In the software biz, where one day--Allah willing--we may find ourselves in direct/indirect competition with Microsoft, integrating one of their data probes into the heart of the business does not seem like the best move.
Can't use my mouse with it. And it doesn't look nice. And it requires a shortcut palette different than the OS conventions. I bought VS Code with $0.00 and sent the rest to needy kids in Uganda.
Vi predating certain paradigms explains why it doesn't follow them. But it doesn't make it any easier for a random developer who grew up in the context of those paradigms. A new developer wondering whether they should adopt some modern vi is not being unreasonable for searching out something that does follow the prevailing customs. (But they are on a fools errand, because there are exactly zero good general purpose developer environments and the question I have is which of gvim, intellij or vscodium pisses me off least today.)
& from what I gather, APE is tightly-bound to x86_64, & depends on an embedded emulator for other architectures:
> All we have to do embed an ARM build of the emulator above within our x86 executables, and have them morph and re-exec appropriately, similar to how Cosmopolitan is already doing doing with qemu-x86_64, except that this wouldn't need to be installed beforehand. The tradeoff is that, if we do this, binaries will only be 10x smaller than Go's Hello World, instead of 100x smaller.
could still be useful as an optional build target though... (i.e. GOOS=cosmopolitan)
This thing of yours is quite an accomplishment. Even so, I hope it goes no further. If it does (& it probably will, because it is convenient), most of the computing world will have stacked yet another sub-optimal low-level mono-culture on top of the one that was already there.
From the robustness/survivability perspective, the mono-cultures we have are bad enough.
In the world where a windows binary is not expected to run on a mac, and vice versa, they still have the option to change things on an as-needed basis (like the golang breakage on osx). In a world filled with APEs, you will have canonized all of the present OS idiosyncrasies that made APE possible in the first place, & we will be stuck with them forever.
Nah eventually every operating system is just going to support x86_64-linux-gnu and there won't be a need for APE in our glorious future. In that case, Cosmopolitan will just be a non-GPL libc that goes as fast as Glibc. But until all operating systems become fully developed, we have an outstanding hack to hold us over.
> eventually every operating system is just going to support x86_64-linux-gnu
Whether it's batteries included, or batteries sold separately, we'll still be stuck with batteries. If I want to run Linux on my Mac, that's what UTM is for.
Despite my reservations, nothing but respect, & enjoyed your Feross presentation.
They are doing policing though, just the other way. Cloudflare successfully blocked taking the harassers to trial. Their lawyers blocked engagement of law enforcement against the right person in the first place.
> Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, "Why was not this ointment sold for three-hundred pence, and given to the poor?" The he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Certainly an element of victorian proto-socialism, chartism maybe too, included a healthy reach back into primitive christianity. It collided pretty heavily with the established anglican and catholic churches which were of course the legitemate inheritors of most of the land of the roman empire, post-fall. Carry that into the new world, they acquired lands and goods and importance, if not from romans.
The point of the socialism-communism arc is that why we want equitable distribution of goods and labour isn't the problem. The problem is how to achieve it. Owenite communities in the americas failed. It's hard to bootstrap.
They failed because they were heresies--elevating the material above the spiritual & dragging the Gospel down into the muck of economics & policy.
> Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
No, I think its more likely they failed because of the practicalities of moving an entire welsh speaking village to bolivia, to build a new jerusalem. I don't personally ascribe social failure to heresy per se. After all, many heresies existed in New England, but it persisted, and did remarkably well. There was no shortage of bad behaviour in the puritan communities around Boston, they just managed their economics and social fabric better.
money is downstream of power. far, far downstream. shuffle the money around, they'll win it all back +interest in less than a generation. eliminate the money entirely, they will change their operations over to a different status marker, which will become the de-facto currency in-turn. contrary to the marxist lie, there is no political answer--especially in a democracy. the only effective counter is the personal one: self-control, self-denial, the way of the boycott & doing more with less. of the thousands of talking heads we have today, cathy fitts is the only one smart enough to understand this.
Capping material quantity is a fix for overconsumption provided the political system in place is robust enough and has the will to enforce the cap. What I address is solely quantity of material possessions.
