On the subject of fictional AI characters, the single subject obsession reminds me of Taklie Toaster from Red Dwarf. Whatever you asked it, the answer would pertain to baked goods.
Yeah, I probably should have included a disclaimer that not everything works as well as it does on Linux. I mostly use the notification mirroring and file transfers, and those have both worked fine for me.
I think you have to look at the time frame and history of when AutoIt and then AutoHotkey came out. What they were doing on the Windows OS was not so feasible with JavaScript. But AutoHotkey, and AutoIt to a lesser extent, have always used JavaScript in a supplemental way when possible.
As for Python (on the Windows OS) it doesn't come preinstalled, is far larger, less specific to automation, more confusing, and less convenient. There has been numerous Python attempts and projects to copy or make something similar to AutoHotkey and AutoIt, but they never caught on as much. AutoHotkey and AutoIt had already gained a reputation and became more firmly entrenched as the tools to use for automation tasks on Windows.
AutoHotkey has a huge support forum history in addition to great documentation. The language it uses seems terrible and confusing, almost as bad as bash! But if you want to do something chances are it has been done and there is example code already there to get your started, a lot like bash. That is worth a lot more than it having a better language at the end of the day.
JavaScript. To script Windows. Whoa.
AHK is directly calling Windows' DLLs. We don't need another translation layer, and Python already has some libraries to accomplish similar tasks.
Likely surface area and dependencies. Nothing is stopping you from using Python with some of the GUI automation packages. Sadly I'm not aware of any that are cross platform, then again neither is AHK or Auto it.
Let me start by saying that I appreciate the humour here :) However, in actuality...
Python is from 1991. Python 2 (from 2000) was not a breaking change if I'm skimming the "what's new in python 2.0" correctly. Python 2 was supported until 2020 (29 years).
Autohotkey from 2003 (19 years old now).
Unless AHKv1 is still maintained, Python wins by a decade.
Ahh, I was supposing if AHK had been written in Python, starting in 2003 because that's when AHK started, it would've experienced a breaking change in either 2008 or 2020, when Python 3 came out or when Python 2 ended support.
Either way, yes it was just a cheap attempt at a joke, thank you for seeing it as such! Python pedantry isn't my strong suit, obviously.
Let's say this all works out and over the next few decades fusion replaces all other electricity generation, and we're past the point where all the initial infrastructure costs have been paid for.
If you live in California, even if electricity generation cost nothing at all it would still only lower your bill by ~15%. Transmission & distribution of electricity is the expensive part not generating it. It doesn’t need to be expensive, yet here we are.
Initial investment cost to build reactors would in all likelihood be very high just by the nature of these being some of the most complex machines on the planet. It seems unlikely any sort of fast manufacturing line could be created to build these, and they’d all likely be built one at a time like fission reactors.
Running costs and maintenance would also be high, the fuel alone is expensive (right now), and I’ve heard that wear and tear on parts of the reactors can be high so much of the housing for the reactor would need to be replaced with time.
You’ve probably also got a small army of engineers running each one of these reactors you’ve got to pay.
All that said, the energy produced via fusion is EXTREMELY abundant. I imagine with later reactor iterations (after supply chains have been setup and electrical transportation routes upgrades) electricity could become very cheap even relative to renewables.
This is kind of a silly question given the time horizons and other potential factors that can crop up in 30 years, but my electric bill has separate charges for generation and delivery. Even if generation drops by 90%, it'd still only cut my bill in half.
i doubt your electric bill would be reduced at all. It would probably increase at a more constant rate instead of dramatic ups and downs though. So there's that..
Your bill will be the same, or higher. But you'll be doing so much more with electricity. Push a button, and your clothes are clean in seconds. Push a button, and your beard is shaved in seconds. Push a button, and four of your five senses are entertained for hours.
I'm unaware of a clothes washing machine currently on the market that finishes the job in seconds. I believe that the technology has yet to be introduced.
I suppose that you don't remember when the microwave oven was introduced. Food warm in 60 seconds? Nuking it? It will destroy all the nutritional value, it was said. I remember people, including my family, excusing the fact that we owned a microwave oven with the phrase "hospitals use it".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFgeustBpFk