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> - Running unmodified Linux programs on Windows
This might actually be my favourite use: I always thought WSL2 was a kludge, and WSL1 to be somewhat the fulfilment of the "personality modules" promise of Windows NT.
Tell claude to build a functional website using plain html and css and no frameworks and it'll do it in a second. Now try that with a junior dev.
Anime went from science-fiction dominated in the 1980s (Gundam) to fantasy-dominated (Friern) today. The strange thing about fantasy was it lived under the shadow of Tolkien and Lewis which I think suppressed it for half a century.
It certainly was easier to get an academic job circa 1960. Things have gotten more difficult in physics because the experimental frontier has moved further away, I mean, you can make whatever theory you want and it is meaningless because we don’t have a machine that can measure the neutrino mass, observe neutrino decay, confirm physics at the GUT or string scale, detect the darkon, etc.
Even something like Mandelbrot’s work was disappointing if you were in grad school in the 1990s because it was not like enough progress was made in fractals post-Mandelbrot that you could get a job working on fractals or chaos.
But that's the killer feature for me! I always forget the little commands I've written over the years, whereas a leading comma will easily let me list them.
Their incentive is to keep the browsers good enough to not lose market share. Other than that, the incentive is to either close the web down, or to make the experience as shitty as possible without leading users to switch away, so they can steer users towards the more closed-down native apps.
Unfortunately, companies have an incentive to put us into walled gardens, so the only company that actually cares about the web is the company whose only business model is selling a browser.
Agreed, however AI adoption is finally putting pressure on CPython to have a JIT in the box, so there is that.
And on GPU side, the existing libraries provide DSL based JITs, thus for many scenarios the performance is not much different from C++.
Now NVidia is also on the game with the new tile based architecture, with first party support to write kernels in Python even.
Seconding both points. I'm not one of those cases, as I could already sing decently, but I've seen people go from "terrible" to singing professionally.
I also agree that the linked page isn't useful, it's more of a glossary than anything, but then again, I'm not convinced that a distinction between head voice and chest voice actually exists. I've never been able to tell any qualitative difference, as opposed to, for example, falsetto, and the community can't really agree on whether they actually are a thing or not.
I grew up in Brazil, where we had a very successful program for cars running on ethanol fuel with a little gasoline added. It was common to have certain models of car be offered as gasoline or ethanol (back then engines needed to be tuned for one) powered.
At least one car magazine would buy retail cars and fully disassemble them for analysis a year later. The difference between a gas and an ethanol engine was quite shocking - the ethanol engine was always clean and displayed less wear than the gas version of the same engine. Part measurement indicated no significant difference in wear between the engines. There were models only offered with ethanol engines because they offered a little more power because of higher compression rate.
People are somewhat surprised about this work being farmed out to the Philippines as opposed to being done by Americans. I'm pretty sure you don't need me to explain this, though.
With Wolfram it is usually the grandstanding and taking credit for other people's work. Inventing new words for old things is part and parcel of that. He has a lot in common with Schmidhuber, both are arguably very smart people but the fact that other people can be just as smart doesn't seem to fit their worldview.
With TOS Star Trek movies, the usual claim is that you should avoid the odd numbered ones.
It is the bootstrap that makes it interesting.
Creating the required primitives in Assembly, and then the remaining userspace out from them.
Afterwards it is programming like most languages.
I have done it with Lisps though.
Also on 8 bit home computers it provided the feeling to be coding close to Assembly while being close enough to BASIC as high level language.
The previous second order effect is more likely. For the one orchestrating 8 bots, 7 others are not needed anymore.
It helps to actually enable having to type a password instead of clicking on Yes.
However yes, security is much more than an UAC dialog.
This is the current conspiracy theory that goes around some C and C++ discussion forums.
Instead of caring about quality and safety, there is this conspiracy of Rust Iluminatti working behind government doors pushing their agenda.
Just like MS-DOS and CP/M did great with such hardware constraints.
I still think many don't understand how much is possible with a plain ESP32.
The Internet Archive probably has it already.
I just find it interesting what these sites are able to get away with to get people to part with their money.
That reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s_Chocolate_Experience
...which ironically has crossed the line into "so bad it's good" territory.
