Remacs is very much taking GNU Emacs compatibility seriously! When code gets ported, the comments come too :)
From https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/pull/817 and
miniblog.
TIL about Montgomery Emacs, an early implementation that ran on PDP-11 Unix: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/emacs
Seems like there was quite a convention of naming implementations after the author!
@aidalgol@icosahedron.website Briefly, I think. I certainly read breathless articles that believed core counts would be much higher by 2018!
You can a design a new PL so it's easy to write for humans and analyse by a computer.
Alternatively, if you can win the popularity contest, the tooling will emerge anyway! This makes it hard for new PLs to leverage their advantage.
(C.f. parsing C++.)
There exist keyboards specifically designed for Emacs! https://keycapdiy.blogspot.com/2014/10/emacs-keyboard.html
(Tricky if you rebind keys though!)
@sillystring@infosec.exchange Agreed! I suspect the high price is partly to prevent excessive gTLD creation, but it probably increases the likelihood that more will be abandoned too.
@cstanhope Git doesn't strictly require branches, but it's rare to create commits on top of a detached head. I also believe there's no way to push commits that aren't associated with a branch or tag.
CPU clock speed, FLOPS, number of cores, die shrinking: progress in all these areas is now much slower.
What areas of tech are still exponential?
Some clever performance techniques for Emacs startup are discussed in the doom-emacs readme:
"We’ve told stories about inanimate things coming to life for thousands of years, and these narratives influence how we interpret what is going on now"
On AI coverage in the press: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong
I've been playing with mercurial lately and the defaults are really interesting.
There's no staging area, so by default 'hg commit' is like 'git commit -a'. Seems beginner friendly.
Also, branches are optional! It's much easier to start working on a feature.
Atlassian created Stride in 2017, already had Hipchat, and it's now deprecating both in favour of Slack: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-slack-partnership
Consolidation is happening very quickly! It reduces the number of self-hosted options though.
What proportion of Americans don't use the Internet, and what are their demographics?
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