Seems like they just asked people “Would you be willing to give up owning a car for good?” and then people got to respond with:

• Yes, definitely
• Yes, probably
• No, probably not
• No, definitely not

It’s described in the report on pages 19, 20 and 150.

The five on the left are where cars are most dispensable, and the five on the right are where cars are least dispensable.

Wasn’t aware of that, so thanks for pointing it out, but yeah, what it’s really about is the nicotine. They want fewer people addicted.

Seems like it’s more about discouraging any tobacco use, rather than how unpleasant it is to others.

I guess, you could buy a handful of USB sticks…

I mean, if we’re talking about all those problems, the no-type-annotations issue is rather specific for Python, JS/TS and Ruby.

But in general, I feel like there’s somewhat of an old world vs. new world divide, which happened when package registries started accepting libraries from everyone and their cat.

In C, for example, most libraries you’ll use will be quite well-documented, but you’ll also never hear of the library that Greg’s cat started writing for the niche thing that you’re trying to do.

Unfortunately, Greg’s cat got distracted by a ball of yarn rolling by and then that was more fun than writing documentation.
That’s the tradeoff, you get access to more libraries, but you just can’t expect all of them to be extremely high-quality…

Ich befürchte, dass trotzdem noch extrem viele russische Bots unterwegs sind, um Zwiespalt zu säen, aber bin trotzdem vorsichtig hoffnungsvoll, dass das etwas hilft.

I frequently hear them dubbed “Daily Hate Mail”.

Honestly also annoying as a not-so-new folk. I just thought about this yesterday, I reasonably expect to clone a random project from the internet written Java, Rust et al, and to be able to open it in my IDE and look at it.

Meanwhile, a Python project from two years ago that I helped to build, I do not expect to be able to reasonably view in an IDE at all. I remember, we gave up trying to fix all the supposedly missing dependencies at some point…

I’m guessing, they meant to write “that the language has no default way”.

I don’t know, man, far too many people seem to think that “easy to learn” means they’ll know all they need to know in relatively short time.

Like, you talk to our data scientists and they’ll tell you doing anything in Python, no problem. But you talk to our seasoned software engineers and you see the war flashbacks in their eyes, because it racks up in complexity so fucking quickly, it’s insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_nightjar

Yeah, same. The game where that screenshot is from (DCSS) also has an ASCII mode, where that skeleton dragon would probably look like this: D

The text log would say that a skeleton dragon appeared, and I could even imagine a skeleton dragon by itself quite easily, but when it comes to a whole room full of monsters, then it’s just a lot of info to keep track of. The small textures are almost like icons, in that they’re a compact way of telling me where which monster is.

Yeah, man, I’ve got this chronic fatigue thingamabob and if you’re asking me when I’m most energetic, the answer is never…

Yeah, they renamed it a couple months ago. The core team got tired of copying MineCraft 1-to-1, as there’s just no creativity involved in that and you’re hardly allowed to improve on the original.

Achso, deshalb also die hungernden Kinder in Afrika.

On the flipside, you give real intelligence 32 pixels and it infers photorealistic images:

(The textures are 32x32 pixels. Yes, that’s technically 1024 pixels, but shhh. 🙃)

I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Them announcing something like this looks good PR-wise, so they’ll do it, even if they don’t actually expect this effort to lead to anything.

But even if they do implement such an API, companies won’t start adopting this API until its capabilities are roughly comparable to the kernel-level solution AND it’s available on most Windows systems in the wild. So, we’re likely talking more than a decade before this sees sufficient adoption…

I guess, they swapped it, because people might misread it as both ‘legs’ and ‘house’ being negated…

Many people grew up playing Flash games and may want to revisit those. I doubt, there’s many websites out there, which still require Flash…