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We might see a fracture open slowly. For me, even AGPL is not enough

And it offers me THREE different chess games I could install!

I believe that is a "canton": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_(flag)

> In vexillography, the canton is a rectangular emblem usually placed in the upper hoist of a flag, usually occupying up to a quarter of a flag's area. The canton of a flag may be a flag in its own right. For instance, British ensigns have the Union Jack as their canton, as do their derivatives such as the national flags of Australia and New Zealand.

They say it's in the "upper hoist" because it's not per se the top left - If the flag is flying and you're seeing it from behind, it may be the top right. Either way it is the side closer to the flag pole, or whatever it's flying from. When shown on a computer screen or in print, usually it is the top left. Some flag codes require flags to be mirrored on the right side of vehicles or uniforms so that it always appears to be flying from the vehicle or person as they move forward.

1. In general, do whatever Wikipedia does. e.g., start with a one-sentence definition, then a couple paragraphs of summary, then go into short specified sections, and keep links to the "Citations" at the end. It's been refined for 25 years, it's older than most of your engineers, it's 50+% correct by default.

2. Keep every section to one screenful. If your reader can't see a headline, they get lost.

3. Put a funny picture at the top of the page. Or at least something off Wikimedia Commons.

4. Don't spend a lot of time writing anything. And don't use AI. The AI doesn't know what's inside your head. You yourself have an inkling. The longer you write, the further you'll get. Just write one short thing at a time and refactor aggressively later. Never throw shit over a fence blind. Nobody reads shit that's been flung over a fence.

Steven King said writing is telepathy. All mediated communication sits on a Pareto trade-off with face-to-face communication. Media is always less interactive with slower iterations. You need to figure out exactly what your audience needs, right when they're reading, and write just that, knock 'em dead, and leave. Don't add detail. They'll ask if they need detail.

Like, do you have $1,000 in an emergency fund? No? Start there.

It's a lot easier to get bug reports and fixes when everyone is on the same auth system.

That's why there is also a call for federated forges

The houses got expensive because homeowners wanted housing to be an investment, so they voted for laws that make it harder to build or densify housing.

Cars are expensive because the government puts tariffs on perfectly good imports to protect the American car companies. The American car companies produce garbage, and even the electric car companies like Tesla and Rivian are producing super-high-tech luxury land yachts. The government incentives are also captured to produce huge trucks, and many states don't have regular inspections, so lifted trucks are common. The companies don't want to build and sell small cars because the perception is that a small car is going to get pancaked in a crash with a bigger, heavier car. Gas prices don't matter because the government artificially suppresses them, sometimes with war.

Corn and dairy are cheap because the government subsidizes them at the behest of the corn and dairy lobbies, which use small good ol' boy farmers who don't even exist as their marketing. A lot of the corn goes to ethanol for fuel, even though it's a crappy fuel and an acre of solar panels results in many more miles of EV driving than the same acre of corn ethanol. So you can also get a cheap soda and a cheap cheese pizza, but a lot of the food pipeline is captured by seed monopolies and middle-men. Somehow milk became a bit of a right-wing meme, and it's basically a naturally-occurring dessert, so people love milk even though it's not good for you and not a good way to get nutrients.

> Even food where normally you could walk in a shop

You aren't supposed to walk in America. You're supposed to drive. Don't get me started lol

Electric motors are sort of like hermit crab shells - Hard and long-lasting, but they only exist because they piggyback off of a living species.

I didn't see a picture of Zocchi's d100, Wikipedia has one

Also face normals (flat shading) are generally considered older tech than per-vertex lighting (Gouraud shading). Newer stuff since 2008-ish is generally per-pixel using normal maps for detail.

:P

Personally I like the panels

Electron = Node.js + CEF

Tauri = Rust + webview

Tauri has an experimental branch to use Servo to provide a bundled webview. Currently it relies on a system-level webview, like Edge on Windows, Safari on MacOS, and webkit-gtk on Linux.

The whale's been eaten now. The broader Internet is mostly not trustworthy, or convenient, and the information is not even very plentiful.

People will and are retreating into high-trust zones. In-person networks, product recommendations from real friends, and closed group chats.

It's not the end of the world, but things have changed. We'll have to put more work into finding information than we're used to.

It means if I'm doing very light processing (sums) I should try to move that to structure-of-arrays to take advantage of cache? But if I'm doing something very expensive, I can leave it as array-of-structures, since the computation will dominate the memory access in Amdahl's Law analysis?

This data should tell me something about organizing my data and accessing it, right?

Run time - This makes development faster. Python, Lua, and Node.js projects can typically test out small changes locally faster than Rust and C++ can recompile. (I say this as a pro Rust user - The link step is so damned slow.)

Container - This gives you a virtual instance of "apt-get". System package managers can't change, so we abstract over them and reuse working code to fit a new need. I am this very second building something in Docker that would trash my host system if I tried to install the dependencies. It's software that worked great on Ubuntu 22.04, but now I'm on Debian from 2026. Here I am reusing code that works, right?

VM - Containers aren't a security sandbox. VMs allow multiple tenants to share hardware with relative safety. I didn't panic when the Spectre hacks came out - The cloud hosts handled it at their level. Without VMs, everyone would have to run their own dedicated hardware? Would I be buying a dedicated CPU core for my proof-of-concept app? VMs are the software equivalent of the electrical grid - Instead of everyone over-provisioning with the biggest generator they might ever need, everyone shares every power station. When a transmission line drops, the lights flicker and stay on. It's awe-inspiring once you realize how much work goes into, and how much convenience comes out of, that half-second blip when you _almost_ lose power but don't.

Hypervisor - A hypervisor just manages the VMs, right?

Come on. Don't walk gaily up to fences. Most of it's here for a reason.