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The sensible regulation would be aiming at socially harmful features of tech, not forcing people to provide proof of identity to a third party in order to continue harming themselves with the same exact features.

Imagine if such an approach was taken to, for example, food safety? Instead of closing down a restaurant that has poor hygiene, you'd be instead horce the restaurant to hire a private security contractor to check people's IDs to verify that they are old enough to consent to getting a foodborne illness. That's an absurd approach.

Do you think the attention and engagement is because people think this is some sort of an "ai misalignment" thing? No. AI misalignment is total hogwash either way. The thing we worry about is that people who are misaligned with the civilised society have unfettered access to decent text and image generators to automate their harassment campaigns, social media farming, political discourse astroturfing, etc.

I'm not 100% clear on what you mean here

The core of their complaint is that if you use `jj edit` it's not obvious how to get a diff of what you did. The answer, of course, is that you can use `jj evolog -p`.

Just Use HTML 10 months ago

I think a part of the point is to question the need for things like that. Do your users actually need all of these bells and whistles?

I think you make a pretty bad case for how embedding a Scheme interpreter is going to help with the pain points of async. Listing "stack traces full of tokio code" and then seemingly proposing to solve that by adding more glue to pollute the stack traces is especially weird.

It is a tool for checking that your unsafe code doesn't cause UB. It doesn't really settle anything, but the commenter uses it as a gotcha to say "rust is no better than C, because you still can compile code that contains UB".

Well, the general 'Rewrite All in Rust' consensus is that it solves all general programming problems, ever.

a) There is no such consensus. The actual consensus is that even if Rust solved all problems, it would not be financially feasible to rewrite pretty much any substantial project.

b) While Rust does solve many problems, it is nowhere close to solving all safety, otherwise there would be no `unsafe` keyword. Alas, fully proving safety in an impure, turing-complete language is mathematically impossible.

c) The only reason you would think that there's some sort of woke Rust lobby, is if you spend way too much time subjecting yourself to opinions of literal sixteen year olds on twitter.

I've heard about Pure Data but here aim is to a) emulate the feel of a real rack (to which end I am rewriting the UI from scratch) b) relatedly, aim is to be friendly to non-programmers, cause all musicians I know can't use a computer for more than opening a DAW