brunospars

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We've had technology for 150 years now and much has been positive. Consumers could be encouraged to favor quality , responsiveness & longevity .

Cars & appliances have regressed into unreliable, overstimulated and unpresonsive disasters. Much of this is how they are marketed and sold. Cars seem flashy until you own it for a few months .

It's up to consumers to make a choice.

your terminal should not have RPC . I've been going the other direction, even replacing BASH with DASH , it's 90% smaller

I lol'ed .

Like finance, cutting things out is a recipe for ruin. You need to fill your life with edifying people & pursuits.

For each one of these that you scratch off, put something fulfilling it its place.

e.g.

  Facebook - book club with friends
  linkedin  -- sales pitch for a side hustle
  spotify  -- go to concert / learn instrument

every config parser is a compiler. if platforms (e.g. programming languages) made run-time plugins easier, we wouldn't even have config files.

Imagine a config file with type checking and control flow. You have it-- it's your programming language. you just need to load the code at runtime, like erlang.

i yearn for an alternate reality where every unix command/service had the same syntax and a lua interpreter.