The “answer my own question” feature was meant for exactly that. Had quite a few like that, and sometimes I still got better answers than I found

That’s why it succeeded. It was not a forum, it was something new. Contribute a new question that was well stated and broadly applicable and get a response. You had to earn your answers.

It wasn’t flawless, but it was good and so good it fed all the AI agents with good materials.

It wasn’t a “help me!!!111!” site, it was an exchange.

I put lots of effort into narrowing my questions, eliminating obvious answers by demonstrating the work I put in, and editted all my questions like an email to my boss. I was almost always rewarded with good answers.

I’m pretty sure Zachtronics predates Factorio. SpaceChem 2011, Factorio 2020. I like Factorio more… but SpaceChem is the more demanding puzzle and the better game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

The lenient contract with Microsoft and the unexpected to them ruling on reverse engineering the BIOS sealed their fate.

But no company wants to compete in a commodity, they all want to be monopolies. All the Unix vendors tried to be common enough to be a selling point but idiosyncratic enough to lock in their clients.

Apple isn’t nefarious… they are the default.

Now, if we want to support their ambitions with our wallets is another question

It’s Vietnam Hearts and Minds all over again.

So if it’s a network router or a woodworking router, then you’re good.

I can sells of red socks, and white socks, without getting sued by Chicago or Boston.

If it’s in the same space… you might want to contact a lawyer. I believe Firefox had conflicts with earlier names like Phoenix and FireBird and they weren’t even browsers.

https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/its-not-just-omi-thats-tro...

That couldn’t have helped. Otherwise I feel like RISC-V is better if you want to build something new from scratch.

Because it is bad. In any connection there are springs that keep the tension, which will eventually wear out. They can either be on the cheap replaceable cable, or in the receptacle that is hardwired into your expensive device.

This is why, in part, USB Mini was replaced by USB Micro. ( https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-wa... )

> Why Micro types offer better durability? Accomplished by moving leaf-spring from the PCB receptacle to plug, the most-stressed part is now on the cable side of the connection. Inexpensive cable bears most wear instead of the µUSB device.

Definitely had an iPhone where the port was worn out and getting it to connect was difficult.

2) language sensitive version control seems like the next thing. We need like an LSP for VCSes.

If I split a file in two I still want to be able to see blame correctly for the author of the function, not one file as freshly created and the other with a bunch of deletes. I wish commits could be folded into larger commits so that you can still capture the individual changes but also not see them by default when looking at the history of a file.

Just a more human centric perspective on change history where it captures the way we talk and think about changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(video_game_series)

Apparently there is a new one still coming out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(2027_video_game)