With the advent of digital music, "record album" morphed from referring to the physical medium, to referring to the recording that would be put on it. I think something similar is happening for "box set".

Not sure I'd agree. "Record album" never specifically referred to anything physical, and just means "collection of recordings", regardless of what medium is used for them.

The term "album" by itself did originally refer to something physical -- a collection of photos bound into a book by a glue made from egg whites ("albumen") -- but the semantic shift to "album" meaning any kind of collection offered as a single unit happened well before "record albums" were a thing.

But the term "box set" has not experienced a comparable semantic shift, and still implies the presence of an actual box.

Until just a couple years ago, Servo had been a pure research project with no goal of ever releasing a full browser (and it was abandoned by Mozilla in 2020).

Igalia had five engineers working full time who turned that science project into v0.0.1 in less than two years.

re: traditional vs electronic medical records, if you haven't read Seeing Like a State, I highly recommend checking it out. The book is all about the unexpected side effects of improving the legibility of information for decision makers - these attempts can erase or elide important local detail, which ultimately sabotages the bureaucracy's aim of improving the system.

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I mean, boxing is, by design, much more violent and higher impact than most other gym exercises.

The question isn't nonsense, it just has an answer which is so obvious nobody would ever ask it organically.

It's funny, it sure seems like software projects in general follow the Lindy effect: considering their age and mindshare, I can safely predict gcc, emacs, SQLite, and Python will still be running somewhere ten, 20, 30 years from now. Indeed, people will choose to use certain software specifically because it's been around forever; it's tried and true.

But LLMs, and AI-related tooling, seem to really buck that trend: they're obsoleted almost as soon as they're released.

AI-related tooling is pretty fungible, but AI models get immediately obseleted due to the unit economics around training models... as well as the fact that nobody releases their datasets or training paradigms in useful detail (best we get is the model weights, because of copyright etc etc)

We saw that for PC's in the 80's because performance was advancing rapidly. It slowed down somewhat as computers became good enough.

The regional Sy Ableman.

An Excel spreadsheet is a bad source of truth for data. It's fine for analytics though.

Without taking a position, this debate is reminiscent of that around net neutrality.