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One thing that is unclear to me - are there items that need to be replaced/regenerated? The article says the costs are mostly capital. If true, on a long enough timeline, are you not just looking at entirely operational costs (sourcing water + electricity)?

>...and have much to lose from this action vs possibly marginal potential upside

That would be my assumption as well. Clerking at the Supreme Court seems like one of the top appointments one could possibly achieve. Requiring top tier academics and some number of personal connections to secure the position. This stunt would destroy all of their future prospects.

Even better is to have the IRS to automatically calculate your tax each year. Send a postcard with the results, if you disagree, you do the entire filing yourself. Planet Money[0] did a story about California's attempt years ago. Conservatives vetoed the legislation because they think taxes should be painful.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...

This was also my immediate thought. Being able to statically deploy larger databases without a server process would be an absolute dream. Approaching dangerously high levels of dark magic.

Please do, just to end the debate. I do not personally care, but it sucks the air out of the room every time the language enters the conversation.

I have only written a toy amount of code in the language, but it ticks so many of the right boxes. Fast, easy to read, GCed by default, single executable, easy C interop, etc. If only there was a larger corporate sponsor who could drive development.

That is a super fun fact. Not that it changes the calculus, but I would be curious what percentage of human calories come from water sources (fishing, seaweed, lobster, etc).

> If you want reproducibility, it takes ~30 minutes just to resolve dependencies for relatively small-but-not-toy-sized projects.

I will be the first to complain about Python packaging, but 30 minutes is far far beyond anything I have experienced.

>What about the interactive environment like the one in Common Lisp?

Never used a "real" Lisp REPL, but Conjure[0] seems like it ticks a lot of boxes.

>Is this one going to remain obscure?

There are only a ~dozen mainstream languages. Once you get outside of the popular zeitgeist, you have to appreciate exactly what you are getting. It takes a lot of dedication to become fluent in a language/ecosystem, so it is no surprise that people are reluctant to switch to a novel platform. Clojure is far more likely to ever become mainstream (owing to the huge JVM ecosystem), but even that seems to have only limited industry penetration.

[0] https://github.com/Olical/conjure

Given the frequency with which holograms ran amuck, seems prudent to have as much separation as possible between critical functions and the holodeck.

From a military-readyiness perspective, that jlso seems like that would put you at an enormous disadvantage if all of your controls were dependent upon the (presumably) high power draw of the holodeck. Physical controls that do not disappear in the midst of an already bad situation seems best.

Time to discover in what news ways the Gnome team decided to innovate and break my workflows.

Furthermore, you are likely to encounter three different libraries that partially implement your desired feature set.

You can continue to use the LuaJIT that has been released? The Lua language has been very stable and has little need to develop for developments sake.

There are a few things that might be nice to have, but few of them are worth more platform churn.

With all digital interactions recorded forever, it only takes a single idle mistake.

Not that I disagree with your overall point, but how does that work for mega-huge companies? Microsoft/Visa/Google/etc likely have deals with everyone. If you work for a large company, you could essentially never disclose anything, regardless of the source.

As a user, I am unsure that is a positive. There are near-daily stories about how feature X of a program was removed/hidden/etc for seemingly no reason. Using an offline only program ensures some UI developer does not get to swap buttons on me for "engagement".

Long term Chernobyl numbers[0] are highly contested.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

>But microkernels tend to have poor performance.

Citation needed. What kind of hit are we talking about? 5%? 90%? We have supercomputers from the future that have capacity to spare. I would be willing to take an enormous performance hit for better security guarantees on essential infrastructure (routers, firewalls, file servers, electrical grid, etc).

Accounting for meat and dairy is probably an order of magnitude higher quality of life than I was imagining. I was thinking more a diet of beans, starchy potatoes, and mealworms for protein.

A question I have idly wondered - how much space does it take to feed a country? If you had to feed 100M people with a nutritionally complete diet forever, how small of an area could you manage to generate the food? Using current or near-term feasible (<5 years away) and leaving ethics off the table (Soylent Green, etc)? How many months/years could you stockpile?

If taking comments from the peanut gallery...any chance on also limiting to "waking hours"? I mostly do not care what the temperature is at 3am, but it likely dramatically pushes down the low temperatures for a day.

I think companies could choose to be more responsible with their usage. Looking at PyPi utilization, I have to imagine the bulk of it comes from CI/CD tooling hammering the servers without any intermediate caching.

Without a doubt, Calculus Made Easy[0]. Though, I find the PG layout to be atrocious, thankfully, someone has put the material onto a much nicer website [1].

[0]: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283 [1]: https://www.calculusmadeeasy.org/

>...their language development was in all three cases way ahead of schedule.

I would put a lot more of it to having (seemingly) engaged parents. Even a backwards strategy enacted by a loving parent who is consistently trying their best is likely to outperform the result that most can manage (owing to time/money/education/etc).

For anyone else who was clueless, whip cream chargers are a source of nitrous oxide.

I would gladly pay if I knew I was going to get committed service. I live in fear that someday the Algorithm will decide I am naughty and lock me out of my digital life.

I have considered enrolling in a Workspace plan, but I hear any number of gotchas because it is not the happy path, and X workflow is not supported for paid plans. That is, a worse product, even if you pay.

>I draw a line at supporting kernel level anti-cheat drivers

Especially given the poor record of video game companies to take security seriously [0]. Even Rockstar's cash cow game [1], there was the lowest of low hanging performance fruit available that was not addressed by any ongoing effort. Why should I believe that any game company rushing to push some release out the door is going to take their kernel patch seriously? Security is hard and Intel/AMD/professional kernel devs screw it up all the time.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwd8n/hacker-drops-steam-ze...

[1] https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

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My coworkers and I have a term for those that are providing no value, but seemingly impossible to remove. The "barnacles" are ever present and likely making more money than you. Such is life.

>I wonder how people get around that?

Gotta take the kid/spouse/mom to school/work/doctor? Schedule these essential appointments to best overlap with the other company's favorite meeting slot.

Additionally, I attend a number of meetings where I do not need to give any input. For many of those, who would know if I was simultaneously attending a similar meeting on a different laptop? You could even get fancy and have a pre-recorded version of yourself to play if you knew that you had to engage with company A but merely attend company B's meeting.

I am most curious what percentage of the population dynamically adjusts their tip in any relation to the service. It has just become an additional tax. I give a standard 20%, more if it rounds to a nice whole dollar amount.

Even if I had bad service, I am still giving 20%. That's the social contract I am stuck with fulfilling.

I have recently been trying a port of HTTPie in Rust, xh [0] (which is needlessly hard to find in a websearch). I am a Python guy, but love having single executable tools.

[0] https://github.com/ducaale/xh