muhbags

I feel the exact same way. Never will anything in my home needlessly connect to some cloud service and give away my data. And even less would I be willing to pay for that...

It is definitely useful, but it severely reduces readability in my opinion. Your example is also a great example for this. The first version in way more readable than the second version with the walrus operator.

I am in the exact same situation. I moved to Canada from Europe and it has been really tough thanks to three measly weeks of vacation. I can't remember the last time I have been on a real two+ weeks vacation somewhere that is not my home country.

I am thinking about all those same options except the moving to the US thing. Even though I could earn much more money, I don't think that would be worth it living in a country like the US.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the standard model makes no prediction for the masses of any of the fundamental particles. To my knowledge, they are all input parameters. It might put certain bounds on them, but in the end they are all not predicted by the standard model itself.

This is seen as one of the big issues with the standard model, that it does not actually explain a lot of the characteristics of the fundamental particles like their couplings and masses.

Finally no Python 2.7 anymore!

Never. It's either no units (theoretical physics), eV (particle physics) or Kelvin/Celsius for experimental physics.

I don't really get this argument. People will still want to own their own car to use whenever and whereever they want. If one currently owns a car, I don't see that this would change just because one doesn't have to drive anymore.

Cutting out the middleman (i.e. the company that wants to profit off of the ownership of the self driving car) should always be cheaper given enough usage. It's the same currently with owning a car vs Uber, Lyft or taking cabs etc.

Frankly, I think the country that one should be the most concerned about pulling off a first strike is the USA, not China or Russia...

Looks about right for early high school math.

The standard model is definitely flawed in a couple of known ways.