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I've talked to Yannick quite a lot in the past as my lab develops Why3 and SPARK uses my translation for their new support for pointers (access types). Additionally, my advisor col…

I already do, my tool produces WhyML modules from Rust crates. But we can leverage Rust's ownership typing to drastically reduce proof obligations related to pointers and memory. I…

That kind of software is not usually written in Rust (or Ada), but using Simulink / SCADE or other model-based and synchronous tools, afaik.

That’s my long term plan, I’d like to build something like Frama-C ( https://frama-c.com/ ) but for Rust, but verification tools are not like other development processes and it’s n…

This is exciting! I've met with people from AdaCore and Ferrous systems (individually) several times and they're all serious, competent and motivated. I'm curious what kinds of sof…

> But we know how that goes and nobody actually will care about the scooter enough to return or take care of it. Looking at countries like the Netherlands this is not true. Train s…

no, it isn't. Don't go around spreading FUD, the article makes no mention of causation for the deaths, extrapolating that to an entirely hypothetical (and unfounded) vaccine induce…

GDPR fines can go up to 4% of global revenue so the 62 cent comparison seems apt.

if I recall correctly, the fine scales up as time goes on up some (2?) percentage of company revenue. Like most people I would be happier seeing them get a several billion dollar f…

I don’t think most theoretical physicists are seeking wealth, they tend to have deeper intellectual motivations.

This is an interesting idea but is there any description of the soundness of this approach? Any functionality capable of subsuming not just inductive types but higher-inductive typ…

> Some programs in the Simply Typed Lambda Calculus [^1] have no type—i.e. diverging programs. Nitpick, because those programs have no type they are not members of the Simply Typed…

The french government has actively promoted the growth of forests / their management for over a century. Today, there are more acres of forests than at the turn of the twentieth ce…

from the cursory read of the documentation on the openbsd site it doesn't seem to support TPMs. Setting up the encryption of a disk paritition does seem easier though.

On some fronts it even feels like things have regressed . Trying to resize an encrypted partition is way, way too difficult. And it seems like GParted doesn't handle LUKS so you're…

This may be rather naive but wouldn't using an energy storage mechanism for structural purposes be a bad idea? That could mean that every fender bender now risks igniting the hood …

a law which was democratically approved, with public oversight, a mechanism for undoing it and not at the whim of private shareholders.

I think that building a competitor on top of facebook is against their terms of service. You wouldn't be able to build an 'alternative facebook client', legally at least.

This approach ignores all the aspects that made whatsapp / chat services popular in the first place. A short list: - Contact Discovery - Group chats - History / Log - Shared messag…

The vast majority of cars in the streets of paris are not from suburban commuters but from people in the 15th and 16th (read: wealthy) neighborhoods preferring to drive than to min…

I think it's misleading to say ITERs technology is 30 years behind. A lot of the tech that has been going into the ITER design didn't exist 30 years ago! They didn't anticipate dev…

It's a design we've modelled and predicted should work. Since we've never actually built anything close to it, we have no way of knowing whether those models were even close. If IT…

the yt recommendation algorithm is probably the worst among all the major platforms. It will pigeonhole you into the same 10 videos, which you will never escape. I listen to music …

Part of that pressure comes from the lack of funding though. When you have to fight against 100 other applications for a grant showing you have a recent track record of well-cited …

I think you would be interested in Noether, a full language design based around this principle: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~davidsarah/noether-friam4.pdf . I've always been sad that an…