I see more and more brands not only adopting CLAP but also offering Linux versions of their plugins. The adoption is slow but that's expected with a relatively new format but it certainly grows.

We stopped building a better world long time ago. Now we're building better value for shareholders.

> A lot of people have a terabyte or more of OneDrive storage.

Maybe in your social bubble. I don't know anyone with OneDrive subscription.

And buggy software makes more money because customers have a reason to buy subscription.

I highly doubt that 2018 was year of "quality focus" and 2020 year of "memory is cheap". The downward spiral started at least twenty years earlier.

I was at a conference years ago in Burbank, wanted to walk during lunch break as I was tired from all the sitting and was stopped by the cops also. They were super friendly, offered me a ride but couldn't understand why I'm walking (especially without some destination). It's a really different mindset from Europe.

What a nightmare!

I don't understand why Python is so popular when there's Lua. It's just so much better. Not as good as Rebol but still much better than Python.

Python has a much larger and more mature ecosystem. Lua barely has a functioning package manager.

It's still early in development, but the new package manager Lux looks promising: https://github.com/lumen-oss/lux

Don't forget it's much more productive writing a script in Python to parse a text than Lua due to its huge feature-rich syntax

Lua is great when you need an embedded language.

That's it. It's not great on its own, in my opinion.

It becomes really gnarly if you have a bigger Lua codebase.

Rebol is the cleanest/greatest language I've read code for but the VM is the slowest VM I've ever wrote code for, mind you I only did the first 10 exercises of euler but the only thing that has it beat is writing a shellscript that forks to dc/bc on each math expression.

Some people think that writing years as 2025 is wrong because this will lead to problems in year 9999 (y10k bug? I'm not sure if they call it that way) so they decided to introduce leading zero as it would solve something and not just postpone the problem to 99999.

So they are assuming that:

- this comment will still be around in 8000 years

- we will still be using the same calendar system in 8000 years

- people 8000 years in the future will leave off the leading 1 of years for some reason, and will use a leading 0 to disambiguate dates from the previous 10000 year period.

I would say it is a symbolic reminder to care about the long term consequences of our actions. In the same way we have holidays to remind us about the environment or mortality.

Somehow both incredibly optimistic and also unbelievably resigned at the same time

That's silly. The y2k bug was because the year was written as 65, instead of the full year being 1965, so information was lost. Writing 2025 has no missing information.

This is amazing!

Reminds when I was doing my own bitmap fonts on ZX Spectrum and Amiga. They were probably very ugly by today's standards but they were mine :) I guess I'll create one for my terminal, it probably won't be used there for too long but it would remind me of times when I was more in control of my machine.

One does not need a WWW-based editor to make that kind of font, if you're going to give it a go. A text editor and Viznut's perl scripts yields BDF files quite straightforwardly.

* https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-topaz.t...

* https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-spectru...