imagine your computer is like a big playground

… goes on to do nothing with that analogy.

And it still works and looks great today!

That I cut a bit of slack for, because prior to the minicomputer let alone the microcomputer, the CPU would likely have been a large component like the whole system is for a desktop PC.

Yep. Or maybe closer to the top 10-25% based on this articles like this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x

Go go gadget defeatism.

We should do nothing because we’re doomed. Better waste everything we can to accelerate it!

I don’t disagree with that.

My opinion is that the top consumers need to cut down and likely more importantly this insane push for “the economy” to be wasting resources churning away and accomplishing nothing of substance. That’s the part that needs to end.

Along with the obsession with having more and more and more babies which will grow to consume even more resources.

Guess we all die then. :shrug:

Not really. Eternal growth is a dumb idea until and unless we can go interplanetary.

Need to find a stable equilibrium for the long haul.

Because it’s a common phrase and because one can accept that people have a name for their deity even if you believe that deity doesn’t really exist.

There are, but “long haul routes” are definitely better for a train.

What an incredibly infuriating waste of effort that would be so much better spent on trains, driverless or otherwise.

As a sometimes Windows admin, I completely agree. Plus so many things that become simple one-liners instead of taking forever farting around in a GUI tool where a little misclick screws up everything and documentation requires 27 pages of giant screenshots.

That’s good to know. It’s interesting that the other commenter thinks emacs shortcuts are illogical. I’ll make my best guesses at the logic

• ctrl-a/ctrl-e for start/end of line

a is the beginning of the alphabet; e for end (of line)

• ctrl-u to clear the command you’ve typed so far but store it into a temporary pastebuffer
• ctrl-y to paste the ctrl-u’d command

No idea here. Seems similar to nano with k-“cut” and u-”uncut”.

• ctrl-w to delete by word

w for word obviously.

• ctrl-r to search your command history
• alt-b/alt-f to move cursor back/forwards by word

r reverse, b back, f forward. Not sure why alt vs control though; presumably ctrl+b and ctrl+f do different things although I know emacs likes to use Alt (“Meta”) a lot.

If you or someone you know wants a taste of that experience on Windows, try out winget or chocolatey.

Why the hell did they misspell (and presumably mispronounce) tilde?

I’ll remember that in case I drop it into a boiler.

Well, see, Syria has land they want and people they don’t.

I think it’s funny darkly humorous but read the room, dude.

Which dystopian cyberpunk medium depicted this level of hell? This is echoes of Nazi Germany here.

Yeah but this is the US.