Microsoft are charging a yearly fee to continue getting security updates for Win10 after EOL.

It’s not the same game at all. A single purpose piece of code does not have the same considerations as a large software application. It’s more like one is speed chess and the other is actual armies on a battlefield.

Clickbait title. This is in the context of competitive coding, which is a very specific and constrained programming exercise with a time limit. Which is not at all comparable to real world software development.

I mean, it is a hype bubble, just like the dotcom bubble. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to it, just that a lot of the claims people are making about it are unrealistic.

It’s brought up in the comments but I think the book The Sabres of Paradise is much more central to Herbert’s influences on Dune. This is a good article on it:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/

Starcraft pros about to get their Ender’s Game moment.

Why?

Soulseek is the best option I’ve found for this: https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/1

It’s an old style file sharing app, like Napster and Limewire, but is focused on underground music. I’ve been using it for years and had no problems with spyware or anything like that.