Amateur online chess on the other hand is besieged by cheaters that use engines, even in casual non-ranked games where there's absolutely nothing to gain besides a pat on the ego. This has drastically changed how the game is played today with lot of players gravitating towards speed chess (bullet and blitz) to compensate. That will thin the herd of cheaters but one still runs into engines on a weekly basis.

This is also the tip of the iceberg, with the true scale of the problem being orders of magnitude worse, as someone dedicated enough can use an engine to cheat in a way that's essentially undetectable.

There's no Cloud-based backup service that's competive with tape.

For the longest time in the 90s TELNET AYT would crash tons of custom implementations.

Generally, contemporary folks that propose improvements to the CL spec tend to be misinformed / misguided and/or lacking experience to realize why their proposed improvements are bad ideas.

That book was the main impetus for me connecting to the Internet, installing Linux and getting involved with the European hacking underground of the mid to late 90s. I also periodically re-read it (now in English): the prose still seems razor-sharp and the divergent feelings are still being evoked. Plus, it's an insanely hyperstitional book: one gets the feeling that Gibson (whose non-Sprawl work pales in comparison and who has never again reached these heights) didn't just write a heist-story filled with countercultural sensibilities but channeled something greater, something that has been intricately involved with how the world we experience has evolved.

Looking back on those days, I now wish I'd read it in English for the first time. The Greek translation is not bad but it feels kind of archaic and doesn't do justice to the brilliance of Gibson's dystopian vision.

If you really want to understand the genius of Forth and its creator, I suggest reading everything that Chuck Moore put down in writing starting with "Programming a problem-oriented language".

A lot of us today, being bogged down in the sort of tedium-inducing programming that pays the bills, tend to forget that programming languages are (or should be!) primarily about expressing ideas. Forth is still one of the best languages to do that in.

    (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)) 

    (optimize (speed 3) (safety 1))

For SBCL, there's also the excellent sb-simd [1] plus compiler macros and even hooking into some of the VM internals for custom code generation [2].

[1] https://www.sbcl.org/manual/#sb_002dsimd

[2] https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-co...

He’s also been extremely prescient and decades ahead of his time. He stood his ground against relentless attacks where so many others have sold out and betrayed whatever morals they thought they had.

Last I checked a lot of their clothes were full of forever chemicals and processed plastics but maybe they've made progress.

https://www.insidehook.com/gear/patagonia-major-microplastic...

Cybernetics came out of the Macy conferences [0] and this is where one needs to go, in order to establish context. I also highly recommend Norbert Wiener's biography "Dark Hero of the Information Age" [1] as a good introduction to one of the greatest geniuses of this age, easily eclipsing Shannon and von Neumann.

Principia Cybernetica [2] is another good resource.

[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo23...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Hero-Information-Age-Cybernetics...

[2] http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/

However, it never pushed the envelope in terms of codecs, features and performance and as a result was never at the forefront of opensource video playing: mplayer got the ball rolling with rapid breakthroughs including hardware acceleration (e.g. /dev/mga_vid) before standards such as xvideo even existed and that spirit of technical excellence has been passed on to Mpv which remains at the pinnacle.

[1] https://github.com/elastic/otel-profiling-agent

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Hero-Information-Age-Cybernetics...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eww/Over...

I don't expect to see code evaluation on untrusted input as intended features in web browser or chat modes.

The loss of on-by-default functionality such as Org fontification in email message buffers is in no way as important as being wide open to trivial remote code execution.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/befa9fcaae29a6c...

[2] https://xristos.sdf.org/fix-gnus-mime.el.txt

There's also Genera (in many ways the best but unfortunately still not widely available), Lispworks (commercial, lacks the features/userbase of Emacs) and a vast number of niche Lisp-based/Smalltalk-based/Forth-based environments that don't come close to the practicality of Emacs.

For all intents and purposes, Emacs is the 'best' freely available and most used Lisp machine we have today, a direct manifestation of Licklider's "Man-Computer Symbiosis".

The recent additions of sqlite3 and native compilation (MPS-based garbage collection is in the works) have significantly expanded the set of problems one can solve. I love Common Lisp but I barely touch it these days, as I tend to reach for Emacs Lisp instead. That's solely down to the evolution and practicality of Emacs.

VSCode is just another editor with a constrained "API" that limits the modifications one can do. Emacs is clay that one can fully mold to one's own preferences so that it becomes an extension of one's mind.