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counterpoint: launchd works.

they cleverly don't mention that there's cargo space in the front, where the engine is on normal SUVs :)

the back may not be as spacious in as one would expect.

This is the fat-tree connection diagram for one of the cabinets of a CM-5. It was posted on a wall at one of the national labs in the US which had the pleasure of working with a CM-5 around the time War Games was in theatres. People still gushed about how nice that machine was to program 10-15 years later. SiCortex[1] tried to do something similar with their computers, unfortunately they failed and with them the last interesting connector architecture and the last interesting "supercomputer". even cray does linux now...

http://i.imgur.com/jHtf4QB.jpg

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex

they tried to be cheeky. is ignoring that a problem sufficiently inconveniencing you that it requires a post on a forum?

nb: you mean "cite".

why would you make me do this? you can doxx people on your own dime... still, for posterity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328964 "...now I am working full time as a Rust developer"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310666 "As a long time Erlang developer..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265199 "As someone who has worked two jobs now writing, deploying, and operating Erlang clusters, I recommend switching to Rust."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251478 "Becoming a professional Haskell and Erlang developer really shifted my view on OOP"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185795 "I've been using Rust in production for a little over half a year, and my team and I have run into very few issues. [...] We're all extremely glad we chucked C++ and Go and switched to Rust. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171917 "I am exclusively using Go and Rust at home and at work, and I find myself equally productive in both."

you get the point.

i think steveklabnik was hired very early on in the rust project's life as a community liaison. not sure if he still does that work but he posts here regularly and perhaps can point to one, or advocate for such a position if one does not exist.

Also worth checking: http://0.30000000000000004.com/

most popular previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871

> Go’s spec isn’t formally proven, for example, so you could make a similar claim: how can people know that it all works without a proof?

that's moving the goalposts. let's see Rust's language spec finalized first, then we can talk about it being proven. without the two you shouldn't throw stones.

well, they did screw up the previous one :(

jwz doesn't like HN

love the book. didn't think the show captured the essence of it that well, looked like a 4-episode set piece for a future cooking series. but the book is really good. sits on top of the educational pile for me, together with the "silver spoon" book.

The performance optimization part of the article is very relevant to experienced Go programmers.

Also, pjw, the W in AWK is on the Go team at Google and Kernighan, the K, wrote the canonical Go book.

Pity the list isn't updated anymore, or uriel would've sure put these gems by Charles Forsyth in it:

[B]y treating "compiling C" as a subset problem of "compiling C++", gcc and especially clang are vast whales whistling at the wrong frequency for the problem.

Plan 9 C implements C by attempting to follow the programmer’s instructions, which is surprisingly useful in systems programming. The big fat compilers work hard to find grounds to interpret those instructions as ‘undefined behaviour’.

At one point SpaceX was down to a single make-it-or-break-it launch. Had that failed the company would've folded. Not true anymore, but was at least at one point in the past. Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046049

Was the analysis performed at the Department of Redundancy dept?

a quadrillion tons of diamonds. fix your title.

it's there at the bottom: 10^10^10^56

"Around this vast timeframe, quantum tunnelling in any isolated patch of the vacuum could generate, via inflation, new Big Bangs giving birth to new universes [...] this is also the time required for a quantum-tunnelled and quantum fluctuation-generated Big Bang to produce a new universe identical to our own, assuming that every new universe contained at least the same number of subatomic particles and obeyed laws of physics within the range predicted by string theory."

true mathematicians don't do practicality. https://xkcd.com/435/

Neither of which is very effective. Aikido is not a very efficient form of martial arts, even though it looks good. Jazz is not a popular form of music even though it sounds good. Lisp is not a popular language even though it writes good.

I've always enjoyed your opinion on alternative operating systems and languages. I love plan9, I wore my thesis in it, but that was based on the knowledge that other distributed operating systems existed at the time, amoeba being the most fun to learn about. Now it's a wasteland... And I really would prefer to explore.

I think better or worse isn't the important theme here. It's that we've lost variety...

fork was alright before other people tacked on multiples of cruft like threads and whatnot onto commercial unixes and they became mainstream. the current problem is that you don't want to have to copy all file descriptors if all you're going to do is call "exec" and reduce them to three: in, out, err.

for example, here's the caveats section from the macOS fork man page:

     There are limits to what you can do in the child process.  To be totally safe you should restrict your-
     self to only executing async-signal safe operations until such time as one of the exec functions is
     called.  All APIs, including global data symbols, in any framework or library should be assumed to be
     unsafe after a fork() unless explicitly documented to be safe or async-signal safe.  If you need to use
     these frameworks in the child process, you must exec.  In this situation it is reasonable to exec your-
     self.

That spells defeat :)

Earlier in the game, copy-on-write had to be created for the same reasons.

hunter2 is the industry's accepted PoC password.

I love this... So much hope :)

The search for Dyson spheres was happening. Here are summary of results so far: https://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/infrared_astronomy/Fermilab_...

We keep getting less and less extraordinary the more we look. Whereas at the time of Asimov's or Sagan's writings (a few decades ago, the first exoplanet being detected in 1988) we didn't know of a single planet orbiting another sun, nowadays telescopes such as Kepler have pushed the estimate of the number of planets _just_ in the goldilocks zone to several billion inside the milky way. One in five sun-like stars may contain a planet capable of holding water:

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-earth-like-planets-201...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_...

https://www.universetoday.com/49605/how-common-are-solar-sys...

Here's the presentation slides of the guys who figured it out:

https://www.troopers.de/downloads/troopers17/TR17_ME11_Stati...

i think the only way to counter this is to try to make a meme out of everything.

It also had a Streisand effect on the LATimes article. Which many people (including myself) would not have otherwise read.

No community which experiences overpopulation will survive... If you want a good walkthrough of historical evidence that population control leads to a stable community check Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". I suggest you read it and form an opinion before you check the discourse on it.

Tom Petty's heart broke :(

There are/were six-wheeled cars that got shut out because of market forces unrelated to how well they ran in competition. Google Tyrrell's Formula 1 Six Wheeler