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That's one of the reasons I love my wife so much. She's the one in the meme (self proclaimed "beverage goblin") and I used to regularly go 1-2 days without drinking just cause I forgot. Now she waters me like a plant. :)

Except that AWS is (for better or for worse) a tier 1 network solutions provider, in part because of advertised uptime. Due to that, it is possible for a minor AWS outage to result in lack of 911 service in an area, for example. Hopefully they have the common sense to try out these new things on less critical nodes though.

Just the historical Russian ties, which is enough for some people/organizations to avoid them. The biggest practical reason is the dependence on tooling. Kotlin is a great language, but loses a lot of its allure when you can't use an IDE for whatever reason. It makes sense, given that its developed by a company whose main product is IDEs; but it can still be an issue in some circumstances.

Good clarification, thank you. I guess it would still require some extra care when interfacing with plain Java libraries, but so does e.g. Kotlin. Cool implementation.

There are many valid practical reasons to avoid Kotlin in certain circumstances (not the least of which being Russian ties). More tools for Java isn't necessarily a bad thing. However I don't really think it works. It reminds me of this blog post: https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2017/02/elvis-not-visit-java.html which I think accurately reflects many of my thoughts about null-safety in Java.

My embarrasing case of this was when I accidentally started using "up in this bitch" as part of my vocab. As a tenth grade white kid at a private school in Ontario. :/ It legitimately got to the point that I was abbreviating it as UITB (pronounced like You Whitby).

I'm surprised that My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic hasn't been mentioned. For me it and ATLA are good for eternal rewatching.

Definitely not the funniest. Read his description of a struggle, now thats nuts. Well worth the read.

Thats exactly what I so often find myself saying when people show off some neat thing that a code bot "wrote" for them in x minutes after only y minutes of "prompt engineering". I'll say, yeah I could also do that in y minutes of (bash scripting/vim macroing/system architecting/whatever), but the difference is that afterwards I have a reusable solution that: I understand, is automated, is robust, and didn't consume a ton of resources. And as a bonus I got marginally better as a developer.

Its funny that if you stick them in an RPG and give them an ability to "kill any level 1-x enemy instantly, but don't gain any xp for it" they'd all see it as the trap it is, but can't see how that's what AI so often is.

My guess for ferries would be that most ferry trips are very short. That means less total travel per trip, so for the same risk per trip it gets much higher risk per distance.

I think this is the real answer. HDR is a thing and the baseline for expected dynamic range is higher than both what older displays can produce and older eyes can consume.