Python has always had a bytecode compiler that did some minor optimizations, since its inception in the 90's. The issue is that optimizations are very hard to do correctly in the compiler because Python is so dynamic. Any piece of code could suddenly redefine mytype.__add__() and so forth.
And for the record, I only buy brands that sell high-quality products. Marketing and operations I can fix, but if the stuff they sell is no good, there's no point.
Of course I do. No one buying a business would do it without that information. I get their P&L before I even get on a call with them, and during the due diligence period I get access to Shopify, Amazon, etc. to get first-party data to validate their claims.
How do you inspect the quality of the products you're selling? From your blog it appears you just read through their sales information, and don't ever see or handle the product. And yet we all know Amazon sellers juice their sales metrics and ratings with scammy practices, and now I see selling their brand is part of the incentive.
And more, you are AI-generating listings and images for your acquired brands. You're filling Amazon with slop, and automating the process.
You should seriously reflect on your role in polluting these marketplaces.
> How do you inspect the quality of the products you're selling?
I buy them off of Amazon. But that doesn't really matter that much compared to the history of reviews.
> And yet we all know Amazon sellers juice their sales metrics and ratings with scammy practices, and now I see selling their brand is part of the incentive.
You just read that online and have the most superficial understanding possible. I know what I'm doing, and it's trivial to avoid this kind of thing.
> And more, you are AI-generating listings and images for your acquired brands. You're filling Amazon with slop, and automating the process.
Bad criticism. There's nothing wrong with an AI-generated listing if the content accurately represents the product. I have purchased brands that had horrendous images because the seller tried to Photoshop them but wasn't good at it. Replaced those with high-quality AI images, and everyone wins - the customer better understands what the product is, and I get more sales. It's only slop if you just think everything AI-generated is slop regardless of what it is or how it's used, and if so that's too intellectually lazy of a position for me to try to disabuse you of.
> You should seriously reflect on your role in polluting these marketplaces.
Help me out with that. What's my role? I buy brands that sell high-quality products, increase the quality of the content and marketing, and make money selling them. The sellers of these brands are frequently people who started them on the side but don't have the time to continue, and I get them a fair price in exchange for their businesses.
I suspect you mean this as an insult, but it's not too far off. That was one of the main points of the business - each one is simple to run, so I can manage a lot of them. And that was before AI got really good.
Anyway, I'm sure the app you makes that lets you get a phone number that can send image messages is very complex, and I think that's very nice.
Reminds me of the old parable: never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
If the US gov't passed laws and enforced them strongly, this problem could be solved the same way the gov't solves it: air-gapping the networks on which they do this work.
It would be nice if Maps would prefer data from government DBs that have localized versions of foreign place name data (e.g., Germany's BKG) when available.
I would say that's a rich country and gen alpha thing. People who had to download games from a pirate site on the family computer know what a folder is.
Cloud services expose their UI/UX through a web-browser will all of the pain points of running a stateful blob of javascript on the client, talking through a mostly stateless protocol to a "mess of stuff" that aims for eventual consistency in the backend.
The old folks, who are retired and dying according to this thread, mostly grew up using local applications with direct control between UI/UX and action.
I do get a bit tired of Hanabi when the "fixated" players all agree on a bunch of conventions ahead of time (e.g., if you don't know what to do or you are forced to play, always play your leftmost card, and put your most recently drawn cards on the right side of your hand).
I much prefer the element of chaos and trying to give people clues based on what you think they, based on their individual personality, would do.
Optimizing a game is fun in its own right (my colleague even published a paper with the best known Hanabi strategy: https://doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.88.5.323), but then trying to use that strategy to play the game is immensely dull.
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