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If you just want affordable, you can get a 2012 Nissan Leaf that gets about 85 miles per charge for $7000 asking price on Craigslist.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/cto/d/2012-nissan-leaf/6658...

I wonder how many of those are Model S. I hope that Model S is not suffering any problems so that Model 3 and Model X can go forward. I am only person in my circle of friends interested in Model S as opposed to the other two models.

Anecdotally, I lost count of the number of Model 3's I see on a daily basis in Bay Area.

I've done Remote Desktop from an airplane and that was actually quite snappy

Desktop Slack runs on Electron, no? Which essentially lets web developers develop a "native-ish" cross-platform app, without learning a whole new platform.

There is a long, long history of attempts to make good, cross-platform, native apps. In the late 1990s there was a company called Visix that had such a library that worked on Windows and Unix. There have been Windows implementations of Motif/XWindows. There was of course Java/JWT. These days there is Qt. None of these seem to have really caught fire.

edit: I wrote Mac but I meant Unix

I used to be a Smalltalk developer on Windows 3.1 for a brief time in the early 90's. When I found out that internally, Smalltalk was compiled into a sort of intermediate assembly language, and run on a virtual machine, I wondered why couldn't we just distribute the assembly language part over the Internet, where it could be run on any kind of machine with an interepreter. Everyone told me I was crazy, it was impractical, it would never work.

This article reminds me a lot of the book "A Fire upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge.

While reading this article and viewing the diagram of the Milky Way, I wondered, does time pass more slowly from the point of view of those bodies near the center of the galaxy, which are moving more quickly?