But now you still don't know async function syntax. Short term gain for medium term cost. Was it worth it?

Annoyed? He was threatened with credible violence. As the article notes, if the attacker had concentrated on one window, he could have broken into the vehicle. The Waymo support person should absolutely prioritize the safety of the customer over the safety of the attacker.

My dog learned what W-A-L-K spells. We're currently using "perambulate" but I expect her to figure that out soon.

. . . is going to lose me my Google account.

The companies complaining to Congress about a $55MM cut could easily fund it themselves.

> But go ahead. Tell me the last time you were asked to “write an essay”. In the real world. That actually provided value.

Several times a week. Written communication is an essential skill, even for software developers. You won't get far in your career without the ability to craft a well-structured, clear, and convincing multipage document.

Trump Devotion Syndrome? Yeah, that's becoming a real problem.

I write in Emacs with LaTeX for typesetting. I suppose I could save every revision in Git. I'm sure a humanities professor would love that.

Is 200 Megawatts for 2 hours the same as 400 Megawatt Hours? Or is the 2 hour unit significant in some way?

And it doesn't even come close to Emacs.

. . . social media would be inaccessible.

You could Google it. A quick search shows that, between 2007 and 2014, the U.S. extradited 20 U.K. citizens and 5 U.S. citizens to the U.K. The U.S. has extradition treaties with over 100 countries, so there are no doubt many other examples.

For some people, certainly. For serious photographers, glass matters. You will never get the quality of a Leica lens from a smartphone, regardless of how much the sensor and image enhancement is improved. In this case, size matters.

> . . . plain old non-AI IDE CS students should be limited to either vi or Emacs. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. It's essential to learn the basics.

That's inaccurate. With a solid CS education, you should be able to implement Python (or something comparable) yourself. The same applies to C. Yes, standing on the shoulders of giants helps, but there's nothing magical about machine language, a C compiler, or a Python interpreter. If a CS degree program doesn't provide graduates with the ability to create those, it isn't worth the name.