We've seen Russians shoot their own satellites, officially to ensure no large object re-entry (or some such nonsense, I don't remember), but I'm 10000% that it's a demonstration to the United States. If the Russians can do it, I'm sure China either already can or is very close to there. It's time to stop pretending that US can enforce rules by fiat without ramifications that scale from getting space assets blown up to a global war.
The world is already dangerously unstable and here we are discussing new ideas on how to make it more so.
The problem is that what WP can do is so, so much more than that. And this is the secret to its success since it can grow from a blog to "here's a bunch of static pages" to a full ecommerce site with CRM/ERP integrations, etc. Boutique mini CMS is a fine thing but won't be displacing WP.
I mean, even on HN, I'd say if there's derision, it's mostly one uttered with a yawn rather than genuine hate. And that's almost justified; while I spend a lot of my time with lots of different languages (I can't think of a single one I outright hate btw), Python is the one that pays for my things and... Well, there's not much drama there is there (now that we're lost 2->3 anyway)? It's a glue language that's easy to learn, but offers tons of depth should you want it. My primary annoyance at Python used to be the typing, but type annotations have made this less of an issue. It's a nice language and you can do almost everything with it. It's a bit boring, but I guess that's a good thing.
I run a WordPress site for my wife's business. Would I pick it up again in 2024? Absolutely. It has nothing to do with what I "know", there's still no better CMS/ small diy e-commerce solution for, frankly, peanuts in hosting.
I really don't have much issue with modern PHP either, it gets the job done and unlike Perl is still very much evolving.
I'm not in the States and have zero knowledge of the SAT and whether it's useful, but targeting an intervention at this level is simply too little too late, no matter how you slice it. If the idea is to reduce the stratification of society, you'd have to start much, much earlier and pour far more resources. My guess is ultimately that this is why these types of interventions are popular, they don't cost much.
Well that's because ML isn't really software engineering. Unfortunately, it is also software engineering as I often have to remind my colleagues coming from algebra / econometrics / statistics sides who are happy to shove all kinds of horrible code in.
What I've found in reality is that machine learning is 99% data cleaning scripts and 1% the part you're talking about. I've also seen the heavy duty statistics people writing data cleaning python scripts which probably leads to a lot of frustrations :)
I think what may be understated here is that while it’s true that ML is mostly date cleaning, data cleaning is not easy. There are a million little decisions made and it’s rarely clear which ones are most effective. Experimenting with various techniques is great but the iteration times and cost are usually too high to try more than a small handful of approaches.
Ah, I thought this critical situation was only in Canada. Yep, my doctor no longer exists, I've been handed over to a nurse practitioner who may or may not consult with doctors. I assumed our situation was unique in that the number of trained doctors is hardly going up while the population skyrockets.
It's literally the same in the UK at the moment. Good luck seeing an actual doctor - I think my local practice has several nurse practicioners and maybe 1-2 actual GPs to consult with.
Yep. I have a Woocommerce site that's mostly modified by my own custom plugins.
Most of my own custom work plugs in to the old school PHP server side rendering and that works just fine. I also have what's in effect two separate SPAs in the backend. Doing these in htmx and Alpine or whatever would be an absolutely enormous headache and it would perform worse. There's no one size fits all.
The world is already dangerously unstable and here we are discussing new ideas on how to make it more so.