Deep seek demonstrated that and shocked the entire US Machine Learning community. 'merica is in the process of falling off its pedestal and it's fascinating to watch.

Except that it seems the supreme court is captured by Trump/Maga to an extent that they will nod this and any other outrage straight through. Brain dead.

Many Python libraries I have used (the "serious" ones at least) are wrappers to C implementations or even Fortran ! (I do a lot of numerical analysis). Those same libraries are also available wrapped in Rust and I am sure many other languages, so the argument that people choose python for its libraries, at least for my workload is not logical. In my opinion people choose Python because that's what they learned at university.

My subjective experience from a fairly long sample timescale (I'm pretty old) is that 80% of people are either dumb, or don't use their brains and are therefore effectively wrong 80% of the time.

Thinking is actually hard work!

I really don't understand how touch can help me, typing zsh/bash commands in touch sounds really inefficient.

I worked at IBM from 1988 until 1998 and you're correct about Gerstner, he did say no vision required.. however that was a temporary position whilst he took time to understand the business. He actually instituted the biggest revolution in IBM with the bet the company vision on e-business and internet, As regards toxicity, IBM was pretty much the best place I worked with regards to culture for the entire period I was there.

This principle you mention reminds me of when I worked for a startup in 2000. We were trying to recruit a sales director and after several failures it became clear that sales people were always best at selling themselves above all else. That did not translate into sales of the product !

I'm trying to wean myself off it, honestly !

Naive at best. Anyone with experience of these matters knows there is no such thing as a fixed price.

people still use python?

You have described, pretty much, the current situation (with respect to the rules) - the interpretation is something very different.

because you haven't stopped anything. If you click through to select specifics, you will see you have been accepting a shit ton of "Strictly Necessary" cookings that are anything but, and the advertisers have been merrily farming your data all along.

No, that is considered essential and doesn't require consent. Whilst I disagree with the way this rule was implemented, the main onus for the failure was on the advertising industry which has willfully misinterpreted the law so they can effectively continue with their data collection (for example strictly necessary flags for advertisers? that's an oxymoron! - strictly necessary means for the operation of the site, not for the advertisers). Also, all web sites repeat the popups for every page (typically) which again is totally unnecessary and is designed to harass the user into accepting all cookies.

The fucking peripheral manufacturers should start making stuff with USB-C. I wanted to buy a mouse with a USB-C dongle, there are exactly zero on the market, completely ludicrous since USB-C has now been around for at least 10 years FFS. Even bloody keyboard cables - ALL USB-A in this day and age, had to order a custom made cable.

Renault is selling its BEV Renault 5 like hot cakes in France, they are everywhere now (and very nice cars too). France has draconian taxes on ICE vehicles which render them pretty much unbuyable (some taxes can result in payments of 60k euros on top of the purchase price!). No one will buy the Renault Clio unless it has a Plug in hybrid system.