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Erlang the runtime sure. But Emacs is an application with these properties. There is no editor like Emacs for Erlang (some small clones I am sure) and no other user application utilizing this feature.

Smalltalk is a development environment and an applications platform. The development tools are as extensible and user customizable as Emacs. And like Erlang it is also a runtime you can package software for. Any GUI or server software. For Emacs you can probably do the same, but I’m not convince many users would find the GUI familiar.

You seem to be conflating price increases with the money supply increasing.

That incentives not participating in the economy instead of participating in the economy.

What was this all about?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/judge-rules-ever...

It’s in the name. They are secure!

I already started manufacturing 100 shipping containers of left pad machines. Taking orders.

I have never heard of ”System 1” and ”System 2” thinking before.

Wikipedia implies it’s just some pop-sci (psychology even, so extra pop) book from a few years ago. A book heavily criticized for relying on shoddy science. Why are the terms used to describe anything by anyone trying to sound serious or scientific?

The author likes the look of the tradeoff made due to the limitations CPU power imposed on the rendering model for real time 3D games 30 years ago.

Yeah you can hack configurations or create your own game to mimic this look.

If you read the post you will see it’s not only about the texture sampling, but also the color depth.

OP picked a good headline. You are fighting for semantics nobody cares about, and picking a more complicated synecdoche.

Data is extracted from paying customers and sold all the time.

Sounds like a mess! How in that system will people get access to credit for things like buying fast food or books?

Node is old I’ll give you that. Dependable is debatable.

Yeah hopefully there is a bug. But negligence causing troubles for users due to useless anti features is not much better.

Disk space is there to be used.

Are these files particularly hard to clean out if your disk is getting full and you need the space?

Supply is severely limited and there is not really any competition making RAM chips, so it is kind of not a commodity and not a market.

But you are right someone will arbitrage the price, like scalpers selling concert tickets.

From where are you getting this post-it note nonsense?

Media reported it as a spear phishing attack from a Russian hacker group: https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-hackers-broke-into-john-...

Is it really impressive, or just kind of interesting?

If they spent about 10 GWh solving the problem (was it solved?) then that is much much more than 500 lifetimes of a human brain working.

> it's all moving quite fast.

Where are the revolutionary software products?

No lag time for popular services. Always faster than e.g. GitHub’s or Chat GPT’s status pages.

Correction: you don’t _have_ to, but technological advancement is faster if you do.

But the comment says ”we were building packet sniffers” … and needed mirroring as part of that.

Nothing beats downdetector.com anyway. Always quicker!

> you have not optimized for quality, extensibility, customer experience, or maintainability

A ”software design” document does not optimize for either of those.

> How is this dissimilar to controlling the media in the past?

In the same way dynamic personalized pricing in the supermarket is different from supermarkets being able to set prices before.

You are deleting the document from your computer.

In some instances this could be a file on disk. But it does not have to be.

Producing more tokens means charging more money to solve a given task.

Do you believe this is a significant part of the increased GutHub traffic, people’s personal software?

Snake oil salesmen of all kinds make money all the time.

What does that have to do with providing value?

Thanks for sharing. It was a fun read, and relatable.