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Oh, you absolutely can; maybe not as a matter of formal policy, but if you are a hiring manager or a member of an interview team, you have wide latitude to have concerns about nearly anything (legal) about a candidate. And also, even if you don't use that explicitly, it can affect your judgement of them when discussing them to an interview committee.

"correct" is certainly not the right way to put that. Inheritance and composition here are both fully valid methods for modeling the relationship, and the decision to use either should be dependent on how the models are being used and the expectation for future extension.

I've switched almost entirely to ebooks for fiction, but I will only buy books that fit the following criteria:

1. DRM-free

2. No more expensive than the cheapest suggested retail price

3. Available in a generic format (EPUB, preferably)

So far, I've had excellent luck with Baen books, and decent luck with Tor books and miserable luck with just about every other publisher. Still, jokes on them, I will just pirate if I can't find a version that fits my criteria.

I feel like this article is dramatically underselling the Lend-Lease program.

But, more to the point, it never actually addresses why the French changed their minds!

At least for Netrunner, it was only 3x for the base set, and 2x would almost certainly get you enough. All the additional sets after the base set came with a full playset of 3x copies of each card.

Sadly, Netrunner is dead and the license lost, so not a lot of hope for new, official cards any time soon.

In a team-based isometric RPG like BG3 you kinda have to be, the characters are dime sized and anything less flashy just wouldn't read. It's like stage acting, you have to overexaggerate so that audience can actually see what's going on from a distance.

Quite possibly; do you specifically mean NLP work? I'll admit, it's not something I work in myself, spaCy seems to be the go-to high-performance NLP library, and does appear to use C under the hood, but I couldn't say how it performs compared to other languages.

Look, Carmack is a genius in his own corner, but he is taking that quote vastly out of context. The actual linked article[1] is quite fascinating, and does point to overhead costs as being a potential bottleneck, but that specific quote is more to do with GPUs being faster than CPUs rather than anything about Python in particular.

More specifically, overhead (Python + pyTorch in this case) is often a bottleneck when tensors are quite small comparatively. It also claims that overhead largely doesn't scale with problem size, so the overhead would only matter when running very small tensor operations with pyTorch with a very tight latency requirement. This is... rare in practice, but it does happen to occur, then sure, that's a good reason to not use Python as-is!

1. https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html

Because it honestly doesn't matter most of the time.

In the majority of use cases, your runtime is dominated by I/O, and for the remaining use-cases, you either have low-level functions written in other languages wrapped in Python (numpy, etc.) or genuinely have a case Python is a terrible fit for (eg. low-level graphics programming or embedded).

Why bother making a new variant language with limitation and no real benefit?

I can't say I see the point of this, unless you have a criminally unresponsive backend dev team.

Any half-decent backend API will offer parameters to limit the response of an endpoint, from basic pagination to filtering what info is returned per unit. What's the use of extra complexity of a "BFF" if those calls can be crafted on the fly.

And to be clear, I am not suggesting that custom endpoint be crafted for every call that gets made, that just seem like a strawman the article is positing; but rather that calls specify when info they need.

I am mystified at how many comments here are shocked at the price; the 4090 exactly in line with recent NVIDIA pricing. The 4080s do seem a little strangely overpriced, but not by huge margins.

For comparison, the 3090 launched at $1500.

Land value taxes are not functionally different than just regular property taxes in the places where it matters. In all of the areas that are in the worst of the housing crisis, property value is already dominated by land value; LVT doesn't really change much.

The problem, just like the source says, is that the tax is too low, not mention the absolute disaster that is Prop 13 in California.

Interesting. Even with the examples given, I found Python considerably easier to follow, with the possible exception of the inheritance example.

Just goes to show how subjective it all is!

Spirit Island; an asymmetric co-op game that the thematic opposite of Settlers of Catan; you play the native spirits of an island just starting to get colonized, trying to kill and scare off the colonizers before they get a fully develop the island.

