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I'll add a little context. I mentioned that it was 30 years ago. My personal computer at the time was a 486DX-50 with 16 MB of RAM, and the mainframe we were tied to had maybe 2 GB of Ram? For 200+ users to share. It's easy to forget how far hardware has developed since then.

Well, this was over 30 years ago that I was sitting in that class, and the resources the emacs required vs vi was definitely part of the discussion. We were working in a shared environment on a solaris system, and if the whole class fired up emacs for a class session, the effects were definitely experienced by all the users on the system at the time.

The part the author shared about the huge overhead cost of firing up emacs, especially in a multi-user environment (I learned about emacs vs vi holy war back on a multi-user Solaris environment), our Unix professor strongly encouraged us to learn vi. He said "vi is part of every standard Unix install, so when you ssh into a box, you'll always have your editor and it won't steal all the CPU from the other users when you fire it up."

Feels monumental to see that come to an end decades later.

I am working on a clock app that keeps time the Roman Empire way (every day has twelve hours that start at sunrise and end at sunset, so the duration of each hour changes slightly each day), so this library would be extremely helpful. Thank you!

Relatedly, I have recently started walking and talking, and I just use lightweight gamer headphones that have a mic. I just record it with a generic voice recorder app, then I use a local instantiation of whisper to transcribe it when I get home. I throw the transcript and the recording into a database and then I can search the whole thing, or have AI look for interesting patterns in my thoughts.

Interesting that the author didn't mention anything about stem cell injections. Those have been in vogue among the elite for decades (millennia?).

I was under the impression that the injunction against playing cards was because of their proximity to tarot/occult practices. Mormons had the same injunction against playing cards until the 80s, when the teaching was no longer promulgated. Speaking as a former Mormon...

The government is the majority of people. So the government very well can be against 49% of the people and it would still fit your definition.

If 100 people were about to embark on a journey on a ship, what makes you think 51 of them know who should run the ship if none of them have ever even been on a ship?

Liberal democracy is rooted in Christian ethics. It does not make sense to a Muslim culture or the Chinese culture.

Another impact on solar adoption in the United States is that many home insurance companies are refusing to pay on claims against roof damage from poor installs. And there are a lot of poor installs, which has led to this problem. So now the homeowners are taking all of the risk on a solar install that already has an 8-10 year ROI.

Those diseases are back because of rampant immigration. People from other countries bring them here. It has nothing to do with "obscurantist beliefs", whatever those might be.

> prior to the widespread deployment of malicious microphones, were adequate authentication for many purposes

Can you elaborate on this? I don't understand the context for malicious microphones and how that affects secure passwords.

They fired most of the UI/UX team soon after Steve Jobs died.

They farm you for attention, not electricity. Attention (engagement time) is how they quantify "quality" so that it can be gamed with an algorithm.