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If the server closure F, besides it's own messages can also receive a `{become, F}` message, then you can then keep changing the server to something new again a

by rdtsc 3y ago

If the server closure F, besides it's own messages can also receive a `{become, F}` message, then you can then keep changing the server to something new again and so on. Completely unrelated, but I remember talking to Joe at one of the Erlang conferences. He was always excited about technology and always happy to chat with anyone. He was dismayed how Windows had gotten worse and less usable over the years, and how one day we won't be able to browse our own files on it until we sit and watch advertisements for a while to unlock them. Joe was nearly right! Sure enough, years later I hear there are ads in Windows 11 and you have to go out of your way to remove them. Not quite the same yet, but by Windows 13 I am sure we'll get there.

vector_spaces 3y ago
I use Linux at home, and use Windows for work. Outside of the ads, I've been most surprised by 1. My Windows machine has a lot more of the weird issues I used to see on Linux like 6-7 years ago. Like nothing showstopping. More like quality of life reducing stuff, like the volume in one headphone will be far louder than in the other, despite the mixer showing them the same. Or weird crashes in applications (specifically with Microsoft software). Or Windows documentation pages not resolving in any browser, forcing me to use an archive site to view them. Or my laptop occasionally not detecting my external monitor after detecting it fine for weeks. Or the monitor will flash occasionally 2. Less surprising, more dismaying: Office software by default tries to get you to save files to the cloud instead of locally. Yes, having your files everywhere across all devices is nice, I know, but I would rather have my files local first, with cloud backup, rather than have my files in the cloud first. I'm old fashioned, I guess 3. WSL is pretty jank, but it is probably the only reason Windows is usable at all for me More topically: I've always heard that about Joe being a wonderful human being, and it makes a lot of sense. When I was first teaching myself to code, I came across his book on Erlang, and it had a huge impact on me. I loved the playfulness, humility, and imagination that he brought to his work. Even though I hardly ended up writing any Erlang, reading his writing changed the way I think about so many things related to code. It's clear he cared a lot about pedagogy. I have a math background, and wish that both math and software engineering and CS culture embraced playfulness and humility more
- thaumasiotes 3y ago
  > My Windows machine has a lot more of the weird issues I used to see on Linux like 6-7 years ago. Like nothing showstopping. More like quality of life reducing stuff, like the volume in one headphone will be far louder than in the other A while back I installed a Windows update that permanently prevented my existing Bose headphones from being able to connect to my laptop over bluetooth.
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  I've had a headphone balancing issue on MacOS as well, probably my previous one (intel, 2016 model I believe), ended up installing a tool whose sole purpose was to rebalance the audio every once in a while if it detected it went skewed. I have zero clue how that would happen, I can't see any practical purpose for any application or subsystem to be adjusting the audio balance.
  - mirekrusin 3y ago
    Probably it’s headphones doing spatial sound wrong?
    - vector_spaces 3y ago
      In my case at least, my Windows laptop is the only device that has this problem. It works totally fine and as expected on several Linux laptops, my iPhone, my android, and my partners phone.
- jiggawatts 3y ago
  Microsoft fired their entire QA team. They also fired their entire technical documentation team. They now treat Windows like freeware/shareware, and monetise it the same way -- selling ads, collecting telemetry, bundling, and being pushy. Windows Server is abandonware, Microsoft only cares about Azure now. As far as they are concerned, hosting software yourself on-premises is a strange aberration and will eventually just go away. Entire categories of their products are no longer available for on-prem installation, such as: CosmosDB, Data Factory, Purview, Logic Apps, etc...
nesarkvechnep 3y ago
Your first paragraph. This is actually a feature of the Actor model. I didn’t realise before that it’s possible on the BEAM.
- IggleSniggle 3y ago
  I thought this was basically the whole argument for Erlang, continuous hot-replacement of running servers and resilient server-cluster upgrades. Basically everything that kubernetes offers (from an operational perspective) has been available as a first-class programming construct in Erlang for decades. That was my understanding, anyway.
thaumasiotes 3y ago
> Sure enough, years later I hear there are ads in Windows 11 and you have to go out of your way to remove them. The intrusive ads are not new to Windows 11. They're already there in Windows 10.

by rdtsc 3y ago

vector_spaces 3y ago

I use Linux at home, and use Windows for work. Outside of the ads, I've been most surprised by 1. My Windows machine has a lot more of the weird issues I used to see on Linux like 6-7 years ago. Like nothing showstopping. More like quality of life reducing stuff, like the volume in one headphone will be far louder than in the other, despite the mixer showing them the same. Or weird crashes in applications (specifically with Microsoft software). Or Windows documentation pages not resolving in any browser, forcing me to use an archive site to view them. Or my laptop occasionally not detecting my external monitor after detecting it fine for weeks. Or the monitor will flash occasionally 2. Less surprising, more dismaying: Office software by default tries to get you to save files to the cloud instead of locally. Yes, having your files everywhere across all devices is nice, I know, but I would rather have my files local first, with cloud backup, rather than have my files in the cloud first. I'm old fashioned, I guess 3. WSL is pretty jank, but it is probably the only reason Windows is usable at all for me More topically: I've always heard that about Joe being a wonderful human being, and it makes a lot of sense. When I was first teaching myself to code, I came across his book on Erlang, and it had a huge impact on me. I loved the playfulness, humility, and imagination that he brought to his work. Even though I hardly ended up writing any Erlang, reading his writing changed the way I think about so many things related to code. It's clear he cared a lot about pedagogy. I have a math background, and wish that both math and software engineering and CS culture embraced playfulness and humility more

thaumasiotes 3y ago
> My Windows machine has a lot more of the weird issues I used to see on Linux like 6-7 years ago. Like nothing showstopping. More like quality of life reducing stuff, like the volume in one headphone will be far louder than in the other A while back I installed a Windows update that permanently prevented my existing Bose headphones from being able to connect to my laptop over bluetooth.
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
I've had a headphone balancing issue on MacOS as well, probably my previous one (intel, 2016 model I believe), ended up installing a tool whose sole purpose was to rebalance the audio every once in a while if it detected it went skewed. I have zero clue how that would happen, I can't see any practical purpose for any application or subsystem to be adjusting the audio balance.
- mirekrusin 3y ago
  Probably it’s headphones doing spatial sound wrong?
  - vector_spaces 3y ago
    In my case at least, my Windows laptop is the only device that has this problem. It works totally fine and as expected on several Linux laptops, my iPhone, my android, and my partners phone.
jiggawatts 3y ago
Microsoft fired their entire QA team. They also fired their entire technical documentation team. They now treat Windows like freeware/shareware, and monetise it the same way -- selling ads, collecting telemetry, bundling, and being pushy. Windows Server is abandonware, Microsoft only cares about Azure now. As far as they are concerned, hosting software yourself on-premises is a strange aberration and will eventually just go away. Entire categories of their products are no longer available for on-prem installation, such as: CosmosDB, Data Factory, Purview, Logic Apps, etc...

nesarkvechnep 3y ago

Your first paragraph. This is actually a feature of the Actor model. I didn’t realise before that it’s possible on the BEAM.

IggleSniggle 3y ago
I thought this was basically the whole argument for Erlang, continuous hot-replacement of running servers and resilient server-cluster upgrades. Basically everything that kubernetes offers (from an operational perspective) has been available as a first-class programming construct in Erlang for decades. That was my understanding, anyway.

thaumasiotes 3y ago

> Sure enough, years later I hear there are ads in Windows 11 and you have to go out of your way to remove them. The intrusive ads are not new to Windows 11. They're already there in Windows 10.