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Your note on affiliate marketing is what makes your first statement potentially unachievable. How does a consumer "know" that a product is significantly better to the point of "worth paying for"? There's always another free (potentially ad supported) affiliate marketer (or 5) around the corner. (Also considering the "worst" version of this "product" is an unskippable ad").

I don't know the solution

The degree of reduction is nice considering the countless times in the past where I wrote my own file cache logic using if/else statements, temporary files, pickle, and bespoke sqlite databases.

Why give myself the headache of maintaining so much extra code when someone already wrote it.

But you can "add humor" to your communication with light joking - often with a self-depreciative take

"I'll get back to you assuming I remember where my head is tonight!"

Will banks dump that many short term t bills to cause a problem? Short term t bills are very popular- I’m sure some b2b loans could be settled with a t bill as payment. As long as the us govt is still good for the interest payments I think plenty will be happy with that arrangement, reducing need to convert so much into cash.

But all the “magic” that makes the scientific stack so great is largely due to numpy (and many other Fortran or c driven code) being fantastic. Python is the glue scripting language for organizing and calling procedures. That’s,IMO, it’s original and core purpose.

Now the fact that you can do some fun metaprogramming shenanigans in Python just speaks to how nice it is to write.