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The problem for Python with type checking is that the language has essentially no compile-time constructs at all, just a bunch of assignment operators with different syntax: `def` assigns a function object to a variable when it's executed, `import` assigns a module, `class` assigns a class object. This means that everything involving names in Python is just a variable lookup (incidentally, this is why a function call must follow the declaration in Python: the variable is unbound if you haven't executed the function definition yet). The reason `Sequence` fails in the example in the article is simply that the code is trying to read an unassigned variable, no different from writing `vairable` instead of `variable` in your code.
How much is it possible to know about the systems? The app I work on now uses MariaDB (multiple versions at this point), postgres, Cassandra, and InfluxDB. Those are just the databases I can recall offhand; there may be others and there were others before my time at the company. And those are just the databases. I’m also responsible for hardware, networking, cloud infrastructure to include IaaS and container orchestration plus tons of services. Say it I should read the docs on all that is like a cruel joke. Not only are there not enough hours in the day, I doubt there are enough years in my life to imagine such a task. And it would be Sisyphean anyway because at any given moment one of them will make a “minor” update that breaks functionality and a bit of my knowledge will be useless. Welcome to the world of postmodern system administration; I guess we call it DevOps or SRE now or something; even that’s a philosophical debate these days.
Sales are not always indicative of "best". Rather, it indicates popularity. Teslas are nice in some ways and were revolutionary, but build quality and consistency have always been crap and it would seem there are some major issues with all the self driving software.
I think they are definitely valuable. My issue is I would have to disassemble most of the large legacy code base to be able to effectively test things, and a large part of it is UI (Windows Forms). I know you can do it, but just takes so much time and effort. We do have some though.
I find frustrating the amount of attention the government types pay to porn, given the array of priorities. These governments are rotten, and I mean that quite seriously.
We're kinda special that way - we went for maximum inconvenience in our measuring systems. We measure speed in mph, buy petrol in litres, and weigh people in stones.
The first item is also why it's good to be skeptical about things you learn on video sharing services like YouTube too. If you sound credible and present your ideas in a professional way, people will take them seriously regardless of how flawed they might be. In a world where a fair few 'essayists' have been exposed for just reading Wikipedia articles and Reddit posts, it's definitely good to try and not associate how people present their ideas with how accurate said ideas are.

I'd also expand on point 10 to add that talking to these people often gives you a better picture of what problems your software/dev work is trying to solve, and can help you identify pain points that you may not have noticed yourself. Remember that with a (very few) exceptions, software isn't written for the sake of it, it's written to solve problems.

Either way, nice list! Definitely has some useful advice there.
It's arguable whether a SyntaxError happens as a compile-time check. It's true that it is raised before runtime. But a document that can be parsed according to the syntax definition is a necessary precondition to all checks of any static program property. Syntactic correctness in itself is not a static property of a program. A program is, by definition, syntactically correct.

Without a correct syntax there is no way to assign meaning or execute or interpret, etc.
idea is great, hope someone turn that into usable code, this is especially important for edge device where RAM is limited.
Alternative to Pro and Enterprise, they can engage a freelancer to setup a blog site with WordPress. That's a good thing.
This is why every large U.S. city is full of people blasting Fresh Air out their car as they drive down the street.
Let me suggest that the reason you label the church as the body responsible for the deep sense of purpose, is that the Church in all societies used to be, and in some cases still is, the Government. Europe's cathedrals were the middle-ages equivalent of work programs. (All those church tithes had to be spent on something.)

It has also done that job spectacularly badly at times.
You cannot insert images (or any other non-text object like a PDF) in Simplenote as you can in Apple Notes.
Simplenote can only link external images.
It seems to me that historically, "the church, temple, or other spiritual community" filling that role has come with all the same downsides as the nation-state filling that role. And that's not a comment about religion – any organisation is at risk of abuse of that type because that's just how humans and organisations work.

And fully agree with "care for the people I can as I learn to love and be loved", but at the same time people do need some sense of "community", "togetherness", and "we're all in it together"-ness, especially in times when things are perhaps not going so well, and I do feel that's rather been lost.
Free will is compatible with determinism. Also may worlds reproduces statistics of independent events, which is equivalent to hard indeterminism is you declare that choices are unitary.
I agree with the gist of your comment.

I will add that, in my experience, having type annotations that are unreliable, cumbersome, with so many edge cases and requiring this kind of magic (e.g. "if TYPE_CHECKING", etc) which is beyond most "casual" Python users effectively means type annotations are a very hard sell for most non-hardcore team mates.

I've been in a position to try improving processes and code quality of the Python codebase, and introducing mypy and type annotations has always been a very hard sell. The team just won't accept the benefits, given the difficulties in using it. If only Python made it easier and more reliable, but the current state is a mess.

