Most text editors (not all, some are still lightning fast) choke on GB-sized files and I have yet to find a graphical file manager that can handle >1000 elements in a directory (terminal-based unix tools are fine). Maybe the authors of those softwares assume infinite RAM, infinite CPU cycles and puny workload or maybe they think the time of devs has more value than the time of their users.
I don't think the author has the slight idea what does the word 'feudalism' mean. If anything the current Internet where users build themselves on big corporations' domains and get their data sucked for profit is much more akin of feudalism than the internet of old.
There is this [0] thread from a few years ago. According to the linked article, "unless an IOMMU is used, the baseband has full access to main memory, and can compromise it arbitrarily." No idea how true this statement is.
Pharo's CLA doesn't seem that bad [0]. You retain copyright, and agree to license your contribution using the MIT License. OTOH, you also agree that your contribution is "only a small component". IANAL and I wonder what is the implication of such a clause.
So, Utah and Virginia want their residents to surrender their private informations to shaddy websites and Louisiana is disposed to itself provides these informations.
I'm always feeling steered away
By someone trying to tell me
What to say and do, I don't want it
I gotta go find my own way
I gotta go make my own mistakes
Sorry man for feeling
Feeling the way I do
When I was dating, I honestly thought that such verbiage was a code for signaling they were hookers without getting removed. I automatically discarded those profiles.
I expect people becoming much more conservative about technology from now on. People will want to stay with the thing were LLM can help because there are ample documentation to train them on. By example, it will be a lot harder for a new, even if it's more powerful, programming language to find its niche because LLM wont be able to help. The end result will be a higher barrier to innovation because now to innovate is not enough, you also need LLM training materials, thus a much more conservative society.
Apple Vision will fail. It doesn't matter if it's a good product or not. Fact is, wearing it makes you look like a dork. This is why it will fail. Segway made you look like a dork too and it failed. Then the hoverboard got out and you looked cool while using it and it is successful. There is a future for Apple Vision's tech, but this is not the product that will sell. People will buy a product that makes them look cool. As simple as that.
Linux is part of the problem. Linux never has been an OS for personal computer and it's security model is backward and even nefarious for this purpose. Linux, like all Unix and Unix-like is an OS for a big central computer connected to many dumb terminals. What happens here is Windows taking lessons from Linux and Unix. If you want to save the idea of a personal computer you want an OS that empowers users instead of protecting the computer from them.
QBASIC was good to start but you couldn't grow with it. And then the step going to another language is still high. You had lot of fun learning QBASIC, then you hit a wall. Imagine if QBASIC had a CONS datatype. The beginner programmers would have been able to gently learn about a lot of data structures, while QBASIC would have still been QBASIC, only much more powerful.