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When I fed that prompt to my Claude 3.5 based CarlinBot, it refused to write a poem and instead wrote a rant about why it hates tangerines (warning, profanity):

Fuck tangerines, man. Those little orange bastards are a pain in the ass to peel. You spend 10 minutes trying to get that leathery skin off, your fingernails getting all sticky with that goddamn citrus juice. And then when you finally wrestle one of those fuckers open, you got all those little white strings hanging off everywhere. It's like dental floss from hell.

And don't even get me started on how those tangerine slices always shoot juice in your eye when you try to eat them. It's like getting maced by a tiny orange asshole. You ever get tangerine juice in your eye? Shit burns like the fires of hell itself. Makes you want to claw your own goddamn eyeballs out.

Nah, fuck tangerines and their whole stupid family tree. Oranges, clementines, satsumas - they can all go straight to fruit hell as far as I'm concerned. Give me a nice safe banana or an apple any day over those sadistic little citrus grenades. Tangerines are the work of the devil, plain and simple. Fuck writing poems about them little torture devices.

Kind of reminds me of some of the embassies of smaller countries in Ottawa when I lived there.

There are quite a few in houses like this along Somerset Street if I'm remembering correctly.

Right - that's what I was getting at.

I find stevia tastes like what I'd get if I took that wood + yellow paint + HB graphite taste I used to get when I absentmindedly chewed the end of my pencil in elementary school and then mixed in some Splenda.

I vaguely remember reading something similar about stevia.

Anecdotally, I know some people who think it's a tasty sweetener, but for me it just tastes bitter and awful. When I add it to coffee, it ends up tasting like I added a mixture of Splenda and powdered graphite.

It's not quite the same, but the Federal Reserve's history of software developer job postings provides some insight: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

Bias toward new topics is why it's called news. Otherwise, we'd have to call it olds.

An approach similar to what you suggest used to exist quite widely - at least in my part of Canada. We had Consumers Distributing, which was popular here and in parts of the U.S. You'd go in, find the item you want in a catalog, fill out a paper slip with the items you want, then hand it in and wait for your items to be brought out.

Beer stores in Ontario used to be like that, too. You'd place your order and pay for it, and shortly thereafter, it would come rolling out of the back of the store on a rolling conveyor.

A trumpet is a lot weaker in that direction than you're assuming, and a plywood arcade cabinet is a lot stronger than you're giving it credit for.

I'd be very surprised if a bunch of thin brass tubes transmitted enough for force to cause any deformation in an arcade cabinet when being crushed in that direction.

Many family doctors in Ontario don't use the fee for service model.

Instead, they have a roster of patients and they recieve a flat fee every year for having a patient on their roster.

I'm not sure it changes any of the downsides you mentioned, though, since the yearly flat fee is quite low so doctors still need to minimize the time spent per patient.

The article mentioned this was another reason for their existence.

Anything's possible, but a ship losing steering control is not that uncommon.

This just happened at a particularly bad time and place.

Here's the one about the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Tampa Bay: https://youtu.be/3htwtaJI2nM?si=7SKMY2qxQEQpaf-O

It's pretty similar to this one.

It's not especially common, but the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay is a famous example. Similar circumstances - it collapsed after being hit by a ship.

Because the Port of Baltimore is a very major port, and not allowing ships under it really isn't an option.

Vertical clearance for ship traffic might have been the reason this kind of bridge was built in the first place. Otherwise, something lower and more causeway-like might have been sufficient.

I don't see anything in the 3-clause BSD license indicating the copyright notice needs to be included in every file, though.

They've kept a copy of it in the repository, and it looks like they left the BSD header in files where the copyright holder's name was an external contributor.

They also mention that the license change only applies to future changes, not existing code - so it doesn't seem like there's any copyright infringement happening here, unless I'm missing something.

Here's the full list of the companies it owns:

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html

Fable compiles F# to Python, Rust, and Dart now, too, in addition to JS. I haven't tried Dart or Rust, but when I tried compiling its output to Python it was actually quite good!

You might enjoy F#. It's a lot like OCaml (which others have mentioned) but being part of the .NET ecosystem there are libraries available for pretty much anything you might want to do.

One thing to consider is that hardware companies that benefit from a boom don't always do so well in the long term. Lots of investors in Nortel and JDS Uniphase learned that the hard way in the early 2000s.

I suppose it depends on projects you're using. For many developers their primary exposure to the Apache Foundation is through projects like Maven and Kafka, and those certainly don't feel dead.

Unless they use the bits of DCOM where Wine's DCOM implementation isn't quite compatible with Microsoft's, which was the OP's point.

It assumes knowledge of the host platform, which isn't necessarily the JVM.

I've been working on a library that targets the JVM, JS/TS, and the .NET CLR. Clojure has let me share about 85% of the code across the three, though to your point the remaining 15% required quite a bit of platform specific knowledge. I'm fortunate to have worked with all the over the years, so Clojure has been a nice power tool that has let me accomplish a lot while working solo. It's not the right tool for every person or every project, though.

Since you've worked with Python, you might enjoy Basilisp. It is essentially Clojure with Python as the host platform.

I don't think it's double counting unless StatsCan's population estimates are way off. For example, look at the delta between Q4 2022 and Q4 2023:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=171000...

The previous CEO was an aerospace engineer. As was the CEO who moved the company's headquarters from Seattle to Chicago. So I'm not sure an engineering background is any guarantee they'll do better.

But perhaps the company's recent problems will give an engineering-minded CEO a little more leverage to steer the company back toward engineering excellence, even in the face of pressure from the board and shareholders.

QBasic was a slightly cut down version of Quickbasic that didn't include the compiler, so your assumption was correct in that case. QBasic was bundled with DOS but you had to buy Quickbasic.

As an interesting comparison to your A320 video, it looks like the A320neo overwing exits are now outward-opening instead of plug-style: https://youtu.be/VhiYfyE3Vps?si=FuKeNfpd1pD4sgc_&t=47

The same part was used on the 737-900 for quite a while and didn't (as far as we've heard, at least) have any similar issues there.

Thanks for sharing your takeaways! I enjoyed reading them.

It's awesome, but also funny that we're using WASM to reinvent COM 30 years later.

And that's not a knock on WASM. It's just that COM was pretty neat for it's time, even if it was sometimes painful in practice.

But I find it pretty nifty that I can still take a COM library written in one language and then import and use it in C++, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Racket (and plenty of others - those are just the ones I've used COM libraries with.)

I lived in a nice apartment building in Toronto from 2015-2020. One couple in the building had lived in the same rent-stabilized apartment there since 1967.

On the bright side, it was a well-maintained building in a good neighborhood, so they had reasons to enjoy it being just the price.