My still new-ish phone is a pixel 4a I got used. My laptop is a 2012 model and my car from 2006.

The release cycles are insanely fast and have been for a while.

Still no LiDAR.

Sensors that the Tesla famously doesn’t have (afaik, didn’t check) because Elon is a dumbass.

Love you too <3

I use Arch BTW.

I’m a heretic, but Vista > 7 and 8.1 > 10.

My modelling is CPU bound as it’s a model made in Fortran by physicists (me included). The fact is that I wouldn’t get a 4x boost, and a model running overnight still would. When I actually need performance I use a 1000 cores compute cluster for multiple days, so that would never run on any consumer CPU anyways.

For the data processing, the real bottle neck is disk access and my scripting speed, so the CPU doesn’t really need to be amazing.

I have an other 2-3 years with my 1600.

Gaming, working (data processing, physical modelling).

The trick is to use a lower overhead OS than Windows.

I’m still using a i7-3630QM and a R5-1600.

They are both enough for what I do with them. Why would I upgrade?

I feel vindicated that Vista and 8 where my favorite as well.

It’s not worth the cost of ruining LEO and the environmental effects of them burning up in the atmosphere

I’m daily driving a 2013 laptop on Endeavour and it feels as fast as new stuff. Doing a lot of relatively heavy compute on it too.

Sponsors pay much more than views. So does patrons.

The true issue is discoverability in my opinion.

Where can I book a train to Europe?

Mercurial is way better.

There, I said it.

I’m a scientist that has been coding almost exclusively in Python for the past decade and I strongly disagree.

Python is great at being the glue that holds everything together, and everything crunchy part of the program is being handled by a library anyways.

I code with two terminals, one for iPython and one for vim. And you don’t need anything else. The beauty of Python is that it’s not a language that is so full of boilerplate that you need an IDE to type it for you to be remotely productive.

Overall, Python is a language made to be used by people that need to make something that just works and don’t need to spend years learning programming paradigms and industry practices. Fortran and C are so unwieldy in comparison and everything more modern lacks the expansive and diverse libraries of Python.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, mercurial is much more intuitive than git. I really dislike that git branches are only tags on the heads and completely ephemeral. It favours creating a single clean history instead of preserving what actually happened.

The usecase is putting on your CV that you’re a rockstar developer ;)