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> And that analogous situation can happen in the safer language where crypt returns an Optional(String) which some bad programs assume is always present.

Once again, no, because these unknown programs would just crash on the `.unwrap()`; not get in a silently corrupted state. Same causes, different effects.

And for having worked in a similarly behaving field, there is a big difference between “yeah we're not sure yet” and “no the ancients are most certainly wrong because our Modern Thinking is necessarily better (wink wink)”.

And French has both casque (from latin) and heaume (from germanic languages).

I mean, the academic community deliberately went against historical sources without much evidence-based arguments to do so. Turns out that denying DNA data is not doable, and now they have to do a 180.

I personally wouldn't put the “shame” onto GP.

I don't really care about the form of the argument when the concrete results are that (i) “no unwrap in prod” is trivial to ensure through the toolchain, (ii) even though, its consequences are “damn it crashed” instead of “welp I guess this guy is root now”.

First you shouldn't have unwraps in prod code, and you can verify that in your CI/build process/whatever. Second, now you have a crash of the SSH server, which is arguably much better than some random logging in as root.

“Oh no I'd like to earn less money, sorry bye”

No, that has nothing to do with PoW. PoW is computing something intrinsically useless but very hard just to prove you spent all that time, but trivial to check.

ZkPs are expensive to check and even more so to generate because the problem is intrinsically very compute heavy. The ecosystem would immediately jump into a faster way of doing thing, compute time are seen as a flaw, not a feature.

If you buy it new sure; Porsches are always very expensive.

But you can get very good second hand ones for less than $70k; that should definitely fit OP's requirements.

> EV akin to the ICE cars from [...] Genesis.

What about the EV Genesis? I personally couldn't see the difference between the ICE and electrified G80.

Otherwise, what about the Taycan?

I know it can be shocking for tech people making good money, but whether the interior is plasticky and rattling is typically far down the checklist for most people buying a car.

Would you mind detailing? I have never encountered that kind of issue, so I'd love to learn more.

> The key distinction is that people only ever die of one thing and having a tumor that doesn't kill them is often better than risking the surgery to remove the tumor.

But what applies to humans doesn't apply to software. First, to pursue the metaphor, codebase can definitely die/be compromised/crash because of multiple reasons at the same time; second, there is virtually no risk, out of man-hours, in fixing a bug.

What I'm afraid of if that following the turn toward authoritarianism that we observe worldwide, The Next One will keep all the dreadful legislation that Trump has set up, being more than happy to have them at disposal without having to pay the political cost to create them. Unfortunately, IME, these measures are always a ratchet.

But I hope I'll be proven wrong.

> He is not, remotely, “like them all”

We will know this only if The Next One reverses all his policies.

IMHO, the logical conclusion of your comment is that humans basically suck at prioritizing common good and very long-term vision, independently of their background.

From what I observed of my time in academia, I don't see any reason for academics to do any better than other groups. Like everywhere, the starry-eyed, altruistic ones always lose the fight against the political sharks.

No. The last time this happened, it led to the Ethereum/Ethereum classic split, and that was 10 years ago.

However, the stablecoins are not “real” cryptocurrencies like e.g. BTC or ETH, but are built as smartcontracts on top of ETH, basically using it as a big replicated database. So they might(?) just manually “give back” the money to Binance, as in freezing money in the stolen account forever and “printing” an equal amount to Binance's credit.

Or, to put it in another way, no need to reverse an erroneous SQL transaction if you can just create a new one that fixes the data you altered.

I don't think that would make such a change when developing; you typically only build 3rd-party libs only once.

One can be a total asshole and be right.

> what AI should or should not be used is up for debate and decisions.

Of course; but it's very hypocritical to raise these feelings only when mathematicians are affected, whereas all the above professions are just told to adapt to the new way of things.

For sure though, translators don't have the same clout and social status as mathematicians do.

Well, they do they?

Whole sections of the economy are being upheaved by AI, and there is no reason to make a special case for the mathematicians anymore than for the illustrators, developers, translators, HR, etc.

That's interesting, because that has not been my experience at all – for my usage, Orion empirically clearly buries Vivaldi & Firefox.

Granted, I used Vivaldi rather than Chromium, but I don't expect it to have such a noticeable difference w.r.t. Chrome.

> I've never understood what niche Orion is supposed to fill

For me, as battery-efficient as Safari, but with better chrome and access to ffox extensions ecosystem.

> Git hashes are not supposed to be a security mechanism

Probably a naive question, but why not kill two birds with one stone if it can be done for a reasonable cost?

> and lack of joy and welcome-ness for his woman and baby to be back

Damn, do these people really jump out of joy whenever their SO, parent, child, friend, or whoever comes back after a 10' chore?

Life is not a movie, “coming back” is a dozen-times-of-day occurrence, no one will cheer you back from the toilets.

Don't know if they updated it since your comment, but for me it's on the graph – and on the Pareto frontier indeed.

I hope you don't use seatbelts in your car, as they won't help you against a fire.

FR: « J'ai transporté le canapé (M) et la table (F), mais il (M) s'est cassé. » -> the canapé/sofa is broken.

EN: “I carried over the sofa and the table, but it(?)/the sofa broke”

I have been an emacs user for over a decade now, and if you think that language “support” was as good before LSP, I have a bridge to sell you.

> operated profitably

Until the oil shocks, and until “normal” planes became faster.

I happen to know a couple older and very wealthy people, and they say that even though Concorde was a lot of fun when it was a novelty, they now prefer to have a couple more hours flight and enjoy a 777 premium cabin rather than the cramped Concorde interior.

Anyway, the proof is in the pudding: if no one but national carriers ever bought and operated Concorde or Tu-144 at scale, it's not because of some Amish-like sentiment in the flight industry, but simply because that didn't make sense money-wise.