“It’s a private business, it can do whatever it wants.”
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This is a strong claim. I thought there was a decent body of evidence that suggested most drivers make much less money than they think, when you take depreciation/repairs/etc. into account?
Continuing with your hypothetical, even though we’d be 90% safer as a collective, the safety of the individual feels compromised: the risk of an accident is non-uniform when involving humans (depending on e.g. age, experience, safety, alertness, etc.), but becomes uniform (or at least more uniform) with an algorithm in charge.
That’s a tough thing for people to buy into.
I don’t think it changes my point too much, but it’s absolutely a worthwhile amendment.
- an auto-playing ad covering the top half of the screen
- a cookie pop-up with “Accept All” dark patterned in and covering the bottom half of the screen
- a full screen email prompt popup once you interact with the page in any way
> SWE II (Entry Level)
> Base: $133K
> written in an extinct language, Old Church Slavonic
It’s absolutely not extinct and is used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in their religious texts almost exclusively. It’s taught to children alongside their Sunday school curriculum and, of course, in seminaries.
Irrational might not be the right word; arbitrary is pretty accurate, though. If productivity and output change minimally, why should expectations or pay? Let’s be honest, the typical 5-day office job work week the OP is referencing has a LOT of downtime.
1 account for both of you, filled proportionally to your incomes until your monthly expenses are covered + any savings you agree on. This is for rent, food, vacations, childcare, etc. You make more than your partner? Tough, you joined them in the equal partnership known as marriage.
1 account for each of you, for everything else you make on top. This is for personal expenses like clothes or extravagance. You make less than your partner? Tough, you get to spend less of your excess.
Caveat: There are some big assumptions from the OP, like the fact that you’re DINKs and contribute equally to household duties.
> less color
Am I missing something or is there some overlooked redundancy here? I was really confused reading the title. “What does less color mean in the context of ‘black and white’? Less grayscale, maybe?” I thought.
> Even if the Python runtime did check all the type hints at runtime, then it would still be too late. I don’t want a fancy type exception at runtime. That already exists (most of the time). I want to know about type mismatches in advance.
You should check out Typeguard [1], which lets you add a @type_checked decorator to anything and get runtime type checking that's far better than e.g. a random blowup when you split() on an integer. It does introduce a significant amount of overhead, but it's still useful during development alongside type hints to avoid some of the pitfalls from this article.
In another vein, Any should definitely be used sparingly. For the foo() function outlined in the article, Union[str, int] offers more precision. In fact, you could even argue that using Any is a code smell.
Overall, though, I agree with most of the sentiment in this article. I find myself using type hints more as documentation than anything else, since their true ability to prevent type-related runtime bugs is very limited. Documentation has the same qualms the author outlines, anyway:
> You can not be sure that they are correct. [...] They waste mental energy when reading code, they create new maintenance burdens, and they are potentially deceiving: You cannot trust them.
But they're still slightly better than docstrings...
[1]: https://typeguard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide.html
How do you know that we don’t? It’s an impossible experiment to conduct, right? Since same training samples == every stimuli experienced since birth, and even then you have the problem of possibly-different “initial conditions” i.e. development of the brain in the womb. Maybe if we did replicate that, we would learn & predict equally well.
I wish more people understood this. There is SO much more going on in this conflict than any layman can fathom. There’s deep context behind it spanning years, and the situation itself develops at a breakneck pace, yet everyone is suddenly an expert on the culture and history of the entire region and fully informed on what’s going on.