E. G. For storage and performs reasons. 5 bytes vs 9 bytes. Multiplying by amount of users and various indexes - can produce very noticeably difference. More records per page.

I never had this feeling. It's an RPG, I can build and control only my character

So you have memory space which is reused... Which essentially makes it a mutable memory structure, where you update or add with new data keys... No?

Can you please give me an example - let's say I have a big list of numbers and I need to find how many times each number is there.

I would expect a mutable dictionary/map and a single pass through. How would you do that without mutable datastructure?

So do you create new objects every time you need to change state?

You really need to calm down and reflect.

I have a PhD and a dozen of published and recognized papers.

You are misusing the term "fact". Just because you think something is fact, does not make it so.

Wow, target audience for settlement building actually exist! It was always a point of frustration to me, I build necessary minimum for some quests and that's it, partially being sad that they could've put those resources to make main loop of Fallout part of the game better

Is there objective way to define what is fair? Otherwise words "fair pay" make 0 sense

Yeah, I think going forward, the contracts would be rewritten to take this into account. But if old contracts did not cover it, it's probably a lost cause to be angry about it

Python. Not even a competition. My love of programming quadrupled the day I switched to python and it's getting stronger and stronger. I have now 10 years of professional python experience and around the same of C++ with occasional C#. A few projects in Go and Java. They all have ups and downs, but... Not even comparable how much everything is more elegant and simple in python

The worst part is that vodka freezes right in the plastic cups. It's not fun to drink vodka with icy mush.