I can't get them to deliver to my business during standard business hours... They're the one logistics company that prioritizes delivering to residences during the day and businesses after they close, ensuring that nobody is there in either scenario. No, my business isn't open at 11:34pm. No, leaving it outside in a commercial area at night isn't a good idea either. Hell, they do it during the day when the business is open, too, when they actually show up during business hours.

I got packages delivered today that were supposed to be delivered Friday. The packages that were due today have been rescheduled for "sometime before the 29th." Meanwhile, the deliveries handled by the USPS and UPS from Amazon are almost always delivered on time.

Amazon Logistics has been so awful, they're supposed to be deprioritized on my account, but this year, it seems like they're (mis)handling at least a third of my packages again. I absolutely despise and detest when I see that they're the ones "delivering" my packages.

Reuters? AP?

Why is this a hypothetical?
Python has been around since 1991, and is currently the most popular language. It has been widely used for Linux scripting.
People are doing just fine with indentation as syntax for decades.
Anyone scripting has enough sophistication to show tabs in their editor.

Only initially. In my case, I am not even a system developer. I do use it like Go with extra steps. So why not just use Go? I didn't like many of the design choices in Go. Some of those complaints have been addressed since, but I have not bothered. I want an algebraic type system and macros. I chose it over OCaml, even though it is a better fit for me. When I want more ease of use, but still want performance (than small binaries, low memory, and safety), I opt for Julia.

Compilation speed is mainly an issue for the initial compile. In Rust, you don't need to run it frequently to test. On-the-fly linting is much better (I just go by Error Lens hints). So an occasional incremental compile to test against inputs isn't an issue.

Since you are not used to it yet, I suggest using AI to write the initial code with any of the editor plugins. I prefer a language with complex options, but I prefer to write code with simple design patterns (like Python or C, not Java). It is easy to direct AI to generate small general functions. I think this will ease you into Rust style. AI can advise you in fixing the code too.

Given AI now, I think we can opt for more complex languages than were reasonable to adopt than before, not for the sake of complexity obviously, but because language complexity is less of an issue now.

If you think the taxes are primarily going to support infrastructure, you're wrong. The vast majority of federal money goes to the military and social programs, the former of which is loved by Republicans as well as many rich Democrats (that are in on the military industrial complex) and the latter of which is overwhelmingly mandated by the Democrats.

The Republicans don't know how to balance budgets, but neither do the Democrats. Again, pick NYS as a whole or pick any city in NYS - they're all run by Democrats and they're all severely in the hole. The problem is too much spending all around.

The red states can support themselves when they aren't busy dealing with mandates imposed by the blue states. Here in NY, the state mandates determine 95%+ of local budgets by doing things like passing the cost of Medicaid onto the county governments (which is why NY has a high income tax, property tax, and sales tax, all of which remain within the state and not passed on to the federal government, not to mention plenty of high use taxes like the Thruway tolls).

What's that? You think we should mandate social spending like Universal Heathcare? So you're opposed to people actually having the freedom to choose for themselves and don't want to give them the opportunity to NOT pay for it? In red areas, even though they collect from such programs, most people don't want them. Then you get to whack them with the stick for telling them that they aren't supporting themselves. Nothing like pushing learned helplessness on people and depriving them of their desire to support themselves. I'm sure you have everything in your life running perfectly as you tell everyone else how they have to run their life, right?

Economic liberty is just as important as social liberty and the Democrats are just as authoritarian and tyrannical as the Republicans, just over different issues.

Part of the problem is mandates imposed on those states by the blue states, which the red states don't want and can't afford to fund.

Democrats arrogantly believe their way is the only way and that everyone that disagrees with them is too stupid to know better, so they must impose their ideas on everyone by federal dictate. They believe in economic freedom as much as the right believes in religious freedom. Both parties want to own you because you're too stupid to be left to decide things for yourself.

Keep your ideas within your own state borders and you'll keep your tax money to use within your own state and/or to lower the cost of living there.

California also has their fair share of people building in places they shouldn't, while your wildfires say hello.

