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If you buy it new sure; Porsches are always very expensive.

But you can get very good second hand ones for less than $70k; that should definitely fit OP's requirements.

> EV akin to the ICE cars from [...] Genesis.

What about the EV Genesis? I personally couldn't see the difference between the ICE and electrified G80.

Otherwise, what about the Taycan?

I know it can be shocking for tech people making good money, but whether the interior is plasticky and rattling is typically far down the checklist for most people buying a car.

Would you mind detailing? I have never encountered that kind of issue, so I'd love to learn more.

> The key distinction is that people only ever die of one thing and having a tumor that doesn't kill them is often better than risking the surgery to remove the tumor.

But what applies to humans doesn't apply to software. First, to pursue the metaphor, codebase can definitely die/be compromised/crash because of multiple reasons at the same time; second, there is virtually no risk, out of man-hours, in fixing a bug.

What I'm afraid of if that following the turn toward authoritarianism that we observe worldwide, The Next One will keep all the dreadful legislation that Trump has set up, being more than happy to have them at disposal without having to pay the political cost to create them. Unfortunately, IME, these measures are always a ratchet.

But I hope I'll be proven wrong.

> He is not, remotely, “like them all”

We will know this only if The Next One reverses all his policies.

IMHO, the logical conclusion of your comment is that humans basically suck at prioritizing common good and very long-term vision, independently of their background.

From what I observed of my time in academia, I don't see any reason for academics to do any better than other groups. Like everywhere, the starry-eyed, altruistic ones always lose the fight against the political sharks.

No. The last time this happened, it led to the Ethereum/Ethereum classic split, and that was 10 years ago.

However, the stablecoins are not “real” cryptocurrencies like e.g. BTC or ETH, but are built as smartcontracts on top of ETH, basically using it as a big replicated database. So they might(?) just manually “give back” the money to Binance, as in freezing money in the stolen account forever and “printing” an equal amount to Binance's credit.

Or, to put it in another way, no need to reverse an erroneous SQL transaction if you can just create a new one that fixes the data you altered.

I don't think that would make such a change when developing; you typically only build 3rd-party libs only once.

One can be a total asshole and be right.

> what AI should or should not be used is up for debate and decisions.

Of course; but it's very hypocritical to raise these feelings only when mathematicians are affected, whereas all the above professions are just told to adapt to the new way of things.

For sure though, translators don't have the same clout and social status as mathematicians do.

Well, they do they?

Whole sections of the economy are being upheaved by AI, and there is no reason to make a special case for the mathematicians anymore than for the illustrators, developers, translators, HR, etc.

That's interesting, because that has not been my experience at all – for my usage, Orion empirically clearly buries Vivaldi & Firefox.

Granted, I used Vivaldi rather than Chromium, but I don't expect it to have such a noticeable difference w.r.t. Chrome.

> I've never understood what niche Orion is supposed to fill

For me, as battery-efficient as Safari, but with better chrome and access to ffox extensions ecosystem.

> Git hashes are not supposed to be a security mechanism

Probably a naive question, but why not kill two birds with one stone if it can be done for a reasonable cost?

> and lack of joy and welcome-ness for his woman and baby to be back

Damn, do these people really jump out of joy whenever their SO, parent, child, friend, or whoever comes back after a 10' chore?

Life is not a movie, “coming back” is a dozen-times-of-day occurrence, no one will cheer you back from the toilets.

Don't know if they updated it since your comment, but for me it's on the graph – and on the Pareto frontier indeed.

I hope you don't use seatbelts in your car, as they won't help you against a fire.

FR: « J'ai transporté le canapé (M) et la table (F), mais il (M) s'est cassé. » -> the canapé/sofa is broken.

EN: “I carried over the sofa and the table, but it(?)/the sofa broke”

I have been an emacs user for over a decade now, and if you think that language “support” was as good before LSP, I have a bridge to sell you.

> operated profitably

Until the oil shocks, and until “normal” planes became faster.

I happen to know a couple older and very wealthy people, and they say that even though Concorde was a lot of fun when it was a novelty, they now prefer to have a couple more hours flight and enjoy a 777 premium cabin rather than the cramped Concorde interior.

Anyway, the proof is in the pudding: if no one but national carriers ever bought and operated Concorde or Tu-144 at scale, it's not because of some Amish-like sentiment in the flight industry, but simply because that didn't make sense money-wise.

> I also don't think it's a conspiracy

I don't think it's a conspiracy, it's a simple application of the purse theorem: if there is money to be spent, it will be spent, regardless of whether it makes sense to do so.

_E.g._ OpenSSL, PostgreSQL, or Wayland make do with a dozen contributors and maybe a couple hundred grands per year, but because Mozilla drowns in Google money, they feel the need to spend it fast.

> CEO spending is something like 1.5% of their overall budget

That's... huge? If I donate $100 to Mozilla, it's not to give $1.5 to an already multi-millionaire CEO.

I'm not criticizing Orion for that; I actually enjoy it quite a lot (and will do even more when they will have ironed out all the UI bugs).

Also I'm eager to see how it will behave on Linux when they will have finished their port; I hope we will finally have a really low-energy consumption browser then.

That's self-inflicted though; they could just thesaurize that money and live on the interests to fund Firefox forever.

That they decide to burn through it by paying 7 figures salaries for their C-suites, buying luxury offices at the heart of Paris and launching plethoras of feel-good initiatives left-and-right is their own choice.

Orion is webkit-based though, not a whole independent browser like FFox.

“Good” actor does not refer to ethical, but to lawful.

> ethical porn

Define “ethical porn”? Problem with ethics is that it varies from person to person; at least lawful has the taste of varying only from country to country.

I don't think a proof that P = or ≠ NP would give you any polynomial-time algos for arbitrary problems either.

> Typst is a good example of the readability argument:

I'm afraid the author completely missed the point here. Typst is not more readable than (La)TeX because it's written in Rust, but because its DSL was so designed. It could have been implemented in PHP that the result would be exactly the same.

Same thing with the auto-unroll/SIMD arguments. AFAIK, it's LLVM that's doing the job, there is nothing theoretically preventing a {language} compiler to obtain the same results.

Where Rust shines w.r.t. other similar languages though is that its strict memory model lets developers push further memory/concurrency optimization without sacrificing safety – which she highlights in the GNU/coreutils sort comparison.

> because it's so sensitive to a single misplaced paren

Much more than other languages are sensitive to misplaced braces/indentation?