According to the article author it requires costly infrastructure on the moon, compared to their proposal of beaming energy through microwave from Earth.
I disagree that naming something correctly always takes no time. Sometimes a useful and correct name is non-obvious, or repetitive, or you're trying to name something abstract or generic.
Never? That's such a defeatist/pessimistic take. Looks like its way more difficult than expected, sure. Looks like new breakthroughs will be needed maybe.
Never seems unreasonable, in general and in specific.
Types make expectations on behavior explicit instead of implicit. They nay not feel needed when you feel like you master the language, but they sure do help communicate and quickly grok some aspects of the code without having to interpret it in your head(which might be easy when you've just written it but less so in many situations).
What would you consider a sensible solution?
What about
* Pip-tools(requirements.in + requirements.txt)
* Poetry (pyproject.toml+poetry.lock)
* Pipenv(Pipfile+Pipfile.lock)
Those and others enable easy declaration of direct dependencies and compile (resolve) a lock file of the actual dependency graph with hashes. Those tools have their issues and idiosyncrasies, but the dependency declaration aspect seems sensible and functional.
Programming certainly can follow standardized design and implementation methodologies. I don't think there is anything fundamental about software engineering that prevents that.
It doesn't usually happen because there's not enough agreement on all levels of what is the best methodology. Software engineering is young and still sees significant evolution. Principles of software design and engineering are largely agreed upon and applied, but not in a single, concrete and consistent standard because experts still disagree too much on the specifics of applying those principles, and on other controversial principles.
And of course there is often no regulations that would require and guarantee the application of such a standard, and no standardized QA by customers.
You know that wasn't the point. If there wasn't as much investment in browsers and web tech, and as much money-making potential to motivate those investments, do you think the technology would be where it is?
Adding spiciness is not adding pure capsaicin seasoning. Spicy peppers have flavor, but you don't taste it if all you can focus on is the pain. As tolerance to capsaicin grows, so does appreciation for the flavor underneath the heat.
Do you know for a fact that cutting carbon emissions will bring more rain to those places that are drying up? How quickly? How much time will it take between everyone getting reasonable and stopping carbon emissions, and climate actually turning around in our favor?
Its too late for warning about carbon emissions. Sure, we need to address it to not worsen future issues, but it's not going to solve our current and impending problems. Am i mistaken?
I guess the issue is that for lot of commercial work, "good enough, cheaper" is more attractive than "better than most, at the right price". Of course that's not a rule always, everywhere, but at scale it tends to be.