ST. JAMES PARISH, La. - Super fog was reported across parts of southern Louisiana on Friday morning, reducing visibility to less than a quarter mile in some locations.

Understanding the Context

Super fog occurs when wildfire ... New Orleans City Business: Louisiana super PAC claims ‘first-ever’ AI political ad in state The Shreveport Times: Louisiana super PAC claims 'first-ever' AI political ad in state A super PAC has released a campaign ad for a Louisiana congressional candidate almost entirely generated by AI. The ad features AI-generated "woke caricatures" reacting negatively to Republican Rick ... A political action committee supporting Republican state Sen.

Key Insights

Rick Edmonds’ 5th Congressional District bid has created a campaign ad almost exclusively using artificial intelligence. The Louisiana ... super() is a special use of the super keyword where you call a parameterless parent constructor. In general, the super keyword can be used to call overridden methods, access hidden fields or invoke a superclass's constructor. The one without super hard-codes its parent's method - thus is has restricted the behavior of its method, and subclasses cannot inject functionality in the call chain.

Final Thoughts

The one with super has greater flexibility. The call chain for the methods can be intercepted and functionality injected. In fact, multiple inheritance is the only case where super() is of any use. I would not recommend using it with classes using linear inheritance, where it's just useless overhead.