I come from the static typing world, so of course I see the benefits. But most/all of my team mates don't, and so they see this as some really odd hoops I want them to jump through, for minimal benefit (in their eyes).
> can someone ELI5?

When the battery kicks the bucket, the battery-leasing company has to buy a new one, which costs money. The battery-leasing company makes money from battery subscription. Your subscription must cover the cost of the replacement batteries.
We often use meters for short distances but miles for long ones
FAAs 3B shortfall in funding is not appearing in the extra cost of running a government. They're "shrinking" or rather "shittifying" the service that the government provides by not hiring enough personnel required.
I guess 'maintaining status quo' is to me a conservative / right wing thing. I'm recollecting for example in Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent a critique of the NYT being very pro-establishment, pro-government. But I guess that critique itself is from an extreme.

Robotbeat, I'm thinking more like 60 years ago.
When Elite was released in 1984 I was 10 years old and had a BBC Micro and saw the poster in (probably) W H Smith and it looked interesting so persuaded my parents to buy it for me. In those days there weren't game trailers (obviously) and very little pre-publicity so no-one really knew how groundbreaking it was going to be.

My family and me happened to be on holiday that weekend so then I had the fancy box and manual (and novella) to read but we weren't going to be back home for a few days (where the actual computer was). So I spent the whole weekend reading the manual. The manual was amazing, and done in 'in universe' style, as if you had just purchased a Cobra Mark II spaceship, the main control panel of which just happened to look like a BBC Micro Model B. I was reading it thinking 'Is all this in the game? docking, space combat, trading, all those different types of spaceship to encounter, upgradable weapons and peripherals, eight galaxies, police spaceships, planets with descriptions of their inhabitants, mysterious aliens that pluck you out of hyperspace. Readers: Yes, it was all in the game.

edit: original manual at internet archive: https://archive.org/details/elite_acornsoft_manual/mode/2up

As a ten year old it was a very hard game though. Docking was HARD. Understanding trading was hard, what should I buy with my 100 credits at Lave that I could profitably sell at Leesti? There wasn't an internet to look this up on. I suppose there might have been articles in magazines, but not sure it would have occured to me to go looking for those. Space combat was great though, the 3D scanner with the vertical bars made it very intuitive. The magic of locking a missile and then firing it off!

I dont think I ever got above rating Poor though, because I never really grasped how to get the best out of trading (I was 10, ok? And no-one had ever seen a game like this before). A few years later Elite Cheat got released - a program to make fake 'save files', and then I really got to explore what the game could do.
The FORD way.

Ford did this a couple of times, that I know of, I experienced it with the Powershift gearbox. The dealerships told you that they'll cover the electronic but you had to buy the clutches or viceversa. But you had to wait to get Ford's approval, if you wanted the fix fast you had to pay.
I have no idea why people are even considering using auto pilot / cruise control. I would say, well, not my problem, let them be guinea pigs and kill themselves, but then again, they might kill me as a side effect.

This is clearly a failure of regulation. None of this should be allowed.
I'd also recommend Oolite if you want to play what is basically a free version of this (but improved and with hundreds of community-build extensions).

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Main_Page
Why would people who don't pay Apple a dime have some right to get their emails delivered to iCloud accounts?

Why would people who don't pay Apple a dime have some right to look at public pictures hosted on iCloud Photos?

Perhaps Apple will find a way to charge for all three.
Are you an aussie by chance?
Advice like that above is honestly terrible for newer developers, I believe. It feels insurmountable for many people, myself included. I simply don't have the brain capacity to:

A. Read an entire language's docs front to back. As you mentioned, maybe if it is some small, silly thing but for something like Python, Java, JS, etc... no fucking way. My brain would constantly glaze my eyes over. There is so much.

B. Retain the information I just attempted to read. Again, there is so much. It's insanely unrealistic for most people, I would think.

New developers see advice like this and immediately feel like they aren't cut out for this because people make this nonsense sound like something 'YOU MUST DO' to be a good developer. It's toxic, in my opinion. Maybe not intentionally so, but it really can kill a person's excitement.
That is correct, however, none of the people i know with that issue - including myself - have had that driving pattern. Mainly driven on motorways.
If you want to make something make something.

Looking for problems is a way of avoiding the hard work of making something.

There is never a guarantee that what you make will even work, never mind be useful, never mind do something important.

