Care to share those 20 lines? Because I feel like every time I pick up a new language I need to add 5-10 lines to add some basic hooks and configs

If you're interested you can read up on language change (and glottochronology, although that's a bit controversial now), and the Swadesh lists.

In general, language changes around at the same rate all over history and geography, barring some things (migration, liturgical languages)

And the blacksmiths losing their jobs are not allowed to feel bad about it?

Especially anyone in their 40s or 50s who is close enough to retirement that a career shift is unappealing but far enough from retirement that a layoff now would meaningfully change that timeline or QOL. I don't blame people for feeling uneasy.

I'm probably 7 or 8 years from an easy retirement myself, so I can appreciate how that feels. Nobody really wants to feel disruption at this age, especially when they're the breadwinner for a family.

> far enough from retirement that a layoff now would meaningfully change that timeline or QOL

yeah this is where i am. Turning 50 in April, I have two boys about to hit college and the bills associated with that and i have 15 years before i'm forced to retire. I have to up the salary to pay/help for college and i have to keep the 401k maxed + catchups maxed over the next 15 years to pull off retirement. The change from AI is scary, it may be good for me or it may be devastating. Staring down that barrel and making career decisions with no room for error (no time to rebuild) is pretty harrowing.

No. By this logic, if they wanted to stay with the times they should have sought capital investment for their own industrial forges, joined their local lodges, climbed the ranks, lobbied their governments for loose safety regulations, and plied their workers with propaganda about how "we're in a recession and have to tighten our belts".

Think of the wonderful world we could have if everyone just got their shit together and became paper trillionaire technocrats.

The software world pretty much demanded this outcome.

Go back 10 years and post "SWE's should form labor unions"

Then watch as your post drops to [dead] and people scream "How dare you rob me of theoretical millions of dollars I'll be making".

I wonder how many of these same downvoters are now worried about getting replaced with AI.

Let's keep it real. No union would save your jobs against a manyfold productivity gain of machines.

You either become a foreman operating the machines or a Luddite burning them.

What if in reality it's not one or the other, but having 10% odds of being good enough to be selected to become a technician operating the machines, 10% odds of getting so enraged as to dedicate your lives to pushing back, and 80% odds of being shoved out due to lower demand and value of your work, having to go do something else, if you still can?

Some of them feel bad about it and some of them refined metallurgy to build Saturn V rockets and go to space. We are very much living in the new space race. The discussion here is split 50/50 between the “Thank you! I feel the same way” folks and the “I am having the time of my life!” folks.

But you can orchestrate teams of builders to keep putting up new floors at ever increasing speeds!

Send the GPS location only when dialling a 3-digit number? Phones probably know which numbers are emergency numbers

Alternatively look at https://sqlite.org/backup.html for backing up the sqlite db, instead of using VACUUM INTO

Sorry but where in the US does electricity cost under 10c/kWh (assuming something like 80kWh for 500km)? And 100$ for 30-40l of petrol? That'd be over 10$ per gallon

Even if it's mostly air it insulates quite a bit better than single pane windows. Of course worse than with the original gas filling, as the windows are optimized for maximum distance between the glass panes without having the inner gas start to "circulate" - which starts to happen at a smaller distance for air than for the noble gasses.

Yes, for sure. My house is 65 years old, and all the windows have leaked.

But my point was that windows, the glass part, lasts centuries, if not longer. Not the mere decades cited upstream.

So only installing 73GW average capacity per year.

Yes. Meta's matching a whole month of China's solar growth, which I would call a lot.

A whole month of China's growth... to come fully online by 2036.

For a single company that's half a percent of US GDP.

Is there a similarly short/simple solution not using all of the built ins? Haven't worked with prolog in a while but should be easy enough with primitives (albeit with more duplication)?

Well no, not really. The whole point is to use the appropriate tool for the task at hand. In this case it's the CLP(FD) library, https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clpfd