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Or could it be (or to be a bit of devil's advocate) that Rust projects require only 2% (1/50) of manpower, comparing the same project using C++?


That's not devil's advocate, that's just being silly.


I couldn't even tell if you are joking. Rust is weird, its like a programming language people developed a parasocial relationship with. If a Twitch streamer was a programming language it would be Rust. Perhaps its just people being immature I don't know.


I was, but I guess adding /s at the end in these cases is a requirement nowadays...


> I couldn't even tell if you are joking

I'm thinking the same about your comment :D


It's a programming language with a fandom, isn't that odd? ^^


Even if the basic idea might make sense there's no way the number if anywhere close to 1/50. Even 1/2 sounds unrealistic.


Pardon for the old meme here, but... "Pics, or did not happened!"?


Yeah I kind of expected explosionpron not camera rig diagrams.


Is it weird that internet companies do not have this kind of oversight?


how much money can their lobbiests throw at the gub'mnt compared to the US car dealership associations?


Car dealership associations have pretty impressive lobbying capabilities. In many (most?) states you must buy a new vehicle from a dealer - it's against the law to buy direct from the manufacturer.


Or you can configure it to use local ollama, and actually use it when needed

    browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost: false
    browser.ml.chat.provider:  http://localhost:11434


> Apples don't fall far from the tree, indeed.

And one could say that they borrow from the tree some of their qualities. Sorry, couldn't resist.


I tried it as a FS for a data volume (200GB) on Linux a year ago, after reading how stable it is "now". The first hard crash made it unrecoverable no matter what I have tried. Never again.


   > I can't wait to travel to Mexico or Canada to get a vaccine!
But... how? I do remember times during COVID when you couldn't even get on the plane without proof of vaccine.


I thought it was vaccine or a negative test within the past x days.

In any event, Mexico and Canada are special in that they share a terrestrial border with most of the United States.


I don't know about Mexico but Canada enforced vax requirements for anyone crossing by land, with the exception of truckers.


For covid. Presumably ebiester is interested in being vaccinated against other diseases.


Yup. If they take this far enough I’ll be taking my son out of the country for boosters. I’m not letting my son be hurt, become sick, or die (depending on the wide range of diseases young children are vaccinated or inoculated against) because of this out of touch scam artist nepo baby.


Have you considered taking your child to a European state? Reason I ask is that there is a vaccine for tuberculosis (the BCG vaccine) which is widely available in European countries but not in the USA. On my next trip to Europe I hope to take that vaccine.

FWIW TB was the leading infectious disease killer in 2023 (surpassing COVID-19)

https://www.who.int/news/item/29-10-2024-tuberculosis-resurg...

and remained so in 2024.


Happily TB is rare in the US, but if you travel a lot maybe it's worthwhile.


Rare for now.


I was thinking things as benign as the flu or shingles - I'm hoping we don't have anything like COVID again.


> I do remember times during COVID when you couldn't even get on the plane without proof of vaccine.

I specifically remember you could either show proof of vaccination OR proof that you had tested negatively quite recently. If you are against _testing_ too, I don't think we have anything further to discuss.



    > And who's worth the most? Companies that lose money.
I am failing to see the logic in this, sorry.


It's a quote from a character from the TV show Silicon Valley. Russ Hanneman is a SV billionaire who made a lot of money putting "radio on the internet". He's intentionally a wild card character acting as if he has enormous business insight while often being at least partially if not fully wrong in his ideas. It's a parody of SV business ventures not having any real plan to make the business profitable, they're just wanting to show crazy growth in metrics like user counts to justify extreme valuations to sell the company and walk away before the music stops. "I don't want to make a little bit of money every day, I want to make a fuck ton of money all at once."

The next couple of lines:

"Pintrest, Snapchat, no revenue. Amazon has lost money for every fucking quarter for the last 20 fucking years and that Jeff Bezos is the king"

https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Russ_Hanneman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo


Thank you, I haven't watched the show. But by the sound of it - that logic and his "style" in general are not that far from what "real life" characters are arguing about.


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