People have been expressing their dissatisfaction at Windows Updates strategy for so long - Modern Standby was so badly implemented it basically cooked laptops in bags and while leaving users wondering what was happening. I had to reflow a laptop because of it.

> Macbooks with 1TB drives are getting cheaper every day.

Also high-speed external storage is very accessible now - so having large built in storage for your DAW isn't really necessary. The 1 USB 3 port on the MacBook Neo is more than fast enough for this.

> Music production on Linux isn't really practical.

I would somewhat disagree with this. Linux has much better low-latency, multi application audio support than Windows & Mac now (via JACK) and some pretty incredible native DAWs like Bitwig - so the moat certainly isn't as large as it used to be. I would say it's practical if your workflow doesn't require features of Mac/Windows or tools specific to those platforms.

As impractical as it would be for normal users - even Ableton works pretty well under WINE.

> Competition is great. But this is about the Mac Neo( and left over M4 Macs crashing in price ). Desktop Linux is still a challenge.

I think between this and they've maybe had a bit of a scare from Valve and SteamOS - because that's historically been one of their other big moats. They kicked off a similar initiative to make Windows nicer for gamers back in December.

I agree that desktop Linux is still a challenge - it's better than it used to be and you can get away without a terminal now if you're just doing basic Internet/Office tasks. In a lot of places the UX can get pretty gnarly.

I did give it one task which was more complex and I was quite impressed by. I had a local setup with Tiltdev, K3S and a pnpm monorepo which was failing to run the web application dev server; GLM correctly figured out that it was a container image build cache issue after inspecting the containers etc and corrected the Tiltfile and build setup.

It also has an integration with the phone which can add GPS awareness but it works fine without it in my experience.

The harness is just much better on the Anthropic side.

The providers are structured in a way that makes forcing compliance difficult and have built their whole business model around this. NordVPN is registered in Panama for example and Mullvad lets you send cash in the mail and doesn't store any user details (even a hashed email).

It'll be interesting to see how & who reacts if it does pass.

There is a lot more than a simple chroot to Docker though - with FreeBSD Jails being a stepping stone along the way. It's real innovation and why it won over alternatives was the tooling and infrastructure around the containers - particularly distributing them.

That being said - the blame lies squarely with Labour here. I have a gut feel a lot of it has to do with donors to the Tony Blair Institute.

It would be interesting to see how this applies more widely to other sets of content and countries.

From the original UKDJ article:

> The original UK Defence Journal investigation stressed in an editor’s note that “this article does not claim that Scottish independence is a foreign plot, nor does it suggest that support for independence is illegitimate, inauthentic, or driven by anything other than sincere political conviction.”

> The focus, we underlined, was not on genuine activists but on documented attempts by Iranian-linked actors to exploit authentic political debates for their own strategic purposes. Robertson’s reply arguably missed this distinction. The concern raised by analysts was not that independence itself is tainted, but that foreign actors are infiltrating the conversation, seeking to magnify division and undermine trust in democratic processes.

Currently customers using cheap wind power are essentially punished if there is gas backed generation elsewhere in the UK and the energy companies reap the profit.

I think the EU were right with their antitrust case.

Also the commission is known to fine European entities all the time for various reasons, one of the recent ones I can think of is Pierre Cardin and it's partners for restricting cross border European sales.

Also Lisp is far from an "esoteric fad language", it's been around since the 1960s, has both ISO and ANSI standard dialects, and has some significant usage in industry. Like COBOL most of the companies that use Lisp are using it in specialized situations (I would argue this is similar for most functional languages). I feel like it's not talked about as much as COBOL because for COBOL specifically there is a market demand to maintain legacy systems that outstrips the supply. Because of this the role of maintaining these systems - at least historically - paid very well.

Also a lot of languages are starting to adopt features from the functional paradigm and it's always good to know where they came from. It's unfortunate that many engineers use techniques like memoization (via annotations for example) without understanding their underlying principles.

As for significant systems, Emacs is probably the most well known. Also the Clojure community is very active.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2016-00127...

Most of the Staff/Principal engineers around you are not there because they don't have other (sometimes much better on the face of it) opportunities - we're here because of inertia and realm expertise.