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Its probably the font that helps people with dyslexia.


hmm, not quite OpenDyslexic. looks a little like Comic Mono but maybe a little rounder? the "l" is a lot curvier than most comic-like fonts. almost reminds me of one of the annoying Samsung fonts :)


> almost reminds me of one of the annoying Samsung fonts

you're thinking about 'Samsung Choco Cookie' :) only know this because someone i know has this set on their phone, and looking at their screen really irritates me for some reason.


ah, good point!


>The work of independent journalists is more important than ever before.

Correct, and they're stealing viewers from these corporate media orgs like NYT. A lot of young people are getting their news from independent journalists on Youtube like Nick Shirley.


This has to be a sick joke right? Nick Shirley is the farthest thing from an “independent journalist”. He’s just another right wing hack trying to stir up controversy. And it works because people who consume his content are looking for exactly what he is saying not because of any sort of truth.

What else you got? Alex Jones was an independent journalist? Rush Limbaugh? Tim Poole? Crazy.


>Lack of strictly enforced static typing make agents fail much sooner with Python.

Just tell your agent "Use type hints. Add a pre-commit hook to run ruff, black, mypy, and pytest." It will save you 99% of headaches.


The list of tools that Pythonheads present as a definite solution to their problems changes every year, yet the results are still far behind Rust/Scala/Kotlin/C#.


I've tested many flows involving linters. Results are far from ideal - agents tend to work around linters, mass-add ignore annotations, etc, especially in situations when fixing one warning/error triggers another (and that happens regularly).


What if we tell the agent NOT to add ignore annotations (or to ask about them if there's no other reasonable way to proceed)?


You're devolving into the realm of "What if we tell the agent to just get it right?"

Relying on the prompt to ensure the code it writes is correct is where things fail. Types, tests, linting, etc. are deterministic tools the agents tend to respect.


They tend to ignore such instructions on first circular issue - even with Opus you have to kick it really hard, insist on generalization and intervene manually. In my opinion this is not a productive/workable approach for large projects.

Typical failure mode: "I fix pyright error A, it causes pyright error B, pyright is broken, I will exclude both A and B through pyright config and will add ignore annotations for both A and B and will write a couple of idiotic comments about that".


LLMs really are just like an intern in their first coding job!


I tried that on a recent project. My conclusion: don’t use Python if you value your sanity. Ruff etc. are not type checkers, they’re the cargo cult equivalent of what a Python developer imagines a type checker would be like if they had one.


Be careful. Google once locked me out of an account that I've owned for over 10 years one day. My username and password were correct, but they randomly flipped 2FA on (without my consent) and sent the recovery code to a phone number that I switched away from years ago. It was completely unrecoverable. There's absolutely no way to get in touch with customer service. Never make an account with them unless you're not willing to lose it randomly to automated bureaucracy.


Yes, and it was based on their video for the song "19-2000"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXR-bCF5dbM


Yes, most people have the expectation that the carrier is not actively snooping on their conversations.


No they don’t lol


Its weird that almost every AI generated blurb tends to have that. Usually followed by "Its not just X, its Y". I wonder where they picked that up from.


My guess is LinkedIn posts and YouTube transcriptions. I notice the pattern almost exclusively being used there.


It sounds authoritative so people would respond positively to it when presented with it during training.


Can't you take a trip to France and shop tax free? That would shave off around 25% of the price.


And add the cost of transit to france


You are then obliged to pay UK VAT / import tax when you return


>since April 2, 2025

This current inflation spike peaked in 2022. If anything, its been easing in 2025.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

https://cpiinflationcalculator.com/2025-cpi-and-inflation-da...


Check out the US dollar index on a 5-year view: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/DX-Y.NYB/

Inflation is just one factor and is not limited to one country. This shows the US dollar vs other currencies.


That graph shows the dollar started dropping in Jan 2025


Right, it started dropping when the current administration was inaugurated, directly because of the party's promise to enact immediate tariffs. And it continued to drop sharply leading up to and through the tariff announcement.

I'm not trying to say anything spicy here. You can argue whether a strong currency is good or bad. But it would be silly not to acknowledge the cause. It was one of the largest global financial shocks in recent years.


Trying to square that with your statement

> The dollar's global value has also weakened noticeably since (checks notes) April 2, 2025


Sorry if I wasn't as specific as possible:

> The dollar's global value has also weakened noticeably since (checks notes) the global financial world reordering that happened in early 2025, which in finance circles is often referred to collectively by the shorthand 'Liberation Day', i.e. April 2nd, 2025, during which the US currency became significantly weaker relative to other major currencies, a situation which persists until the present moment


It was Australian regulations. The EU was happy to do nothing and keep letting us get ripped off.



The EU was just moving slowly as it always does. Action was on the Horizon in the EU as well, which probably contributed to Valve deciding to offer refunds everywhere instead of just in Australia.


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