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Calling programming engineering in the absence of licensure or any standard of performance for the entire industry is kind of silly.

Somebody with an HN account said that they write Rust for a purpose and company he won’t disclose? Well, that shows me.

They aren’t.

Better yet, read the epic rant that Zed Shaw made about Ruby. It is certainly juvenile, but I don’t think it’s baseless. Now, consider that the core members of the rust community are exactly the same people he was talking about when rails was the new shiny.

I suppose this can’t be stopped. I hope someone has the resources to curate a working fork of the Linux kernel that doesn’t have all the “improvements” it’s about to get.

Hard hitting journalism from the New York Times...after Pfizer has made their money.

I just did a search on Dice for jobs.

Java: 12,879 Golang: 4,339 COBOL: 321 Haskell: 18 Rust: 2

The Rust jobs also appeared to be blockchain related, so I wouldn’t count on that being a place that could get you to retirement. I would expect Rust is a requirement so a marketer add a bullet point in his or her slide deck.

>impossible to write code containing a data race

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Rust+data+r...

Contextualizing events with the knowledge that the FBI has shown itself to be a modern NKVD and the “intelligentsia” in journalism are happy to be mouthpieces of the US oligarchy actually saves you a lot of confusion.

Being lost in the moment of a blizzard of “crises” that really aren’t is intellectually paralyzing. Probably intentionally so.

Permanently? I thought the standard of performance has become “reducing symptoms, maybe, we think, we’re not really sure. This is probably safe though”

Article says 1700lf and looks about 4ft wide, so that’s 6800ft of bridge deck. At $2.8M that would mean they spent $412/sf of deck. Where I live, the state DOT spends about $150/sf of bridge deck for traffic rated bridges. I’ve gotten prices for prefab ped bridges as low as $110 delivered (still have to pay a half-dozen guys for labor and the cost of a crane to place).

I guess there were some special construction challenges, but $415/sf is hardly a bargain for a bridge at first blush.

That may be low in some places where capital improvement costs are basically just graft.

I’m actually trying to say that it is an industry dominated by snake-oil, charlatans and coffee-table “science”. There is no standard or obvious measure of performance, and liability is usually of little concern. The planners I know are hardly puppets of the real estate cabal and much more victims of naïveté and wiz-bang marketing. Like, I’m assuming rails-devs a decade ago and, maybe, rust devs today.

Would you say SpaceX has been eating a free lunch, then? Sounds about right.

Bain Capital bought Toys R Us with leverage, put the debt on their books and it crushed them. There’s a great write up by Zachary Yost. https://austrian.economicblogs.org/mises-us/2021/yost-proper...

He looks like he could be 12, but I think the quality of his analyses are always excellent.

A planner at my firm recently told me, with complete confidence, that on-street parking increases safety. Then I was told that research from AASHTO was just not something this person agreed with, and haven’t I heard of Strong Towns? Here’s a lovely YouTube video.

I wanted to rip my own eyes out.