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by butterisgood 1y ago
Plan 9's file system interface makes it a great way to build a network "mux". I added a reverse http(s) capable proxy using rc-httpd and webfs to effectively tunnel Shoutcast/Icecast streams from a Mac behind a firewall,
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by butterisgood 1y ago
Interesting! I ran some version of Hurd back in 1998, with ip masquerading and forwarding through a dial-up capable Linux box. And now it's 64bit!?
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by butterisgood 1y ago
I'm pretty sure AI _is_ "personal computing". One can speak in their native language to a computer now and it mostly understands what is meant and can retrieve information or even throw together a scaffold of a project somewh
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by butterisgood 1y ago
Actually running at the same time is parallelism. "Logically" running at the same time would be "asynchronous". It has to do with the independence of the "processes" themselves. Could they run in parallel? Or e
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by butterisgood 1y ago
Perhaps not, but sometimes the description from a different angle helps somebody understand the concepts better. I don't know how many "monad tutorials" I had to read before it all clicked, and whether it ever fully clicked!
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by butterisgood 1y ago
> Concurrency refers to the ability of a system to execute multiple tasks through simultaneous execution or time-sharing (context switching) Wikipedia had the wrong idea about microkernels for about a decade too, so ... here we are I gue
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by butterisgood 1y ago
It's kind of true... I can do a lot of things asynchronously. Like, I'm running the dishwasher AND the washing machine for laundry at the same time. I consider those things not occurring at "the same time" as they'r
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by butterisgood 1y ago
Learned COBOL in the 90s as an undergraduate at university. Took it at the same time as PC Assembly language (woefully 16 bit). I had less trouble with assembly than COBOL at the time I'm afraid. They're both weird beasts, but onc
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by butterisgood 1y ago
I mean… tech jobs are already there TBH.
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by butterisgood 1y ago
It’s as if oil producing organizations are rich or something.
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by butterisgood 1y ago
Anyone see Tron?
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by butterisgood 1y ago
I use it as an example for simplicity enabling expression. What I mean is if you pick the right primitives to begin with you don’t have to turn a system into horrid spaghetti. Complexity costs everyone - consumers, people building products
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by butterisgood 1y ago
Works in WSL2 - thanks to Plan 9’s 9P protocol
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Rust is nearly the answer if anyone understood the question.
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Can’t stand Python. Have to use Python. Wish it would DIAF to be honest.
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Hence GHC extensions? Overloaded Strings don’t help? It’s been about 20 years since I wrote Haskell in production.
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Deforestation helps with that A composition of catamorphic and anamorphic functions can eliminate a lot of the in-between allocations (a hylomorphism) Basically it looks like you’re building a ton of intermediate structure then consuming it
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by butterisgood 2y ago
No. I don’t think this is true. The PC was always meant to augment human intelligence. Consider what we lost with “calculators” vs slide rules. And what slide rules took from mental math. We have a new “partner” in design and creativity. It
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by butterisgood 2y ago
I think, nowadays, I can get a generative AI to tell anyone how the process of inverting a binary tree works, and perhaps even give sample code for it. So that's not interesting to me at all as a person hiring engineers. What I want to
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Feels like a syntax wrapped around propagator networks. In 1s compliment we can have negative and positive 0. 0 is not a “natural” number in the traditional sense. It’s an interestingly opinionated language.
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by butterisgood 2y ago
"Free bug fixes without compiling". I think YMMV. It depends a lot on ABI/API stability and actual modularity of ... components. There's not always a guarantee of that. Shared libraries add a lot of complexity to a syste
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by butterisgood 2y ago
I can imagine Jank being incredible “glue” to start until it takes over by osmosis. (For c++ of course) Maybe I should play some advent of code games with it to get comfy!
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by butterisgood 2y ago
One day does not a pattern make. Just bought some nvidia stock. Guess we shall see how it pans out…
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Other than the 1980's Dune movie he directed, I think it was either Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive that made me want to know more about David Lynch. I had to watch Mulholland Drive at least 5 times to get a sense of what it's ev
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by butterisgood 2y ago
It also has been very much trying to get rid of things like "undefined behavior".
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Pre-scheme?
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Haven't had a single positive interaction with Apple Intelligence that I'm aware of so far. Nor have I had a negative interaction with Apple Intelligence. So I guess that might be a kind of win? On my Mac mini M4, when I actually
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Microservices being used as the hammer for all nails spelled doom for at least one project I’ve worked around. Just use your head and not the hype. The real value provided is modularity but you cannot forget the need to trace across a syste
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by butterisgood 2y ago
Among the things this year that I wish had never happened, this event is in the complement set.
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by butterisgood 2y ago
And we lost Wirth this year sadly. I hope we can find a language with safety, simplicity, and just enough features to be practical someday.

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