The right to privacy here never meant "noone may know that I exist".

If it aint broken, don't fix it.

If you can choose your own versions and care at all about new releases, you can track latest and greatest with at the very most a few months of lag. Six months of "support" is luxurious in this scenario.

If you can't choose your own versions, you are most likely stuck on some sort of LTS Linux and will need to make do with what they provide. In that case three years is a cruel joke, because almost everything will be more than three years old when it is first deployed in your environment.

Not as much as in some other places in the world, but it is not at all rare.

I did some tests with 3.15-dev on my own reference benchmark a few days ago and noticed that the JIT is finally making a positive impact.

As it looks now, 3.14->3.15 will be the biggest release-to-release Improvement since 3.10->3.11. At least for streaming text processing with significant amounts of pure-python logic.

In the grandparent post I was first replying to, the poster stated that they were in the highest tax bracket that existed in their country, but said there should be more brackets for people who were even more well off.

My opinion is that it isn't unfair to the top 1% that the top 0,1% have the same tax rate, even though they are richer.

I do think it is unfair if the bottom 25% have the same tax rate as the top 25%.

I don't think the actual quality difference under Equal conditions is a large as the TUV report suggests.

My take on the wealth-cap is that it isn't about fairness at all. Actually I think it would be mostly unfair, but that it would be good for society anyway. Fairness is an important value, but it is not the only value.

Disregarding all technicalities about what proportion people actually end up paying after performing clever tax planning.

Why are you sure that someone earning 1M should have higher proportion of their income taken away than someone earning 100k?

At some sufficiently low level of income I think it stops making sense collecting taxes, but beyond that I'm not so sure from a fairness-perspeective.

I could perhaps get on board with a hard cap on wealth, for preserving democracy. It is dangerous to have single individuals and families attain too much power. But up to that cap, I don't see any inherent unfairness or inefficiency in that people of moderate to high wealth pay the same proportional rate.

As I recall it, the local LAN scene had an almost religious cult around 3com 10mbit ISA cards, that eventually morphed into a similar thing for Intel 100mbit cards.

Drivers and hardware were even more shit back in those days than today. Cards known to have worked in multiple motherboards and across multiple operating systems were held in high regard.

I usually prefer classic %-formatting for readability when the arguments are longer and f-strings when the arguments are shorter. Knowing there is a material performance difference at scale, might shift the balance in favour of f-strings for some situations.

The benchmarks are run on a highly compatible, pure-python library for producing and consuming typed CSV:s.

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I'm sure some people use the term correctly, at least sometimes!

Why wouldn't a bunch of Airbus executives be next in line to be sanctioned by the US? They represent a threat to the profitability of Boeing.

Performance is not great, so you need middleware and batching anyway. As far as I am concerned, it wouldn't be a great loss if Skywise disappeared and just the SFTP with CSV:s remained.