32) -> &'desired u32 { let ptr = x as *const …

"Fun fact", it lets you largely circumvent the borrow checker by creating arbitrary lifetimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974824

True, but unsafe let's you conjure up any lifetime you want, or any lifetime necessary to satisfy the lifetime requirements in safe code. If you generously sprinkle pointer derefer…

Let me guess: you know that it's literally true because everyone repeats it, right?

People repeat that figure of speech because it's a meme (in the original sense of the word), not because it's unconditionally true.

Those systems you're alluding to received ungodly amounts of work and resources, vastly more than most projects can ever hope for, and yet they're still full of holes and security …

Are you sure about "rms types" specifically? Stallman is very ineffective in his proselytization, owing to his complete refusal of any kind of compromise or concession to dissentin…

The human brain hasn't solved NP-hardness, either. We make it work using heuristics and automation tools, which in turn use heuristics themselves. I see no reason why AI wouldn't b…

Solving the halting problem is neither necessary nor sufficient to prevent DoS attacks. It isn't necessary, because settings timeouts or other resource restrictions works way bette…

> Hardware isn’t where the margins are Baseless speculation > probably is somewhat of a loss leader for small-batch users Wrong. AMD/Xilinx doesn't sell devices directly to custome…

> […] that violates universal causality I think you're conflating qualia with free will . These are very different concepts, and the experience of qualia has nothing at all to do w…

No, there is at least one other option, which is that consciousness [1] is a phenomenon that we can't replicate in non-biological brains [2], but from which the existence of a "God…

I thought we were way past the "bigger brain means more intelligence" stage of neuroscience?

And yet another "AI doesn't work" comment without any meaningful information. What were your exact prompts? What was the output? This is like a user of conventional software compla…

> We could probably slash gas prices by banning oil exports, thus removing domestic oil supply from global market pricing (barring smuggling). To my understanding, you couldn't do …

> ironically because he thought it would avoid making him look weak and incompetent Trump is what a weak man imagines a strong man to be like. Just look at his official portrait [1…

Oil is a globally priced commodity. This means that downstream consumers of oil in the US will be just as affected by rising prices as European consumers. US producers of oil will …

> it forced US to spend huge amounts of money and military hardware which the EU simply didn't have - Europe's monetary aid for Ukraine far outweighs that of the US. - The US milit…

> Since WWII […] Europe didn't slack off militarily during the Cold War. Germany, for example, poured massive amounts of money and resources into the Bundeswehr to be able to fend …

> So why is the argument "write more code"? It isn't, that's what you injected. The argument was "write [the same amount of] code faster ". And that is undoubtedly a good thing, be…

> But for startups, side-hustles, VC-pitches and the inner-workings of companies and so on (HN crowd) coding was never the problem. I'd say you're 180° wrong. Getting to an MVP fas…

Tell them to use the Composer 1.5 model. It's really good, better than Sonnet, and has much higher usage limits. I use it for almost all of my daily work, don't have to worry about…