Reminds me of the Jean Renoir quote "A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again."

https://ichionkai.co.jp/english4.html these seems to describe it.

Isn't pay per usage viable for value via web or does that fall under subscription? I tend to think of subscription as a monthly/annual payment for access.

Pay per use has terrible incentives for pure software.

It’s more reasonable if there’s an end product at the end. But you don’t want to discourage people using your 3D printing service because your bundling software access that people might not need.

It _sucks_ compared to some other non existent platform. The adoption both by users and developers seems to indicate it is the best thing we have produced for this so far.

> It _sucks_ compared to some other non existent platform.

Those platforms exist: desktop and mobile. People are so enamoured with the web and/or have no experience outside the web, and so don't know how insanely more performant almost literally everything outside the web is.

Sorry, but no. You‘re wrong. „Desktop“ isn‘t a platform, it‘s a loose term for native applications running directly on your OS. „Desktop“ is extremely fragmented: Windows, MacOS, Linux. The latter is fragmented as well.

I will gladly take every disadvantage of the web to deliver my products to every platform. The alternative is not shipping to MacOS and Linux systems.

But those platforms _suck_ in terms of time to market/time to add features in a cross platform way. That's the terms that they lose to the web on.

I have an M2 with lots-o-RAM. Not everything needs to be "performant".

I'm old enough to remember the same arguments being made when people started using C rather than ASM.

> Not everything needs to be "performant".

With that attitude you get Microsoft officially advertising their new Teams version that takes 9 seconds to show less than 1kb of text (3 seconds just to show the splashscreen).

Yes, we are running what essentially amounts to supercomputers. Why is it then that Slack still requires 20% CPU to show an animated emoji? Or that Matrix spikes to 60% CPU when scrolling through a largely empty channel? Or...

But a lot of customers of your "thing" want to be able to download it from the app store.

Isn't flight autopilot an easier problem than ground vehicle autopilot?

Flight autopilot is easy if you only have to fly from one point to another. The hard part is dealing with emergencies. We are far from being able to build an autopilot that could react as well as the human crew did during US Airways flight 1549.

In airliners that cruise for hours at 3 times the height of the highest mountains...

Yes

Honestly that is a good way to describe a lot of the works by McDonagh.

One of the best directors out there. Just wish he had more to watch.

You can give his plays a whirl if you weren't aware of their existence.

Yeah after writing my comment I learned he was the mastermind behind In Bruges, which I loved, and Seven Psychopaths, which I forgot about but I remember enjoying its quirkiness.

I actually currently do this ( for cyberpunk red not D&D). What I will say is it has let me be way more open in letting the game go where the players want it. If they decide chasing after some thread that I wasn't even thinking about is what they want to do, I can stall for a bit and let chatgpt come up with some characters, locations, and interesting skill checks.

I can't seem to find it now, but either here or on reddit someone had numbers from a filling indicating ~8% of accounts were below 250k.

What am I missing that makes you feel that way about Brazil?

There’s no equivalent OSS implementation of a multi language lock file like Brazil’s. You have to build your own or go with a monorepo tool like bazel. Amazonians take reproducibility for granted because of Brazil.

You're talking "Bazel" right? No "r" pronounced like the herb "basil."

Or is there some other framework named "Brazil?"

Autocorrect gone viral?

Brazil is an internal tool used at Amazon.

NixOS is an equivalent and it does not require a mono repo.

I’d be happy if I’m wrong about this but I don’t think you can get a reproducible Node.JS build or python build from NixOS out the box. You need to build something on top of it.