Honestly, the environment design reminds me to Day of the Tentacle a bit. It's certainly interesting, I'm curious about how it will look in full scenes.

Still, I'm gonna buy it. It's another Monkey Island. By Ron Gilbert. It could be a text adventure, and I'd still buy it.

The interesting thing is that you would think Blizzard would have known this. Literally the last game in the same Diablo series launched with a much-hated Real Money Auction House, which was eventually removed.

Well, do I have news for you: https://returntomonkeyisland.com/

Oof, now there's a name I have not heard in a long while! Has it really turned into a MTG channel? It used to be first and foremost a sketch comedy group that would occasionally do gaming videos.

Seems like a slight variant of the OG Shivan Dragon!

It's interesting, I actually do think there is value in regionalizing media to an extent, primarily low-level word change between dialects. For example, changing "Go throw the wellies in the boot of the car parked on the pavement before we get petrol" to "Go throw the rainboots in the trunk of the car parked on the sidewalk before we get gas" for an American audience. Higher-level changes are less justifiable, like the potential of changing landmarks, etc.

That being said, "disused lavatory" is reasonable to change, although "unused lavatory" is entirely the wrong way to do it! That translation both changes the meaning of the phrase and doesn't even get rid of the obvious Britishism. I would have gone for "derelict bathroom" maybe? Maybe "dilapidated"?

I mean, the "use of it" is obvious, it's another protectionist tariff in a long, long line of protectionist tariffs. It heralds from an age where that was much more common, and is an artifact of a long-discredited view of international trade.

Also works in Spanish!

That first tape you mention looks identical to the "bondage tape" from the list. Very different application, but same stuff!

I have also heard that it's used in veterinary practices, as it will not stick to fur.

> How many empty houses are there in the US, millions?

About 16M units unoccupied [1].

> How many luxury condos are being built

Quite a few! New construction is almost always targeted at the high-end, which has been true throughout history. Low-end housing, outside specific government projects, tend to be the high-end housing of the past

> and sit unoccupied?

Very, very few. The idea of luxury housing being built only to sit empty for some unspecified "investment" reason has been a persistent myth that has never been backed up by data.

1. https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=DP04#

What isn't false in this comment is misleading.

There is, indeed, tens of thousands of empty homes in London. In a city with millions of homes. Current statistics show a vacancy rate of 2.2% [1], which is an incredibly low rate, which implies a pathologically supply-constrained market. Additionally, there is no evidence to support that even a statistically relevant proportion of those empty homes are empty for investment purposes; vacancies can happen for a number of reasons, including being between tenants, non-primary homes, etc.

1. https://data.london.gov.uk/housing/housing-in-london/

Practically, the University of California system is as close as you will get to that, as they are bound by law to not use affirmative action. Looking through the statistics[1], you definitely do see strong ethnic trends in admissions, especially for the top tier schools of Berkeley and UCLA, even when looking only at domestic applications.

That being said, the UC system maintains a prestigious reputation.

1. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-...

Treasury securities are routinely repaid, and by routinely I mean literally weekly.

Although not a tangible as what you suggest, there already is a trend in modern board gaming to have app-assisted games, usually to manage hidden state and real-time elements, and primarily in cooperative games. A couple examples are Space Alert, X-COM and Mansions of Madness 2e.

In that licensing case, a mod project could dual-license with both a license that conforms to the requirements for mod distribution and an open-source license, although this would complicate the efforts of any derivative code who might want to distribute.

That being said, mod authors seem weirdly defensive and secretive about their code and ideas; I think it would be a hard sell to get most of them to use an open-source license even if it were possible.

That seems like a reasonable ruling.

For any product, if there is a substantive processing step done (other than basic packaging), I would consider the label to be accurate.

Additionally, mandatory COOL seems like a self-serving overreach by the cattle industry. By all means, include optional labeling specifying the country of origin, following whatever (non-fraudulent) criteria you want, and that label can be protected all you want, but don't make it mandatory.

Shades of the equally ridiculous mandatory GMO labeling that thankfully got nixed.