> It comes at the cost of locality,
It need not; you can have more proportional representative in a district based system (and still also have vote-for-person), using multimember districts with a system like Single-Transferrable Vote.
You can also get finer grained proportionality with Mixed Member Proportional which combines a district-based system (either single-member or a multimember proportional system described above) with top-up representation from party lists.
MMP would require Constitutional change in the US; but multimember districts with STV (in states with more than one seat, as well as increasing the size of the House so more states would have more than one seat) can be done by Congress without Constitutional amendment.
TouchID is a good starting point... though it does confirm your password weekly.
Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but if I lose my memory, how am I supposed to remember the 7 (or 5) friends who have my password...?
Somewhat less tongue-in-cheek, if you really wanted to be serious about your friends not being able to produce your password now for the lolz, then you'd actually want to ensure they were merely acquaintances who didn't know each other and couldn't find each other, e.g. not all Facebook friends. In which case the list of friends becomes essentially as important as the password, and then how do you remember where you've stored that list?
In reality, hopefully you can just entrust your master password with your closest family (spouse, parent, adult children), assuming they're not going to drain your bank account or read your private digital journal.
I had a bunch of those fancy lipid tests and they didn’t tell a story different from the usual tests.
Signed into law.
New York governor signs law allowing medical aid in dying for terminally ill residents - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-york-governor-s... - February 6th, 2026
To be fair, the threat landscape changed, too.
You're right. I'm sorry about that. I know there are, and there's no reason to single out Indonesia in particular.
Because it's interesting as hell. I'm Catholic, and clicking around in here there's practically nothing religious in it to me at all. No part of my own faith engages with Celsus Description of the Ophite Diagrams. But it sounds like something out of a Clive Barker book --- and, behold, it is like something out of a Clive Barker book:
He is the Demiurge of this world, the God of Moses described in his creation
narrative. Of the Seven archontic demons, the first is lion-shaped; the second
is a bull; the third is amphibious and hisses horribly; the fourth is in the
form of an eagle ; the fifth has the appearance of a bear, the sixth, that of
a dog ; and the seventh, that of an ass named Thaphabaoth or Onoel.
I got a WebAssembly build of this working and fired up a web playground for trying it out: https://simonw.github.io/research/monty-wasm-pyodide/demo.ht...
It doesn't have class support yet!
But it doesn't matter, because LLMs that try to use a class will get an error message and rewrite their code to not use classes instead.
Notes on how I got the WASM build working here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/pydantic-monty/
If you are feeling overwhelmed with slop posts about ai, camp on the new page and upvote any halfway decent story about something else. Many of us would thank you if they knew.
Is 3 the one with forced retirement?
If there was one thing we would all decide differently here at Fly.io, like if you gave us a time machine, is how we did databases. Someday Kurt and I will write the post about how those decisions came to pass and how they played out.
We're doing Managed Postgres now (MPG), which is what we should have done to begin with, but it took us for-ev-er to get here.
Culture is a natural phenomenon.
I mean, I wouldn't have led off that way either, but I know what Patrick is talking about and I read the article. I genuinely believe the current administration is the worst in the history of the country, and I also believe that to oppose it effectively we need every government body we run to be completely on the ball, so it's really dispiriting to see people reflexively defend misconduct and incompetence. That shouldn't be a habit we share with the party we oppose.
(I can't speak for Patrick's politics, only for mine.)
Judging by what the moms in my neighborhood say—traffic and parking.
Neon counting was compressed down to a single tube in the Dekatron.[1] One Dekatron could count from 0 to 9, so only one Decatron per decimal digit was needed.
Can be see in "Hot Rod Girl" at 00:25, as part of a racetrack timer.[2]
Not everyone takes the same test. So you can repeat some questions on some tests year over year, or have some experimental questions that aren’t graded one year but used for establish norms for when it’s graded in future years.
If any Heroku customer is reading this and not immediately going "we need to move off Heroku ASAP" all future problems are their own fault.
It is a typical acquisition by the book, always goes the same way after three to five years.
