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Unison is an open source functional programming language based on a simple idea with big implications: code is content-addressed and immutable. Because I haven't given you a new programming language in almost two whole weeks
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Not 100% related but kind of mandatory[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Quote: An analogy: Unison definitions are like stars in the sky. We can discover the stars in the sky and pick different names for these stars, but the stars exist independently of what we choose to call them.
And, structural flaws are like black holes, and, intermittent bugs are like pulsars.
I feel a slight ripple in space-time.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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The language (or rather, I suppose, the compiler? not sure what to call it, it seems more like an interpreter of sorts) has some interesting ideas in it, but time will tell if it catches on. Too immature of a project for me to bother with ATM (and besides, I'm not super into pure functional languages).
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Musk said that the satellite broadband service could have over 500,000 users within the next 12 months. And we know he's *never* over-promised and under-delivered in the past
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And we know he's *never* over-promised and under-delivered in the past
did he ever manage to deliver properly? 
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the T-M3 in my garage says: yes
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There is always an exception that confirms the rule... isn't it?  
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There are hundreds of programs in the agency's latest software catalog that the public can now download. Great news for people that have always wanted to solve transient, coupled, and simultaneous conjugate heat transfer solutions, but were unable
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Kent Sharkey wrote: to solve transient, coupled, and simultaneous conjugate heat transfer solutions,
Will it help to crisp bacon up better?
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Yes, if you use it as ablative shielding...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I saw this online, this morning. nice. not sure if I have a need for any of that software, but I do agree that it is mighty nice of them to make it available so that others may use it, learn from it even.
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The United States government is overusing its secret subpoena power to routinely gather vast amounts of data on American internet users, a senior Microsoft executive said in prepared testimony to Congress released on Wednesday. Maybe if they just called it, 'telemetry'?
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Big Brother tells its Big Brother it is being too brotherly. More brotherliness ensues.
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Large organizations still rely on ageing IT systems and programming languages to run their mainframes. But as traditional developers reach retirement age, new hires are reluctant to pick up old skills. Who wouldn't want to spend the next 50 years updating 50 year-old code?
"Assembly language or 'assembler' is still used by 66% of large enterprises" <- That has to be for small scale speed-ups? Please? 
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Well, if they are willing to (a) retrain me, and (b) pay me a sufficiently munificent salary, I'd be willing to do it for the next 10 years. 
It's all a function of how much they are willing to pay. If companies would pay COBOL developers double what C++ developers are paid, I'm certain that you'd find plenty of developers learning COBOL.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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How dare you bring economics and logic to a whiny rant! I protest, sir.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Assembly language or 'assembler' is still used by 66% of large enterprises
Embedded. Writing bootloaders for systems with 6 KB of RAM and 128k of flash (or *less*), managing the boot process of various ECUs, enabling particular test modes (i.e. ECC RAM exceptions) for self test, improving performances for real time processes with 125 microseconds cycle time... and I work in embedded only since mid 2019, there's much I still have to see.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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As I stare at a FORTRAN code base I support.
When I started consulting I was stunned by the amount of legacy code in play. One customer I support was acquired by a much large company. The larger company had been doing this all over the world. They now have multiple manufacturing systems written in the late 70s and early 80s. Mostly FORTRAN.
They'd love to be able to re-do it, but the management refuses to listen to the factory people about how the old systems are used. So, the "solutions" keep failing. If they would just take an incremental approach and come up with a plan for slowly introducing the new systems, they might have a chance. But the legacy code base is entrenched.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Company still hasn't revealed the cause of this serious security lapse. At least we can be confident no one has corrupted their malware?
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Many business leaders see IT as a utility, rather than a business enabler. Often = 99% +/- 1%
(OK, only 72%, but I think they're being generous)
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They don't even see it as a utility, but as a cost center.
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As Amazon's break-neck growth continues, the company's humanity is dwindling down to nothing. People who fired that employee also fired these employees
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Technically, algorithms determine all layoffs/firings.
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<squint>Yeah... technically, sure. Seems a little pedantic, though.
TTFN - Kent
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