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I'd recommend GNU Guix System, in that all the software is free (so any vulnerabilities can be fixed) and applications can always be updated, as previous versions can be safely rev…

The best way to advertise software is to make good software; if people get their friends to use it, then it can grow exponentially without any expense on your part. If you're not m…

I'd actually recommend learning a higher-level language, like Common Lisp, to better understand Python: knowing about the relevant algorithms and how they transfer should do far mo…

Jami ( https://jami.net/ ) has the advantage of keeping your child's communication private and lacks the ability to find outside groups (like phone calls), while having the feature…

Weeks to a couple months from the last time; I quite enjoy the work of setting everything up as I want and dealing with installation problems. (I use Linux-based systems, often on …

You could say that, but value is only created upon the creation of goods, while anything else merely amounts to the transfer of value; hence, only those who create (harvest) raw ma…

No, that's potluck ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potluck ), and, given its diversity across cultures and continued presence, it can't be very inefficient.

What I in fact find to be the most compelling reason for strict (as in non-optional) monetization is that making a service without monetization can make it significantly better tha…

If that is the case, then the best way to monetize things would be to ask for donations ; it allows the user to decide whether the person has done good work, rather than forcing th…

Wikipedia, famously a non-profit funded solely by advertising, has consistently expanded for ~20 years, even while embarking on repeated, mostly useless projects unrelated to its c…

It only creates inflation when people spend the money (a lot of the money will be saved), and the money that is spent is put into the same loop; it's not good for workers that won'…

Racket ( https://racket-lang.org ) has quite a lot of mathematics support (rationals as ratios, imaginary numbers, exponentiation, implicit integer->float coercion), and comes with…

It's not actually a standalone executable (for example, on Linux, it has a dynamic dependency on libc), but everything else about it seems accurate.

This really isn't what you asked for, but I discovered a "programming language" recently, named Enso, that seems like something you'd like. ( https://enso.org/ )

Haskell tries to automatically multithread code, along with providing support for it in its standard library.

Haskell has the first four of those features, although it can't directly use the disk or figure out what data structure you'd need.

That certainly would be good for the environment.

I'd like a systems programming lisp with first-class functions, lexical scoping, and tail recursion optimization: lisps are beautiful and there don't seem to be any well suited for…