Also capitalism.

They can both make their investment back and save lives. This is basic capitalism in fact.

I already alluded to it. Governments cannot raise taxes and so therefore cannot fund it. People aren't confident about EVs in the cold / number of chargers yet apparently charging companies are waiting for a lot more people to have EVs before they build more. As far as I know, a person can drive the TransCanada and find enough chargers, but that is one highway and as you said, Canada is a big place.

Lol... Park all cars inside because it's cold out. All in the name of saving energy. Now I can't even take you seriously.

Generally I use -30c as my litmus test. It's not the insulation that is important, so much as the fact that they have to be sealed. If water gets into the equipment anywhere, either it will warm and condense if heated or it will freeze to surfaces if not. Either way the damage of water or ice can be catastrophic. I'm not sure how easy it would be to seal a robot. And we have to park cars outside! You think everyone can afford indoor parking?

So then you should be able to explain why it is happening there and not here. You have way better public transit over there and rental vehicles are 1/2 the price as they are here. So while you are at it, explain that too. There isn't much use looking at how you did it if there are conditions there that will never be in place here, which probably begins with the fact that the government puts more money into things like that there. Which has been the case forever and will not change.

- If you write a precise set of instructions, using precise semantics, then why do you have to test at all? I know I have done everything I can to make bug free code because I can't afford the time to go back and fix it. But it's a fair comment. Even in Comp Sci people leaned towards what you do, but I was always done before them and getting better grades than them so I kept doing it.

- You are at that point where you have the confidence to lean on what you know, but you don't yet know what you don't know. First of all, you focused right in on Python while I mentioned many languages, all with different behaviours with regards to threading. Also I forgot Obj-C. But let's let that slide. Python's GIL does not "prevent multithreading". It prevents work from happening on any one thread at a time. If your application is waiting on a thread for a network call to come back, then the thread that needs to do work is running. Sometimes it is ok and sometimes it isn't and yes I have written some truly horrible GUIs in Python when I was starting. But that's when you learn how to do QML with Qt, which mostly solves that problem by running GUI operations in much faster code. Also I could compile in Cython if I wanted. I still find it faster and more flexible to work Python into the mix.

Why would you spend an hour coding without testing once? I literally test every few lines of code as I go. I have done C, C++ (without memory leaks), java, kotlin, Swift, Python, assembler, perl, JavaScript, and dart. I'm interested to know how many more languages I need to know before I have this insight you speak of. I go the fastest with Python by far.

If it's not an immutable law of nature than why isn't it happening?

Lots of options but they are all a pain in the ass.

Yeah I have never had a desire to go to Vegas. It seems to be a place that is designed specifically to take money from people like me and give it to the wealthy. My life isn't that bad that I'm willing to pay through the nose to forget my problems for a week.

How do you define "too much"? If that person is a student who has to afford living costs and school then it's not enough. Your concept of "too much" just comes from a standard set by corporate leaders that indicates the corporation should get more money than the workers.

Truer words have never been spoken. AI won't help me put in a change faster because it's not taking away the fact that the business has created an approval process that takes a week regardless of the length of the actual change. The only thing that would help is for AI to be so infallable and trustworthy that it could operate on its own and not need approvals, but that will probably never happen.

So you don't know about conference calls and desktop sharing?

Where I live they can't even keep parking meters and tire air pumps working due to the weather. Never mind things that have to roll along the ground reliably. First snow that will be done.