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I'm not a Rust user apart from an occasional toy program here and there, but you seem really triggered about a language that other people use. What's the issue?

What do I switch to instead of memory for my AI computer?

How did the federal government create the database of taxpayers? How do they keep it up to date? Why can these mechanisms not work for water utilities?

Is the idea that the federal government of the United States, which created and maintains a database of hundreds of millions of taxpayers, is powerless compile a database of 0.1% t…

> Yes there are pieces of what you are saying that make sense theoretically. But what I mean by a silver bullet, is it is a systemic change that needs to happen in a bigger swing t…

> The issue comes down to actual skilled people hours to do the work and resource constraints to do so. It comes down to incentives. If you want broad security you have to do more …

My wording was ambiguous. “national infrastructure” can refer to either the infrastructure in our nation or infrastructure managed by the federal government. I meant the former.

There are 1000x as many tax payers and the government still makes sure every single mom who gets a venmo payment for $60 pays taxes. National security is a federal responsibility, …

It’s the same regulatory/incentive toolbox as any industry, including possibly accepting lower security standards for tiny treatment plants just like we accept less security for po…

There are 150 million taxpayers and the federal government regulates all of them. I don’t see why they can’t audit 0.1% of that. If there are 150,000 utilities then absent some reg…

The federal government makes sure everyone who sends a venmo for $60 pays taxes on it so yeah I think securing our national infrastructure is not an unreasonable expectation.

Kind of feels like national security is the job of the federal government. Seems fair to say the federal government should do their job. They started a war for no reason and failed…

Yes, utilities shouldn’t be negligent, but national security is 100% the federal government’s responsibility. If the vulnerabilities were so trivial, then it’s even more damning th…

There are more than two numbers, so we don't have to force this weird "it's either 0% waste or 100% waste" dichotomy. No one is claiming the Biden admin didn't waste a cent, the cl…

I can't tell from that article whether they're opposed to nuclear energy or whether they don't think nuclear is the best use of the money (e.g., compared with renewables).

Are they getting 30% of votes because they oppose nuclear power? Is that the single issue for that party's supporters?

I wonder how these LLM SDKs compare. Is this in the same category as Google’s ADK? Or maybe ADK is a higher level (agents are a higher level than models)?

Who is opposing nuclear power? Or are you trying to imply that advocating for renewables is “opposing nuclear power”?

A company not going out of their way to make it expedient for you to transition off of their cloud isn’t “lock in”.

More likely it’s just not worth going out of their way to support niche deployments like that. I’ve been using various clouds for years, I’ve done half a dozen cloud migrations, cu…

I'm not sure I agree (or maybe I misunderstand--I assume you're saying "the tool needs to be standard"?), but people use non-standard tools in C all the time. Every build tool or p…

> Of course not, but an easy checkbox, a best practice AWS or terraform guide and someone doing AWS certified X associate makes it easier to happen without anyone ever really discu…

GPGPU? General Purpose GPU? If embarrassingly parallel CPU algorithms weren't offloaded to the GPU previously, why would the A100/H100 price drop make a difference? We had cheap GP…

> At $dayjob we have the same mentality and as a result have a load of managed read replicas that are never used for anything (not reporting, not read only queries, not backups bec…

malloc and free are part of the C standard library. I don’t see the point in picking nits between language features you don’t have to use and standard library functions that you do…