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Spaceballs: The New One is scheduled to be released by Amazon MGM on April 23, 2027 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceballs:_The_New_One

A couple of sites worth checking out to level up, both by Markus Winand:

https://modern-sql.com/

https://use-the-index-luke.com/

The toll was significantly higher -- this is from a 2017 BBC article [0]:

The Chinese army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests killed at least 10,000 people, according to newly released UK documents.

The figure was given in a secret diplomatic cable from then British ambassador to China, Sir Alan Donald.

The original source was a friend of a member of China's State Council, the envoy says.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42465516

And one other thing: just because early Prolog interpreters were implemented on punchcards doesn't mean that Prolog programs run by those interpreters needed to be. It's quite possible that basically nobody ever wrote Prolog programs using punchcards, given that Prolog has the ability to read in files of code and data.

By 1979 at the latest -- probably closer to 1975 -- the primary Prolog implementation of the day (Warren's DEC-10 version) had an interpreter, where you could load files of code in and modify the code and you had a REPL with the ability to do all kinds of things.

I posted an excerpt of the manual, with a link to a PDF of it, in a reply to another comment [0]

(And, since even the earliest versions of Prolog were interpreted, they may've had features like this too).

And, as far as editors are concerned, people still use versions of vi (and, of course, emacs) to this day by people who don't necessarily do lots of planning and correctness before deciding to input the code into the computer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664671

The following is from David H.D. Warren's manual for DEC-10 Prolog, from 1979 [0]. It describes how Prolog development is done interactively, by being able to load code in dynamically into an interpreter and using the REPL -- note that the only mention of using paper is if the developer wants to print out a log of what they did during their session:

Interactive Environment Performance is all very well. What the programmer really needs is a good inter-active environment for developing his programs. To address this need, DEC-10 Prolog provides an interpreter in addition to the compiler.

The interpreter allows a program to be read in quickly, and to be modified on-line, by adding and deleting single clauses, or by updating whole procedures. Goals to be executed can be entered directly from the terminal. An execution can be traced, interrupted, or suspended while other actions are performed. At any time, the state of the system can be saved, and resumed later if required. The system maintains, on a disk file, a complete log of all interactions with the user's terminal. After a session, the user can examine this file, and print it out on hard copy if required.

[0] https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/prolog/edin...

Languages like Prolog just don't offer that sort of freedom.

Yes, they do -- that's why people have enjoyed using such languages.

It might help to think of them as being like very-high-level scripting-languages with more rigorous semantics (e.g. homoiconicity) and some nifty built-ins, like Prolog's relational-database. (Not to mention REPLs, tooling, etc.)

Read, for example, what Paul Graham wrote about using Lisp for Viaweb (which became Yahoo Store) [0] and understand that much of what he says applies to languages like Prolog and Smalltalk too.

[0] https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

ROFL.

Like Lisp and Smalltalk, Prolog was used primarily in the 1980s, so it was run on Unix workstations and also, to some extent, on PCs. (There were even efforts to create hardware designed to run Prolog a la Lisp machines.)

And, like Lisp and Smalltalk, Prolog can be very nice for iterative development/rapid prototyping (where the prototypes might be good enough to put into production).

The people who dealt with Prolog on punchcards were the academics who created and/or refined it in its early days. [0]

[0] https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/prolog/

...these things were mostly written(and rewritten till perfection) on paper first and only the near-end program was input into a computer with a keyboard.

Not if you were working in a high-level language with an interpreter, REPL, etc. where you could write small units of code that were easily testable and then integrated into the larger whole.

As with Lisp.

And Prolog.

Great name -- good luck and...all the best.

If you want more Ed Zitron analysis/commentary on AI, AI companies, etc. you might want to check out his blog: https://www.wheresyoured.at/

with a good hosted option (atlas).

From less than 2 weeks ago: "How MongoDB Atlas’s Forced Upgrades and Support Policies Drove Us to PostgreSQL" [0] -- TL;DR: MongoDB lost a $50K/yr Atlas contract due to the way they do things.

[0] https://medium.com/@inkwash_70850/how-mongodb-atlass-forced-...

FYI, the term was first used in Britain in 1750, according to the term's Wikipedia page[0], which discusses how the term was used in different countries in a neutral way until about 1860 in Germany, at which point it was used in a more antisemitic context.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question

That's not likely to be a problem since these days every board game has a number of instructional videos (and that's in addition to video reviews, which typically show how a game works, though not in as much detail).

From the Leo Frank Wikipedia page [0]: "In modern times, despite strong evidence pointing to Frank's innocence, the case has become a modern focal point for neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. This is partly because it led to the creation of the Anti-Defamation League but also because it fed into anti-semitic conspiracy theories claiming Jewish control of the media. As a consequence, in recent years a number of websites have been established by white supremacists disputing the prevailing consensus of Frank's innocence."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank#Later_consensus:_a_m...

Just a reminder that HN's official "Who is Hiring?" post is put up on, or about, the first of each month. So the September post should be up by next Tuesday at the latest (i.e. assuming it's postponed till after the weekend and the Labor Day holiday).

