Really? Even with this very generous 30 year gap ... you think you can run non-toy climate models on a $100 phone? Correlated quantum chemistry for a polyatomic system? Even just fully ray-traced rendering?
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If we're talking web servers, sure. Video games? For the most part. Numerical high performance computing? ehhhhhhhhh i'm not sure history bears that out
What is "this" referring to here?
The problem happens when you have bugs and test failures. The hoster and hostee look the same, behave the same, and emit the same error messages. So I had unknowingly opted into spending a big chunk of my debugging time being confused and wrong about A) where errors were coming from and B) what they even signified.
Basically, self-hosting too early, before the thing was stable and trustworthy, was a disaster. (It's obvious in retrospect, really, but was still pretty awful at the time.) I tried again later, after everything had stabilized and it was routinely building other projects routinely, and it was fine.
- Col. Terry Virts, USAF
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/star-trek-...
And yet .. I've never once heard the thought continue with "and so they deserve rights and some degree of self-determination," which is, you know, the entire point of the episode you're referencing.
Why is that?
if OP isn't some PR account (or andy's alt account) I will eat my hat. none of OP's responses deal with the actual complaints.
School! Teachers! Classes!
Seriously, the traditional higher ed system is still a very good place to learn things like this. (I honestly tend to forget about it since academia hasn't really caught up at teaching software engineering, but that's really the exception rather than the rule ...). For traditional subjects like finance/economics, you can absolutely find inexpensive extension courses taught by people who care about pedagogy.
me: no worries boss, our market cap is $100B
boss (who is also the tooth fairy): oh right cool np
Right? ... right? ... wait
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oh wait what
wait seriously?
tim. wtf is this shit, tim
To be clear, such a request doesn't even mean that someone is consciously attempting to kill the project (although in the corporate world, ime it probably does). It just means that something went critically wrong. In this case, it appears like python's development process really required a PEP for this sort of work, especially since it was happening on the main branch.
Yeah, that part seems not just ethically bankrupt, but also really really stupid and counterproductive?
It all made a bit more sense to me when I learned that the guy who did all this is not, in fact, a physicist like I had originally assumed, but rather an "SEO lead at Shopify". [1]
Kubernetes™
As technological animals, our tools are IMO never "merely" tools - we adapt ourselves to them at least as much as we ask them to work for us. E.g., the process of making art is, often, the 2-way process of integrating yourself with your tools. (Maybe art is just the point on the spectrum where the use of the tool is in itself the point of the tool?)
And anyway, every occupation (professional and otherwise) that I can think of fetishizes its tools, at least a little. Or, in a different direction, we might consider how the nature of policing has changed as they've been given more and more military-style tools.
I'm sorry, I really like both games, but this is unbelievably false.
All this to say: steam is better than the alternatives, but still has some objectively insane problems.
this isn't true and hasn't been true for a while
> I didn’t put words into anyones mouth
literally read your first sentence again, and notice the word "others"
I actually think this might be a good thing? I'm way more aware of cliches and filler in my writing these days, and it almost always reads better when I just remove them and plainly say the thing.
i cannot fathom how you could possibly arrive at this reading of the gp's comment, what are you talking about