Good luck.
A lot just depends on the mood. Cyclists have fun 'doing a century' - either 100km or 100 miles has to be specified, which are vastly different distances.
Miles (for me) are just long! Km seem to whizz by (the shorter distance numerically means you knock out more). When I take my eu car to the uk, with no mph on the speedo it's just multiply by 1.5 for ease of brain.
Cops are pretty relaxed about it, too when i go slightly over.
Doesn't look like work, yet tragically, incremental improvements to "frictionlessness" represent order-of-magnitude improvements to user experience.
I think an automatic code formatted actually makes one’s job easier, not more complicated.
Not sure about how "zero knowledge" figures into this; is the app merely E2EE? In which case, it's no different from Evernote?

And there is no open source server component, so you can't host this yourself. And say what you will about Evernote, I trust them to stick around way more than another random notes startup thing.

p.s. not to get too political but it seems like the founder is expressing some problematic views on his twitter account (https://twitter.com/thecodrr). Problematic as in, he's this close to being an outspoken supporter of terrorism and radical Islam.
I think Cairo used OpenGL too. And X.Org itself had stuff like Glamor, XRender...
For example, banning all employees from a company that you don't like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/madison-square...
No car has perfect panel gaps, and even Tesla’s have improved to the where the point is almost moot.
Also, a typical buyer is not measuring panel gaps.
Thank you! Montaigne is really amazing! Quotion can't make it without montaigne!
Also, TFA doesn't say all parts are broken. It just says that parts that basically do.not.break in any other car until it's old have come broken in new Teslas.

I've never ever heard of a wheel falling off before... and I live in a country where probably more than half the cars are bought used.
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Although Earth is part of the story, it isn't at all the focus and there are other settings, and it is 100% absolutely worth a read: The Expanse series. 10 books. Brilliant prose, brilliant sci-fi. Incredible audiobook narration if that's your thing.
The margins are infinitely expensive. "As much as possible" has no meaningful boundary, when working in a system that is too big to hold in your head.

Mastery is alluring - it's just not very effective and certainly really bad advice for new software devs, who are in the worst possible position to judge the margins and what is useful.
I can’t think of a single time I have not been annoyed at scrolling video playback.

Not because of performance, though. I just think autoplay is a cheap trick to try to gain my attention, and if I’m scrolling, it’s because I didn’t want to see the damn video in the first place.
Sometimes a framework will do weird things, like convert it to scientific notation, or round it, or add a ton of zeroes. Like BigDecimal in Java and Decimal in C#. They can sneak up on you.
There is a service that produces descriptions of each scene:

https://www.videogist.co/

But I don't know about searchability.
Yes, product quality is important for two reasons:

1. A high quality product reduces the effort on the sales people. It’s nice when a product sales itself on quality alone and it’s also nice when sales can just bank on word of mouth marketing.

2. High quality products cost more to build but less to maintain, scale, extend. That results in predictability that is otherwise absent and expensive.
Right, but the original commenter is saying read all the docs, front to back. That's just nonsense.
How much RAM do you have? Ollama comes with a note: "this model requires 48GB of RAM".
Yep, it's written in VB6. Who cares?
The point is not retaining it all so. The point is to remember where to look, and know exactly which parts of the documentation are relevant to you, and retain those. Added bonus if you know owns the stuff not relevant to you and if you understand how those parts are linked.

That is, honestly, something I expect from people in a professional environment.
I'm struggling to find any information about this, either from Siedersleben or others, at least in English. Can you find any sources you can point me to?

Or, can you explain further? I'm not clear, for example, what you mean by "technical code."

And when you mention "the glue" are you talking mainly about APIs and protocols of all sorts (defined loosely)? This is where the edges of systems coincide and intended side effects reside.
You're talking about nautical mile. Apart from that a mile is a mile.
The very early 365 models they dropped off in Santa Monica are easy to jailbreak. A couple years ago you could buy an already jailbroken one off of Craigslist in LA for around $100-200.

Obviously illegal although unlikely to get you in trouble.

https://scooterhacking.org/
Gotta throw like... two sticks in the pond... or a couple rocks... that will help.
Its anything but simple, which is why its proven subject to several attacks, the attack surface is so broad its not even mappable. Its a system of systematic centralization, its the DNA, it rewards people on the basis of their wealth. Its not like this system hasnt been tried before, its the basis for the operation of the federal reserve after all, and had you proposed it on the cypherpunk message boards it would have been ripped to shreds. I would rather live with no central mechanism for DNS, where browsers make you select from a variety of DNS providers that are privately hosted, than turn it over to a kleptocratic proof of stake system.
Balkanized is the wrong analogy. It would imply some sort of common "sub-culture" in the context of a common culture.

Mosaication? Atomication?
Sounds like a 2025 summer blockbuster.
> Also, a typical buyer is not measuring panel gaps.

