It could work if you put the couch in your neighbor's yard first.

True but you still lose your couch! >:(

When can we finally make user tracking illegal?

Gripe only related to email in general: what annoys me to no end is that if my boss forwards me an email and asks me to reply to it (to everybody in the original email) then I have to type in or copy+paste all the addresses from the Fwd attachment (using Fastmail, but this problem exists everywhere). Instead, there should be a button to make that easy.

There's actually nothing that prevents that, if you craft the right headers you can reply to a thread you were not included in, and have it show up as a reply in the thread of common clients (tested Gmail and Outlook).

We added this feature at my $dayjob and I was quite surprised there is no authentication. But thinking about it, this is how mailing lists work (you aren't explicitly specified in "To:") so it makes sense you can do this.

But there could be a smoother path between having a GC and having no GC.

Right now, you'd have to switch languages.

But in a Great Language you'd just have to refactor some code.

How many people were working on the core compiler/language at the time versus Rust? This could explain it.

D has always been an handful of people.

How good are the big LLMs at writing D code? Just curious.

Yes, from a purely business perspective they should let others do the work for them and then pull a Sherlock down the line.

Does it mean it also runs in a browser? Why isn't there a demo?

It does look like Filament has a web target:

https://github.com/google/filament

but if they're targeting embedded systems, maybe they haven't prioritized a public web demo yet. If the bulk of the project is actually in C++, making a web demo probably involves a whole WASM side-quest. I suspect there's a different amount of friction between "I wanna open source this cool project we're doing" and "I wanna build a rendering target we won't use to make the README look better."

Someone asked in the Questions section at the end and they said No but they would be happy to discuss its possibility in a Github issue.

Every capacitor can be a potential microphone ...

Make that "every vibrating surface can be a potential microphone ..."

The laser on a hotel window experiment comes to mind.

Or an adapted Theremin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

with a high speed camera any vibrating reflective object like a potato chips bag can become a weak microphone if you have line of sight even behind a soundproof window: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXOucXB4a8

> Longer lasting electronics that can be repurposed or reused is the lever I’d be most excited to pull here.

Capitalists are pulling the lever in the other direction, though. And there's many of them. Or they pay people to pull.