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This might be financial prudence of sorts - doesn't something like 80% of their yearly monetary contributions come from Google, particularly for search partnerships? If they are concerned that Google will start paying them less because search has diminishing future returns, diversifying their income sources through investments in AI might be a good idea.

Whether or not it is the government's job is to be regulating a specific thing is not as straightforward of an issue as it may seem.

This is a really awesome project! If you have time/interest, you could try to build a simple http server now, that your browser could communicate with. Then you could try to implement a simple version of TCP/IP, and look into how lower level networking works. Great job!

to_pandas has a dependency on pandas - it is not the biggest of deals, but worth keeping in mind.

There are tropes on both sides of this conversation, but whatever. Quote the guidelines to your mom.

Polars took a lot of ideas from Pandas and made them better - calling it "inferior in every way" is all sorts of disrespectful :P

Unfortunately, there are a lot of third party libraries that work with Pandas that do not work with Polars, so the switch, even for new projects, should be done with that in mind.

Are the worn, boring tropes false? Are they worth writing out again?

My scientific opinion is that you cooked. noice.

I have a few shelves that got populated with things in a very similar fashion...

The real question is - did you buy 10s of printers because you needed them for the business, or did you start the business to buy 10s of printers :P

Calling PETG "utterly problem free" is quite a stretch lol. PLA is pretty objectively much easier to print than PETG, and perhaps than all the popular filament types out there, especially if you are trying to print anything where precision/detail matters. .

PETG is just oozier and stickier by default, so stringiness is almost guaranteed to happen, bridging at a greater risk of failure, etc. It is tougher, so unless you have a printer that can use multiple filaments on the same print, removing supports is more difficult.

Can you reduce these factors by tuning your 3D printer - yes, a bit. But that's not "utterly problem free".

PLA is the plug and play of the 3D printing world right now.

I'm about to start looking - this JOINt's way past its prime

In many ways HN is Reddit in denial at this point :) Comments and upvotes that are based mostly on vibes, with depth and discussion usually happening somewhere towards the middle of the comment tree.