akitzmiller

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I came here to pretty much make the same comment. If you have a business that can get away with OTS software, more power to you. But complicated things are complicated and complex billing rules can be make-or-break for a company. Whether you start with 3rd party or start home grown, billing systems often need humans and there really isn't a substitute.

akitzmiller

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Somebody mentioned this in a reply, but it deserves to be a top level comment. A good chunk of this year's unusual heat may be attributable to a reduction in SO2 emissions from shipping. Article cites other factors as well, but this implies that 2023 is the new normal.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...

akitzmiller

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It's true that they are still there, but I think loyalty is really soft. Musk seems to make some antagonizing change at least once a month that results in defections, the whole Substack thing being the latest. I follow Rex Chapman who seems to be one of those people that just does not want to have to rebuild his following somewhere else. He just recently signed up at Spoutible.

akitzmiller

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There is a bit of a forest / trees problem here. Python's simplicity is all about the barrier to computing. Because the barrier to use of Python is so much lower than for Rust, et al. you can get to a point where you've automated some human activity much more quickly or, indeed, even bothered to automate it at all. Someone knocking out a Python tool so that a manager doesn't have to gather spreadsheets every month to monitor progress is better than it not happening because Rust doesn't have the higher level libraries to make it a 5 day, 1 person project.

This article really just reads like there is some internal griping about not using Python.

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