Living in New York is a nightmare, especially outside of NYC. We have high taxation and little to no representation at the federal or state level. Like California, more new mandates and more new taxes. We make California look fiscally responsible though, especially once you realize that the 700+ government authorities (operating as quasi-private, government owned companies) owe hundreds of billions on top of NY's insane debt load. I love where I live, but I can't wait for the day I get to leave because of the oppressive government and economy here.

> Oh, I see, your top priority is the purchase price.

I don't mind a better repairable one costing more in price, within reason. However, at some point, you have to draw the line and say that this does not make sense any more. At over 100% more, for me, it does not make sense. I am wishing for the trade-off for repairability comes from extreme compactness, rather than price, using commodity components, rather than specially created components by a single manufacturer.

Framework is a great laptop by design and I hope most future laptops go in that direction. However, as it stands, it's price nullifies its advantages for most people. I am not asking for innovation. I am asking for the clock to turn a little back in terms of design.

All I need is an external battery, easy to replace storage and memory and an uncomplicated ventilation solution. We had these common place until relatively recently. I don't need to replace CPU, GPU and the screen. Keyboard replacements should be easy since they sustain mechanical damage by normal use.

Framework goes well beyond this and is currently an enthusiast's interest. I hope they reach the greater market's interest.

Ideally though, we should be able to build a laptop like a desktop, but without relying on components by a single vendor and just like in case with the desktop, it should still make economic sense to do so.

No. It costs more than twice a laptop with a similar GPU.

The contest isn't between cheap and repairable, it's between compact and repairable. I don't mind my devices being a little chunky but repairable. Lack of repairability is from this race to the thinnest and the lightest. I am OK without perfection on those things since they are small enough already. I understand that you will say that is not what the market wants, but just me. I am not so sure about that.

Take gaming laptops for instance. Most of us just want portable workstations with these, not true mobility optimized devices. Hardly anyone expects to use these in a bus every day. Most prefer to have a more ventilated, easy to upgrade and clean systems with a removable battery since heat kills batteries quickly and gaming laptops generate quite a bit of heat.

I would vote for a relatively inexpensive, easy to service and upgrade laptop that is chunky and a bit heavier. The thing is, there are no such laptops in the market to vote for. My previous laptops had easy to remove batteries and so it was very easy to preserve them, including in a 3lb laptop. 5-10 years later, the batteries were still almost as good as new. It's almost impossible to find them now.

Instead what we have are gaming laptops and even gaming tablets, with GPUs that get heat throttled quickly and internal batteries that degrade very quickly. It actually makes it hard to justify the price and isn't helping all that much with mobility in a couple of years.

> It was originally designed to teach kids in school inexpensively

For that, you would get a lot more value out of a used laptop off EBay than Raspberry Pi.

Personally, I think they have lost their way. The spirit is still there in Pi Zero. But you can't find it there either.

Everything changed with LLMs. Intelligence is more than language tests, but if tested with just language, an LLM scores above genius level IQ. It's in the top 0.1% and will get better.

https://www.scientificamerican...

You don't have to qualify with "type of humans". You and I and just about everyone here will lose to an LLM on these tests.

I understand its about making money first.
But won't you rather have dumb work automated and be able to look at the higher level aspects of the task, including integration. This is no different on having VM languages taking care of memory management so you can focus on business logic. There is just too much code now for basic data management apps, perhaps more so than there was 25 years ago, which the app addresses.

Frankly, developers should be building a lot more interesting things than just another CRUD app. I want AI to take those jobs. In the last 25 years, I think we have gone backwards in some ways in this area.

I don't think you understood what it is.
You use this to make things like your web sites. It's an AI assisted dev tool. It removes the tedium from run of the mill web app and mobile app development.

I like to eat ice cream. Decades ago, I ate a lot of ice cream. That came with consequences.
People who eat based on likes, eat at their your own peril.
Thinking long term, thinking of consequences, not just acting on impulses, is what being an adult means. It does not mean freedom.