I completely agree. I switched to neomutt three or four years ago and there are a few things with text-based emails that really accelerate my workflow.
1. Fewer distractions.
2. Scripting keyboard shortcuts through emails - creating a to-do from an email with just tapping a function key, for example, or adding a company to a CRM with another function key tap.
3. Being able to delete emails with a Regex filter, which is really important for mailing lists.
4. Much faster latency which Though it seems to be trivial Google's research has shown is important to great user experiences
5. Ability to use neovim within the email client.
6. Local search using not much which again much lower latency than Google even for very large mailboxes.
Author here: I agree with you on benchmarks. It's hard to compare different databases well.
MotherDuck is an analytics database optimized for reading with columnar compression. Postgres is more of a transactional/general purpose database. Tuning it well for analytics would surely improve performance.
Most people won't tune a db with custom indices though because it can be hard, so purpose built solutions like this offer value in those cases.
The article isn't purely about performance but also ease of use. MD is an in process database so starting with it is very easy.
Glad we agree on the power within a laptop! It's underappreciated.
I love TUIs and I'm looking for a TUI calendar. But there's one feature they all lack: sending availability to someone. Using grep or rg would be great. That's where Calendly and Vimcal shine.
Yes, it's a portion of the stock market that's going down a lot. The money is going from technology companies into other companies like healthcare and energy companies. So while the overall market may not be down that much, the technology market is going down a bit. In relative terms, it's gone down to the same levels is about 2 years ago. So there's no disaster scenario here, but there is a pretty significant drop in price from a high level.
No doubt he built a sensational business focused on cash flows. A lot of the software companies generate significant cash flows because they start to collect multi-year upfront payments for their software. Some of them call them remaining purchases obligations which you can find in the 10ks and annual reports. But the market broadly doesn't look at this today. Maybe at some point in the future though
There's a really good article on this from Lynn Alden that I will paste here that talks about how this dynamic actually implies that the US is selling its long-term capital assets in favor of short-term capital goods that depreciate, so it's actually a negative for the US. https://www.lynalden.com/january-2022-newsletter/
I could see that. There's been a transformation in top 10 companies in the last 20 years. They used to be consumer packaged goods and energy companies, and now they are technology companies.
Speaking of somebody who's very much pro technology, I think technology has improved the lives of billions of people, reduced information asymmetries, reduce the cost of goods and services, and provided more democratic access to lots of things, but there are some negatives.
Fwiw, all of information technology comprises about 10% of the US economy
I ran a regression of the CPI / inflation rate and its impact on the venture capital ecosystem both in terms of median round size and also total dollars invested and it's very highly correlated at north of 0.7