I have a 4 day work week, at some point I tried a 5 day work week, within a year I was depressed and gladly accepted a 20% paycut to got back to 4 days

Here in Greece the supreme court is determining goverment actions as unconstitutional, recommending changes, and nothing is being done. It is essentially powerless.

They also scare the crap out of my dog, and cause a lot of accidents. Though, they can be beautiful...

The 21st century has been mostly focused on finding new applications of existing technology. A lot of things are changing in pretty much every aspect of life, but nothing is entirely new.

The internet has really changed the shape of our world, but, even though it really kicked off after the year 2000, it was invented during the 20th century.

Something to keep in mind is that humanity is redifining what counts as an invention, a lot of ideas are created all the time, so the bar has been raised significantly.

Also, we need to keep in mind how big corps have been killing innovation in the name of profit. New products are being created all the time, but they are bought by bigger companies and burried. This is happenig because these innovations carry a certain risk that an established company with a good revenue flow is not willing to accept.

Personally, I am excited about the field of Social Computing, it is still at its infancy and has a lot of potential. The main idea is to create alogirthms based on human interactions that solve real world problems. A few questions one may ask include: How misinformation is being spread, and what is the optimal way to fight it? How do we fight corruption and authoriative power? These questions have been approached by a lot of fields, but creating algorithms and proving their effectiveness requires a deep understanding of computer science.

As someone whose country reelected a party that outright ignores EU regulation, I wish you a better luck...

It's easy. First, we ask people to submit a copy of their ID, email, SSN, etc... Then, store them unencrypted to a purely secured database, the is accessible from a php service written 10 years ago.

yay yay Musk is bad... BUT, and hear me for a second, I kinda agree that OpenAI has betrayed its goal to benefit humanity. Ulterior motive or not, I hope this gets somewhere.

WOW! https://github.com/modularml/mojo

Been looking for something like this, thanks a lot!!!!

Edit: Had a quick look at the docs. Mojo's initial build was published Sep2022, it's fairly young, but seems to be getting a lot of attention (on GitHub they have the same number of stars as mypy 🤯).

For anyone interested, their roadmap is an interested read. They seem to be taking a step-by-step approach, trying first to nail down core features first before moving to stuff like python inter-op and syntactic sugar.

Mojo still doesn’t support classes, the primary thing Python programmers use pervasively! This isn’t because we hate dynamism - quite the opposite. It is because we need to get the core language semantics nailed down before adding them. We expect to provide full support for all the dynamic features in Python classes, and want the right framework to hang that off of.

The "why mojo" section give a lot of background too. They are implementing an ML-IR compiler, which is really promising for optimization (think all the goodies we could use from LLVM).

this is a method, and always was a method, I just wanted it to look like an attribute for aesthetic reasons

I think "aesthetic reasons" is an oversimplification. There are certain assumptions a developer makes when reading some code that uses properties. While these assumptions are not clearly defined and may differ per developer, I think there is a common core.

(1) There are no side-effects. The object is not mutated (or any other object), no IO takes place.

(2) The time and space complexity is O(1).

(3) The result is consistent. Consequent calls to the property should return the same value unless there is a mutation between them.

I am interested to see what 2024 has in store for the Linux desktop.

Immutable distros seem to be the new cool thing, and for once I buy it, they greatly increase stability and reproducibility. It's about time we see the rule 34 of Linux desktop configuration, if you can think of it there is already a GitHub repository with a configuration for it.

Also, gaming has greatly improved! If a few years ago you said to me I could buy a PS5 controller to play games on my Linux machine, I would lose my mind. Well, the order is arriving on Thursday!

Some governments are making honest efforts to go full open source, investing in the libre office and other tooling they deem necessary.

Last but not least, nowadays most apps are browser based, they are cross platform by default.

I would learn to fly and then fly to one of those parks where secret service agents meet. Become a spy and sell the intelligence I gather.

The wolf, realising the error of his ways, decided to change his diet and become a vegetarian, befriending all the pigs.

Aren't wolves like unable to process plant based foods? Like, they eat grass in order to vomit or something?