It’s almost as if it’s not a single factor issue and insta could stand to improve its under-age content filters AND TikTok can also be a threat because of its ties to China.
There is some great cosmic irony here. A section about never needing to build, install, etc… just give me an executable. Followed immediately with an incantation for zig to build this project
It’s certainly been interesting watching the multi-decade arc play out. With Mach as the origins, everything other than tasks (processes) schedule and virtual mem was out of kernel and done over Mach port comms. Then xnu via next step and later OS X linked much more in kernel and exposed specific data types using com+ in iokit. And now more and more is moving back out of the kernel.
io_urging networking on Linux is another similar move out to use space
The key bit of information missing here and from all these replies is that Lufthansa’s no SFO night time VFR policy was a reaction to and SFO and NorCal notice requiring this limitation from inbound international carriers after a few incidents but the requirement of how to implement this was ambiguous and Lufthansa is complying as best they can
Gee if only the FAA could have certified unleaded gas some time in the last 3 decades. It’s not like us GA enthusiasts enjoy depending on an expensive leaded gas.
I’m not saying a lot of the comments aren’t without merit but I was actually surprised to see so much negativity. There are only a handful of funding approaches for languages. I would also say most of the funding they raised is going towards the platform and inference accelerator.
I can also buy the argument why setting up all the dev-tel infra to make an odd language project successful is a lot of work and possibly a distraction. Even though the source isn’t currently open, they’re certainly developing it in the open.
Maybe it’s a combination of a bunch of these things that’s throwing people off?
This argument has always felt to me like saying “google has no moat in search, they just happen to currently have the best page rank. Nothing is stopping yahoo from creating a better one”
A dumbed down interpretation. What most people can buy off the shelf for servers more or less looks like a pc shoved into an odd looking case (1u, 3U rack). To get anywhere near the cost / performance of the big players you need something that’s designed for the data center server workloads.
I worked closely with Bob at Square through most of the 2010s. I keep coming to write something but nothing could do it justice... I just feel numb at this news.
So many of you have shared about how he impacted Java, Open Source, and being an engineer. I figured I could recount a couple more personal anecdotes.
1) I tried to keep up with Bob drink for drink one night... big mistake. We were at Strange Loop in St. Louis together (I believe 2013). On the Saturday, a bunch of us went out for drinks at a nearby dive bar. He was the life of the party as usual. I stopped at least 1 hr and 5 drinks shy of Bob. The next morning I woke up with the 3rd worst hangover I had ever had and he looked fresh as could be.
2) A bunch of Squares went to The Cafe (a Gay bar in the Castro) one night. He and his wife had put the girls to bed and called a sitter so they could come out with us. I vividly remember at one point in the night, we were hanging out by the bar area and I mentioned I was going to go down on the dance floor for a bit. "Down there?" he asks as he grabs me by the shoulder with a mild look a fear on his face. It was a pretty busy night. A gogo dancer stood over us, hips to eye level, on the covered pool table. "You don't want to go down theeeere!" implicit in his tone was a sense of worry that I'd be a piece of meat in the sea of people. His wife looked at me, shrugged, and we laughed