The Bat! was absolutely the best email client. ever. way ahead of eudora. it was a massive step back when i switched to my first macbook in 2006 (the black one!) and started to use Thunderbird. That said Thunderbird is fantastic now and great to see it get native Exchange support!

What is it like to use The Bat?

It hits hard.

i switched fulltime to kagi, it gives me mostly better results than google and bing.

its possibly quite a clever strategy to have a high price, essentially the tesla playbook:

get a good standing with HNW people and provide an awesome product, meanwhile the incumbents laugh at it because its not scalable and has no significant growth. But also they do not shoot it down. Once its big enough and economies of scale kick in, then the price is lowered or the market pays that price.

Then again, we now do have flying cars, floating cities and robot helpers. They just look different and are not (yet?) that common.

Floating cities?

I think you could make a case that the largest cruise ships would be recognized as such by people from the Titanic era.

E.g., https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/worlds-lar...

People are starting to live onboard these things full-time, because it's apparently cheaper than a retirement/nursing home.

what D imo would benefit most of is a cohesive standard library that comes with batteries included and makes it easy to ship real world apps and services. basically what Go did, having many standard protocol implementations within stdlib.

Pretty much the same experience. It is an awesome language, probably still my favourite. What i did not like is the inconsistent apis and missing basic protocol implementations in the standard library.

Someone should write an heavily opinionated standard library like go has, with basic http,mail, dns etc support. Then D would really be a superpower

Yeah, sometimes when I've felt like Phobos is lacking (https://dlang.org/phobos) I turned to the community made packages (https://code.dlang.org)

But things might have changed a lot since I used it last time.

The problem with such a small community, is that users from community made packages are expected to fix them when they no longer work with latest compilers.

If you want to build an original midcentury two story house, i am doing a model from a leica scan and plan to share it.

i also don't really understand why they don't offer a similar software/hardware package ontop of linux as apple does.

its sad my biological grandfather got a bit lost in buying underwood seemingly out of mortification. He also spent a lot of effort in a not very successful political career in as you say, a very interesting environment. Imagine where Ivrea would be today if that effort went into SGS (and his personal Health i guess).

Sorry, I’m a bit lost.

Was Adriano Olivetti a relative of yours?

Are you able to expand on what you have said? It’s kind of amazing to have a relative of his here if I’m reading your comment correctly.

many people seem to not have clarity on what a distributed log is and in which architecture its useful and in which not. if you are abusing a distributed log as a message queue, you are most of the time creating a mess.

The "abuse" you describe is pretty much how Kafka is used everywhere I've worked.

also olivetti, Italy who brought to market the very first personal computer.