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It's certainly a skill to launch quickly at that scale. There are plenty of bureaucratically managed slowly launched duds too I hate meta with a passion, but I don't deny they have…

Last year's Advent of Code had a task that was NP complete and lacked good well known approximation algorithms. I almost gave up on it when I realised as that feels impossible In p…

It would be most fair to hash the names first, especially for this paper

I imagine one reason people have a hard time with the monty hall problem is that they have learnt a rule that seems to fit but really doesn't. A person not trained at all in math m…

"Probably beyond help" means they're not going to change their opinions no matter what, so trying to find phrasing that helps change their opinions is a waste of time. Being a musk…

I think there are lots of sort of tuned out but generally nice people who might shy away from buying a tesla if the perfidity of Musk is mentioned whenever tesla is discussed. The …

It's pretty useful to remind people that buying a tesla is supporting Musk.

Singletons are just globals for people who have learnt "globals are bad" but lack a deeper understanding

With tesla, the bad apple is in charge

yeah, it follows their documentation, it's just a bad idea. A lot of the things they break are pretty minor cleanups and it seems they could easily not have broken things. Many oth…

That's fair. Too many languages and frameworks are all too happy to break things for pointless cleanups or renames. Python for example makes breaking changes in minor releases and …

Often some bits are automatable, or some manual steps are verifiable, and then suddenly it's a do something script

When I do this I keep some persistent state so I can interrupt it, e.g. if the thing is a yearly task I run it like `./do-the-thing.sh 2025`, and make a 2025 dir where I keep state…

I do this for some yearly tax stuff, as the big issue for me is that it was a year since I did it last and getting started with a complex and boring thing is hard So I built a scri…

It just means it's in the best shape of any of the languages in it's domain

wow, that's an amazingly impossible standard no software lives up to. Or much technology at all. If you use anything that is 1000 years old, it's probably been maintained or cared …

Because security is hard and there are people constantly working on finding new issues. It's a bit like asking why the army needs tanks when horses worked well the previous war

> Also, why do I have to install new software in every couple of months to access my bank account, secure chat, flight booking system, etc., etc., without any noticable difference …

I haven't seen that as much. The horde of people chasing the hype curve left C behind long ago. When they leave rust, rust will be better off

You can't rely on an authority to step in every time some disagrees. People need to resolve their own conflicts rather than yell until bailed out

It would be a silly strategy compared to saying that mixing languages is a bad idea and rely on inertia. Also, letting rust in doesn't seem to stop the personal attacks, case in po…

If you're gonna lead a group of people effectively, you kinda have to listen to them. leading by decree works occasionally, but you can't afford to do it often. If there's a lot of…

This seems like black and white thinking. There's a huge spectrum between > "suck it up, buttercup" or "I hear you; rust is gone". where various levels of compromise happens. Maint…

Nothing is stopping you

Perhaps you could fork the kernel and start a better community?