We always hear how great Rust is, but I’d be curious to know where it isn’t.

• In any project that’s sufficiently advanced and written in any other language. You don’t simply do a rewrite of 100k+ LOC just because you want to use Rust.

• Somewhere where you’d rather use a scripting language like Python. I.e., rapid prototyping or gluing together some infra components.

• A situation where your team’s expertise is in some other language.

• A situation where a library/framework is native/only available for a certain language.

Few of these are strictly technical requirements. It’s obvious that you can use almost any language to do almost anything, including Rust, if that’s what you prefer. However, the context matters in the real world.

All this being said, I wish I had a chance to write Rust professionally. It’s a neat language.

Well, to be fair, if you don’t know what it is, it’s not really useful to know your opinion on the question either.

(I’m being somewhat cheeky here, it would be polite to explain it in the comments at least)

Well I for one downvoted just because the comic is shit.

Carl Sagan.

This meme misses the mark. These oligarchs have rivalries in the same vein as the feudal lords and kings had rivalries: they played a game with the other lords where common people were their pawns. The opponents were respected or hated, but treated as equals. The pawns were there just as a means to an end.

Ok, you’re right in this sense. However, I meant beaten badly in the sense of expectations vs. reality. If you followed any media, it was supposed to be a slight edge for Kamala, or at least a good chance for an upset. In the end the R’s got president, senate and congress. And the outcome was clear after the first few hours, unlike something like Gore vs. Bush.

Fascism is fascism, what can you say…

“Mr. Musk has provided us with another delicate moment, demonstrating the ancient Roman salute combined with a Hindu symbol. It appears that the talk about the AI-operated gas chambers was a bit of an awkward slip, and it’s best we do not further aggravate the division of our nation.”

I remember reading he also just laughed it off and said people are just paranoid and see what they want to see.

A pretty good tell-tale sign of a fascist is that they will never apologize or admit doing wrong. You have to appear strong at all times.

There was a lot more demonstrations and outrage during Trump’s first term. I think now everyone is just exhausted and over it. Dems got beaten pretty bad in the election, and are probably very demoralized after this outcome. Maybe it will add up to a landslide in the next senate/congress election, maybe not.

Yep, I think the whole point is that he thinks he’s being different, but in reality he just turned into an asshole.

Doesn’t it strain your eyes tho? I thought the appeal of having an e-reader is having the screen easy on the eyes.

Thanks, I didn’t realize it was possible. Well, not gonna start arguing about mod policy, but I think down votes would have been just fine here. Anyway, no strong feelings in any direction here.

I bet you were very badly wrong in your comment, but I would have at least like to see it (and down vote it too if it deserved it). I don’t need protection from stupid, just illegal or outright racist/offensive.

Greedy assholes definitely ruin a lot for all of us.

Harari claims something similar in his book Sapiens, so it might not be so far fetched. However, even then people would have to pay for being alive with their work, even if it’s less.

This is true also when you have strong unions to bargain for good benefits. Still, you need to do some work, as opposed to the message of the meme “you have to pay for being alive”.

The only problem is the exploitative angle of the whole thing. They do underpaid work, but the farm owning corporation gets to keep the profits.

Before 1989 there was also a third option: move to West Berlin!

Has there ever been a time in human history where we were just allowed to exist for our passions and not work for survival? Our economic system definitely has its flaws, but this meme paints with too broad strokes.