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Wish I had something like that when I was coding demos around 1988... :-)

(Edit): you kids have it easy.

Answering the question: it would be called "the Erlang VM", and you'd use Elixir to program it.

https://elixir-lang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mix_otp/10.html

How is that relevant? we are talking about models, now what you do with them.

For text, have a big model generate the "intelligent" answer, and then ask a local LLM to rephrase.

...and does no harm for unfixable bugs. It's the logical equivalent of "switch off and on again" that as we know fixes most issues by itself, but happening only on a part of your software deployment, so most of it will keep running.

I do the same thing - Instead of going first to an unknown site that might (will?) be ad-infested and possibly AI generated, so that a phrase becomes a 1000-word article, I read the comments on HN, decide if it's interesting enough to take the risk, and then click. If it's Medium or similar, I won't click.

Hey, coming out feels good - I thought I was the only one.

Instead of LLM, Python and whatnot, it could have been a cheatsheet: https://github.com/scottvr/wtffmpeg/blob/12767e7843b9fd481ba...

In the end, I'm not sure I get what this is for - the venturebeat piece seems written by an AI.

Just my two cents - the worst pieces of tech I ever worked with in my 40+ year career were Hibernate (second) and XSLT templating for an email templating system around 2005. Would not touch it with a stick if I can avoid it.

I don't think it was single-cycle, someone mentions a STRCPY instruction that would be quite hard to do single-cycle....

Like Java?

Don't forget Ramones.

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Of course I'm not suggesting at all that you waste an otherwise perfectly productive day playing Zork I-II-III or Hitchhiker's on it... ;-)

Yes - one of the many things that you can find in OTP is a programmable SSH/SCP client and server. The vulnerability is in the server component.

See for example https://blog.differentpla.net/blog/2022/11/01/erlang-ssh/

Let me put into personal context: I have loved PKD's work for almost 40 years now, and I think I have read all that I found from him or about him. This said, good prose is different from the one he turned out. Compare him to his friend "ELRON" - now he was a master storyteller. Compare him to - say - Stephen King. He's not playing in the same league, maybe not even the same game. OTOH they did not have what he had - he was. great writer in spite of his often poor prose.

Not sure he meant is as a novel. Cfr his lecture at Metz.

Wonderful writer? let's face it: he was a mediocre writer, but had such powerful ideas/visions/themes (you name them) that you, as a reader, are hooked to his stuff.

A simulation of queue behavior where you can intuitively get a feeling of what happens: https://queuewiz.queuemetrics.com/

Rewriting the Elixir parser for QueueMetrics live for Teams, my company's service to keep track of call and queue statistics for Microsoft Teams telephony, in a way that's better than the PowerBI examples that come in the box. It's at https://www.queuemetrics.com/teams.jsp?lid=H990

It's quite a mess as we have to aggregate multiple data sources that come with their own timing and sequence issues - plus we are seeing massive adoption so resource usage will be interesting for v2.

The plus side is that building massively parallel and redundant services in Elixir is, if not actually fun, at least more feasible than in other environments.

> We’re living in a world where billion dollar tech companies expect us to live and breathe code, demanding 80 hour weeks under the guise of "passion." And what do we get in return? Burnout, anxiety, and the constant threat of layoffs.

..apart from 6- or 7-figure pay, a chance to hit it real big, and to built things that everybody uses? and this for job positions that 40-years ago commanded an average salary, because the latest React is not rocket science.

Reminds me of "apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Hugged to death by HN? anyway https://web.archive.org/web/20250123005656/https://blog.qiqi...

Never tried myself, but there is Vitess as well that should do what you ask - not sure about the limitations. https://vitess.io/

Basically for anything/everything but README.md because we use Gogs and that's just MD. OK, I admit we sometimes use Word to craft a specific page, or a print-once sign.

My company uses Asciidoc for documentation - for almost 20 years now - and it's really good. Now with Antora you can make searchable docs, and with Asciidoctor you can create most diagrams right within the text. We target HTML/PDF/Epub and it works really well.

So you get a result that is Word-quality, but separates presentation and content, and is easy to keep under version control.

Basically it's ALL the industry making a ton of money out of it. I guess it's meant as a message, like "we (the FCC) are getting serious about it, so start finding a different business model".

What's wrong with "create a Whatsapp group and invite all your friends there, and if they don't care they just mute/leave"?

Not sure if this is a launch or anything. I came across this on an Elixir forum and found it interesting enough to be posted on HN. That's it.

Not sure why everything must be a "launch" - there is more in life than drinking the kool-aid of start-ups. Not everything needs/wants to be the JS-bro full stack framework of the week. Like, playing with some tech and some ideas just for the f* of it.

Maybe it's so. Or maybe you run my code in your deps. As you can see, there is at least one Clojure dev who thinks so.

I found spec very useful and damn expressive (and I miss it in other languages), but again that's runtime. I know Rich says such errors are "trivial", but they waste your time (at least mine).

Agreed. I'll copy and paste it anyway. It's not that instead of an UUID you have "FluffCat47" that is easy to type and remember, it's a freaking UUID as well (ok, 31 characters vs 36 - saves a huuge 15% of your fingertips...)

> Hm, I wouldn't say RV is controversial

I would say it is, because as always with anything on the "para" edge, those who are convinced remain convinced and those who are not keep on saying it's a fraud. This applies to you, dear reader.