Super interesting. Thanks as always!

Is Erlang special in its architecture or is it more that it’s functional?

One day I’ll learn how to do purely functional, maybe even purely declarative. But I have to train my brain to think of computer programs like that.

Is there a functional and/or declarative language that has memory management features similar to Rust as opposed to a garbage collector?

but literally beating the flagship desktop chips in single-core performance

See, this is what I despise about x86. AFAIK it’s literally RISC on the bare metal but there are hundreds of “instructions” running microcode which is basically just a translation layer. You’re not allowed to write code for the actual RISC implementation because that’s a trade secret or something. So obviously single core performance would be shit because you’re basically running an emulator all the time.

RISC-V can’t come fast enough. Maybe someone will even make a chip that’s RISC-V but with the same instruction/microcode support as x86. So you can run RISC-V code directly or do the microcode thing and pretend you’re on x86. Though that would probably get the shit sued out of them by Intel because god forbid there’s actual innovation that the original creator can’t cash in on.

Doesn’t the Mac have hardware x86 emulation? Or did they remove that because they want everyone to move to ARM?

I would imagine at the very least the homebrew stuff all work?

You can also put Asahi Linux on them

How well does this work? Is it like Linux on Chromebooks where something could break at the drop of a hat and you have to fight the computer to get it installed?

With Arch BTW

Or Nix

Are RISCV microcontrollers out yet? Might be a good idea to rally around making a fully open IDE ecosystem and breakout board standard for it (maybe even make it pin compatible with the old school Arduino, surely they can’t sue for that right?)

I don’t use any but I’m sure there are functional languages where () is a valid function.

Karl Marx. And never. Marx is immortal.

“Hey Gemini write me a React app”

Academic tradition requires you to cite works…

Yeah looks to me like scaling artifacts from shrinking the image. AFAIK AI isn’t that consistent especially with high contrast shapes.

Proprietary software be like:

try:
    whatever()
except Exception:
    print("oops something went wrong uwu")
    print("also this is purely to get rid of the stack trace because apparently the only thing worse than not handling an exception is scaring the user with anything technical and/or exposing our trade secret architecture")

Oh so you’re saying the Church’s actions speak louder than the Bible itself?

Also assuming you’re Catholic from your other comments.

So, witch burnings, the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, burning Joan of Arc, selling indulgences, fighting tooth and nail against an English translation of the Bible so normal people can actually read it (and burning the translators for good measure), justifying slavery under the guise of “well we’re saving those slaves by forcing then to become Christian”, generations of science denial and suppression, and Indigenous residential schools. My what a great experience you’ve forced onto this world.

Also, if you’re so confident that experiencing God will turn someone Christian, what’s with all the hell stuff you keep pushing? Sure seems like the fear of eternal torture is your bread and butter way of getting people to believe.

That’s all well and good if you’re already working under the framework that God exists. If I’m not, why should I accept such a fallable and obviously human work as proof that God not only exists, but this specific God exists?

You deserve it by grossly understating what Nazis deserve. /s

Hope the new UI fixes the FFT view lagging.

console.warn() to differentiate what you’re looking for from the regular logs.

On Linux it just sticks around as a ghost until it’s closed. Less noticeable but frustrating in its own way.

I think it’s a feedback loop. AI is trained off publicly available datasets like House of Commons records so popular words only get more popular the more AI slop is in there, since LLMs fundamentally just predict the next word given the context without much “logic” behind it.

Given enough time this will make LLMs basically unusable as public data gets contaminated with AI slop. But unfortunately that will also mean the public data itself is basically unusable.

By the fiftieth “your browser is outdated, please upgrade to an up to date browser” on an up to date version of Firefox, but with privacy extensions and on a VPN, yeah forgive me if I harbour some resentment. Not even a captcha challenge half the time, just “you’re not worthy of seeing this website, peasant.” And don’t even think about disabling JS, that gets you blacklisted all the same. And if you’re using Tor, forget about it.

They also block you from loading standalone images, so you can’t download images from search results or even open an image from an article in a new tab. Should I be grateful that they’re saving the website megabytes of server traffic while making it impossible to save stuff offline or use the browser’s zoom tools to get information out of a high resolution image? Also, you’re literally the world’s largest CDN. You’re saying you can’t spare enough of your basically unlimited computational power to let me download a static image you’re probably already cached in every data centre?

Also, they’re literally a man in the middle as a service. And not just in the ISP sense, they control the TLS certificates and can see literally everything you’re sending to or receiving from the website. Including passwords. Including credit cards. Literally defeats the purpose of TLS. And even if the website itself doesn’t use their traffic passthrough service, they infect even more websites with their CDN service, AKA basically one of those old school tracking pixels but holding libraries needed by the site hostage so you can’t block them without breaking the site.

Also also, just because they say their DNS service is “private” doesn’t make it private. Companies have been lying about their privacy policy since privacy policies started being mandated with zero consequences. As Amy from Futurama said, “Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me.”