In my opinion, this is obvious satire, even if many people seem to miss it.

Theoretically, if solar did not make much economic sense at all, it would be purely a signalling thing. And those kind of things do spread by the ”catching on” effect. People might then get solar panels just to be seen as the kind of people who have solar panels, i.e. not the wrong kind of people.

Good point.

There’s an xkcd: <https://www.xkcd.com/1105/>

I genuinely believe there's an xkcd for everything. I was only reading about the creator, Randall Munroe a few days ago and he's clearly very talented.

Does this look like 1978 to you? <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/>

I love Emacs, and while that tour doesn't quite look 1978, it sure doesn't look 2026 either. Maybe somewhere in the middle.. yup, 2002 seems about right.

And for some reason, most of the screenshots on that page are in super low res, e.g. I see https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus-small.pn... instead of https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus.png , I really don't see why they'd want to make it look even worse.

And then on the other hand you have people like Nicolas Rougier https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp... or Álvaro Ramírez https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos who show how great it can really look.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind old aesthetics, but... yes? Well I wasn't exactly alive in 1978 but all the screenshots look like they are at least 20 years old

Firstly, the original comment was about UI rather than aesthetics. Secondly, as with everything else in Emacs, you can customise the appearance however you want. Those screenshots are from vanilla Emacs which is admittedly rather ugly. Most people heavily customise, or use an Emacs distro like Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/) or Doom (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs?tab=readme-ov-file) which have more sensible default appearance configs.

20 years ago was in 2006, not 1978.

Try Ctrl-5.

I think your information is very out of date.

If you just want to find a payphone: <https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2lHO>

Cool, thanks for this. It seems this data comes from OpenStreeMap and has some phones not listed in Payphone-Go. Curious about the discrepancy.

There is now a second edition of that book which has supposedly been rewritten to fix that.

Related: The growth of command line options, 1979-Present <https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/>

— Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), chapter 32

Specifically the Ursula K. LeGuin translation :)