What about DDoSing and its consequences? For that matter, it looks like a very bad move. Not exactly a very "grown-up" or responsible approach.

Yet with RSS you can read between 300 and 1800 articles, depending on the feed type.

Those "Prompt-YES-baity" last sentences are somehow counterproductive.

Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).

> you can kinda tell where you should optimize ahead of time

Rules are "kinda" made to be broken. Be free.

I've been sticking to these rules (and will keep sticking to them) for as long as I can program (I've been doing it for the last 30 years).

IMHO, you can feel that a bottleneck is likely to occur, but you definitely can't tell where, when, or how it will actually happen.

The other reply to this 'bot' looks like another default thing: <https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=David-Brug-Ai>

Surprisingly, this is an interesting outcome. Atari could have been worse (better too).

Apogee was somehow part of the party < https://x.com/ScottApogee/status/1593729387106512896>

Because of the shareware distribution. A lot of Apogee software was shareware (free).

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