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> The dashboard becomes a battlefield and every team wants a modal for their feature release. Dark patterns come hand-in-hand.

To me, this is exactly what the OP is going on against.

If it's not cohesive, it's bad design.

I could get behind this and contribute if it didn't use a US corporate distro as a base. Ideally it should be something like Nix: non-profit foundation headquartered in the Netherlands. SUSE could work too.

From what I remember full self driving cars were a couple years off in 2010.

It took 10-15 years to get self driving cars in a specific country under specific weather conditions. A country that is perhaps the most car-friendly on the planet. Also, there are always people monitoring the vehicles, and that take control sometimes.

How many more years for waymo Quito or waymo Kolkata? What about just $europeanCapital?

Same with LLMs, I'm sure in 10 years they'll be good enough to replace certain specific tasks, to the detriment of recent graduates, especially those of artistic aspiration. Not sure they'll ever get to the point where someone who actually knows what they're doing doesn't need to supervise and correct.

Investing in the military seems like a necessity given what's going on. One madman to the east was bad enough, now there's another to the west.

The Ukrainians have done some pretty incredible stuff with very basic tools and lots of ingenuity.

You mean the Euro should become the world's reserve currency?

Dodge is owned by Stellantis, a EU company...

And Ford makes good cars, when they choose to.

If building airplanes isn't technology, I don't know what is.

BTW, Boeing is in the USA's top 10 exporters, it's not a minor thing.

But yeah the USA has a definite edge in software, if that's what you mean by "tech".

Just curious, which games gave you problems?

Well that's the real question, isn't it?

Our current best technology, LLMs, are good enough for translating an email or meeting transcript and getting the general message across. Anything more creative, technical, or nuanced, and they fall apart.

Meaning for anything of value like books, plays, movies, poetry, humans will necessarily be part of the process: coaxing, prompting, correcting...

If we consider the machine a tool, it's easy, the work would fall under copyright.

If we consider the machine the creator, then things get tricky. Are only the parts reworked/corrected under copyright? Do we consider under copyright only if a certain portion of the work was machine generated? Is the prompt under copyright, but not its output?

Without even getting into the issue of training data under copyright...

There is some movement regarding copyright of AI art, legislation being drawn up and debated in some countries. It's likely translations would be impacted by those decisions.

A translation is absolutely under copyright. It is a creative process after all.

This means a book can be in public domain for the original text, because it's very old, but not the translation because it's newer.

For example Julius Caesar's "Gallic War" in the original latin is clearly not subject to copyright, but a recent English translation will be.

Obviously this would happen with the current administration in the USA.

The foundation should be moved to a country where the rule of law and neutrality are respected. Switzerland perhaps?

They're not more evil, it's probably a tie. What they do have is considerably more reach and power. As a result they're much more dangerous.

Are you a US citizen?

The US hasn't been doing the heavy lifting. It's been Europe.

They were doing the bare minimum under Biden, and are now actively helping Putin.

France and the UK are the obvious candidates, as both are nuclear powers. Ideally there would be some coordination at the EU level, but really hard to see that short term.

The language encourages metaprogramming, and disencourages typing. This makes maintenance much more complicated when compared to other languages such as Python, typescript or PHP.

If not intentional, then a happy side effect.

The goal is to destroy the state apparatus from the inside, to be replaced by private industry.

I use PyCharm community edition for personal/OSS projects.

At work I do have the all products pack since we support multiple programming languages for our client libraries and custom integrations.

My only major complaint with jetbrains is having a separate IDE for .NET vs everything else.

Not sure what you mean by "rich" as it's a pretty vague term.

If you mean top 0.5%, then sure, nearly all of their money typically does not come from regular income.

If you mean top 10% then not really, most people in that bracket will be paying substantial income tax.

I've been doing Python development for a long time, since when 2.4 was the hottest thing.

I've used the language for all sorts of things: web apps, web APIs, GUI tools, image manipulation, data processing and visualization, some data science, machine learning more recently.

I've used many IDEs over the years, currently on PyCharm.

Just to qualify the feedback.

Pros:

- It looks very pretty.

- Some nice time saving features.

Cons:

- Mac only.

- Subscription business model.

- Having to tie the code to the IDE.

Any one of the con's would be a deal breaker for me.

Overall I'm not sure what the target market is. Maybe I'm just too used to having free and/or libre tooling.

There's always the handbrake.

How old are we talking about here? If you have power brakes then when the engine shuts off the brakes don't work at 100%. At that point you're needing to push the hydraulic fluid without assistance and you'll find it's really not easy to stop. Also no power steering. A windy mountain road is not a good place to be...

Having lived through a bunch of hurricanes in south Florida I can very confidently say people absolutely evacuate when given the order to.

Yes, of course. One of the Ruby shops I worked for did exactly this.

But why add the extra complexity? Ruby and Python are similar enough in terms of productivity and processing time that there's no reason to do this IMHO.

There is definitely some link to the technology and developer productivity, and therefore team size.

It's true that statically typed, compiled languages tend to take more time to ship a similar feature, than loosely typed dynamic languages.

But beyond small projects, team size is more dependent on the number of features to ship.

That is to say, as code complexity increases, the choice of language on team size matters less.

I would not. I've used PHP, Python, Go, JS/TS, and Ruby in production with small to medium teams. Teams that I managed on occasion and recruited, to a certain extent.

RoR is great at first but in my experience quickly becomes full of hard to diagnose bugs, its magic metaprogramming seems too tempting for developers to use and leads to all sorts of problems.

There is a lack of good quality, well maintenained 3rd party libraries. No such problem with Python, Node, even PHP to a certain extent.

It's slow, except compared to Python. Ruby 3 is much better but still behind.

If you need to ship decent code fast, I would reach for Django.

If you're doing AI stuff, any Python framework will be best.

If you need to hire a sizeable team quickly, I would reach for Node or PHP.

If you need high performance and high reliability I would use Go.

Out of curiosity, since you already have lidar on the machine, why not use it to detect grass height?

You'll need to learn it if you want to use Rails.

> The key difference here being that Vietnam was invaded by France and then the US

Not quite. Indochina was a French colony which rebelled and escalated into open conflict. The rebellion was successful, the French were expelled, and Vietnam was formed.

However conflict in the area continued as a civil war between the two dominant factions in Vietnam (communist vs capitalist) for control of the new country.

The US intervention was a failed attempt at suppressing the communist faction.

Gaza is different in that it was conquered by Israel during their war with Egypt. The Israelies even started building settlements there.

Israel then got out of Gaza and removed all their settlers as part of a peace accord (if memory serves).

However Gaza never really accepted peace with Israel and kept on attacking them, culminating in the Oct 7th attack that got us in this mess.

Fiat 500 and Mini Cooper are certainly not tiny. I mean the originals from the 70's yeah but the new ones are huge and bloated in comparison.

Anyway such tiny vehicles do exist in Europe and Asia. The Citroën Ami (the new EV one) comes to mind in Europe, where it's had some success, but is still kinda expensive for what it is.