The Python core devs did not have the time or motivation to support the old codepaths in the CPython runtime, and the legacy code was getting in the way of a lot of longtime wants and needs for improving performance, runtime maintainability, language ergonomics, and the standard library. They also specifically increased the major revision number to signal their intent to move on from that legacy.
But you kind of addressed your entire spiel: Hindsight is exceedingly easy. They didn't realize how inadequate their migration tooling was, or how very entrenched Python 2 is in various places. It's hard when you don't know what you don't know and you're highly motivated by hopeful aspirations.
I've always felt that sustaining oneself with the life another animal or plant or whatever is the ultimate sign of respect and should be considered an almost sacred act.
The not owing a drink thing reminds me of the concept of rounds. I guess Americans don’t practice it so much, but in Oz it’s kind of expected that people cycle through buying rounds. And there’s always a sense amongst a group of who’s up next, even across multiple days/nights.
Is it unusual to be able to play back music in one’s head and hear it almost exactly the same as hearing it aloud?
When I imagine music in my mind, the sonic qualities all seem the same as what I heard or hear, though sometimes I’ll mentally edit the arrangement intentionally or unintentionally.
I’ve also noticed that when I use my voice to sing melodies for compositional purposes, imagining the melody and singing are basically the same thing or have the same end result. On the other hand, using synthesizers and messing with patches usually leads to things I wouldn’t have always imagined in my head.
I’ve never asked anyone about any of this before, so I never realized others might not experience the same things. Sometimes I wish I could switch subjective experience for a day with another person to get real perspective.
I can't speak to how good or effective it is, but the issues you mentioned are, I think, why the rust-lang community communicates through Zulip (instead of email, IRC, etc).
I’m being somewhat facetious or jocular when I say this—and somewhat serious—but…I wonder:
Is that a reflection of the quality of the software implementation? Or is it a reflection of the hardware it’s trying to implement? Or perhaps it’s related to the hardware the emulator is running on?
Or did the emulator emulate the hardware while running on /that/ hardware? Did it pull efficiency gains out of seemingly thin air?
It seems like a very individual natural selection-based idea.
I’ve personally always wondered if there could be tribe-level selection for tribes with some non-heterosexual members.
But I also have personal experience, and I’ve met others who do as well, with life experiences that make me wonder if they could somehow affect sexuality. I know it might be presumptuous of me to consider the idea, but it’s only just an idea—one I usually keep to myself.
America is culturally all over the map (and literally too I suppose?), maybe more so than Australia. While the child-in-school thing might be universal across each state, there are many places were the word hell isn’t profane.
Hell, sometimes it would be weird and just plain confusing not to say the word!
Your elementary school teacher would give you dirty looks if you said it, but your teenaged and adult friends would give you high fives and "hell yeahs" right back.
You may not be a physicist but you’d make a convincing string theorist!
I say that partly pejoratively, with a Sabine Hossenfelder sort of jocular but judgmental tone.
I’m personally excited to see how astrophysicists will take dark matter out of its darkness and cast it into intuitive lights, like some have with the rising dough analogy for cosmic expansion.
I wish the governments of America were more consensus-oriented. Less “enough people were okay with [it]” and more “most interested and affected parties can agree to it and be okay with it.”
I think it’s more like the balloon analogy or baking bread analogy is required because there’s no good way to explain what we observe without either analogies or math or unintuitive descriptions.
That doesn’t mean there can’t be a higher spatial dimension that our observable universe is part of; we just haven’t observed it or can’t observe it.
I guess we’re sort of like ants crawling on the surface of an opaque, seemingly-indestructible balloon. We’re pretty clever ants, but we probably aren’t gonna peer inside the balloon anytime soon.
But you kind of addressed your entire spiel: Hindsight is exceedingly easy. They didn't realize how inadequate their migration tooling was, or how very entrenched Python 2 is in various places. It's hard when you don't know what you don't know and you're highly motivated by hopeful aspirations.