TomSwirly

And the New York Post is not a reliable source.

There are over a million dead in the United States for whom your statement is not true.

> "Long COVID"

which is completely real and scientifically verified, despite your scare quotes.

I might add that nothing in your link claims that Gulf War Syndrome is psychogenic.

No, brand-new homes - see my other comment.

There is a huge housing crisis in the Netherlands, so people purchase homes before they are built, and sometimes a group of people get together to build homes that way.

In order to do this, you need to have all your permits in order. Unfortunately, the energy companies announced out of the blue that they didn't have enough energy to accommodate all their new obligations...

> Why would anyone out of the blue willingly make their personal area worse?

Because infrastructure has go somewhere.

The Netherlands has this issue: everyone resists any energy infrastructure in their area. Now there are many people who own new houses who can't move in because there's no electric power for them. Nuclear power is impossible because of NIMBY, so 85% of the energy is fossil fuel based.

> "Woah, there pardner."

Cutesie error messages aren't funny even the first time, and by the tenth time they are wildly annoying.

> if you just create an account

"Just"

How is it clear that coding assistants have an upside for anyone past a complete beginner?

So far, the utility on existing codebases is less than zero.

> continue to improve quadratically

Using what metric?

I did not miss the full context.

"Deemed" in particular doesn't require any sort of reasoning or argument for the company to make any decision it likes. And "appropriate" is not a synonym for "necessary".

"Why did you sell my data?" "We deemed it appropriate for the purposes of providing the Services to you."

What's your legal refutation to this under US law?

(In the EU, this whole clause would possibly be unenforceable from the start, but I know a lot less about EU law.)

The phrase "in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" does not encourage a narrow read.

It is a wildcard that allows them to do whatever they want with the data and then argue, "We deemed it appropriate."

You missed the "in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" clause. This is a classic weasel phrase which means they can do as they please.

"Why did you sell my data to an AI company?" "We deemed it appropriate."

There is also the sublicensing clause, which means they can sell it to anyone, and "process, adapt, [...] modify, prepare derivative works", which has nothing to do with hosting, but allows them to change your data and reuse it for any purpose they "deem appropriate".

This is a truly, truly terrible idea. It adds several failure modes, some subtle so you can go a long way in a state of error, just so beginners can type `python` instead of e.g. `python3.10`.

Many developers, not just me, have a similar setup: we use virtual environments everywhere, and if you aren't in one, `python` doesn't even resolve to a symbol.

If I want to write a quick script with no dependencies, I directly call `python3.xx` on it. Otherwise, I create a virtualenv.

Yes, it's a bit harder for beginners, but from a huge amount of experience helping people who are starting up in programming, people have little issue in following a few more instructions. What demolishes beginners is getting into a bad state where nothing works and you don't know why.

A system where musicians are not adequately compensated will always be more attractive to the listener.

If you're under the impression that your average musician gets any significant money on streaming, this is not so.

I know a lot of professional musicians who make a living from their craft. Their income sources are touring, Patreon (or the like), Bandcamp, and then streaming.

Oh, people at the top rake in big bucks, but most of the money that streaming distributes comes from people who play music all day long based on recommendations, or tags.

I met one person who makes a living on Spotify. He has literally thousands of tracks labelled "smooth jazz" and makes a steady income entirely from people who type "smooth jazz" into Spotify and then leave the program running. He isn't ripping anyone off - his tracks are unmemorable but competent and fit the bill. But this isn't really doable for people who think of their music as creation and not a commodity.

If I like an artist, I buy their tracks outright, often on Bandcamp. Quite often I buy their whole catalogue. Thing is, if I buy a $10, 10-track album on Bandcamp, the musician gets between $8.50 and $10, almost immediately. But if I play that same album 10 times on Spotify, they get $0.30, eventually. I'd have to play that album 300 times to get the same payout to the artist, and it's extremely rare for me to play albums that often, and never in one year.

That is a good summary, but of course, there is "cheating" to do the infinite amounts of work required in a finite time!

The board appears as if there exist at any time infinite levels of cellular automata going all the way down running things. In fact, they only compute one level deep and then short-circuit to using the "hardcoded" rules of Conway's life, and simply pop up the higher or lower levels on demand.