yooogurt

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   by yooogurt 9mo ago

   > if you want to back this file up regularly with something like restic, then you will quickly end up in a world of pain: since new mails are not even appended to the end of the file, each cycle of takeout-then-backup essentially produce
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   by yooogurt 9mo ago

   > companies that can afford inflated prices will take advantage of the situation to pull ahead of competitors who can't afford tech at inflated tech These big companies are competing with each other, and they're willing and abl
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   by yooogurt 9mo ago

   If you haven't heard of Rich Hickey, then you're fortunate to have the opportunity to watch "Simple Made Easy" for the first time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtk3HCgTa8
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   by yooogurt 9mo ago

   I have seen similar critiques applied against digital tech in general. Don't get me wrong, I continue to use plain Emacs to do dev, but this critique feels a bit rich... Technological change changes lots of things. The verdict is still
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   by yooogurt 9mo ago

   Isn't this more easily explained by supply-demand? Supply can't quickly scale, and so with increased demand there will be increased prices.
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   by yooogurt 9mo ago

   Alternatively, we'll see a drop in deployment diversity, with more and more functionality shifted to centralised providers that have economies of scale and the resources to optimise. E.g. IDEs could continue to demand lots of CPU/