20yrs ago, for me migrating off p4 onto svn was such a relief and feeling really "freeing" in a way I haven't felt often.

My attitude is Fuck Optimisation, it's just so exhausting and boring.

I'm guessing you meant 10k m^2 (ie 1 hectare) rather than 10km ^2 (10,000 hectares if I mathed correctly)

I much preferred Diamond Age to Snow Crash. It's been a while though, so can't fully remember why - but I think Snow Crash tried to be too cute or something and kinda seemed disjointed.

I also had one of their intro books before having a computer available. But it had a paper based simulator of the program counter and variables so you could run through without a computer (I was saving up for one though, but that took years).

Same with me. As a 12yr old I failed learning Z80 on my spectrum with the one book I could find. I had a bunch of other Usborne BASIC books, but their machine code book(s) would've been the link I needed to bridge the gap to where I could understand other material.

Python containing type hints doesn't get transpiled the way typescript does. The transpiling rewrites the TS to varying degrees depending on the target and the extra TS features being used.

Python "just" (that word is doing a lot of work) updated the interpreter to ignore the type hints. It still runs the same way as code without hints.

There's a bit more going on with TS that you couldn't just have the runtime ignore the types.

As I understand it you can, in fact node 23 has a type stripping feature. I could be wrong.

I'm on my third job since COVID. None have dedicated desks, and this ranges across startups, corporates and large govt agencies.

Every job I had before COVID back to when I started back in the early/mid 90s had dedicated desks.

Yeah, thats 20 Opus 4.7 prompts.

It recently went up to 15x in our org.