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Same here. m2^2 ;) toying around with these kind of indices to detect / find repetitions for years already.

Btw: what's the best source for these kind of one of a kind, contra-intuitive algos and datastructures? Be it online, be it books...

BWT can't be the only one, right?

Maybe it's been stated already by someone else here but I really hope that CO2 pricing on the major Cloud platforms will help with this. It boils down to resources used (like energy) and waste/CO2 generated.

Software/System Developers using 'good enough' stacks/solutions are externalising costs for their own benefit.

Making those externalities transparent will drive alot of the transformation needed.

Kudos! What an impressive collection of features and display of substantial development in almost all areas of the framework!

What's the current status of OpenGl Support? Any progress there? It would be really "cool" and inspiring to be able to develop on older yet otherwise good-enough hardware... thinking about all those very young future devs stuck with all that otherwise good-enough hardware here ;)

1. Is there a name/"standard" for the format gron is transforming json into?

2. Thesis: jq is cumbersome when used on a json input of serious size/complexity because upfront knowledge of the structure of the json is needed to formulate correct search queries. Gron supports that "uninformed search" use-case much better. Prove me wrong ;)

- A little off-tangent maybe, but are there other professions where this kind of once important but today less important (as some claim) knowledge exists? Is this kind of "knowledge degradation" common in other industries?

- On a different note: how much of mem-space bloat can be attributed to this low-level neglect? Which of course is partly caused by modern languages / programming paradigms abstracting away this low level details for sake of higher level abstractions (which only seldom break, right ;)

- honorable exception: erlang bit-level pattern matching and all the power that comes with it. Btw. did any other language/lib even try to imitate that feature?

Nothing truly unexpected.

Just one more shinny, almost perfect PR reaction... after the fact actually facts which "just incidentally?" helped the sales of newer/replacement products?

That does neither give money back to ppl. who actually replaced their phones for big bucks "because it was slow" nor undoes the unnecessary waste, tactics like this produce, in which waste I guess the Management-Team of the company would not like their children to play in.

We know, we know totally unintended... "the corporation" says after being caught. U It's simple: gauge your internal enterprise tendencies towards the right-thing-to-do-by-default (in some countries by-the-law btw) or pay up big time.

It's new kind of mass-market tech news too; vw and other car makers, now apple, many more to come:

very nasty tricks we benefit(ed) from and got caught doing.

Sure. Sharing mostly the same view of this (hi)story... but: did those guys leave? lost their muses? What happened besides maturing and "standards"-lockdown... outside of some smaller bubbles and marketing gigs the whole eco-system seams stagnant and mostly irrelevant to today's internet/web development... despite so obvious interest of the company. What happened? What did not happen? (besides mono and unity)

I agree on the first 3... and most probably that's why I very strongly disagree on the last part.

The way the languages "match" the environment in the first 3 examples is almost reciprocal to the way the language is a mismatch in the last one... "it just happened".

Also seeing those first 3 environments even listed with the last one somehow does not seem fitting... but is still a nice pictures of current "Zeitgeist" of computing and software development, imo.

Thinking about "the stack", runtimes , development processes and the root-causes involved here i think, the best thing that could happen to "the industry" is some event preventing the silicon production to deliver new cpu-s/ram/gpu-s/harddrives for some 5+ years or so.

Constrain the resources to bring brack some sane levels of efficiency regarding ram/cpu-cycles/hd-space.

/scnr

Okay, pure anecdotal but: exactly the same "complaint" including exactly the same advice (minus the "web" ) could be found some 20 years ago. Not only it seems the field is not "structurally" changing much, it seems people are people, still ;) ... and "CRUD" moved to the web.

Any "export-paths/pipelines" available to use the lib with After-Effects alternatives?

I don't know if you used the technique on your own post but I find my self strongly agreeing with it ;)

Every technique, every tool, every idea can used for "good" and "bad". A problem I see is the massively overpowered tendency of the personal gains seekers and market winners and profit hunters to engross and harmfully misuse _everything_ for their gains. It makes me seek to discover how helpful and constructive ideas/techniques are violated (bcos they are only very shallowly understood) and used _against_ people. Quite often I find this has to do we the ethics an area is entertaining. So therapists, social workers f.e. will use those tools differently and in a more constructive way than ppl. in the Biz-World bound only to "Biz-Ethics".

-- 'other awareness' applied to yourself --

I find the work and ideas especially the

"attention schema theory"

of sentience, consciousness, self-awareness proposed by Michael Graziano[1] most compelling in that area; they as well propose an evolutionary path towards the development of "consciousness"

And yeah sure, why should/could the mirror-neurons-"apparatus" _not_ be involved?

[1] https://www.princeton.edu/~graziano/ : including some The Atlantic essays.

Aha! The natural English grammar pointer is a nice one... sure enough I now! remember the "natural language syntax" idea ;)

I'm happy too, no doubt... I guess, given how long it already "survived" SQL is quite "successful". Cheers

Maybe a little off topic:

- What's the (hi)story behind SQL putting the SELECT clause first? What are/were the benefits?

- What's the (hi)story behind SQL even differentiating between FROM and JOIN? Isn't it in the end: those are the tables, combine them in this way into one data set?

Any hints? pointers?

Thanks for the insights!