Measure? Why do you think I measured? It was so crooked it was visible from 10 feet away...
In Firefox 120.01 on Mac OS the frame only receives an update once scrolling is fully stopped. I.e. if I use the scroll bar to scroll, the video is updated only on mouseup.
you are welcome:)

congrats on the launch
To the second point, this is always how Jupyter behaves for me because I just "Run to cell"... If the other cells ran, it should be apparent with some sort of feedback. Don't need the output but at least visual feedback that they ran. Otherwise I'm distrustful that anything is actually running behind the scenes because the runtime shouldn't have those inserted tables.
You gotta be pretty unlucky to "crash into things" while in the air with autopilot at cruise altitude.

Autopilot on cars is a MUCH harder problem than on an airplane. Plus you're taking about trained professionals and liable companies vs average Joe and negligent developer.
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The ability to retain information is mostly fueled by your interest towards the topic, and not by your inherent ability to retain in general. This is what neuroscience has figured out. And it confirms very much my own observations during my life time. Inherently uninteresting topics or things I was forced to learn but which never resonated with me were always difficult to impossible to remember. Things I care about, or which interest me greatly, were almost easy to learn. Reading a document about an interesting topic cover to cover is easy. Keep that in mind next time you think you have a hard time learning something.
Oh yeah, it's definitely an organizational problem that's pretty widespread. I think it boils down to a general lack of trust, and a willingness to turn developers into a sort of assembly line workers.
It's slow as hell, today you need to use WIneD3D's Ddraw.dll among the WineD3D loader in the same folder of your 2D game.
Then they can deal with those "non mainstream" sites next or adapt their regulation? I don't understand the criticism of "they can just do <x>" because it's true for nearly any regulation or law.
Also got such email from FastSpring.

I dislike this $150 payment requirement from them!
I like and use Affinity products. They are a decent alternative. In particular Publisher is an excellent alternative to Indesign.

I do wish the default shortcuts weren't so wonky though.
Noise doesn't necessarily participate in reasoning, it can be just a factor to ignore or smooth out. You can calculate 1+1 at a random moment of time, but the result will be 2 - deterministic in spite of present randomness.
It would be very hard for me to live without a car in Winter.
But if ID7 has some inventory and I like it on test driving, I can sell Model Y and buy ID7 instead.

The waiting time is also the reason why I did not choose Volvo XC40 recharge.
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Thanks for the comment.

Addressing your concern, ByteBunker was built by a few engineers that have more than a decades experience in the payment processing space.

Bytebunker will be merged with FluxPayments in the next few months. FluxPayments is a startup in the payment processing industry that provides low rate payment processing and money movement.

We are looking to collect some data, get feedback on the API + security model, as it is used throughout our payment processor.

Appreciate it!
It isn't as much learning as maintaining focus. I struggle badly with that regardless of my interest in a topic.
Maybe hyperbole, because reading the docs front to end is what I do. Starting with the ones identified as immediately important and taking it from there. Nobody said this is to be done in one session so, it takes time (I am currently in month 6 of such an excersice and can't even tell what I didn't read yet, unkown unknowns and such).
Seconding this one.
In Bulgaria, the people are able to agree, that life is shit. Why can't we agree in the west?

I mean - why is there always someone who is eager to prove you wrong? What has western society become? So many people feel the same, yet they can't get together to agree ... why?
This is making very bold claims — that cast certain people under a very bad light — based on huge leaps of speculation. For example the claim that the piece makes: that startups failing at a high rate is an undesirable state of affairs, is an incredibly tenuous one for which strong counter-arguments exist.

The overall tone resembles demagogic 'yellow journalism'.
I think the point is that to that lifeform it's perfectly normal humans calling it 'extreme' is what makes it anthropocentric. To those lifeforms our environment would be 'extreme'.
Some time ago probably yes. Now... is anything really mainstream/usual? We've had the incest porn videos on the front page for how many years now? Many porn subreddits and gen-ai porn communities are more chill and usual than pornhub in my opinion.

At this point I'm not sure makelovenotporn is even mainstream and yeah... people could sure use it as an alternative for more "usual" content.
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Are you not capable of thinking about something deliberately?

If so, I would be cautious about generalising that limitation to other people.
makes sense. cruise control does feel dangerous if there is a car trying to merge on the right. I have to cancel it and manually control every time.
I was once told "Australian's don't know how to live, they just die slowly". I've spent a lot of time thinking about that.

(For context, I was born there, but left almost 20 years ago. I recently spent 18 months exploring the whole country, and sadly I now agree with the above quote)
It has VW software, so… yeah. No doubt, all the ID.s drive great. Their usability otherwise is not good however. Especially the capacitive “buttons” on the steering wheel are atrocious.
Missed it, darn.
Look up for Ben Felix on YouTube. Lots of free useful guidance!
I haven't removed their agency. I've only exercised my own. You're free to do the same however you like.
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