It was not like lot's of very talented Amiga devs didn't try their very best to create a Wolfenstein/Doom clone for their platform, but iirc the bitplane setup used by Amiga gfx, which enabled lot's of other cool features did not perform well with the opereations needed for "3D" games.
Then with Quake, the 3rd party 3D graphics cards market took off, and even if there were cards for the Amigas too, market economics made them unviable.
And even though I usually appreciate Datagubbe's writings, this time I think his take is incorrect. At least in my circles Wolfenstein / Doom and ultimately Quake was the final nails in the Amiga's coffin.
Sure, the picture is bigger - PC market drove down prices and very soon the price/performance difference was very unfavorable for Amiga - but at least initially the issue was kids wanted to play Wolfenstein, Doom, or at least something similar, and that was not possible if you stayed on the Amiga.
4. Bind eval-region to easy to reach key for testing and troubleshooting
Emacs is a what I would call an extreme case of a positive feedback loop application, the more effort and time you put in learning it, the more you get back. This is of course true for almost any application, but with Emacs being a complete text manipulation system more effort is required.
I ran OpenBSD on a Thinkpad T450 for over a year, but recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, not because of lack of speed, but some missing applications and blutooth support.
Given I don't run a heavy desktop environment, rather just StumpWM, but still I did not in any way feel OpenBSD was slower than Linux, using the same applications.
OpenSUSE is the most solid Linux I have used so far, but OpenBSD was more to my liking setting up and maintaining. It is well thought out, simple, and... just makes sense.
IIRC that was one of the two/three main ways forward discussed and planned for after Be Inc went belly up.
- OpenBeOS (Haiku) - rewrite from scratch
- Option 2 (can't remember if it had a name) - was just to Implement BeOS userland on a Linux, to get free access to drivers etc. Most of the Be community was not interested, and I cannot remember if they even got started..?
- (YellowTab - Some company had access to BeOS sources and started releasing and somewhat updating the OS on a commercial basis - but don't think they actually had the rights to do that....)
Airtable is fantastic for so many things, I only wish there was a cheaper "personal" plan with more records, for a couple of bucks / month.
I can't really justify $10 / month for "just for fun" personal projects, and the 1200 records / base is too limited for many ideas (and also 5000 records for $10/month is on the low side as well, even if putting it as a company expense)
Yes, I know, they got to eat and everything, and maybe cost vs income is not feasible for personal accounts.
Someone mentioned in some other thread there is some airlines looking into having seats that when reclining, instead of pushing the backrest into the space behind you, your seat slides forward, and thereby tilting the backrest.
But this was met with great protests from others who think crushing long legged people´s knees is a god given right.
"If you don't want your knees crushed, you should have paid extra for one of the four seats with more leg room" "they were already taken? Tough luck"
Exactly. How much I like the idea of a truly open phone platform there are some obstacles:
- Decent hardware available at competitive price
-- While I could make do with some degraded performance for a truly open phone concept, most people would not, especially if price point is similar to, or higher, than established closed platform brands
- Must have apps available - needed for wide acceptance
-- My personal examples of must have apps:
-- BankID (Swedish e-id, needed for banks, taxes, government sites, payments)
-- Swish - Swedish app for personal micro transactions
-- Public transportation apps (tickets/timetable)
-- Bank application
-- Signal
Without these apps, a open platform phone would be next to useless to me. And I am a big proponent of open platforms.
And looking at how reluctant BankID were to even support older version android phones, I am not optimistic to them adding a completely new platform to support.
I know people who were forced to upgrade from "old" phones because BankID no longer supported their Android version, and phones would not get newer Android version.
Grava = preparing raw salmon (or other fish/meat) by keeping it in a mixture of salt, sugar and spices.
Salt and sugar keeps the fish from spoling, lactic acid bacteria preserves the fish. Back in the days this was done by digging a hole in the ground, cover the fish with spruce/fresh leaves and salt. Then lleaving it lying there for a couple of days. This also gives the origin of the word "grava" which in this context would bean "bury".
My take is Emacs is the best integrated text processing environment available. But I am not sure it would beat VI/VIM as an text editor.
I don't think most Emacs users could match a good VIM user in text editing speed, but then Emacs can do many other tasks that are hard to replicate in VIM, while being a more than good enough editor.
It is not so much which editor is better, rather what are the user's expectations.
To me this is obvious and has been probably been said a 1000 times before, but sometimes when reading threads about text editors, you would not think so.
the books are still on my to read list.