I mean, steam does install the game and you can run the executable, but yes, there is a level of trust that it won't delete the game or some such.

I mean, people really didn't hate it. There was some grumbling about digital and not having a cd, but by and large people liked it as soon as they had broadband.

This sort of thing is a constant tension and it's highly likely to be a different optimum for every individual, but it's also important not to ignore genuine improvements for the sake of comfort/familiarity.

I suspect, in general, age has a fair amount to do with it (I certainly notice it in myself) but either way I think it's worth evaluating new things every so often.

Something like rg in specific can be really tricky to evaluate because it does basically the same thing as the builtin grep, but sometimes just being faster crosses a threshold where you can use it in ways you couldn't previously.

E.g. some kind of find as you type system, if it took 1s per letter it would be genuinely unusuable but 50ms might take it over the edge so now it's an option. Stuff like that.

Wait, tmux doesn't have floating windows? I really thought it did...

What is the correct term for this kind of bad faith attempt at seeming logical while at the same time being utterly and deliberately wrong?

Nobody thinks that a president type figure appointing someone else to run a part of the government they are responsible for is an erosion of democracy.

What, specifically, is the alternative? The president does literally everything? We have elections for each dmv clerk?

Or maybe we draw some kind of line and say some jobs should have elections and others aren't worth the effort.

(And no, you can't just say "the job of dmv clerk should't exist" because someone has to do it and I'd much rather that person be answerable to an elected government than a corporation or worse)

What you’re describing is how administrative bureaucracies used to work in the U.S. before the 1920s and in Europe before the E.U. That’s consistent with democracy. The anti-democratic part is when the elected officials began delegating more and more power to those bureaucracies and those bureaucracies became more independent and insulated from elections. That when the backslide happened.

In the U.S. that happened because of legislation and new legal doctrines in the 1930s. In Europe it happened because of increasing delegation of power to the centralized E.U. bureaucracy.

I mean, the obvious point here is that none of these people are selling linux (or wayland or whatever). You could argue some of these projects over promise in terms of features and so forth, but again, it's not like people are paying for it.

You can certainly be unhappy with a piece of software regardless of if you paid for it, and there's an argument to be made that linux users benefit from it becoming more popular, but we're still mostly talking about volunteers creating software for themselves and then choosing to share it with others.

Unless this has changed recently, perl doesn't free memory to the kernel, only within its own process/vm.

This is the detail I'd really like to know more about

The top 3 most popular index fund ETFs track S&P500, which doesn't really pull this kind of shenanigan. Only QQQ tracks the NASDAQ 100 and it's in 5th place by assets under management.

You should probably read a book about index investing if you are going to invest.

Yeah, but the S&P500 is hugely concentrated in MAG7, which are all Nasdaq listed. So when they all get sold to buy SpaceX, you can bet your butt something's gonna happen to a S&P500 ETF.

SPY is somewhat concentrated in mag7 (or the other 93 stocks in QQQ), but only a small percent of mag 7 are owned via QQQ, which has 400B aum. (Mag 7 is 19T.)

The bottom line is all this fuckery is a tiny blip for most investors. It's far more concerning to me the societal harm that will come from further enriching Elon.

Being added to the index is literally the only thing causing "the squeeze" according to this description though so how does that benefit either the author or the index holder?

If the stock was added to the index at a normal period then all the shares would be available.

this is news.ycombinator.com

Do you think there's some super dominos that happens? If he's trying some combo pump-dump scheme, there's much better places.

Also, you provide zero counter to the punch, so what is your word worth any more?

It's substack, not ycombinator. The article is obviously not targeted at ycombinator.

And I don't think he's doing a pump and dump. He's just doing the very human act about ranting about things that affect him. His self-interest colors the piece.