Just so you know: the zfs in freebsd and in linux are the same codebase. Literally. It’s OpenZFS.

Also, a few years ago the FreeBSD people decided to throw away their own ZFS implementation and import the linux one (OpenZFS) because they couldn’t keep up with the development pace.

Nowadays ZFS development is collaborative but in each major freebsd release it’s clearly marked which OpenZFS releases they imported in the FreeBSD codebase.

Proprietary food.. that you can only buy from a single company are all doomed? Might I offer an example that, under some definitions, has not failed despite that strategy. The McRib.

I was going to offer the twinkie but I guess hostess declared bankruptcy, so maybe you're right.

It's not an unreasonable statement though that for the concept to work it has to "jellybean" though: many manufacturers, many variations, same basic product, ubiquitous availability.

Where it sits as a "premium" good doesn't really work as a value proposition.

If that was a good argument, neither Quorn nor Linda McCartney Foods would have been successes.

They're both doing fine.

And Huel.

Likewise beyond just substitutes, all specific sodas, sweets, biscuits*, most breakfast cereals, etc.

* I'm British by birth, I don't mean those scones Americans have with "gravy".

> Proprietary food, that you can only buy from one company

Huh? Isn't that most of it, except for basic grocery ingredients?

I don't. I don't know where you live, but unless it's on a farm, branded foods are obviously not a US-only phenomenon. Anything even remotely processed will be based on proprietary recipes. Regular meat burgers and sausages are just as "proprietary" as Beyond Meat ones, let alone foods like candy bars or snacks. Do you think Snickers bars are not proprietary?

Bread, cheese etc have names that says what it is that is unrelated to brand. That is the normal way for most products, a minority of products in the grocery stores I visit are brand only, most things you can get essentially the same from another brand. Exception would be sodas and candy and such, but that is a tiny fraction of what people buy.

Its like when I go to a pizza place I can get the same pizzas regardless where I go even though they are all independent, the recipe for most things people eat in the world are not secrets, its stuff anyone can make and sell.

Regular burger saying "burger" on the package is not any different from Beyond Burger saying "plant-based burger" on the package. The exact recipe is a secret, but the general methodology is not. Just like with almost all processed foods.

Nevermind all of the specialty foods across the globe. Products made from basic ingredients and labeled to sell are everywhere. What exactly are you referring to?

I'm not gonna let random strangers on the internet tell me who to hate (or love, for that matter).

Maybe you could evaluate the reasons for yourself instead of just looking for an authority to tell you what to feel.

did you miss the point of the article?

The article was essentially, "you should hate Anthropic" followed by a poorly explained timeline and some insubstantial arguments.

If there was a point there the article did not make it easy to find.

I’m waiting for somebody to come and tell us about the time they punched cards by hand, one hole at the time, and then threw coal in the furnace to have the cards interpreted by a steam-powered computer.

Is this close enough? it’s from 1969, I wonder what became of them:

“Tomorrow's World: Nellie the School Computer 15 February 1969 - BBC”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DtY42xEOI

Do you have a substantive argument against any points made by parent?

it should be clear i'm not arguing along the points made by parent nor against them.

I bet it started with people trying to 1-up other commenters via the usual “achtually…” and then proceeding with the “in mice” notice.

Interesting take but I think the work is, at very best, halfway through.

If authors want this to take off they need to work on user experience, particularly for non-technical users. Otherwise it might at best become some tech niche that will eventually die.

I’m not sure i understand this, is this some kind of corporate openclaw?

Clearly not

Oh i had one of those! The acer aspire one d250, with 1gb ram and 160gb of spinning rust.

Once i got Debian, fluxbox and emacs on it i was able to do java development (with ant and the j2me toolkit).

It was no big issue at all really, once you got linux on it.

I must say, however: the web was much lighter back in the day and electron was still to be conceived. That’s very relevant.

What about battery life and weight though?

And how much does the charger weigh as well? The neo can basically share the charger with your phone…