Here are two ways of looking at it:

a. People in the USA* have massive fights about things that no-else cares about, and software projects put up a statement about those. This is off-putting to everyone else.

b. The USA is ahead of the curve on some political movements, and the article is expressing conservatism/anti-conservatism/a reaction towards being expected to act according to morals that aren't majority accepted in their country yet.

To decide for each particular movement whether it's (a) the wave of the future or (b) a passing fad? Who can say? You are supposedly an autonomous moral being, so use your own judgement.

*This is true of any place and any people, but everyone else has to put up with the USA's quirks because rich influential explosives. You could substitute Twitter for the USA here. Hey, who gave Twitter all those stealth bombers?

My background was originally in C# then Java (plus JavaScript on the side, since most of us have to do that), and when I first came to Python I found it to be a lovely language and a breath of fresh air.

I guess I would say to me it feels neat and tidy, thoughful about interface design, and gives me a sense of quality. I get a similar feeling from Clojure (perhaps even more so).

I don't find static typing as valuable as you do, and additionally I find the cost in verbosity and in time wasted solving type-checking puzzles quite painful. Perhaps if I'd spent more time with one of the more sophisticated type systems I'd feel differently (Java and C# are quite limited here), but not convinced enough to try.

I think I disagree with all the advice in your comment, but this part has me particularly baffled.

Try actually using the program as an end user would.

Read error messages, read code, make predictions about what the code does, find out if your predictions are true.

I find it very motivating personally. It also means you'll be working with decent people who care about their work.

Don't expect to be paid top dollar though!

They just don't seem to be able to make products that anyone wants. And the products they made before which people did want just drift in a generally worse direction as they fiddle with them randomly over time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIgv8Qw--kk

Like the flying squirrel example given by another poster, they're not closely related to bats. Actually quite closely related to us though.

Bats: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@CHIROPTERA=574724 Colugos: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@DERMOPTERA=987673 Flying squirrels: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Petinomys=43434 Sugar gliders: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Petauridae=323245

But the bat transitional fossils is also an interesting question. And some Googling finds this, which you might enjoy: https://arstechnica.com/science/2008/02/earliest-bat-fossil-...

Maybe you just need to hang out with weirder people?

I'm a bit unconvinced by the studies that say this, because I don't think the "buy the dip" strategy they're talking about is the same one that people are running.

The studies describe waiting for a low point in a given year (or even across multiple years!) then lumping in all your money then.

Whereas I think what people actually mean when they talk about buying the dip is shifting their dollar cost averaging buy-in by days, weeks, or at most a few months, while they wait for the market to get spooked.

I don't do this at the moment. I had a "wait for the US president to say something stupid" strategy which seemed to work for a while, but of course I don't really have enough evidence to back that up.

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Mediawiki Visual Editor is fine to use.

It's not fine to make plugins for.

I try not to be too fussy about tech overall, but Spring is on my "I won't work with this again" list:

    1. Spring
    2. Mediawiki Visual Editor / OOJS UI
    3. Typo3

To me pigs-in-blanket are sausages wrapped in bacon, not in bread/pastry.

If you're an individual with some spare cash, buying stocks during a recession is probably a good idea, even if they falling.*

If you're a population, you probably don't have much spare cash.

There's some time lag stuff going on in there too.

*Blah blah 1990s Japan blah blah global diversification.

I ask because to me the point of a mechanical keyboard is that you want more feedback/certainty on your keypress than an ordinary desktop keyboard gives.

If you don't notice the difference between a desktop keyboard and a laptop keyboard, then what does a mechanical keyboard add?

I thought the phrasing of the person I was replying to implied they were grinding that particular axe.

Of course there are more complex things to discuss here, and in practice reality here is not yet modelled successfully with maths, so we certainly won't figure it out with verbal reasoning.

I was just a bit disappointed with their obvious-yet-probably-not-correct argument, and felt maybe I could respond in a way that made them think it through a bit more.

I do have mechanical keyboards and feel like I get a benefit from them, but I think you can get most of the way there with a standard non-laptop-style keyboard with keys that go all the way down.

Although interestingly reading this thread it seems like there are a lot of people who like the laptop-style keys, so who knows. Maybe it's all just muscle memory.