a meager 10.8 per cent annual growth rate

Somebody here doesn't understand what exponential mean.
Fun fact : those "meager" 10.8% would multiply your money by 2 in less than 7 years, and by 28400 in 100 years.

Good question.
That's the smoothest-looking pixel I've ever seen!

This will be the perfect chip to process polls, political speeches, economic analyses and penis measurements!

And DDT is extraordinarily safe for humans. Prof Kenneth Mellanby lectured on it for more than 40 years, and during each lecture he would eat a pinch.

I'm sure you could find someone who has been smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 40 years and who still is relatively healthy.
Are cigarettes "extraordinarily safe for humans" ?
Is falling from a 20 m roof "extraordinarily safe for humans" because some guy survived it?

I have no clue about DDT, I'm just saying that this logic is deeply flawed.

5 weeks for a mouse is like 20 years for a human.

Maybe, but 5 weeks for mouse's DNA is like 5 weeks for human's DNA.

It's like the birds and rodents living happily in Chernobyl.
Who cares if you get a cancer after 15 years of radiation if your average life expectancy is 10 years?

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Well, Ruby & Python are just like islam & Judaism or vim & Emacs.
They're very similar, yet distinct, and once you've chosen one path, it's hard to take another.

I'm really good at using Ruby, know the inner workings, wrote many plug-ins and applications, and contributed to the project.
There are many cool projects for Python that I'd love to understand, use and contribute to.

I tried some tutorials for Python, but it feels like a waste of time when I already know a OO high-level scripting language.

A common compiler would be really cool, but I don't know if it is even possible.

Sad but true. You can still spot a lot of kw/h in "Le Monde", which should be a high-standard newspaper.

I used to get excited for every single tech gadget out there, and would run to Amazon or the next shop to get it ASAP.
Maybe I'm getting old or maybe I'm becoming more and more environmentally-conscious, but the bottom line is :
You don't need it.
Nobody needs an All-in-one PC in the kitchen, nobody needs a web-enabled washing machine, nobody needs a beta firmware on its dishwasher, and nobody needs an LCD display on the fridge.
Those stuff just get obsolete after 2 years, and become "broken" even though their main utility would still work perfectly fine without the added useless complexity.
I expect my fridge, my dishwasher and my washing machine to still work in 10 years.
Your gadget will wind up in the dump in a few years.

Let's say you have a very weird car with 4 engines, 12 wheels turning in different directions, 8 steering wheels, 5 gearboxes and 20 buttons.
You have no idea what each control does : some appear not to have any influence, some need to be used together, some have delayed influence, some cancel each other...
You can probably forget to get a perfect understanding of the car, and will never find the perfect driving strategy.

You just need a driver assistance system that will minimise the time needed as well as the number of dents and bumps for a given travel.