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I never played any instrument, but I had the exact same experience getting through difficult stages in videogames.

There's some nice improvements expected by 3.16. See https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/faster-jit-plan.html

It appears Raku runtime improve a lot. It used to end last in comparisons like that, by a large margin, and now is surpassing Perl and CPython.

> A "Manhattan Project" would be building some shocking new technology that didn't previously exist.

Once they break even they can overshoot into shocking new technology territory.

Because of this I hope the current AI fad is a bubble and it bursts soon. So instead of cheap investment drying up the market for individual consumers, we'll have lots of used corporate hardware selling at scrap prices to end users.

There is a poor track record on war against jungle covered countries whose names start with V.

Could the buyers just send their own ships to retrieve oil from Venezuela? Say, China sends a oil tanker, I imagine it would be trickier for US Navy to just sink or steal it.

> If it turns out the LLM is trying to kill us by cancelling our meetings and emailing people that we're crazy that would suck.

It's more likely it will try to kill us by talking depressed people into suicide and providing virtual ersatz boyfriends/girlfriends to replace real human relationships, what is a functional equivalent to cyber-neutering, given people can't have children by dating LLMs.

Perhaps you used the frozen dict implementation from the pip installable boltons library: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dictutils.html#bolt...

This is counter-intuitive for me. Immune system senescence is a thing. Naively I would assume it should be better to get it early, as a younger immune system has better odds to react strongly to the antigen, providing long lasting protection. Often the elderly organism doesn't react, or the reaction is too weak, to vaccine stimulation. E.g. see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01652...

Now I wonder if Ratman would be a fourmidable enemy to Batman.

> failure to understand that beginners are the lifeblood of an ecosystem - till this date don't know if ruby can be effectively used on windows.

Nor does it include something like Python's IDLE out of the box in the standard install.

> Yesterday, I felt sick watching a video on YouTube about how an estimated 1500 people are living in the flood tunnels of Las Vegas and routinely die whenever there is heavy rain.

I didn't know about this. Can you share a link?

That makes me wonder if Ayam Cemani chicken have better tolerance to radiation than other breeds. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayam_Cemani

> so people like me should be able to cobble something together that's a workable alternative to Posit.

There is Rkward[1], available from the repositories in many linux distributions.

Discovered it recently, because I'm currently learning R, and few linux distributions outside the Mandriva family offer Rstudio straight from the repositories, and I'm lazy to download and do a manual install every time.

[1] https://rkward.kde.org/

It feels like when Opera dropped its own web engine, Presto, to become just another Chrome clone.

Do you mean VSCodium? https://vscodium.com/

A spacecraft carrying a blackhole as propulsion means probably would have poor power to weight ratio.

They should rebrand Screwing Company.

> People really miss the point about why military recruiting occurs so early at 18. The brain is not fully developed yet.

I thought it was because if people die in battle at that age, they were statistically unlikely to leave widows and children to collect pensions.

> It also makes me wonder why the human body rewards young parents when their brains are just simply not fully finished cooking.

Probably so that they can grow with their children.

What about vascular dementia?

> Having a clean and pleasant user experience on top of a stable Debian based distributed is the goal.

This pretty much describes LMDE[1].

[1] https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

> Ruby not being easily installed on windows back then stopped new blood as well.

Also the lack of something akin to Python's IDLE in the standard install, to decrease set-up attrition for beginners. E.g. see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16042945/rubys-irb-with-...

My fav hypothesis - increasing CO2 toxicity: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/va/d5va0...

"Penalty" is the key word here. Like, issued by a judge, after proper judgement according to the law of the land. Not random shooting people without any due process.

> Seems like we're bombing a bunch of low level, poverty stricken fisherman

There is some precedent: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/cia-faulted-in-shootin...

One wonders what kinds of domestic abuse such legal hacking enables as side-effect as well: "Sorry Ma'am, your husband was killed in that traffic stop, but you know, the officers were not actually targeting him, just his car..."

> By the time birth rates plummet below replacement rate in Africa, they would have risen well above replacement again in Europe and North America.

What makes you think they will rise again in a timely manner? Demographers naively predicted the rates would stop decreasing and magicaly stabilize close to replacement levels, and failed miserably. To my best knowledge there is no indication the current trends will reverse or at least stabilize any soon.

> not being told that your fertility starts tanking after 30

It baffles me that science books in school don't have a nice graph showing how fertility changes with age. It's plain negligence. It causes people to set unrealistic expectations regarding their expected life trajectory.