> All of that is simply common sense.

Is that why we have legal codes spanning millions of pages?

> A few decades later, we have audio compression that is much better and higher-quality than MP3

Just curious, which formats and how they compare, storage wise?

Also, are you sure it's not just moving the goalposts to CPU usage? Frequently more powerful compression algorithms can't be used because they use lots of processing power, so frequently the biggest gains over 20 years are just... hardware advancements.

I'm using it on Framework Desktop 128GB RAM... Its scroll is utterly broken outside of VS Code for me, on Gnome Terminal, Tilix and a few others.

And even in VS Code, it wonks out after a while.

My guess is that it mostly works on Apple devices.

Is it better than OpenCode?

Meh. I'm an early "reader" and a very late adopter. Just follow from a distance what's happening, without any skin in the game, and let other collect arrows in their backs. Unless you're actually building a business around the new tech, there's rarely any serious benefit.

Just keep an eye on things and try things without spending much.

> With email, the 800 lb gorillas won, and in the end it didn't even solve the spam problem.

I have a 15+ year old Gmail account that I've used everywhere. Spam has been a non issue since 15+ years ago.

Your experience isn’t representative. Mine isn’t either.

I've seen plenty of Gmail accounts over the years and they pretty much look the same.

The only Gmail accounts that are "overrun by spam" are those of people subscribing to lots of spammy newsletters and then not knowing how to unsubscribe from them (or figuring they'd stay subscribed in case the next newsletter is the Magical One™). But that's 100% self inflicted and you can't save those people with any technical solution.

Email spam isn't a day to day problem for Gmail (at least) since Bayesian email filtering was first implemented.

> Surely all the engineers that existed 20 years ago haven’t simply retired?

20 years ago we had 5 times fewer engineers. And most of those have moved into management, other fields, retired, work calm jobs for the government or boring companies, etc.

How many 40+ year old engineers do you see, especially when compared to 20-30 year old engineers?

> Half of $30k/mo trivially pays for an engineer you hire to only manage such a cluster for you and just works an hour a week unless a pager goes off if you truly need that level of peace of mind. If you’re hiring for such a position I have a few rock star level folks who would love such a job.

1 person? Is that person always on call?

Yep, absolutely. I’ve come up with the term “man on the mountain” for such positions.

It’s when one person is exceedingly talented at exactly one thing - but isn’t exactly a typical employee who is good or interested in doing much else other than keeping that one thing online and reliable.

Their job is to go live on their mountain for weeks or months at a time without so much as doing anything other than keeping their phone on and answering it within the first couple rings regardless of when called. If they are good at their job you likely don’t even need to call - they already know it’s broken before you do.

I’ve employed a few such folks over my career. They tend to be the “alternative” style candidate - exceptional people with exceptional flaws. They love the simple tradeoff.

That said of course this is ignoring bus factor and overly simplifying things. Typically this is one deep subject level matter expert who sits off on the side of a small team, so there is at least one “understudy” hanging around as well.

I still advocate for such positions when they make sense though. I would much rather in-house my own “insurance” vs overpay some giant company for each month only to find out the insurance didn’t exist when I needed to make a claim. It’s certainly more risk to my career - but I have very strong feelings that as a manager or executive my job is NOT to cover my own ass because it’s easier.

Cherry picking makes no sense.

> Why has Tesla been successful?

Survivor bias. He's had how many failed businesses? 10? Probably more.