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Bravo! If only Clojure(Script) did this. There is a real need to reduce the size of compiled JS delivered to the browser and eliminate legacy dependency on goog.

After reading their newspaper (their label, not mine) for years, I've come away with three revelations: A) More than gaining insight and staying abreast of events, what I was reall…

I feel this is closer, but still not equitable. More people owning less, but what about the vision that holds the ship together and leads the org to the goal? In the case of SpaceX…

Billionaires are characterized as such due to their net wealth. They don't actually have that amount in cash silently rotting in bank accounts. What wealthy people, and people more…

10GbE adoption feels different from the successful string of standard speeds that came prior, since the market congealed around one standards family per Ethernet speed circa say 10…

I recall someone (name escapes me at the moment) defining WW3 as ignition in 5 flashpoints between belligerent groupings: - Eastern Africa esp. Sudan, which we all nearly universal…

Tony Seba around 10 years ago predicted (among many other things) that ~2024 the cost of generating a unit of electricity onsite with PV will cost less than merely delivering the s…

Oh looky looky some of my fondly-remembered UIs: Platinum circa Macintosh OS 8. MacOS X lickables refined circa 10.3, 10.4. I also fondly recall OpenLook on SunOS/Slowlaris and NeX…

Perhaps narrow your role and allow someone else to be responsible & accountable for driving the business side of things? Take an honest assessment of how you can meaningfully contr…

There was an interesting debate where Chomsky took a position on intelligence being rooted in symbolic reasoning and Asimov asserted a statistical foundation (ah, that was not inte…

At risk of high-jacking this thread, some Merchants of Record (i.e. Paddle) require biometric authentication of company majority owners, which I find too invasive. Are there any Me…

Yes cultural fitness reasons. Everything off the top of my head (drawing from experience) are exactly that. Two quick examples: Conflicts of character between them and their uppers…

On the point of Japanese companies shedding staff .. There is a friendly, win-win way to move skilled staff out of your company, but my impression is it's not widely known nor ofte…

The primary intended use case of this in contrast to say Extensible Data Notation (EDN) seems to be for faster machine processing. The necessitating of prefixing datums with their …

For a quintessential CP/M experience, run it on an S-100 -based system [0] with either an Intel 8080 or Zilog Z80 CPU and some expansion cards that complete the system. Probably at…

That stippled background, and particularly with the X mouse cursor, brings back memories of long waits for X to start. New software updates were always exciting because they promis…

> figuring out if people I just met were (1) right for the role, (2) work well with me, (3) I work well with them. I recommend figuring out if: (1) they are good at doing what they…

The judge said "it appears this case ends with me here in Saipan.” As this is in the context of the US case, I read that as precluding any further legal action from the USA. Also t…

Not directly on topic, but: Didn't use to be so interested in (or, allow my attention to be diverted to?) early human history and anthropology, until on recommendation I watched a …

> It just took 25 years to finally happen. This is the Systems Thinking concept of systems delay, the time lapse between cause and effect, of an action and its downstream effects. …

Once upon a time, I went on a spontaneous solo trek along a trail I stumbled upon, after crossing a large, modern bridge on foot. Lan Tau maybe. It was beautiful. The hills were re…

This is where we learned that! Ceph does it, because separate components are responsible for each of underlying storage, S3 API, and FS API. We tripped on the Seaweed FS and the Ga…

JuiceFS isn't standalone, it requires separate backing storage for each of data [0] and metadata. So for example, JuiceFS would target SeaweedFS or GarageFS as its data store. Juic…

Tried and rejected SeaweedFS due to Postgres failing to even initialize itself on a POSIX FS volume mounted over SeaweedFS' CSI driver. And that's too bad, because SeaweedFS was ot…