fifanut | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme?
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fifanut | 3 years ago | on: I Was Wrong About Mastodon
Random techie's random prediction was wrong?
Wrong predictions from people outside their field of expertise don't warrant explanations.
fifanut | 3 years ago | on: How We Built Fly Postgres
Improving Postgres is solid and boring.
Solid and boring is often a good choice. I'm glad to see startups in this space.
What's the latest on adoption of Spanner-like databases?
fifanut | 3 years ago | on: Emacs 29 is nigh
The Emacs ecosystem has a larger contributor pool, and contributing is easier.
A bunch of factors off the top of my head:
* MELPA making contributing and reaching users easier.
* The growth of Emacs packages on GitHub. * The ease of concurrent programming, e.g. emacs-aio.
* The learning curve being reduced with spacemacs and Doom.
* The continued development of Emacs upstream by its great contributors.
* The increase in upstream development, with emphasis on bug tracker hygiene. See Lars blog posts.
* LSP/Treesitter being developed, though this doesn't explain why Emacs seems to get more HN visibility than other editors.
If I put my Emacs hat on, perhaps the promise of Emacs is being fulfilled: an ever growing set of interopable, extensible, introspective functionality being useful to a wider set of active users.
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My hair clippers are unused 99.9% of the time.
There are benefits to having the ability to opportunistically burst into 100%, and some benefits aren't easily measurable in performance terms (having an up to date secure MacBook).
We can find wasted potential in various places:
* the millions of people receiving poor education
* people working in jobs below their potential skillset
* galaxies with vast idle resources
* people spending time on logistics/bureaucracy
There's a world of opportunity out there for improvement.