*Laughs in Calculus of Variations*

I don't think this is a fair comparison because arithmetic is a very small and almost inconsequential skill to develop within the framework of mathematics. Any human that doesn't have severe learning disabilities will be able to develop a sufficient baseline of arithmetic skills.

The really useful aspects of math are things like how to think quantitatively. How to formulate a problem mathematically. How to manipulate mathematical expressions in order to reach a solution. For the most part these are not things that calculators do for you. In some cases reaching for a calculator may actually be a distraction from making real progress on the problem. In other cases calculators can be a useful tool for learning and building your intuition - graphing calculators are especially useful for this.

The difference with LLMs is that we are being led to believe that LLMs are sufficient to solve your problems for you, from start to finish. In the past students who develop a reflex to reach for a calculator when they don't know how to solve a problem were thwarted by the fact that the calculator won't actually solve it for them. Nowadays students develop that reflex and reach for an LLM instead, and now they can walk away with the belief that the LLM is really solving their problems, which creates both a dependency and a misunderstanding of what LLMs are really suited to do for them.

I'd be a lot less bothered if LLMs were made to provide guidance to students, a la the Socratic method: posing leading questions to the students and helping them to think along the right tracks. That might also help mitigate the fact that LLMs don't reliably know the answers: if the user is presented with a leading question instead of an answer then they're still left with the responsibility of investigating and validating.

But that doesn't leave users with a sense of immediate gratification which makes it less marketable and therefore less opportunity to profit...

It worked for Trump, why not for others? 🤷‍♂️

That's why he couldn't hold it in.

It is absolutely a thing among conservative circles. I've known young women whose own mothers scared them away from using tampons because they said it would break the hymen and then you could no longer prove you're a virgin (or some claim that you truly aren't a virgin anymore, as though you can lose your virginity to a tampon) so then you'll be considered unclean and no decent man will want you anymore.

It's gobsmackingly stupid but it is very very real.

Campaigning these days is not about convincing anyone to vote for one candidate or the other. Everyone who might conceivably vote will have known who they'd vote for before the campaign season even began.

The campaign is about convincing the people who would vote for you that they actually should show up to vote instead of staying home or just going about their day. As a bonus if you make your opponent look like a big enough clown, maybe you can demoralize the opposition's voting base so they don't bother showing up to vote.

This is a big part of why Republicans always want to make it as hard as possible to vote: The people who tend to vote Republican have perverse incentives (lower taxes, ban abortion, etc) so they're generally much more motivated to get out and vote despite barriers than the typical Democratic voter who just wants a sane government but probably feels like sanity is never delivered on no matter who wins.

Yeah the only way it would be that high is if it lumps C and C++ together. But at that point it may be an underestimate.

Human beings are desperate for human consciousness to be something special, beyond the limits of the material world, because it feels special and important to each of us. Quantum mechanics is what people with overactive imaginations who like to think they're scientifically minded use as a substitute for magic or the spiritual. Of course people will latch onto this baseless theory.

I'm not familiar enough with what you're trying to do to offer any specific advice. I've spent very little time with writing dockerfiles, and have never needed to set up a Rust toolchain in a dockerfile.

I think the first step is figuring out if nightly is really needed. If there aren't any nightly features needed then the latest stable toolchain should work fine, and worrying about what version of the toolchain to use is a red herring.

The entire problem with cmd.exe was not known and so obviously not documented when the Rust standard library developers were implementing the API, and the same goes for the standard library developers of every other language. Rust was among the first to fix this problem in their API, with many other languages opting to just document the issues instead of actually protecting users from it.

To take all this information and distill it down to trumpeting "Rust has a CVSS level 10 security vulnerability!!" without context is stupidity at best and maliciously disingenuous at worst.

Nitpicking whether the statement can be construed as true within a certain framing just demonstrates malicious intent when the reality is that users of Go, Python, and Java, whose standard libraries have taken a position of Won't Fix, are in a FAR more dangerous position than Rust users who are actually in the safest position of anyone in any language ecosystem besides perhaps Haskell.

Your credentials don't fix the logical fallacy.

I genuinely believe there is a disturbingly substantial portion of the right wing that scientifically recognizes the threat posed by the climate crisis but believes it's just God's instrument for the end times, so not only is it not a problem but it's actually a good thing to perpetuate.