Pretty fun that this year Rust seems to be on track to stabilize multiple decades*-long initiatives:
- the never type
- the new borrow checker
- the new trait solver
Rust's backward-compat guarantees mean it's essentially reassembling the plane mid-flight at all time, and I really appreciate the engineering effort that has goes into that.
* rounded up
Today I learned that in 1971, activists planned a "shit-in" to disrupt the Chicago O'Hare airport by occupying every bathroom stall and urinal. They did not actually execute the protest because just the threat of it brought City Hall to the negotiating table.
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-ohare-shit-in-airports-occupied-infrastructures-and-excremental-politics
well, this is yet another red line that has been crossed.
the US state department is well aware that A/I is just a webhosting platform
so the real message they are sending is: if your customers have political views we don't like, we'll sanction *you* until you drop them
The Minions of Avian Intelligence
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