Also, fuck agile, I guess.

Python has duck typing inherently, which makes it better than most "real" languages for some purposes. It's become my language of choice for most Project Euler problems because I can have a library of e.g. matrix operations without caring explicitly about the type of the elements in the matrix. The only statically typed languages which I know of that can do the same thing flexibly are Haskell and its imitators. In addition, Python does support type annotations which can be statically checked. They're a bit ugly, but to be fair to the language they deserve a mention.

That said, I also wouldn't want to maintain a 100 kLoC Python project,

For me personally 2 times larger would be fine. Modern phones are too thin anyway.

When you buy a car now, do you seriously worry about how to fuel it up in a decade or two? Because it will take a very long time until the majority of the vehicles on the road will be EVs.
Besides, at most public chargers people who use a chargers for more than 4 hours, have to pay extra, given them a pretty good incentive to share.
Seriously, how many more flimsy excuses will you try to invent before simply admitting that you simply hate EVs? And why do you even bother coming up with all the excuses in the first place? If you don't want one, then you don't want one, simple as that. No need to rationalise it.

Not really. I only really need to charge once a week and one of the supermarkets in my proximity has a serious amount of fast chargers - 20 or so. The others have slow chargers, but they are free most of the day so I could top up whenever I want. It really is not a big deal in a daily life - all these ifs are actually options.

Travelling longer distances, on the other hand, does require planning because the Inster has a small battery.

I am from Germany, live in a flat and have to park my Inster several minutes of walking from where I live. I usually charge it at the supermarket charger when I do my groceries, or at work when I am early enough at the office to connect to the only available charger - some of the colleagues also have an EV. Works well enough for me.

Nowhere near to the same extent.

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child. He's 22 now. I'm not sure if I'm jealous or worried about you. Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

In other news, by marrying close to my age, I'm spending 51 to 54 in caregiving activities to the point that I can't keep up with a 40 hour a week job, and the job market is such ain't nobody gonna hire me anyway, so I'm striking out on my own and trying to trick old people into paying me $300 to back up their Windows 10 boxes and switch on TPM in UEFI if it exists:

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Before landing the checklist includes seatbelts on, tables stowed, seats in the upright position, and window blinds open. The windows serve a safety function: in case of an evacuation, being able to see out helps in decision-making about which exits to use.

I've got a photo of the Scilly Isles which I took on a flight from Ireland to Spain, and the last time I flew west over the Atlantic I'm pretty sure I saw a large pod of whales.

Just as I hit post I recalled that the N1 was attempting hot staging and you can also see those lessons in SpaceX's latest booster design.

Can't wait to see them light that thing up again.

The fundamental problems were identical in the two vehicles though. SpaceX has clearly learned the primary lesson of running that many motors from the N1 program, testing and balancing the engine output to eliminate vehicle instability. Had the Soviet's mastered that aspect of the vehicle production I'd say the space race would have never ended.

These two functions are not mutually exclusive, you know.

A robot probably. But I doubt I will live long enough to decline that's much anyway.