The issue was solved by having a rich and Turing complete language. I am not huge on adding language features. This seems like userland stuff.

I tend to agree. I think it's easy enough to use a lambda in this case

    >>> template = lambda name: f'Hello {name}'
    >>> template('Bob')

A physical business can put up a closed sign. That closed sign has 24/7 uptime. (Sans vandalism, natural disasters)

I guess for a website you could do similar by flicking cloudflare over to an IP serving a were closed.

But you won't be competitive and you will lose customers!

If your website provides me a respectable and decent service I am going to take that over than say a website that's open 24/7.

The same amount of quality will cost more for 24/7 availability so the likelihood of them cutting corners is more likely and thas causing a lack of quality. If however they don't then yeah, I guess you would.

You can't even read amazon reviews without logging in, now all you get is an AI generated summary.

My broadband provider is more expensive than the common domestic provider but they provide decent support so that's why I am content in forking the extra cost.

Sure, but you'd probably prefer a website that provides a respectable and decent service that's available 24/7 and didn't go out of their way to specifically stop providing service some of the time, often for no technical or practical reason.

> I guess for a website you could do similar by flicking cloudflare over to an IP serving a were closed.

Huh? Why would you need Cloudflare and a separate IP for that? You can just have your server serve a different thing in certain hours

Oh my!

grml!

Nice. Of course you could have ended with zero too!

Well yes. With the possibility of high upside also comes a chance of a downside.

Feasible in an AI world!

Logs, tests, debugging, ask questions, build a mental model, test that mental model. The more experience I get the less I guess.

Right, I misunderstood the meaning of "guess" here.

Yes. You weren't wrong. You need to first guess in order to not guess :)

Yes for holiday planning. At work we are a massive confluence/rovo user so that is my go to with very occasional search engine use.

Our projects heavily use platform tools so I am looking there rather than Googling.

500ms means a slow connection, high latency or significant bloat.

Optimising the page and using a CDN can help alot.

It is a shame HTML doesn't have rel="swap" in links to "swap" in a new page.

Yes if you click a regular link in a modern browser on a noJS or lowJS reasonable size page it is darn fast.

And the predictability is a boon. Open in new tab, back button etc.

Pre-trump: Why does China need US debt? They can be paid US $ for stuff then buy US assets like stocks instead? Then they get rich without worrying if they get paid. (Assuming the US doesn't break down basic corporate norms and confiscate assets)

Paper assets are only meaningful because an army or police force says they are meaningful.

If police and militaries disappeared overnight, then stocks would have no value. Guns would have value and food would have value. Ability to produce these things have value, but paper and whats on it has no value. Moving physical objects has value.

In war, all of these things on paper don't matter compared to physical reality and how it is crafted.

So investing creates a dependence on the American enforcement system which would not enforce in china's favor in case of a war. In some ways investing in a foreign country weakens your own sovereignty and it definitely weakens sovereignty as Putin or Xi would define it.