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Could I ask what kind of work you do day to day? Does it feel sluggish in comparison to Linux for that use case?

>Yes, but there's also a reason why the Rust -> JS route never took off. What is this reason?

>CakeML is also a very cool project in SML land. I've been very interested in CakeML lately, do you use it for anything?

What kinds of improvements does Helix offer over Kakoune?

It appears to me those are the types the functions expect to consume and output when used in a pipeline.

>And if simple humanpower really was the reason IBM took shortcuts Is this referring to the closed blobs on Power10? Is there anywhere to read more? And is there any indication Pow…

How are you finding the battery? It seems this is the most common complaint. Edit: and also, what's the software support story here?

More than accents are non-Latin scripts.

Wonder what frontier we'll look back on in the same way in 50 years.

I work on static analysis (points-to analysis) that does not use any GPU at all and is mostly single threaded.

Being that it's open source, are you planning for revenue to be 100% from the SaaS component or do you have other planned revenue streams?

Exactly what @ziml77 said. Even in the case of simple "wd", sometimes I have multiple cursors I am operating on at the same time (e.g. from complex regex or just through selecting …

Good way to put it. This makes the most sense to me. I guess similar to lowering price for a year, they can play a nice for that year too.

In my mind I read "wd" as "select word, delete selection" which matches well with the visual feedback Kakoune gives you.

Right, that's what I mean (I had understood the term disruption incorrectly). Is there a reason this is not a lucrative venture, to produce something clean and user-friendly that c…

This looks pretty cool, never heard of this. >but it's the only example I know where a company attempted try something different to the colour ink cartridge model. Epson does sell …

>Printers have been good for decades, and only the limitations built in by manufacturers make them bad This is what I was referring to, maybe using the word disrupt incorrectly. I …

Yeah the title is a bit unfortunate, but I think this is interesting news. As an aisde, it seems really wasteful to attach a semiconductor to a disposable/consumable item in the fi…

Is there a reason consumer printers haven't been disrupted by some bored billionaire? Obviously some brands are better than others, but none stand out as a name everyone knows as a…

The FAQ says $10 a month initially.

You may like this blog post from last year if you have not come across some of these businesses: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/small-tech/ Not all are just a single pe…

Always good to hear all perspectives on a story. >FWIW that was only intended for store managers Do you mean intended for store manager and applied to store managers only, or inten…

Here is an example from a sandwich shop: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimmyjohns-settlement-idU...

I knew it was largely corporations but thought the final call was with Linus/the lieutenant system, and that Linus specifically wasn't beholden to any particular corporation (well,…

Interesting idea, similar to research funding I suppose. Do any governments do this, or offer grants for open source?