If you take a hammer from 1920 and lay it next to the most jazzed up hammer from 2020, they would be recognised as the same tool/having the same general purpose. A carpenter from 1920 wouldn't need to change the way he used a hammer if he picked up the 2020 model, even if the 2020 model might enable new ways of actually using it (or improve old ways of using it).

So while there is evolution and development going on, we're not replacing the hammer metaphor as it were.

The WIMP model has also seen evolution and refinement, but it's still recognisable as the same model. I think the analogy holds.

This lets the publishers and developers know that there's a market of Linux gamers because they can see that X thousand players play their game on Linux. So when they make their next game, hopefully they'll pick technologies that lets them release with proper Linux support and not "hope it runs under Proton"-support.

If the market is big enough, cross platform development is viable from the start.

It also alleviates traffic during the day by removing those trucks.

It would be easy for governments to subsidize parts of this for the good of society.

So ~33% of a truck's cost is spent on fuel.

Staff went to work without PPE, and some were ordered to go to work despite showing symptoms.

The effects of COVID19 are not tied solely to the immediate actions in March and April but are affected by systemic issues too.

In that scenario it would also be appropriate to wait for a driver to sober up before driving you to the hospital if neither ambulance nor taxi were available (or delayed). One glass of wine would be out of most people's systems after two hours.

Thus poking hole in the "drunk drive someone to the hospital" argument, which is what this was all about in the first place.

I'm sure that would save a lot of lives. An ambulatory medical service, if you will.

A sports hunter who doesn't eat their kills but only hunts for fun is an apt comparison, but do they really kill 200 animals per year? That's more than one every two days. Typically that would be a weekend hobby and even if they went hunting 52 weeks of the year that's almost 4 kills per hunting weekend. You really think that's plausible (or even legal, given restrictions on hunting)?

They kind of just moved in with us several thousand years ago and stuck around because it worked out well for them.

They can kill up to 200 animals per year, despite being well fed and cared for. They're doing it for sport essentially.

They will hunt and kill common shrew for example despite not eating them. They'll eat mice and birds, but shrews they kill just for the hell of it.

It's also true that many developers are not very good at spotting where and how to improve performance, and what trade-offs are appropriate, and that's what I meant.

Write the straightforward version first that's easy to read so that when you need to improve performance, it's easy to use a profiler to go in and rewrite the non-performant parts in a less readable but faster way.

In most cases, writing the readable and straightforward version first and only moving to the less readable but more X version (for any given value of X) after it's evident that you need to is the optimal solution.

It's the programming equivalent to buying cheap tools first and only buying the expensive version once the cheap one breaks: If it breaks you used it enough to warrant the expensive and more durable one, and if it didn't break you didn't have to spend more money than necessary.

For people who have used $EDITOR for 20+ years there's little incentive to change to something else, but if you want to bring in fresh eyes to your project so that there'll be enough people around in another 20 years to maintain the whole thing it behoves you to think about attracting those people.

Sane defaults and being more approachable is a good way to do that.

Does emacs even offer anything like `vimtutor`?

The same with the original Star Wars trilogy, they're all models lit by actual lights so there's a depth and "realness" to the lighting that makes it look so much more authentic than even modern CGI.

Also the pressures could be different. It's not hard to imagine that higher pressure would act as a bigger deterrent to passing through, so maybe that's what they're using at the construction site?

Both the bubble barrier page and the article you linked are fairly short on specifics though, which is a shame. It wouldn't be that hard to write out some pressures...

Those 3-in-1 sets really impressed me though! We've got two of them and as you say they come with instructions for several different ways of using the same pieces, and they're generic enough that you can build mostly anything.

We're definitely picking up more of those as both me, my dad, and my kid all like to just free-form build things most of the time. The creator pieces are actually really great because of the slopes and curved pieces that complement your ideas and help put the finishing touches on things.

One specific example I can give is with the chassis for small cars. In the 90s they were fairly generic. They were obviously intended to make cars with but you could build any kind of car or boat or plane or spaceship using it as a base.

Now I'm buying Lego for my kid and the car chassis have integrated tyre pins and mudguards, so it's hard to put on e.g. monster truck wheels (won't fit) or build it into a boat/plane.

So while specialized pieces aren't new, they're so very single purpose now. Not every piece, but enough of them that it's problematic.