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I find this interesting as a technology, as a business process, and above all as a system for managing trust on a global scale across different jurisdictions. In a sense, the credit card system accomplishes something that even the UN, international law, Interpol and military mights cannot do: it enables individuals to enter into trustworthy global agreements with minimal effort and risk, and at very low transaction costs.

Reminds me of Thinking Machines and Danny Hillis. See chapter "Parsing a Regular Language" in "DATA PARALLEL ALGORITHMS" <https://rsim.cs.illinois.edu/arch/qual_papers/systems/3.pdf>.

In Plan 9 you did have a real (synthetic) /net, and could do that and more from any program. You could even mount /net from another machine via 9P protocol and have an instant VPN...

9front lets you play with that on Linux.

Some Plan 9 like /net things are visible in Go libraries... (Rob Pike legacy)

Reminds me when Russ Cox (Go, Google, Bell Labs) used Rob Pike's APL like Ivy to solve 2021 Advent of code puzzles:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/uccbd6/russ_cox_solv...

I am especially fond of this article inventing LLMs as Markov chains.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-11/page/n129/...

Who ever invented the idea that you can embed Javasript to picture files?

Someone else can explain, how me pressing "a" gets to light some LEDs on my screen, and what happens in the output part of the data flow.

No one mentioned Upspin? A global file namespace (URL, but better...) and protocol to isolate public data users from private governance and storage, by gurus like Rob Pike. https://github.com/upspin/upspin

At least in Finland the jail sentences have been related to extreme widely published antisemitism. Fines have been given for other sorts of hate speech.

If the U.S. wants this to be allowed, it is your business. But it is ours to decide, if we want to allow nazis synmpathy newspapers advocating killing of the jew. Generally, the americans are lost in their arrogance here, as always.

I don't think there has been a rock album ever since, that would have been so big, popular, revolutionary and generation defining. I guess some genius must have been there.

Can you explain me, why do you need to be online to extract the private key? Can't you just steal the token, input the nonces offline, and meter timing? Then, crunch out the private key, and only then, if needed, phish the password?

If this is inefficient, what are you comparing to? What is the best way to purify water or produce hydrogen with solar energy? Is there a good way? Certainly producing electricity first can't be the most affordable way?

Designing better error handling in Go is an ongoing work. Proposols are being considered. Personally I don't see a big problem in real life Go code bases.

Note that there is kind of a philosophical cul-de-sac here. If you understand and expect your "errors" (= exceptional situations that prevent the program to do what we thought the user wanted) you can handle them, and they become part of your program normal logic.

If you don't understand or ainticipate your errors, or choose to neglect situations that are not really rare or are really dangerous, no amount of special language constructs will save your users.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

If you browse random Go code from https://pkg.go.dev/ you will have a hard time finding that hypothetical case where most of your code is error handling chores. The problem is artificial.

They are also pretty good in teaching you human languages. There is a saying that the best way to learn a new language is to fall in love with someone who speaks it. ChatGPT speaks them all. Start with "Show me some simple phrases in Chinese and in English..."

"Kiosk" is pretty universal, Persian originally.

Burnout at work is easy. Burnout in life is harder.

How is this problem different from DALL-E and such? Is the copyright legislation ready for all this, and when will there be established interpretations of law?

That’s a myth. Go read some random Go. Trivial functions often do nothing but call a couple of other functions, check errors and return. But non-trivial functions use relatively less lines for error handling.

Great games! One of the pioneers of combining RTS and FPS, if not the first one?

What does this all mean from IaC perspective?

Let’s say you can define all your containers, orchestration, database and middleware in a compact way (Dockerfiles, Terraform, etc) with cloud vendor independent open source tools, using managed OSS.

How much of that code would be dependent on your cloud provider, really? Maybe a thousand lines of hopefully modularized platform dependent configuration code?

Migration from one system to another would still be an effort, but not that big one?

Elegant is "pleasingly ingenious and simple". But it's often in the eye of the beholder, if a loop or a list comprehension is simpler.

Freedom considered harmful. In olden days, you had less stupid choices in your life. Sure the idle upper class always had this problem.

I would Google for the real answer. I just did. I could not come up with it by myself. Just what I do as a developer.

If Hornsea 2 really produces anywhere near the nominal 1,4 MW and was built in three years, that is remarkable.

The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant here in Finland (1,6 MW) was just started. The construction took 20 years.

The price seems to be in the same ballpark, 5000 million euro was quoted for Hornsea 1, and 9000 million for Olkiluoto 3?

Well I mean

Terraform Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Thanos Jaeger Kubernetes/etcd Docker Helm Velero Kolga

Just to name the ones we use at Helsinki City.

I also work for a training company where we teach these tools and Go - and we also train Rust. I see a perfect ecosystem of Go and Rust emerging.

Rob had his revenge. Go rules the Cloud, and the Cloud rules the world.

And there was Inferno and Limbo. Probably the best system no one has ever heard of, a very much Oberon influenced virtual stack machine and OS. There once was a chance PlayStation could have adopted it, boy would that have changed the world.

There is straight Oberon legacy in Go: type embedding. Also, Go team has Robert Griesemer from ETH, and other Wirth fans like Rob Pike himself. Pike’s Acme editor/window-manager also is heavily Oberon influenced.