I did not mean to criticize servo or rust in any way... Any serious and non-tiny project will have areas like those you pointed out. I just think servo (and rust as its main 'tool') is a really great endeavor on the track to multi-process/parallel/concurrent (system)programming on the larger scheme of things ;). Any 'issues' you guys trip over are for sure nice lessons... which even potentially can feed back into rust. (which was the plan all along, afaik ;) Cheers

Thanks!

"in-going data duplication" ummm... i guess i meant ;) duplication of the incoming data (network packets->buffers->resources like html-files etc) in the sense of trying to minimize the amount of data duplicated and moved around to be used by various code-parts.

Most probably the most interesting parts are those areas where even Rust can't really "help" to prevent that. thanks

Servo is using zero-copy parallel parsing of html, css and parallel rendering, right? Is it trying to reduce in-going data duplication? Any insiders (actually understanding this questions ;) who can comment on this?

"New"

The papers and work on this theory go on for years already and its due time it gains more/wider public attention, imo.

I wonder if it will cause/is causing already a kind of antropo-"disappointment" just like heliocentric theories caused when they un-throned the earth-centric theories... we humans love magic, especially when we are told/we think to be magic, right?

My _hope_ is that kids today still listen to music which moves them and that it just is not the music pushed down their throats by the hyper-effective marketing machineries developed over the years by the ... what is it now ...big 3? or big 4?

I hope they get moved by mostly indy music not known by me ;)

That's I hope what the long tail idea was good for as well.

Ah, so true! Thanks for reminding me.

Hard to discuss without spoilers but do you mean story-time-wise or story-line-wise?

I love how the book manages to tell just 1/3 of the whole story ;)

"If you want to be heard speak quietly."

Looks like it works IF you have something to say, the topic is an important one and your audience knows how to listen... and all the others are yelling. (the translation into the zeit-geist of marketing deliberately not provided)

Also every time this under-marketing and under-hype of sublime comes up I wonder if we already reached the stage were semi-objective and subjective evaluation of tools is not enough to legitimate their use, if some sort of "hype" is necessary to release users from the burden of own evaluation and decision making...

Is marketing and hype a feature?

Is there maybe a generation of developers missing the pure joy of using under-hyped yet powerful hidden-gems?

Also: code-editors lagging at text input with the history leading to this funny state of affairs must be an entry in the encyclopedia technica for this civilization. ;) /scnr

For any non-trivial (code size, complexity etc) programming-problem

there are programmers with little analytical skills but given enough time they will end up with code doing mostly the right things... unfortunately from the out side there is no way to tell to what degree the code evolved from try and error or from true analysis...

Then there are skillful and analytical programmers who over the course of the dev cycle for a problem burn out their "analytical mana" due to simple exhaustion, external pressure or both or simply because the problem grows conceptually over their 'head-room' during the work on it... backtracking and reworking already written down code is still cumbersome, always a risk and unpleasant ('trashing something already done')

Then there often is time eroding the most clean, analytical code with every little update into a mass, unless ofc energy is spent to re-analyse and rewrite.

Then there are ofc some differences between areas in which programming is used.

'how much coding is by guess and by golly'

I hear this quite often from ppl with math, physics background etc. who are often accustomed to read expositions of ideas in math papers: presenting the final versions of the formulas.

Code quite often is more equivalent to the notes a mathematician would make and use before summarizing them into the published paper.

Those Math-Whitepapers are executed in the heads of the humans so they tend to try to keep it clean and minimal and analytical sound.

Those Code-Artefacts are executed by machines which don't care at all about such things, thus as long as the humans are satisfied with the end-results the 'inner-structure' tends to erode. Code is read more often than written but it is often only read later and by other people, so ... first things first: it has to work, right? ;)

But yea, I mostly agree that many programmers slide down into a habit of very special kind of

"reactive programming" ;)

where they try to hit the target by incrementally zeroing down on a solution reacting only on the results of the previous version of the code. Due to the action - reaction structure this tends to be quite flow-inducing and satisfactory... but the results are seldom analytically pleasing or sound.

"But I can at least see how it could improve my life."

This post goes intentionally against the constructive rules here, BUT this quote has to find its way into the "Silicon Valley" show. I bet it will. /scnr

logical, clear-thinking

To what extent?

So in technical terms:

I recognize that if my wife is emotional and needs to vent,

Signal processing? Capacity management?

that the best way to improve her mental state

State change management/processing?

But psychological thinking has it's very strange non-mathemalical logic... and vocabulary ;)

I'm not sure if there's really a difference in the English language but I'm inclined to say

regulating rather than controlling

to move this even more away from the current technical main-stream (mis)understanding ;) ... this is as well a more realistic, natural and humane way to think about it, i think.

On an different note, it looks like there is still a huge mental wall built up between "the rational" and "the emotional" which actually is just a mental one or cultural and and bears less and less factual indications the more we learn about our mental inner workings.

I think we need to tackle that wall from both sides: techies need to accept and deal with "the emotional", which would change the way they work and their products

and

on the other side "the rational" needs to lose its tag of being simply cold, inhumane and not appropriate in certain domains. The most "social" areas of our society need a certain level of "the rational".

Looking forward to the generation capable to spark a "social silicon valley" ;) ...

Thanks for clarifying this.

So there is an effort estimate to ADD what the authorities need?

Does this indicate the crypto is already broken?

What's hindering the "intelligence community" from doing it on their own on case by case basis?

Did they already do this?

Does Apple win disproportionately marketing wise by staging it self as the sound and secure provider?