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Hm, Powell was in a U2, not SR71 and supposedly the SR71 never flew over Russia, only close to it.

Is that really the problem, though, or has the audience simply changed? It seems to me that the thoughtful deep dives of years past are still being produced, but they're buried under a much larger volume of lighter content. More importantly, many of the people working at the forefront of technology and product development appear to have moved to private communities such as Discord, Slack, and similar groups, perhaps in part because of NDAs.

Wonderful work by Mr. XKCD (Randall Munroe). This was published in 2011 when there was "some" misinformation in the U.S. press about the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Based on this chart some proposed to use "bananas" as unit of radition (equivalent to 0.1 uSv).

So (from this chart) one flight from New York to LA exposes you to 400 bananas worth of radiation.

Right.... but it is also an industry that provides an insane amount of (often well paying) jobs to a large amount of people to do "make work", admin tasks.

Reliable details are hard to come by, but some estimations are that more people in the industry are doing admin tasks than instead of providing care, admin tasks that will be reduced drastically once the industry is streamlined.

Once we get affordable care there will be less people who can... afford.

Reproductions are still produced, see the wikipedia page.

That sounds really cool, can you expand a bit on the workflow you used: what format were the 360 pictures in and how did you convert that into data that this Python library uses ?

It appears to me that this is the same pattern you often see when junior employees are given one or more resources intended to help them succeed. Despite having access to those resources, there is frequently no shortage of complaints about how incompetent people are, that they "should know" esoteric home-built sowtware patterns or business knowledge without being told or that they failed to perform a task in the one specific way that someone considers the "correct" approach.

Let my karma burn for saying this: Maybe it is time to let this go man. These comments are really the new incarnation of "grammar policing". (1)

They don't add anything of value, did the author use an LLM to fix his prose but no useless slop was added in the process: who cares ? Is the article useless slop: fine, downvote it to oblivion.

(1) For those not old enough to remember that wonderful practice please use your nearest LLM to find out or, you know, visit a library and do your own research.

I think the point was that Python, as a language and ecosystem, has experienced a number of breaking changes over the years. In practice, that means code written only a few years ago may no longer run without specific versions of Python and a collection of dependencies, many of which have since been replaced by newer, incompatible implementations.

What I appreciate about the traditional shell languages is their remarkable stability. Shell scripts written in 2000, or even earlier, are often still able to run today with little or no modification. By contrast, Python applications frequently require recreating a historical runtime environment, including older language versions and dependencies, many of which have accumulated significant security vulnerabilities over time.

Interestingly, apart from the various shell languages, Perl is probably one of the strongest alternatives in this regard. The Perl community has placed a high value on backward compatibility, allowing older code to continue functioning while the language itself remains actively maintained and up to date.

So, yeah, this is wonderful since the ARM architecture (Acorn Risc Machine) is arguably derived from the 6502 by Sophie Wilkins and Steve Furber at Acorn Computers.