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Messaging apps are a lot harder to get right than you might think. I worked for years on messaging using XMPP and the problems were legion. I'd be very interested in seeing how a vibecoded app does at scale, especially with the presence problem.

Well, I believe astra is Latin for "star", so it makes sense to me.

My math says 365 days x 10 hours/day = 3650 hours. 8000 hours is just over 2 years, not 20.

> One person with an M-16 could take out an entire massive army of people wielding spears

I have to disagree. All it would take is for this army to surround the person with the M-16 and wait for a magazine change, then hurl 50 spears at the hapless pincushion. And that's not counting the probability of the rifle overheating, jamming, etc. after long enough.

I realize I am taking this probably too literally, but my point stands :)

Did you mean m×n=n×m?

Yeah, I wrote quite a bit of Turbo Pascal code on CP/M on a Radio Shack TRS80 Model II. I loved TP and CP/M, especially TP.

Elixir is not Ruby, it just has a somewhat Ruby-like syntax. The similarities end there. Elixir does not have the performance issues that Ruby has (although it may have different ones!)

This is false. Studies done in Wuhan show that people with CVD have well over a 10% mortality rate. In addition, COVID-19 has the potential to cause permanent disability if it does not kill you first.

It’s not only over 80s. It’s anyone with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, morbid obesity, and some others, which collectively describes large swaths of the US population.

Death is not the only thing that coronavirus can do to you.

You can spend weeks or months in therapy before you are recovered, or you can get scarring in your lungs - or worse - that leaves you with a permanent disability. Not to mention damage to other organs.

I think many are discounting, or are unaware of, these other nasty possibilities. We don’t know enough yet of the prevalence of these effects, but we do know they happen.