I can’t speak for this particular Rails usage, but one of the most powerful things you can do with Ruby is build domain-specific languages without modifying the language itself. *This is a core feature of Ruby.*

The criticism you’re making is one of the Rails DSL — there’s nothing in Ruby preventing you from instead writing account.desposit(Dollar.of(100)).

Put another way: This is like people criticizing RISC-V for not having multiplication in the core ISA — they don’t seem to grasp that RISC-V is an ISA construction set. Ruby is a language construction set.

Looking at recent Python code, it also seems like the simplicity is being lost in the rush to add features.

edited to add: I arrived at this opinion when I first read the book sometime in the early 90's, which I think is decades before the author's bigotry became public.

If so, that’s a real shame. Foundation may be the single best-designed standard library for a (non-functional) language ever.

Windows gaming is a real shitshow. But that’s where the games are. You can avoid running most of this crap. But you wouldn’t have to put up with it in the first place on the Mac, because there’s an assumed baseline of non-scummy software and vendors would get called out and shunned.

But this probably is a consequence of Fox having gone full Trumpy/facist (see: Tucker Carlson) and CNN willing to buy names for their new streaming service, which I think they correctly view as the future of live news (if there is a future outside of TikTok or TikTok-alikes).

TV network affiliates can be either independently owned or owned & operated by the network. Disney did not acquire either the Fox TV network or the Fox TV O&O stations in the recent Fox studio sale to Disney, likely because Disney already owns the ABC TV network and strategic ABC affiliates.

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8-bit computers likely wouldn't be able to keep up with the bandwidth requirements of those systems either.

This is an argument for defunding the police.

Police reform is sorely needed. "Defund the police" as a slogan was insane political malpractice.

On top of that, I don't like Epic's business and legal practices. Can't buy my soul with free games.

Pink did exist in various forms, and it would be fascinating to have that material available, though.

However, by Mac OS 9, Mac OS X was clearly where all of Apple’s resources would go, whether it was any good or not. Most classic work at that point moved to building bridges to OS X via Carbon. Mac OS 8.5 was the last chance to build major new features into classic Mac OS. None of the ongoing work then or later was on the scale of Copland or putting a new kernel under the OS or anything of that sort. Mac OS 9 was known to be a dead end internally, and nothing like that would have been funded.

Footnote: This skepticism was well-placed: arguably it didn’t actually happen until Mac OS X 10.4. (You can argue that 10.3 was usable — or say “but UNIX” — but I don’t want to hear from you unless you actually tried to support that version on the machines of your less tech-savvy family members.)

Edit: The "space force" needs to justify its existence, and this is a way for them to do it. Why haven't we heard about this before?