It’s also important to note that you might come out ahead in learning those abstract concepts using a harder language.

I agree that you will learn more abstract concepts with more low level languages, but they are often not necessary. See Scala, beautiful language, lot’s of fancy subtle computer science concepts, and a plummeting popularity since its main popularizer, Apache Spark, implemented a Python API.

Development environment is a mess, but given its popularity, it’s not difficult to find an up to date tutorial. Then it is the easiest I think, you will be able to try programming basics and get a minimum viable product (small web app, small analytics…) easlier than with any other language.

Some people think that because Python is the easiest language to learn, it’s going to be easy to learn programming with Python. But learning programming is still very hard, so many abstract concepts to grasp. Python just makes it a tiny less hard, almost insignificantly now that we can use an LLM to learn the syntax faster than than ever.

Idk what it is worth but I am happy to see more companies competing with Fairphone.

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For mage in pain:

I’m glad that there’s no micro transactions nor loot boxes.

Is that in the USA?

Not even to spend good times with friends?

How do you agree on a meeting time with a group of people who all live in different places of your country?

That’s a good idea! Instead of discrete timezones, let’s have continuous timezones!

Or with creating Microsoft offices in their cities, like they did with Munich.

Are you one of those rare developers who spend most of their day actually coding?

Absolutely insane how much quicker it is too do stuff with vim motions than ctrl-shift-arrows and the like

Those tasks are a very small part of work time, so most people don’t feel the need to optimize it.

Is that from the Microsoft engineer or did he start from this observation?

I had no idea that Tumblr was active again? I thought all Tumblr posts from the past 5 years were just recycled old stuff.

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I think better regulation of the market so it benefits the consumers, like what EU tries to do, is more realistic than imagining a state being able to sustainably handle marketable innovation. I don’t think a state would have come out with efficient web search, smartphones or gen AI for exemple.

I think the absence of cap also makes super rich people motivated to invest in new projects that could make them even richer. If they don’t have this motivation anymore, it may reduce this investment source, they’d just keep what they have and don’t see the point in doing more with their money. Would the state do that better from taxes money? Maybe

Isn’t it enough to remove any connection to any personal identifier before sending it? LLM training doesn’t care about your email, it cares about a certain quality of question/answer pairs, and reddit has a lot of those.