Python is _fast enough_. Python programmers tend to understand the Python Cost Model, Python’s strengths and weaknesses, libraries that give compiled performance, and when to use a compiled language from the start.

So why do I care? Why do I get obsessed enough to coerce Claude into running these benchmarks and writing these Plotly charts? I do not know.1

But! I do know _what_ I care about (for…

A survey looked into how different age groups shopped for preowned clothes.

The early failure pattern is access management, not lock failure

Nikimbre Daniels spent her thirties living off the grid. Her homes included a yurt in a meadow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, countless R.V.s in nearly every region of the country, and even a tent. It was the life she chose after spending her twenties in South Florida. She felt she needed to reconnect with nature.

“I never honestly thought that I would be renting again in this…

Each year, 92 million tons of textile waste is produced globally, according to the United Nations Environment Program.

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.

“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…