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1. 121.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   Very interesting and relevant! Thank you!
2. 122.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   I wonder whether gnuemacs of the time had the ability to create directories from Emacs lisp.
3. 123.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   Well, I'm not sure adding a webtorrent implementation counts as simpler for clients than just TXT record retrieval.
4. 124.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   (Has anyone tried the little demo? ... Does it work?)
5. 125.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   Heh, actually yes; the universe trying to tell me something, maybe?
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   Show HN: File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN(eighty-twenty.org)

   72 points by tonyg 3y ago|34 comments
7. 127.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   What a horrible person Dawkins has become. His early writing surely has its flaws but it was always intellectually curious and in good faith. Neither characteristic is on display here. Dawkins pins his terfy colours proudly to the mast.
8. 128.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   It clicked for me when I learned that the plant the colour is named after was itself named after a Dr. Fuchs. So now I remember the name, and tack "-ia" on the end. In German, Fuchs sounds something like "fooks", so it&#
9. 129.▲
   by tonyg 3y ago

   It doesn't sound tryhard; it sounds literate.
10. 130.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    Should do! All the detail would be inside uxn, and the whole idea is that uxn virtualizes away from the underlying environment.
11. 131.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    There are a couple of approaches here. If there is a moment when it's known that no matches will be found, then either an actor can assert something to this effect or the querier can wait "long enough" and then move on. For t
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. > What's exactly novel about all this? See the dissertation, which I successfully defended :-) Less flippantly, the novelty is in the failure handling and the communications mechanism. > I see an untyped(
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    I miss macros sometimes. The main thing I think Smalltalks get right is uniformity: everything (well, almost everything) is an object. If I remember rightly, R4RS (maybe even R5RS) Scheme has exactly 9 (nine) distinct types of value. Nine?
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    The idea is that we already have good tools for expressing strong consistency within a single failure domain, but language support for reliable programming with multiple failure domains is lacking. Lots of inside-a-single-computer systems
15. 135.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    By "error" I usually mean some kind of crash (exception/termination/disconnection). Let's imagine that two actors are interacting. Actor number 1 is observing assertions matching pattern (A, *), and actor number 2 t
16. 136.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    Thanks for the link to Interactors, by the way, I will enjoy having a look at that paper!
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    Great questions. Yes, that's fine: if your domain is implementation detail of the system itself , then using Syndicate to allow different program components to have conversations about that domain is totally OK. The point I was trying
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    Syndicate certainly lets you factor out some kinds of repeated behavioral patterns: I discussed in my dissertation (chapter 9 [1]) examples around cancellation, around state-machines, around observers, and around demand-matching. Besides th
19. 139.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    Good question. Yes, I get that feeling too. I find that re-presenting existing systems in terms of syndicated state and conversational contexts, like you're using an FFI, makes everything fit together fairly well. Lots of systems offer
20. 140.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    I'm not there yet, no. I think the existing research on ocap GUIs is promising, and I have ideas for UI in general (think: cloud shells) that might stretch to GUI as well.
21. 141.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    I'm an old Schemer (well, middle-aged) who has gone apostate in favour of Smalltalks : - ) Schemes and Lisps are fine systems and I enjoy working with them. And yes, practical to write an OS in, but (and this won't surprise you at
22. 142.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    Proof of concept, to be sure. So far. It's currently on the back burner because I have to eat : - ) Re applications, anything interactive and somewhat loosely coupled. Particularly good for internet scale stuff, I suspect, though again
23. 143.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    Yep. And so far, so good. I think it works well.
24. 144.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    Thanks for the questions. 1. Applying the same tools used in the SAM for managing concurrency and interactivity "in the small" to "larger" aggregations of components, and starting to get insight into the semantics of ope
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    Yes! I think the project page for the NLnet-funded part of the project brings across some of the intent: https://syndicate-lang.org/projects/2021/system-layer/ Deeper background would be something like "
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    Author, AMA
27. 147.▲
    by tonyg 3y ago

    This is a fascinating and elegant little virtual machine design that I think many here would find interesting.
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    The Uxn Ecosystem(100r.co)

    257 points by tonyg 3y ago|54 comments
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    by tonyg 3y ago

    This is a fascinating and elegant little virtual machine design that I think many here would find interesting.
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    The Uxn Ecosystem(100r.co)

    11 points by tonyg 3y ago|2 comments