Hardware is especially amenable to "with this vector, it does this" you don't need to understand the entire state space of the device if you never visit it.
Long since we have understood that aesthetic doesn't age. Even in 1999, was I using discarded wintegrate terminals as telnet ttys and ICA (disgusting predecessor of RDP) clients with modern computers. Now we can have fyne shyt as native apps that talk to a modern home server for the bits a mac2, Amiga or toilet duck imac can't materialise.
The thing I love most about this years llm novation is retrosoft.
People are like actually NT 3.51 is best afterall.
Actually Atari st is best.
Actually Mac II is best.
I mean many had this belief already, but now they can make clanker continue in the tradition of the way we only limited did with things like Haiku and Aros.
There's real magic in binary to source to port transforms. In new net old computer transforms. We are healing the aesthetic that was robbed from the world.
@lcamtuf HAhaha. This but also in reverse. Let the language wars get even bloodier. The tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of yhe innocent.
@tszzl Clutter confusion is persistent in IT. When mp3 came out there were a hundred companies building a capability identical software jukebox.
When GPS came out: maps but with a cursor where you are.
Digital Cameras: shitty digital photo albums
@tszzl Clutter confusion is a reasonable short term trajectory because it's the expected outcome of a lot of low creativity, low imagination PMs applying what we have. But it doesn't capture the long-term trajectory of systems thinkers asking, ok, but what useful things can we build now