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Funny, I write Clojure for my day job and fun, so I have tried to use ChatGPT to generate code. If anything, it sucks at paren matching. It reminded me of stable diffusion's "six finger problem".

Oh, we know the reason. It is because UI looked ugly and the latency was high.

And yet, the percentage of Java programmers using clojure is less than 1%. Looked at another way, how many applications need the fast startup time, and why can’t they be run in a daemon?

That's easy. Its 0.00001%

Yeah, was talking about pumping water up an existing installation. Looks like it is already used - 94% of all stored energy in US now comes from hydro, according to your link 2. ATM, it is cheaper too

Can't we just run an existing dam in reverse to store energy?

I can tell you what limited my confidence as a programmer. It was correctness, or knowing how to deal with stuff so I don't have to check every line of code once I implemented something new that uses the old stuff in a novel way. For some people, it was apparent right away, but I had to discover that once you design something that works in all cases, you don't have to check wether it works as a part of newer code flow, or bigger use case. Only then my confidence started to compound.

In the late 90s to early 2010s it was fashionable to think of code as a graph of dependencies, and as long as you honor those dependencies when changing the code you would be ok. This is simplifying but pernicious POV IMO - reinforced by the zeitgeist that code is truth and comments (in code or otherwise) may not be. This is a cul-de-sac.

Unless developers see things as nouns or verbs, they don't acquire the ability to scale and see the bigger picture, because there is nothing to hold these smaller entities and connections between them (O(entities^2)). The concepts are the bags. Wish someone would explicitly teach us these things, because, sure as hell they didn't teach it in college.

May be people who have a liberal arts background are good at seeing these things, because one of the things they explicitly study is perspective, framing etc. Engineering is quite limited because we don't explicitly study about that.

Can't tell your post is sarcastic or not. Good reads is a valuable resource, especially for avid readers - without it I wouldn't have read as many good books as I did.

Can this not be reversed. Force amazon to spin it out?

Lol. Not even. What about Musk. He is not born in US

If your commute is less than 100 miles, you have nothing to worry, if you get a proper charger at home. Owned Tesla for 3.5 years with 60 mile commute, it has been very nice.

>> My impression was, that the younger generation seemed to more conservative regarding arranged marriages then their parents.

Don't think this is true. Arranged marriages have gone down since I was a kid in India, though it is still true for majority.

>> about how us Europeans have a probpem with arranged marriages in the Muslim world, but upheld, at the time, India as this huge, free democracy.

India is a free democracy, but life revolves around family. Which is good if things work out, and utterly suffocating when not.

Yeah. Majority of marriages even today are arranged by the family and it becomes impersonal and somewhat crassly practical. Choices are sorted by their family's net worth, social standing, color(darker complexion is looked down), age and education. Choices usually belong to the same caste. Color has nothing to do with race, like in US. People come in all sorts of colors, even in the same family, like Mendelian flowers and lighter complexion is usually preferred.

This means that if someone is educated but comes from a poor family, they may not find a match. The irony is some of these people pulled themselves up from their bootstraps. It is hard for a groom to find a bride once they are past 30, if they didn't before, because of said bootstrapping.

Edit: Added caste.

It was like that in India too. Some social critics and authors back in late 19th and early 20th century changed that practice. Dowry started as a pocket-money for the girl, when she leaves her parent's house to go with her husband, because woman is "their" property now. Parents worried about her daughter's well-being there, would do that in consolation that it might help her, should things go south. That generousness was "expected" as time rolled on.

The impact of this has been felt for more than a decade now. Many of my friends had trouble finding brides, despite being nothing wrong with them - as a result, some of my friends were never married and are in their 40s now. It is absolutely terrible and gut-wrenching to see this Darwinism in action, as if we are wildlife. The people who are responsible for this are all considered "decent" people in society. The values, the customs are from another era, and are not fit for anyone living in modern era. All my Indian friends, please gain some perspective and recognize the ills of "customs" too, along with the good that comes with it. The country and the world will be better for it.

Yeah, In Apple's vision, FB/Social is still just an app. For FB, social is the world. Like a matrix transposed. Still Apple can do all FB wants to do.

In Bay Area I paid $30 for box a month ago

This is like C++ to C - so python++, ++ is for features and native compilation

I think you may be in denial. Douglas Hosftadter thought very deeply about it, wrote a book(GEB) which won a pulitzer 40 years ago, about the "magic" in the brain. He has been worried about developments in AI for 5 years now.

It emphatically does. It has pull-syntax just for the nested entities obviating the need for ORM. I am surprised I had to scroll so far down to see this. This is its biggest selling point IMO.

Lol. That's all true. By caring about the planet, we care about ourselves. Planet can survive like another forsaken rock in space - nobody is arguing with that.

Buddhist philosophy is practical and seems some what out of sync with the Hindu thought at that time. Buddha lived around the same time as Socrates. I can't help but wonder if some of the ideas were not cross-pollinated. Don't get me wrong. There are many similarities between the cultures, even 1000 years ago. Al-Biruni, an arabic scholar, well versed in Greek thought, said as much. He thought Indians were on par with Greeks in Math and Science, but didn't advance as much because the language(Sanskrit) depends on analogies and metaphors a tad too much ie, not being quantitive and exact. I feel even today, Indian culture relies heavily on analogy.

I would give this 10 points if I could! But that’s level 2 driving. It is not nothing.

This is like everything else in life - people, education, work places etc..

Having said that, books with rating > 4.7 (of 5) on amazon are generally v.good.

Ok. Compilation + automated tests then.

Why does this tool exist in an interactive form? Just do the thing and compile the code, and if that works check it in.

But others do. There are managers who think exactly this - people are replaceable cogs - meaning you can treat them like that too - as tools that are like store bought

TLDR: See Boeing

Thank you for this. I just removed my main bank account with them.

Yep. Im the OP and this is what I meant by woke cancellation. I didn't use it as trigger.

Ostracism is a well known punishment in the western world. Greeks used to practice it. So are the recent woke cancellation standards. It is not unique to India.