That requires being funny first, and the OP failed.

Now you're confounding 'humor' with 'quality humor'. The first one only needs that the intent of the sentence is tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be taken literally; which the OP clearly was, and the first reply clearly missed.

I said it was a fantasy. I didn't miss anything.

As others have pointed out, Python is better used in places where those numbers aren't relevant.

If they start becoming relevant, it's usually a sign that you're using the language in a domain where a duck-typed bytecode scripting-glue language is not well-suited.

If you want to play the same exact title, yes. But previous versions would kick you out from playing a shared game if the owner was playing any other title in their library, and they've recently removed that behaviout.

Honest question, how do you discover interesting content over this protocol?

Is there people building the equivalent to web directories and web rings? Or search engines? What are the cultural expectations on navigating other people's published resources?

There are search engines, directories and feed aggregators [1].

Best means of discovery is like the original web, you surf it, bouncing from capsule to capsule finding what you like.

1. https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini?tab=readme-ov-file...

Buying the wire and the pliers is not doing the thing either, but you can't do the thing if you don't have them.

It's still not doing the thing

Given that Valve are the ones who released the Orange Box, methinks the original comparison is valid

Meanwhile, I've heard that very argument every time some official organisation makes a proposal to regulate the market to limit the dominance of some dominant players. Those distorting the market in their favour will oppose any regulation that reduces their power by bemoaning how it will limit consumer's choice.

The article says 'abundance'. The point you make that having choices is a requisite for freedom, but truth is that freedom comes from meaningful choices, not an abundance of them.

You have a myriad of artificially created choices that amount to more or less the same outcome; think of a supermarket, where all products are the same high-processed food and imported vegetables. Freedom would be having a competing family-owned local shop with proximity products.

To have meaningful choice, you cannot depend of having a single homogeneous environment providing all the choices you can make; this can come from having healthy competition, or sometimes by you creating your own choices when there were none.

I think one important point in the article is being unnoticed: these special highlights would not be the default for reading code, but specific tools that the developer can turn on and off for when their use case is needed.

So, not much different than a search for regular expressions or a "show definition" tooltip

If they need to be signed by Google, that's not side loading by definition; it's using an alternate Google channel.