It's profoundly disturbing that wasn't what they originally had intended to do by default. I don't see how anybody can trust people who have to be forced to do the right thing to keep doing the right thing. I'd expect them to just try to sneak it back in later when the focus has shifted. Clearly they see no fundamental moral or ethical issue with it - or they simply don't care.
In this case I was being tongue-in-cheek, albeit in a darkly cynical kind of way. After all, if he had made a breakthrough worth killing him over, that alone wouldn't be enough. One would have to arrange any number of inconvenient fires / break-ins to get rid of the research and data.
Mind you, if you want to sleep soundly at night, you probably shouldn't look into the stories about John Bedini's old mentor John Cejka. That shit's wild.
It wouldn't be outright appropriate for many projects to be hosted on sourceforge these days, but this might just be the exception. Either that or a bare .zip archive found on a backup of a geocities page.
I agree that Python's handling of 3rd-party dependencies is cumbersome, especially for scenarios that would have otherwise been trivial. However... The use-cases I'm referring to in my context have no need for anything outside the standard library. I'm literally talking about using Python as a shell script alternative, more or less.
...Which is admittedly the lowest of bars. It's hard to be less ergonomic or more arcane than Shell script - unless one resorts to the Dark Arts of Perl or APL.
This is the first time I've heard of Deno, but I'm not sure that having to install a 110Mb JS VM + runtime is more convenient in my context than simply using Python which is already guaranteed to available on any system I use and does all I need. Is Typescript a better language than Python? Perhaps. Does that matter for my use-cases? No, not really. I definitely wouldn't use Rust - or any other compiled language - for scripting. While I haven't had time to look at Zig as much as I'd like, I do adore the language so far - I can definitely see myself transitioning from C++ to Zig, and likely will to the extent I'm able. Still don't see it as a Python replacement though (again, for my use-cases - I'm emphatically not arguing that there isn't plenty of projects implemented in Python that could have benefited from being written in Zig or Rust instead).
If you have any other suggestions for viable alternatives, I'm open to suggestions though.
Eh. Almost every tool has its place. I use Python for all my automation needs, a niche in which it serves perfectly well. Surely you wouldn't argue that Rust or C++ would be a more appropriate alternative in that kind of role because they're statically typed. Then there's other things - I enjoy having Jupyter Notebook on hand for rapid prototyping, sanity checks or quick testing of ideas, plotting etc. It certainly beats using Octave, at least in terms of ergonomics. Most of my recent C++ projects uses Python generated Ninja scripts as the build system, and so on. It is possible there's something out there that would serve those needs of mine better than Python? Sure, but if so, I don't think I know what it is.
Certainly, anything that can improve on the efficiency of thermometric conversion, let alone a solid-state device would be great news with wide-ranging positive ramifications. Especially over the massive range of scales that is claimed. Let's see if the concept can deliver.
Let's be fair: He never claimed to be much of a humanist. One can hardly expect "the word-best expert in general topology" and the person, who, according to the included unfinished paper "did a half of work" to have capacity left over for basic spelling and grammar.
You're putting words in my mouth: I've never said any such thing. I've spoken exclusively about Toyota and their software development practices, which is what this thread is about. I've literally not mentioned any other manufacturer at any point, let alone expressed the opinion that any of them "are any better" - although now that you mention it I'd frankly be very hard pressed to see how any of them could possibly be much worse than what is described here. That'd be difficult to do while still having your code even compile.
I've see a lot of code over the years, written in numerous languages and running on a very wide variety of hardware. Some of it was... Terrible. I've yet to see anything anywhere that had a global shared state space of 10000 distinct variables. That's beyond insanity.
I guess you can't win them all; this one least of all. Better luck next time, buddy.