More modern hard disks included the drive mechanism in one unit.

They used to be separate, so you would mount the hard disk on the drive to make it accessible.

Yeah, we used to have a couple of the removable phoenix platters knocking around.

Of course now everything tends to be solid state even terms like "drive" are becoming less common.

Yes it did. They were magnetic disks. And they were floppy. The outer case of a 3.5" was solid but just rip it open and you can see the disk itself is floppy.

Edit: oh right, you're talking about the different spellings. Those were entirely arbitrary. We mixed between the two.

What you're willing to pay for X is what X is worth to you. It doesn't have to match what anyone else is willing to pay.

It's the basis of the Law of Supply and Demand.

The great advantage of Bitbucket is that it's so painfully slow you can't tell if it's down or not.

The Linux kernel uses an email based workflow. You can digitally sign email and add it to an immutable store that can be reviewed.

Also, I'd encourage the use of "passphrase" rather than "password".

No-one normal can remember tr5vgh6##t5, but something like "$firstpetsname notatafarm garbagecan" is secure and easily remembered.

Having tried to use that, I can assure you that no one actually (a) remembers their passphrase, nor (b) is willing to type it in when it does come up. It's a fun idea, but it's actually much worse UX than even a secure password.

"load" is the correct term. What would you call it?

You just don't say the sentence at all and instead choose a technology from one of the big tech companies.

That's what increasing productivity means. You are working harder to increase the unearned income of "investors".

That's the way society is set up.

I don't get this sentiment. If you don't want investors to give you any input, don't take money from investors. With a Claude Max subscription, it's cheaper than ever to develop a product entirely by yourself or with a couple of friends, if that's what you prefer to do.

That is what I prefer to do. I prefer "cottage industry" to "capitalism" but that's not the easiest option in this society.

That's the sentiment you don't get.

Edit: haha, I'll repeat an earlier comment! Nothing can fly on the moon.

Never, ever have productivity gains improved the lives of those who do the actual work. They only ever enriched the owners of the factories.

But with “AI” the gain is more code getting generated faster. That is the dumbest possible way to measure productivity in software development. Remember, code is a liability. Pumping out 10x the amount of code is not 10x productivity.

Less gravity has its own issues. Nothing can fly on the moon :)

Obviously you put them under a big dome. That's the easy part.

Of course it is. Things getting cheaper is really bad for the economy.

That's why computers never became an industry, they just kept getting cheaper every year so nobody bought them. If only computing power had kept getting more expensive every year, we might have some kind of tech industry!

A single (luxury) sector getting cheaper is not the same thing as generalized deflation

Computers are not a luxury sector, they're practically built into every device because they're so cheap.

They're also hardly a single sector. What does growth look like if you remove tech stocks?