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Could the "sync" mechanism be provided by iCloud, Dropbox, etc. so long as it's end-to-end encrypted?

Managing a vault server sounds like a pain.

If many different "states" are used for one big architecture, how are the boundaries between them managed?

Under one state, Terraform will spot issues here during `plan`, but with many states issues will only appear after `apply`.

Not disagreeing, but you might find it interesting to learn about the history of the term "jaywalking"

> Flix looks like Scala, but its type system is based on Hindley-Milner.

Ahh why?! Scala is FP larping as OOP. Great type system, poor syntax.

Does Nostr have any mechanisms to ensure anonymity, or can the relay log everything?

Be sure to checkout Koyaanisqatsi if you like experimental films and Philip Glass

But then you are working on half as many things.

Indeed. Feels like vast majority of the TV worth watching is HBO. I value my time so I'd rather have access to a few HBO series / year than an endless sea of A/B dross.

At work I am always hopping between F# and JavaScript and I'm convinced that if more people had this experience they would want the pipe operator in JavaScript.

Unfortunately it's hard to convey the advantages to those who haven't used it. Maybe it's because it's such a simple bit of syntatic-sugar?

The F# syntax is an incredibly simple bit of syntactic sugar.

Just replace this:

    x |> f

With this:

    f(x)

For the join example, you must do this:

    xs
    |> (x => x.join(' '))

It de-sugars to:

    (x => x.join(' '))(xs)

... which of course is simply:

    xs.join(' ')

Until it's not though. This is a pretty major architectural constraint on your code that you would not hit quite so early with a faster language.

> First Law

> A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Hmmm I wonder about trolley problems

RAII can push resources to a collection that is disposed later

I am very bullish on Carbon. Using C++ semantics will make switching and integration much easier.

Will we care about proofs and type-systems once we have AI systems that reliably answer questions like "does this code do X?" and "under what conditions does this code violate invariant Y?"

Funny what gets picked up. I'm not convinced Neuromancer is a good movie plot-wise, and it risks looking like a cheap Blade Runner clone.

Why can't someone adapt Consider Phlebas? The book is already an action/adventure movie and the drones would make great merch :)

Dune was enjoyable and all but HE SKIPPED THE DINNER SCENE arguably one of the most important bits!

It's a bit old but more people need to know about Tigris and Euphrates.

The 360 launched first so it was probably at a higher units sold for a few years at least.

Are Nix and Bazel mutually exclusive?

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2018-03-15-bazel-nix/

I agree. GitHub Actions should call your scripts but your scripts should not depend on GitHub Actions API.

I also suggest Bazel as a consideration alongside Make. With Bazel, you get two advantages over Make:

1. It is easier to ensure that what GitHub Actions runs and builds is the same as what you have locally, since Bazel can fetch toolchains as part of the build process

2. Using a Bazel remote cache, you do not have to repeat work if the build fails halfway and you need to make some changes before running it again.

I think that BH has underperformed the S&P500 for some time now. They are also quite old now - what happens to the share price after they pass?

> They have to find Brexit benefits so we have pointless plans to depart from eu rules

The purpose of this is two-fold:

1. Make it harder for future governments to reverse Brexit or reverse parts of Brexit

2. Make it harder for Scotland to leave the UK by making it harder for an independent Scotland rejoin the EU due to regulatory differences

This is scheduled to leave in 2025.

The US would not allow their financial sector to migrate from NY to London.

China is even more controlling than the US.

London used to be the center of finance in Europe and now the EU sees an opportunity to grab that revenue / power.

Where does this leave London?

And the UK as a whole is heavily dependent on London.

> going for low tax low regs.

The problem with this strategy is that the major trading blocks of USA, EU and China will not allow the UK to undercut them. So if the UK goes down this path, then companies based there will find themselves cut off. The UK domestic market is not large enough on its own.

Hard brexit was not grounded in reality so ultimately this has to happen.

The Conservatives should've stuck with May's compromise - now Labour are likely to take power.

Microsoft and Apple have strong pricing power. AWS does too - although I expect the rest of Amazon to suffer greatly in this recession.

> This happened in 2000.

Any good write-ups about this? Sounds like a very interesting time.

I made this switch personally. The newer "compact" models from Lenovo do not work as well with Linux as the classic ones. If you want a compact, reliable unix-like laptop then Apple is really the best (for now).