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What Is Nix? 6 years ago

I started reading this thinking Nix was a programming language, became very confused when it started talking about files and an object database.

I thought the book "Philosophy and Simulation" by Manuel de Landa did a really great job of tying together some threads around simulation and it's connection to reality. I haven't read Simulacra but it seems like Baudrillard has gone too far in the direction that French philosophy loves to go by claiming we have cannot have any connection "the real". While an amusing idea it just doesn't match up to our lived experience.

The points about the JVM not being able to guarantee that your code won't block the thread apply; it's left up to you to do it. This doesn't come as any surprise to me, nor I would guess to most users of the library, so I'm not sure this is really that damning. Core.async doesn't use bytecode weaving or fork/join, so those criticisms don't specifically apply.

FWIW, it's just going to be a metered paywall, similar to the NY Times (ie "You have read 1 of your 10 free articles this week."). I for one hope that people decide their well written, very important articles are worth paying a little bit of money to support.