Sorry but that makes no sense, there is nothing in "Microsoft's kingdom" here, Wine -as you certainly know- is independent. The most Microsoft can do is change the API in backwards incompatible ways - but that'd affect Windows too, so there is little incentive to do that (and attempts such as Metro/UWP/etc to change the core ways of working with Windows didn't prove popular with most gamedevs).
And even if Microsoft does that, it isn't any different than the 2394923th time a library breaks its API on Linux - Linux as an operating system isn't some monolithic project, it is a combination of hundreds of separate projects that for the most part work together like -sometimes misshapen- bricks on a wall. Wine/Proton is just another of those bricks (and history has shown that it tends to be among the more stable ones).
I would argue it disrupted engineering. So many videos on YouTube can be found of people cutting out expensive molds (for example) and getting a product to market faster and cheaper. And this is happening in companies as well (Prusa released an enterprise grade printer not long ago).
At the same time, Printables and MakerWorld are flooded with…toys. They gamified their platforms and a ton of “thingy” models, ex. generic planter pots (some of them just renders, never even printed!) is the result.
This certainly hides the benefit but I very much think it’s there.
There is places and things that work for 3d printing. Very small scale manufacturing. Prototypes. But actually selling those is somewhat hard and not scalable market. And home printing... Yeah that sounds like hobbyist to me with corresponding market.
On other side you get to complex topologies and very specialised parts. Again pretty hard to scale and limited demand.
In the end it is manufacturing and manufacturing is huge. But also generally does not have great margins. It has lot of competition. So 3D printing would end up there with others say makers of CNC machines, various presses and so on. Multi-billion dollar industry, but not tech.
This is precisely what I mean though. It's a technology that has found its place and is definitely useful and a value-add to society.
But if we look at the types of predictions made in the early days (print a house in a day for under $5k, print any food you want at home, obviating factories you can make anything at home...), almost none of that has come through.
And that doesn't mean it's a bad technology. Most technologies don't revolutionize the average person's life, but can still change corners of civilization.
But compare that to the internet, which has literally changed how we do basically everything in our daily lives.
I think the point is that most technologies are like 3D printing while the current narrative is that AI will be more like the internet.
Actually a super cool project! I hate not having a browser in my tmux, so if this can give me one it will be quite the feat.
Also, there is an open branch for porting to electron (so adblocking and different extensions can be used), but it’s dead in the water. If anyone knows electron well enough…
It’s a PITA to extract a stateful react component to a standalone piece of code that can be inserted in a random place (in another page, served via API etc.). Not sure about Svelte, but achieving this in React was unexpectedly hard/impossible in our use case.
Check out the city of Skopje, Macedonia in the pre 2000s period (max 2010s) for a brutalist-but-good architecture.
Post 2014 it got “updated” with baroque architecture - as most of the brutalist buildings were covered in plaster. Worst decision.
History:
The whole city got destroyed in a massive earthquake in 1963. After that it got rebuilt following an architectural plan by a Japanese architect- Kenzo Tange.
In my opinion the city center got the most beautiful buildings at the time - the “City Wall” wrapping around the central square, the building of the “Macedonian opera & ballet” etc.
At the same time the “small city” spirit was preserved - the old Turkish Bazaar, family houses 5min walking distance from the center; and even amplified with the donated “barrack houses” from the worlds nations.
For those interested check out the video “Skopje 1979” on YouTube.
I recently learned that people are on a spectrum of thoughts visualization - not everyone _thinks_ the same. If you want to check your personal mix of “visualization” characteristics this questionnaire by Uni of Wisconsin-Madison is useful (you also get your position on the distribution curve):
I mean I’d like this to be true, but for brands that are younger than a 30yo Corolla (thats still running), its a big statement to make.
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