Nice. Here's a video by a maker of planetary roller screws showing how they work.[1] The pitch shown is high enough that those don't look back-driveable. So if those drive a leg joint, they have to be able to absorb impacts directly. They can't pass them back to the motor, which can absorb them in a magnetic field. ("You cannot strip the teeth of a magnetic field." - GE electric locomotive salesman, circa 1900)
There's a basic conflict. Small electric motors want to turn fast, so they're usually followed by gear reduction. But that loses feedback precision and back-driveability. A pure direct drive motor works great, but they're large diameter devices. Some SCARA robots use them, but the motor is a foot across. Washing machines have gone direct drive, since there's enough space for a large diameter motor. There's a direct drive electric motorcycle with a hollow rear wheel. There are "pancake" motors, with large diameter but little thickness. None of those devices have a good form factor for humanoid robots.
That leads to tradeoffs such as quasi-direct drive, where there's some gear reduction, but not too much. The article suggests that 20:1 is an upper limit for back driveability. That's pushing it for a leadscrew-type device, but maybe it's possible now.
It's neat seeing all this progress in robotic components. Historically, robotics has been a small niche, and had to use components developed for other purposes. This made for clunky robots. Now we're seeing more purpose-designed components made in volume. Drones made 3-phase synchronous motors and their controllers small, light, and cheap. Now the same thing is happening for other needed components.
Looks like, when the AI guys get their act together on manipulation, the machinery will be ready.
The Swanson memo memorializes the consensus of his investigatory group and, put to question by OLA and legislators, they stick with that story:
Page 14 of PDF:
[The OLA] did not find evidence to substantiate Stillman’s allegation that there is $100 million in CCAP fraud annually. We did, on the other hand, find that the state’s CCAP fraud investigators generally agree with Stillman’s opinions about the level of CCAP fraud, as well as why it is so pervasive.
(Stillman is a line level investigator who gave a media statement which was explosive. Swanson, who authored in the internal memo, was his manager.)
I do mention that other officials only agreed to characterize as fraud fraud which had resulted in convictions. We now, years later, have nine figures just from the convictions (and guilty pleas). These officials pointedly refuse to put any number on fraud other than the number incident to convictions.
Moreover: you should be very clearly correct if you accuse someone of citing a document as making claims it does not say. That is a serious accusation. BAM's citation of this piece is "the state’s own investigators believed that, over the past several years, greater than fifty percent of all reimbursements to daycare centers were fraudulent." This is _absolutely true_ and _is in the report as claimed_.
That would also be easy to demonstrate, if true.
Seems relevant: Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US Robotaxis
It's ironic MCP is also the name of one of the most secure operating systems in the industry.
It is kind of alright, I use mostly on VS when coding C# or C++, for code completions, error analysis, check code quality and such.
As agent, or writing everything for me, not yet.
Yeah, that scene is interesting. :)
> The point is that reading the code is more time consuming than writing it, and has always been thus.
Huh?
First, that is definitely not true. If it were, dev teams would spend the majority of their time on code review, but they don't.
And second, even if it were true, you have to read it for code review even if it was written by a person anyways, if we're talking about the context of a team.
This is a lot of cryptography, but how is it better than the hundred previous attempts, that simply hashed the input?
https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ at scale. Kindness, listening, time, and financial charity to those around you at the microcosm level.
As I understood it, the "issues" were more like todo list items of "look into whether this is an actual problem" than "this should be fixed".
That's a very interesting way of looking at it. Yes, you start with simulating something simpler than the real world. Then you use the real world. Then you need to go back to simulations for real-world things that are too rare in the real world to train with.
Seems like there ought to be a name for this, like so-and-so's law.
If it "was AI" it should be easy enough for him to prove by pulling up his account on whatever AI video generation service he used and showing the generation in his account history.
(I do not think it was AI.)
> I kept finding myself using a small amount of the features while the rest just mostly got in the way. So a few years ago I set out to build a design tool just like I wanted. So I built Vecti with what I actually need...
Joel Spolsky said (I'm paraphrasing) that everybody only uses 20% of a given program's features, but the problem is that everyone is using a different 20%, so you can't ship an "unbloated" version and expect it to still work for most people.
So it looks like you've built something really cool, but I have to ask what makes you think that the features that are personally important to you are the same features that other potential users need? Since this clearly seems to be something you're trying to create a business out of rather than just a personal hobby project. I'm curious how you went about customer research and market validation for the specific subset of features that you chose to develop?
Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235 - February 2024 (420 comments)
https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/fp_lessons_purity/ may help, perhaps even especially if you are not a functional programmer.
See also https://jerf.org/iri/post/2958/ .
The author is the founder of Hasicorp. He created Vault and Terraform, among others.
This reads more like "we won't deliberately turn the lights off… but they're probably gonna break on their own eventually".
> crush as a young teenager was Burn
Who hadn't?
I was a young adult back then, but the sense of adventure in the movie brought my memories of BBSs and creative misuse of telephone lines, X.400 networks, and dial-out modems. Fun times.
Trump’s Prescription Drug Website Exposed as a Big Fat Scam - https://newrepublic.com/post/206265/trump-prescription-drug-... - February 6th, 2026
https://x.com/cturnbull1968/status/2019602529278136786 | https://archive.today/IG7Au
https://x.com/okcreports/status/2019655323137589399 | https://archive.today/mbMdd
> Yes, I suppose there exists an egalitarian and well adjusted hypothetical society where we could find good leaders by random draw.
If you can find good leaders by random draw, that means the average citizen is a good leader, which would seem to suggest that the average citizen should be a reasonable an hard-to-dupe judge of good leaders, and therefore that elections also work well.
If elections don't work well to select leaders, that's a pretty good piece of evidence that sortition won't, either.
OTOH, the particular failures of sortition and elections may be different, and using a system where both are used for different veto points might be net less problematic than either alone. Consider a bicameral legislature with one house chosen by elections and the other by sortition, for instance.
(OTOH, there is plenty of solid evidence in comparative government of how to do electoral democracy better and people in the US don't seem too interested in that, which is probably a better focus for immediate reform than relatively untested, on a large scale, ideas about avoiding electoral democracy.)
People who race stock cars will even dip body panels into acid to make the panels thinner. Anything to reduce weight!
Isn't use of the internet to facilitate crimes commonly cited as a reason for federal prosecution, on the grounds that all internet communications involve interstate commerce?
> Yeah but calling someone a racist is a serious accusation, you better bring receipts or be liable for defamation
There are a large number of countries with their own systems of law, and its possible that in one of them calling someone a racist might be subject to defamation law, but in most I am aware of that's going to be a problem because its not even a well-enough-defined fact claim to be legally true or false.
Sure. But:
> Over three weeks, jurors weighed the harrowing personal account of Ms. Dean as well as testimony from Uber executives and thousands of pages of internal company documents, including some showing that Uber had flagged her ride as a higher risk for a serious safety incident moments before she was picked up.
Thus, civil liability. The rapist still goes down for the crime part.
'Excuses are over': Stellantis tells dealers sales must grow this year - https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/20... | https://archive.today/y16BG - February 5th, 2026
> This is the year that Stellantis NV's U.S. vehicle sales must start growing again, after seven straight annual declines and prior promises that a recovery was just around the corner.
> That was the blunt takeaway from a packed closed-door meeting on Wednesday between the automaker's senior executives and much of its 2,400-member dealer body at the National Automobile Dealers Association annual convention.
> "2026 is the year of execution, and we're counting on our dealers to deliver," Jeff Kommor, who leads U.S. sales for Stellantis, told The Detroit News after the meeting. "We've given them all the tools that they need. Excuses are over. There are no more excuses."
> Stellantis U.S. market share has hovered around 8% the last two years, a steep decline from its 12.5% or so share as recently as 2020 under its predecessor company.
Cooked.
Microsoft employ over 100,000 engineers. I'd advise against assuming that everything produced by any of them is bad because of bugs in Windows.
Anyone that knows 0.1% about GC and JIT compilers also knows how hard is to have deterministic behaviours, and how much their behaviours are driven by heuristics.
I wished more of the web was like this.
if you like this you may also like:
Other carmakers are withdrawing entirely from affordable vehicles, what do they expect?
> What would targeting NYC help Iran?
I don’t think modelling Iran as a monolithic political actor works anymore.
Between the IRGC, President, clerical ranks and others, I’m sure, some groups may benefit from striking New York or even inviting American retaliation in ways that don’t make sense for the country as a whole.
I'm one of the people who posted about using scripts/make in the HN comment thread on the previous blogpost, and I really appreciate the nuance in this followup.
