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  • The real problem is not Rust, or that somebody decided to rewrite sudo in Rust. These are both good things.

    The actual real problem is that Ubuntu adopts these in their mainline distribution when the release version is 0.something. I mean sure, this will get the worst bugs noticed and fixed sooner but come on. Have a little empathy for your dumb users.















  • I generally don’t want him to fail, like I don’t really want anyone to fail. But I do expect him to fail.

    I expect him to fail in one of two ways:

    1. He already knows or will learn that some of his promises are bad ideas and he will just not do those (this is not a bad thing in any way, we should generally commend people who learn new things and refuse to do bad things). But I would count this as a sort of failure in regards to what he promised to do.

    2. Some of his promises he will do, and since humanity does have the power to bend economic reality, it may look for a while like those policies work. Unfortunately, economic reality bounces back hard when you bend it too much for too long. This will be a nastier failure, because for anyone not looking closely (which is a hard thing to do), it might look as he succeeded, and most of the blame of the fallout will go to the next people fixing his mistakes. This is a typical left/right pendulum swing.

    I will reiterate that I don’t want him to fail, and will gladly accept new economic opinions if it starts to look like he’s doing a net good. In adult real world, I suppose it’s more reasonable to guess that some of his ideas will work, and some will not. The usual problem is that leftists tend to waste money on unnecessary or badly run public projects, but to my knowledge, there’s no specific theoretical reason for the left to do that – it’s just tends to happen. Which, when I try to think positively, implies to me that it’s possible for some leftists to do better in that area.

    His version of Islam seems like a moderate one, so if that image is true, I have pretty much nothing against that. Some theological disagreements perhaps, but not hugely different from the disagreements that I have with other moderate abrahamic believers.

    And it’s always/usually good when a 40-year (edit oh, more like 30-year old, wow) old beats a bunch of 70-year olds in the political arena. And it’s fascinating when fresh ideas come in. Perhaps all that will invite other “young” people to go into politics.

    edit Plus in the current political climate in the US, it’s always good when a D beats an R.