And so you don’t contribute to the selection of shows.

It’s a dilemma. I started streaming stuff I like the sound of despite the risk of being rug-pulled, because otherwise there’s no signal that they should fund series 2.

The onus is on you to make sure your system uses the APIs in a way that’s right for your business. You didn’t. You used a non-deterministic system to drive an API that has destructive potential. I appreciate that you didn’t expect it to do what it did but that’s just naivety.

You’re reaping what you sowed.

Best of luck with the recovery. I hope your business survives to learn this lesson.

At about 1:20, the presenter says the BFS uses a different OS and hardware (not sure if that means a different instance, or a different class, so to speak).

Curious about the choice of toolkit: what led you to wxPython?

I’d love to know how often one of the FCMs has “failed silent”, and where they were in the route and so on too, but it’s probably a little soon for that.

There’s enough profit to make the payback period for a decent battery quite short.

CRTs needed to be refreshed to keep the phosphors glowing. But all screens are now digital: why is there a refresh rate at all?

Can’t we memory-map the actual hardware bits behind each pixel and just draw directly (using PCIe or whatever)?

Let's say they did. Would you be saying "So what?" then too?

It hasn't happened yet. Is there something you perceive as especially problematic now, as opposed to the last 30 years?

To create something like the GNU project, or OpenBSD, or Linux, takes serious levels of commitment. You really have to believe in it, and to a degree, you have to _will_ it into being. Along the way, you need to explain why your crazy idea is worth all the sacrifice, discourage those who would distract your team members, maintain your own and the team's focus through years of not actually having the thing you want in any useful form, etc, etc. You have to be an unreasonable person to take it on, and then continue it.

There are people who become "fans". They can be even more zealous than the project leader(s). Maintaining direction (aka control) of a horde of over-zealous fans takes aptitude and patience. It's easy, I think, for projects to devolve into vitriol, and denigration of those who think differently, even if it starts out from a good place.

All group endeavors are ultimately political. A group endeavor with a multi-year payoff period and no tangible rewards? It's bound to be very political.

That said, we all enjoy the fruits of their labors ...

I think Perl5 was originally planned to be replaced by Perl6. Then Perl6 took much longer than anyone expected, and kinda ended up in a different place. Perl5 was re-anointed as the once-and-future Perl, and what had been Perl6 became Raku.

If I remember correctly, somewhere in the middle of all that there was talk of running Python (and other languages) on the new Perl6 VM.