I think what I and others are tripping on in the argument is that the articles seem to be trying to encapsulate everything a CI system can do into one global digraph that includes all build steps for creating artifacts and then all test steps (including unit and integration test).
I would argue that in the quite excellent Build Systems à la Carte paper referenced, the focus is on the first build part, not one all encompassing katamari. Separating build from test has some great advantages, such as being able to reuse build artifacts. Local tools like scripts/make are great for this as they're self contained. That's really the entirety of the past comment, and seems to concur with this article.
Much of the later part is on shared resource issues. If you need an orchestrator because tools are badly behaved and try to grab and hold finite resources, is that the right decision? Or is it the tools that should be fixed or avoided?
The biggest issue with DNS is not the protocol, or even the reference implementation. It's the people who think they are clever and try to make things better by making them worse.
The most egregious of course is ISPs rewriting TTLs (or resolvers that just ignore them). But there are other implementation issues too, like caching things that shouldn't be or doing it wrong. I've seen resolvers that cache a CNAME and the A record it resolves to with the TTL of the CNAME (which is wrong).
I'm also very concerned about the "WHY DNS MATTERS FOR SYSTEM DESIGN" section. While everything there is correct enough, it doesn't dive into the implication of each and how things go wrong.
For example, using DNS for round robin balancing is an awful idea in practice. Because Comcast will cache one IP of three, and all of a sudden 60% of your traffic is going to one IP. Similar issue with regional IPs. There are so many ways for the wrong IP to get into a cache.
There is a reason we say "it's always DNS".
Nice to see the admin can even flub basic math.
$1,449 --> $252 is "93% off", apparently?
Waymo has been operating since 2004 (22 years ago), and replacing drivers on the road will take many more decades. Nothing is happening "overnight".
Additional citation:
TikTok’s ‘Addictive Design’ Found to Be Illegal in Europe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911869 - February 2026
tweet inlined:
Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers.
There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, and add-ons, is unaffected, and customers can continue to rely on Heroku for their production, business-critical workloads.
Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers. Existing Enterprise subscriptions and support contracts will continue to be fully honored and may renew as usual.
Why this change
We’re focusing our product and engineering investments on areas where we can deliver the greatest long-term customer value, including helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way.
Kary B. Mullis Nobel Prize lecture Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1993
The Polymerase Chain Reaction
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/lect...
> More housing in region X will result in lower housing prices in region Y.
Or higher prices in Y, because X will be both more crowded and with on average poorer people than before the supply increase, and people who prefer a less crowded area and less poor people (either directly because they are poor, or because of other demographic traits that correlate with wealth in the broader society, like race in the USA) around them will have an even higher relative preference for living in Y than before.
> The interests of people from region Y are valid.
They exist, validity is...at best, not a case you have made. Existence of a material interest does not imply validitym
> I don't understand why people think they know why stocks move up or down.
Inferring overly generalized and usually incorrect causal relations from extremely limited data and treating them as conclusive is a very strong human tendency; the idea of avoiding that and taking a systematic, structured, and conditional approach to assessing causal claims is fairly recent and, even among people who generally support it, often adhered to more as an aspirational principal than a consistent practice. And it certainly doesn't sell clicks the way the old way does.
I wonder how much money Salesforce would need to sell what's left of Heroku to a better steward.
Many people are spending significantly more time every day engaging with AI chatbots than they spend engaging with Google, and Google is one of the most valuable companies in the world.
> On Friday, the regulators released a preliminary decision that TikTok’s infinite scroll, auto-play features and recommendation algorithm amount to an “addictive design” that violated European Union laws for online safety.
How is this any different from Reddit? From Instagram? Why single out TikTok?
Applying laws unevenly is a form of discrimination.
Your regular expressions here only cover English: https://github.com/sibyllinesoft/scurl/blob/5b5bc118dc47b138...
Prompt injection strings can use any language the model knows, so "ignore previous instructions" could become "ignorer les instructions précédentes" or "تجاهل التعليمات السابقة" or "aurreko argibideak alde batera utzi" or "忽略之前的指令"...
> Why would a less legitimate company not pay more money to give you a worse deal with better margins?
Because what matters is the total spend per resulting purchase, not spend per impression.
