The article also calls out copper which will be in PCBs and wiring looms.

No country should have nukes, and more countries acquiring them makes that goal even harder to achieve.

I recognise that different languages have different styles, strengths and idioms. One of my pain points is when people write every language as if it’s naughties java. Enough with the enterprise OoP crap.

I’ve also learnt languages like Haskell to expand and challenge the way I think about software problems. I learnt a lot doing it. That doesn’t stop a lot of Haskell code looking like line noise to me because it over-uses symbols and it being close to impenetrable in a lot of cases when you read somebody else’s code.

I think the aesthetics of Rust are the wrong side of the line. Not as bad as something like Haskell (or Perl), but still objectionable. Some things seem to be different even though there’s pre-existing notation. Things seem to be dense, magical, and for the compilers benefit over the readers (as an outsider).

I’ve been learning Zig recently and the only notational aspect I struggled with was the pointer/slice notation as there’s 5 or 6 similar forms that mean fairly different things. It has other new concepts and idioms to learn, but on the whole it’s notation is fairly traditional. That has made reading code a lot more approachable (…which is a good thing because the documentation for some aspects sucks).

So in Europe there was a desire to send F35s into conflict in Ukraine. US said no by saying that servicing supplies would not be made available.

Sovereign nations are unable to use their planes how they want to.

Now with Gripen it might be a similar situation, but Sweden has been trustworthy thus far.

It’s not about money. It’s about which country you trust to keep supplying you and not use your dependency to control how and when you use your planes.

i work at cloudflare

I shouldn’t worry about it.

Dynamic typing is a great feature at times. It’s a pain in the butt other times. One of the things I like about Zig is being able to have opt-in comptime dynamic typing. For a certain class of problem it’s really nice.

I think that’s a great set of criticisms.

None of these are sins of Rust, …

They might not be strictly language issues, but if they are symptomatic of idiomatic rust then they are “sins of rust”. Something about the language promotes writing it using these kinds of idioms.

Just like French speakers don’t pronounce 80% of the written syllables because it’s impractical to speak fast with all of them…language features (or lack of them) drive how the language is used.

(BTW the implicit return behaviour on a missing semicolon sounds like Chekhov’s footgun)

What language are they then? They’re not Python, JS, <insert any other language here>

Do you know that the aircraft need servicing after every flight, otherwise it’s grounded, and that supplies would come from the country of origin? US for F35. Sweden for Grippen.

Does that change your outlook?

Is the second one confirmed? Last I saw there was inconclusive satellite photos that suggested it might be sitting a bit low in the water.

The compression one is a great learning project IMHO. I did it long ago as a teenager. Should get them playing with File IO, iterating over buffers to create new buffers, managing some slightly more advanced data structures like stacks.

And testing it is fairly straight forward. Whatever you compress should come back when you decompress.

That’s more the standard library rather than the language I’d say, and the next set of changes looks more “additional” rather than “reworking” (unlike the last set).

…but yes, it is still fluid.

Awww. I prefer my version.

Actions are better than words.

Was that while the other side was in power? Might have had a muted reception when it was delivered.

I think that’s a good observation.

Part of the problem is that all the while the stock prices stay up, those companies in the second bubble have the spending power of governments, and that in-turn inflates the first bubble.

Aye, and with all the money consolidated in a few big tech companies they’ve basically been able to form their own “oligarchy funded project” and act independently of any government.

An economy all their own.

Nothing wrong with Dale Vince’s comments IMHO. Netenyahu is trying to escape responsibility for his actions by hiding behind the Jewish faith. Vince is just calling that out.

Labour needs to sort itself out with respect to Israel and recognise that a nation state is not a religion.

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