In the meantime, in case it helps, here's last month's post, with around 450+ entries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41129813

Started with Windows 10.

Well, for starters, you don't have to have your apps containerized to work with Nomad (though it can handle containers as well as executables).

But for some deeper details, I'd suggest checking out the comments in this reddit thread[0] (as well as some of the linked articles therein).

E.g. From a comment by /u/Golden_Age_Fallacy: A great use of Nomad is on reduce the burden of on-boarding a team(s) of developers who are unfamiliar with cloud native deployments / systems(even containers!).

Nomad jobspecs are very simple and straight forward, as compared to the complexity and pure option overload you get in k8s and helm.

From /u/neutralized: It's much easier to use than k8s. Easy to setup, easy to manage, much more shallow learning curve. Nothing super fancy. Just works. I migrated a startup I was at off of a self-managed k8s setup to Nomad a few years ago and they've never looked back.

From /u/esity: My team is currently building out a fully automated nomad cluster service offering internally(fortune 10)

It's super awesome. Easy. Little headache. Integrates with consul and vault. We are literally planning to replace thousands of vms for K8s with nomad. Containers are faster, more resilient and writing hcl is actually fun once you learn it

Now, there is a rather more lengthy comment, by /u/thomasbuchinger, that goes through the pros and cons he experienced in trying Nomad out and his conclusion is that, while he wouldn't discourage anyone from using it, "k3s and a few well-known simple projects give you 80% of Nomands [sic] features. Are as easy to operate, afford you more options in the future and have a ton of documentation/tutorials...available."

There are more comments in the thread and again links to a bunch of blogposts/articles/etc., including one from fly.io that seemed pretty detailed, discussing the Googly origins of both k8s and Nomad (fly.io used Nomad but found that it wasn't the best fit for them, which is also discussed in their post -- actually, I'm going to put the link to their post below[1], since I think it is worthwhile).

Hope all this helps.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/11nsxo3/opinions_on...

[1] https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchest...

Nomad, from Hashicorp, comes to mind.

https://www.nomadproject.io/

https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad

BTW, for anyone interested in learning more about Lisp macros, Paul Graham's book about advanced Lisp programming, On Lisp, covers the topic pretty extensively and it's freely downloadable from his website:

Book description: https://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Download page: https://paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

"Ungart’red, and down-gyved to his ankle" -- seems pretty clear that it means something to the effect that his unfastened stockings have fallen down to his ankles, no? And the context seems clear, that Hamlet's clothes are in disarray, as is his emotional-state.

To be clear, per the article, Comstock wasn't the accused -- he was the accuser; the accusee was one LeGrange Brown.

(BTW, Anthony Comstock[0] is the namesake of the Comstock Act of 1873[1], concerning the sending of obscene materials, contraception and abortion drugs via the US Postal Service; it has been mentioned recently in the news due to the attempt by anti-abortionists to use it to prevent drugs like mifepristone being sent via the mail[2][3]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Act_of_1873

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-comstock-act...

[3] https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-com...

Or, as Fred Brooks wrote in "The Mythical Man Month" (1976): "plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow."[0]

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?PlanToThrowOneAway

FYI, there's a 2-player board game about this event by Amabel Holland:

https://hollandspiele.com/products/the-field-of-the-cloth-of...

More info:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/309752/the-field-of-the-...

If you're moved to help, the OP has a GoFundMe here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-patricks-fight-for-stabil...

First of all, as of January, Elixir has gotten its own type-system[0][1]. And, even before, one could annotate Erlang and Elixir with typespecs and then run a tool called dialyzer over the code for type-checking[2]. (And let's not forget that, even without using actual annotations, BEAM languages have pattern-matching, which can give you a kind-of poor-man's typing, if you will).

Second, the point of "let it crash" is not that you can then login to the running VM, but rather that your GenServers, etc. would be part of a "supervision tree", i.e. your processes would be monitored by a Supervisor which would have a "restart strategy" that you wrote to deal with crashed processes. So, you can write code using the "happy path" in cases where you expect things to usually work and, if there's an error, you can let the process crash because it'll get restarted, in a matter of microseconds, by its Supervisor.

It's almost a cliche to hear stories about people running Erlang or Elixir who didn't realize they had a bug in their system for months until they happened to look at the logs and see notifications of a supervised-process getting restarted often.

(And, btw, in cases where you might expect to have lots of potential errors, e.g. from getting data from an external API, you can use exception).

[0] https://elixirforum.com/t/jose-valim-elixir-is-officially-a-...

[1] https://www.irif.fr/_media/users/gduboc/elixir-types.pdf

[2] https://fly.io/phoenix-files/adding-dialyzer-without-the-pai...

Glad to help. :-)

Probably because it's in Dutch.

Here's a link to the Google Translate version of the page:

https://www-vrt-be.translate.goog/vrtnws/nl/2024/03/30/marvi...

Leading to something a bit like this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU

If you're interested in Ace of Aces, a new deluxe version of the game is on Kickstarter right now, with 7 days left for the campaign[0] (which is funded and well into its stretch-goals).

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrbgames/ace-of-aces-po...