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Intel also blatantly stole patented technology from DEC. The Pentium onward, IIRC, ripped off entire designs. When Compaq eventually acquired DEC, they cancelled all of the lawsuits and gave Intel complete access to DEC’s patents. They also gave Intel DEC’s raced out ARM chip that they built for Apple.

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I’m imagining that without ownership, car companies would begin to operate like the worst American companies.

You’d have super complex mileage caps. Per-minute surcharges for peak & late night hours. Early subscription termination fees. Zoning issues: Only Kia & Suzuki will service your neighborhood, while your neighbor down the block can get a Toyota with twice the range allowance at half the cost. The median income for your particular area may not justify building charging center hubs by other manufacturers.

In the event of a power or telecommunication outage, the centralization will undoubtedly strand people wherever they are.

Then, the moralists. Since you don’t own the vehicle, they can dictate how you use it. No driving to the strip club or liquor store on Sunday. Arbitrary restrictions on what you’re allowed to transport. It can be a new vector to govern behavior and control populations.

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It’ll all be wasted. When gasoline prices plummet, everyone buys 8mpg SUVs. If power & performance gets cheaper, it’ll be wasted. Blockchain in your refrigerator.

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I use my own secular simplified technique inspired by Tibetan dream yoga and wake induced lucid dreaming (WILD).

It’s as “simple” as learning to remain aware and observant when falling asleep, without rousing oneself. No deity worship or chakra alignments necessary.

Meditation practice helps tremendously, but my first success, I accomplished by trial and error.

A lot of instruction on the Internet suggests focusing on something, visualizing something, counting, eating supplements, etc. I have found all of that unnecessary.

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I’m able to consciously enter dreams from waking state. Basically, lucid dreaming on hard mode. Like going through sleep paralysis on purpose.

Dreams are so close to waking state, I’m always in awe when I successfully transition. Touch, taste, smell, every sense. It’s like waking reality, but with god mode.

That said, vision is really really weird. If you pull your sight into your dream body (hard to explain), then it’s just like you’d expect. It’s like it’s possible to see multiple perspectives at once, and it’s visual, but it’s all like one continuous field of view. Sometimes I don’t even really notice that I’m looking forward, backward, and from above all at once.

When I’m just playing around, I like to smash things and jump so high that I fly above the clouds, feeling the cold air above and the weightlessness at the apex. It’s no more visual primary than waking, IMHO.

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Yay. They are near to officially demanding more RAM.

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As a former Windows developer, I am thankful that I never have to touch COM ever again.

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JavaScript binaries?

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It worked well on PowerPC too and helped with the Intel transition.

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As a developer, a huge reason I don’t mind walled gardens is the massive reduction in piracy. I’m glad people want to download & pirate the apps I poured blood, sweat, and tears into... but I’m not down with theft. Each dollar I earn represents the time I’ve spent away from friends & family.

I’ve worked on games that have been copied outright. All assets and artwork, but a new name and “publisher” being sold elsewhere. It eats into profits.

When the walls come down, developers will be knocked off. This will hurt indys far more than larger companies, as “developers” opportunistically exploit the work of others.

Apple & Google are great at reducing and shutting down this kind of activity. If people can install the Pirate Bay store and install anything for free, many folks will.

If users can be coaxed into privileging an app, malware will control the majority of phones. People are still falling for the Nigerian prince scam.

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Sleep paralysis is a state right on the edge of a dream. If you desire & expect a unicorn to poop rainbow ice cream on your chest, it’ll happen (with not very much practice either). If you get scared and start thinking about aliens or demons, then that’ll happen. Instead of relaxing into the experience, just change it.

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What’s a dirty environment? One that a dev doesn’t clean up? Makes a mess like a filthy hoarder?

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Eh. Worked for a big CDN. Using containers would have decimated profits. There IS overhead. At scale, you feel it.

But for dev? Yeah. Linux on Linux is less impactful if you’re building something simple like a blog.

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Yep. macOS for what I mentioned :)

... but latency is still an issue regardless. It’s why there’s a premium to go bare metal with cloud providers.

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I prefer chef locally, but that totally works!

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It’s been rare, but this has definitely been a problem: “Why do I need an ENV var, the path is always /app?” And then not supporting symlinks... ugh.

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Yes. They were. :)

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Opposite side of this. Back in the day there was this company called Silicon Graphics (SGI). They had this API called GL, it’s what you know as OpenGL.

Software was written for their workstations that ran their UNIX OS IRIX. This is where Maya and many other awesome programs were built. Maya now runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, etc.

Cross platform code is fantastic.

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So much this.

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I’ve worked with a few developers that have been adamant about developing inside of containers. What I’ve noticed:

Terrible performance. One of my engineers recently thought that 150ms was terrific for a HTTP request. Break out of the container and it was <10ms. YMMV.

Fragile everything: Because one expects a “pristine” environment, often any slight change causes the entire stack to fall apart. This doesn’t happen at the start, but creeps in over time, until you can’t even update base images. I’ve seen it a lot. It ends up only adding an additional layer of complication.

Etc.

There are definitely reasons to do this... But when a pedantic developer that needs everything to be “just right” does it, it often becomes a disaster, leading to shortcuts and a lack of adaptability.

There’s also the developer that has no idea WTF is going on. They use a standard Rails/PHP/NodeJS/etc container and don’t understand how it works. Sometimes, they don’t even know that their system can run their stack natively. I’ve been on teams that have said “Let’s just use Docker because X doesn’t know how to install Y.”

Docker is fantastic for many things, but let’s stop throwing it at everything.

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