That has got to be one of the most easily gamed metrics that there ever has been.
"Make sure you use this website that costs the company money frequently"
I wonder how it will play out when the costs of using an AI service are no longer subsidised by venture capital? (For example Uber is just as expensive as normal taxis now.)
Could the current use of "AI" also be considered a dark pattern?
In the way that dark patterns get you to use/pay for a product/service that you might not want to, but are too confused, frustrated, or the cost/time tradeoff is not worth it to understand how to stop using/paying for the product/service.
In terms of "AI" in products/services this would be the way that using such an assistant atrophies your skills and knowledge so that you become dependent on the product/service.
The main place in Australia where it would make sense to make high speed rail is the big Sydney-Melbourne route as it's been the world's 3rd or so busiest air route for many decades now. Currently it's about a 2 hour flight at a cost of a few hundred dollars with flights leaving multiple times per hour. By car this journey takes 7-8 hours, and these are the cities where you can do a lot without needing a car, so there's no incentive to take yours.
The other places where it might make sense are Sydney-Brisbane and maybe Adelaide-Melbourne since both are also 7-8 hour drives and about 2 hour flights. Last I travelled Adelaide-Melbourne the trip by train was 13 hours and by bus it was about the same because of the route and extra stops.
As another commenter has pointed out, in the smaller Australian cities you pretty much need a car to get around. So realistically the train journey is competing with the 2 hour plane ride rather than the 8 hour drive. Because you'll either drive and have a car at your destination or fly/train and need a hire car or taxis when you get there.
Don't get me wrong, I like trains and I wish Australia was less like Los Angeles and more like Europe, but it would take serious investment by the Government to make this happen and compete with the airlines.
Sounds a lot like Boston-NYC-Washington DC. Multiple flights per hour, 4hr drive between closest pair of cities, but thankfully there is a railroad that takes about the same time of driving, depending on the (rail/highway) traffic of the day.
I do wonder how much smaller the STL source code would be if it was pre-processed or written with only a single C++ standard in mind. So only for C++20 or only for C++23 etc. In that case how much faster would things be to compile where it doesn't need to filter through hundreds of preprocessor options?
From what I've read on mailing lists and whatnot, it seems a lot of complexity comes from explicit choices made, like iterators being unaffected by insertions[1] for maps and such, or time complexity guarantees that forces the implementation into certain corners.
> In that case how much faster would things be to compile where it doesn't need to filter through hundreds of preprocessor options?
I think most of the time spent isn’t running the preprocessor, but parsing the declarations and definitions.
Regardless, the way to speed up importing definitions in modern C++ is to use #import instead of #include.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904758 says they could import the entire std namespace in under a second (that is long when you want to run C++ as a scripting language, but not when you compile large programs)
Having a minimum age to get some life experience is fine, and 35 I would consider a good age, however the minimum age in the USA these days seems like 70.
As for being born in the country, I'm sure with the challenge to birthright citizenship that will get changed in short order to both being born in the country and having your parents and ancestors also be citizens.
Maybe it will change to more of a hereditary system where people had records to prove their ancestry was noble.
With some customisations from the default settings the Windows 10 start menu works best for me, better than Windows 7, better than Windows 11.
Scrollable folder view on the left, pane of shortcuts on the right. Sure they're the panels from Windows 8 but they work really well. I can right click on most icons on the panel and either open a document or go into a specific configuration easily and directly. For example Terminal and Putty.
So now he doesn't care what any court says.
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