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My son has CIs, and while he's probably unlikely to get these as upgrades, I did also find myself worrying somewhat about these exact scenarios:

  Also, what if you need a new battery? What if the device malfunctions and you need to turn them off? What if the lithium battery gets damaged and catches fire?

I did have a digital sampler that connected to the back of my Spectrum. I even laboured through writing a digital-delay program in assembler for it.

> Don't forget this is a text editor, not an IDE or some general purpose automation harness

It's more correctly a Lisp execution environment with a text editor added as a bonus ;)

heh, I know that username. I came to the same conclusion. (I hope all is well with you, Yannick)

I remember that well (because my manager at the time was asking me afterwards "why were you up at 2 in the morning restarting services?" and didn't believe my answer :( )

Yes, I re-read again, and I think you are correct. Thanks!

I must admit to being somewhat confused by the article's claim that Rust and C++ emit bytecode. To my knowledge, neither do (unless they're both targeting WASM?) - is there something I'm missing or is the author just using the wrong words?

EDIT: bramhaag pointed out the error of my ways. Thanks bramhaag!

We've got Check Point Firewalls at work, and during updates I see lots of .tcl in the web UI.

> Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent?

The term has been in use for quite some time; It is voicing sarcastic discontent with the hyperscaler platforms _and_ their users (the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" or - more up to date - "a landlord for your data"). I'm not sure if she coined it, but if she did then good on her!

Not everyone believes using "the cloud" is a good idea, and for those of us who have run their own infrastructure "on-premises" or co-located, the clown is considered suitably patronising. Just saying ;)

I'm only slightly disappointed that this is not the "Someone Else's Problem" version of SEP.

crochet, sir. croquet is a game with balls and mallets ;)

Although Portacle isn't being maintained any more (at least as far as the main developer was concerned last time I looked a few months ago).

> the agent actually used pkill to terminate itself after realizing it was stuck in an infinite loop.

Did it just solve The Halting Problem? ;)

I enjoyed having to reload everything from tape (compact cassette tape - ie the kind of thing you'd use with a home computer in the early eighties), after a crash due to my poor code. I think the term used then was "character building" ;)