Diskette or disquete was a popular term in Spain for floppies, both 3 and 5 inches. In fact everyone called the disk drive "disquetera".

But a properly built image is a nice part of a product release.

Building a quality production ready image is not trivial, and it's always welcomed from the vendor.

I need that in a tshirt, or a mug, or a billboard.

Not my upside, but there is a big one: money.

Astronomy usually has that kind of "Lovecraftian" sense of cosmic insignificance when you put things to sacale. Also, being alone at 3am in the middle of nowhere, cold and kind of sleepy, looking at a gas cloud lightyears away, adds to it. But it is also fascinating.

honestly the times I was on a proper telescope, I was shitting myself making sure I made the most of the time going down my list of targets and not getting something wrong and pointing at the wrong star or getting the wrong setting. that and the daemon that had to be restarted every half an hour or so because it crashed. I did not have the energy or time for philosophy. I guess that's the difference between the phd student and the professor haha!

Quite funny faq to read

Coming from Java extreme verbosity, I just loved the freedom of python 20 years ago. Working with complex structures with mixed types was a breeze.

Yes, it was your responsibility to keep track of correctness, but that also taught me to write better code, and better tests.

Writing tests is harder work than writing the equvalent number of type hints though

Type hints and/or stronger typing in other languages are not good substitutes for testing. I sometimes worry that teams with strong preferences for strong typing have a false sense of security.

People write tests in statically typed languages too, it's just that there's a whole class of bugs that you don't have to test for.

Hints are not sufficient, you’ll need tests anyway. They somewhat overlap.

Writing and maintaining tests that just do type checking is madness.

Dynamic typing also gives tooling such as LSPs and linters a hard time figuring out completions/references lookup etc. Can't imagine how people work on moderate to big projects without type hints.

With a substantial amount of creators relying on paid promotions tu survive, I doubt ad-free is the correct term to be used.

Because, as a senior, you usually already know intuitively what a good solution looks like, and you can quickly discard model responses or suggestions that do not align with it.

Unsolicited advertising is a form of violence, the sooner we agree on that, the better.

We need an Executive Order banning all ads on appliances and car infotainment systems.

In this administration?

Probably more likely to see a EO on requiring those things