Why?

It won the transistor lottery, then the money oiled the machine.

Recent events prove that there was nothing ideological about it. Once a positive feedback loop is established, it's difficult to break

I see, thanks. FWIW I was succinct because I didn't think a comment to the effect of "I prefer to let AI do my thinking for me" merited a substantive response. I was (and still am) also genuinely curious what these 3-5 examples were. South Korean chaebols? Roman latifundia? Perhaps we'll never know

I think it's simpler,money has no Color, no religion.

Silicon valley just happened to reside next to the hippies in the first decades

Classic example of humour as stop-think

Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions.

For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app.

Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools.

But I like the idea of having the same syncing solution across all apps on all devices. Curious if anybody can recommend this setup or if collisions will make it unbearable.

It's listed there as a way that people use it and then calls that usage objectionable and a misunderstanding.

I don't dispute that people use it that way but it's objectively a misuse. The phrase's misuse implies that evidence against a statement supports the statement.

> In many uses of the phrase, however, the existence of an exception is taken to more definitively 'prove' a rule to which the exception does not fit.

> In what Fowler describes as the "most objectionable" variation of the phrase,[1] this sort of use comes closest to meaning "there is an exception to every rule", or even that the presence of an exception makes a rule more true; these uses Fowler attributes to misunderstanding.

If you are assuming that your Hainan airlines flight has wifi that isn't behind the GFW, even outside of cattle class, I have some news for you...

There is no such thing as "prompt engineering". Since when the ability to write proper and meaningful sentences became engineering?

This is even worse than "software engineering". The unfortunate thing is that there will probably be job postings for such things and people will call themselves prompt engineers for their extraordinary abilities for writing sentences.