1. True. 2. I never hit that limit. I knew there was one, but that didn't create friction. 3. I think it worked ok-enough in restaurant. You still have a bit of this "surprise" meal indeed. 4. I didn't use it much compared to the other, so I stayed there. 5. Fair. He seems alive and much more measured in his public statements now :) 6. Fair too.

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The industrial revolution coincides more or less with when starvation started to disappear from the developed world.

In many countries, holidays and PTO are a norm. I personally know a few people that choose to work 4 days a week, I know another bunch that actually retired early or simply don't jump from a job to another because they can free ride for a bit (no judgment).

That also means that you 1/ have to actually prioritize leisure over money 2/ have actually something leisurely to do.

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That being said: it is extremely strict, a lot of lawyers like to make it stricter (because for them it means safer) and a lot of lawyers have to back of under business constraint (that push to sometimes got below legal requirements). My experience is that no two companies have the same understanding of GDPR.

https://outofthecomfortzone.frantzmiccoli.com/thoughts/2024/... and here is my shameless plug.

The capacity of technology is very hard to predict (the future is).

Disappearance of programmers. Right now, you have a lot of programmers, they are not out of job. At the current capacities, they will not be out of job ; to compare with art, I think that pure illustration is a done game. Most prominent people stating that programmers will disappear have vested interests in the AI hype.

Replacement vs enhancement. Right now any programmer is probably using AI. The thing it has impacted is problem solving and information retrieval. See https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1592s82/the_fa...

Side knowledge. Programming (and sometimes solving technical problems) is a very transferable skill, it's about acquiring logic and methodology, understanding machines, cutting down complex problems. Those skills are good and useful.

Alternative. If you stop working on it what else will you do? If it's playing video games or watching tik tok, learn programming! If it's learning something else, will it bring you more value? Is it over a topic that will keep its value within the current trends? That being said, knowledge does not have to be applicable, learning for fun, is a good thing!

Read, and try to do it questioning why a particular style works on you.

Use people, or ChatGPT, or something similar to get feedback, but be critical of it: you want to keep your own style.

I also commonly use a "say" command to just get notified when a long running command is done.

1/ The study is based on an analysis of genetic diversity to estimate the whole population size as well as contact with people foreign to the island. 2/ The population collapse seem to have appeared much later than thought. Following contacts "westerners" in the 19th century.

Nature link to the full publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07881-4

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmanova

Not my best engineering moment...

https://thedarkside.frantzmiccoli.com/experimentations/2019/...