Why do you say "Russia's attempts at sieging cities is only going to get better"?

That may well be true but at the same time our attempts to defend ourselves will get better too. We have access to AI as well you know.

All I want for Christmas is a giant box of original style Lego bricks like I had a kid in the 1960's. With that answer a Meccano set my life would be complete.

Yes, but that would have been a silly thing to do. Performance is not the only point here.

Where doe this nonsense about Rust people wanting to rewrite everything in Rust just "because"?

After six years of following discussions of Rust's developers and users I have heard almost no-one clamouring to rewrite everything in Rust. On the contrary they advise against it for all the obvious reasons. In general they have experience in all kind of languages, still use other languages and fully realise the challenges of rewriting stuff.

Admittedly I don't know what's up with the Ubuntu guys. But Ubuntu has been sloppily developed for decades and has always given me. problems when I have had to use it.

No. You, your dad and your grand dad are/were absolutely correct. Things have been getting worse all the time. It cannot be avoided. Something to do with entropy, the ever increasing and unstoppable state of disorder of things.

Here in Finland I was just checking my electricity bill. It tells me that 13% of my electrical energy came from renewables. The rest being from nukes and fossils. Perhaps that is a up a couple of % from a few years back but not much.

I pay the spot price for my electric. Notably when there is little wind and solar the spot prices go astronomical.

Just for giggles my electric company says I can sign up for electric 100% from renewable carbon free sources. BUT I have to pay more for that. You kidding me?

I find the idea that your first exposure to music outside of church happened in 1970 really shocking.
I was born in 1956 and since I was so young I don't remember there was music everywhere, TV, radio, school, theatre, live performances.
What kind of cult were you living in that cut itself off from the world like that?

If you have to work 12 hours a day 6 days a week that is not winning.

When the cost of counting how much money you have coming in, the income management system, is greater than the amount of money you actually have coming in I can't help thinking somebody did not think things through very much. If at all.

Where do you get that nonsense? Rusticles, those that use, Rust know full well that memory safety does not imply security (although it does prevent a whole class of programmer mistakes that could lead to security issues). I don't know any Rust users that are as stupid as you make out there.

Nowhere will you find any statement from the Rust developers or users that Rust would save you from SQL injections, bad passwords or the million other stupid things you can do in code.

If cars are not made and sold then:
1) Workers still need paying (at least until you have to fire them all)
2) Factories need to be maintained.
3) The loans you made to build the factory and lines need paying.

In short no, the cost is not just in making them that can be turned on and off without loss, there are many other costs that cannot be paid if product is not being sold.

I mean really, consider that you yourself invested a billion dollars into new product design and development and all the factories and deals with sibs contractors and suppliers. Nope consider that you never managed to make a single product to sell. Would you then tell me it's OK, that you did not lose anything? I think not.

The Nvidia AGX Orin is perfectly capable of dealing with LIDAR. I have been doing some work with a group at the Alto University in Helsinki that has a bunch of cars kitted out with LIDAR a
and use Orin AGX for the processing. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aalto.fi%2Fen%2Fdepartment-of-energy-and-mechanical-engineering%2Fautonomy-mobility-lab

Perhaps you are right in that Volvo don't know what the problem is. One problem is that it snows a lot around here and it's hard to find the road in front of you with LIDAR. What with snow on the ground and snow fluttering around in the air. That is one problem the group at Alto has recently solved to a large extent.

I suspect the real problem is that the software support from Nvidia as terrible. Garbage. See my rant about it elsewhere here.

We have been using Nvidia AGX Orin for a few projects around here for two years or more. OMG what a pile of shit the supplied software is. Damn thing runs some version of Ubuntu f'ed up by Nvidia. Ubuntu is of course already a version of Debian f'ed up by Canonical. Nvidia's support for that POS is just garbage. Nvidia manages to break everything with new releases. Get your stuff working on one and be ready for massive problems getting it to run on the next. Of course they require new OS releases for every new hardware revision of AGX Orin. So I'm not surprised Volvo has given up and decided it's better to replace all those installed Orins's with newer ones.

Initially I thought these problems were down to our own ignorance and incompetence but no, I get similar reports from other companies trying to use that crap. And now Volvo.

This is not what we are used from hardware/software intended for mission/safety critical applications, like for example in cars.

And what is wrong with referring to machines as "he", "him", "she", "her"? Sailors have considered their ships as female since forever. "She's a fine ship". Likewise for trains and other machines.

Meanwhile my Czech father spoke English very well but after decades in England still referred to pretty much anything as a "he" or "she". Seems everything in the Czech language has a gender.

None of this means one literally attributes machines with feelings, sounds or conciseness or whatever else you think is unique to humans.

I do wonder why a male professor would refer to his AI as "him" though...

Me, I refer to my AI friend as "my AI friend". As a kind of joke. I do worry that people listening might think I mean it literally.

You are arguing that it's not. language problem, that all we need is perfect programers. Fine, but consider:

1) If we only had those mythical perfect programmers that never made memory safety errors in C++ then they would be following all the same rules that the Rust language imposes. Ergo it would not be any problem for them to use Rust instead.

2) Such wonderful programers would be expected to appreciate that the compiler checks everything for them. That saves them. from al the tedious mental effort of doing it themselves. Freeing up their mental capacity to think about higher level things.

3) There ate no perfect programmers. No matter how experienced and skilled and smart, humans make mistakes.

By the way you seem to me confused as to the distinction between the memory safety guarantees of Rust and program correctness and security. Memory safety of course does not ensure security. Rust does not claim one cannot write incorrect, insecure code. It would be stupid to do so.