Because spam ad companies have a very tiny conversion rate, they can only pay a very small amount per impression before it becomes unprofitable.
Legitimate companies aren't usually trying to completely trick their customers. They are selling an actual halfway decent or good quality product. Therefore, if they are targeting well, they have a much much higher conversion rate and can therefore pay much more per impression.
That was editorializing by the person who submitted it, I didn't use that language in my post.
The random-clickers have been around for a while, clicking through ads to try to break profiles on users and cost the ad networks more money than it is worth.
They have not been very successful in their goals. I suspect, without sarcasm, that that is because compared to the absolutely routine click-fraud conducted up and down the entire ad space at every level, those plugin's effects literally didn't even register. It's an arms race and people trying to use ad blockers to not just block the ads but corrupt them are coming armed with a pea shooter to an artillery fight, not because they are not very clever themselves but just without a lot of users they can't even get the needle to twitch.
A lot of people are mentally modeling the idea that LLMs are either now or will eventually be infinitely capable. They are and will stubbornly persist in being finite, no matter how much capacity that "finite" entails. For the same reason that higher level languages allow humans to worry less about certain details and more about others, higher level languages will allow LLMs to use more of their finite resources on solving the hard problems as well.
Using LLMs to do something like what a compiler can already do is also modelling LLMs as infinite rather than finite. In fact in this particular situation not only are they finite, they're grotesquely finite, in particular, they are expensive. For example, there is no world where we just replace our entire infrastructure from top to bottom with LLMs. To see that, compare the computational effort of adding 10 8-digit numbers with an LLM versus a CPU. Or, if you prefer something a bit less slanted, the computational costs of serving a single simple HTTP request with modern systems versus an LLM. The numbers run something like LLMs being trillions of times more expensive, as an opening bid, and if the AIs continue to get more expensive it can get even worse than that.
For similar reasons, using LLMs as a compiler is very unlikely to ever produce anything even remotely resembling a payback versus the cost of doing so. Let the AI improve the compiler instead. (In another couple of years. I suspect today's AIs would find it virtually impossible to significatly improve an already-optimized compiler today.)
Moreover, remember, oh, maybe two years back when it was all the rage to have AIs be able to explain why they gave the answer they did? Yeah, I know, in the frenzied greed to be the one to grab the money on the table, this has sort of fallen by the wayside, but code is already the ultimate example of that. We ask the LLM to do things, it produces code we can examine, and the LLM session then dies away leaving only the code. This is a good thing. This means we can still examine what the resulting system is doing. In a lot of ways we hardly even care what the LLM was "thinking" or "intending", we end up with a fantastically auditable artifact. Even if you are not convinced of the utility of a human examining it, it is also an artifact that the next AI will spend less of its finite resources simply trying to understand and have more left over to actually do the work.
We may find that we want different programming languages for AIs. Personally I think we should always try to retain that ability for humans to follow it, even if we build something like that. We've already put the effort into building AIs that produce human-legible code and I think it's probably not that great a penalty in the long run to retain that. At the moment it is hard to even guess what such a thing would look like, though, as the AIs are advancing far faster than anyone (or any AI) could produce, test, prove out, and deploy such a language, against the advantage of other AIs simply getting better at working with the existing coding systems.
I looked a lot into the "universal paywall" business model where one subscription buys you access to articles from a wide range of news outlets. It's close to impossible to execute because the most prestigious outlets (ahem... The New York Times) won't give you the time of the day, even if you are startup royalty. That Apple has accomplished anything in this space is remarkable.
"Ownership" is a bad smell. Reminds me of the high-pressure pitch used to sell vacation timeshares. Why pay a huge amount up front when you could save the money and go have a vacation at any resort anywhere in the world whenever you want?
Hah, good one, I should have known it probably had been posted before.
No wonder it is so slow to load.
Personally I love having a programming buddy I can talk with about everything.
It's not the "state of nature", but there's obviously been a lot of litigation and regulation in the meantime. Look up the charmingly named Carbolic Smoke Ball case, for example.
Are you in the US? Lots of people have reported that the forced sale "ruined" their algorithm.
Because the sets of people who would give money to this and people who notice the Gemini logo are disjoint.
Even better than PLT Scheme with Dr. Scheme, now Raket has ever been?
I have my doubts, given its age.