redahs

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by redahs 11y ago
If storage is the sender's responsibility, then there would most likely be no reason for recipients to ever bother downloading unsolicited messages from addresses originating outside of their web of trust in the first place. You could
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by redahs 11y ago
If mail storage is the sender's responsibility, then perhaps senders should be allowed to seed their outgoing messages directly from their personal and home devices, and rely on others who have included their identity in their web-of-t
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by redahs 11y ago
I don't think we will see a trickle down effect unless there are substantial benefits for the average user to outweigh the cost of switching and learning something new. If there is a single abstract advantages, like 'more security
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by redahs 11y ago
> complained that it's not possible to produce a 'flat binary array suitable for direct copying to output device memory' I believe my mistake was using the term 'array' rather than 'string'. This shou
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by redahs 11y ago
I would argue that a significant number of people were attracted to Lisp\Scheme variants over the years because of the promise of functional programming and the theoretical advantages of being to design programs using functional principles.
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by redahs 11y ago
Because Lisp doesn't have a flat memory model, you can't directly produce a binary array suitable for direct copying to output device memory (ex. network card, GPU, etc) by simply expanding expressions using the built in syntax. T
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by redahs 11y ago
One option would be to provide all IO operations as high level plugins or 'virtual drivers' provided by the platform runtime, similar to how one might install and configure plugins for all of the input and output plugins for video
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by redahs 11y ago
How would your ideal VM handle input-output? Sending data to GPU, network card, sound chip, etc.