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Unix is a base layer that provides enough abstractions to build services. Perhaps there are better abstractions if one looks at Plan 9... but that never took off unfortunately. Wha…

This is a perennial problem, see The Mythical Man Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month Or if you wan to have more fun read Systemantics https://en.wikipedia.o…

Isn't that caller eBay?

Not to mention the creation of a single point of failure for a critical service...

I liked M. Waldrop's book: The Dream Machine https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine

Would it be possible to install duckdb extensions in python using packages instead of dialing back home to the extension service? Lots of companies block direct connections to that…

Interestingly this is better in terms of precision but as an interface for math is still behind good old paper and pencil. The interface is still 30+ years old...

With Draw.io embedding Mermaid diagrams and plug-ins available for VSCode and other IDEs, why is this so special?

And they still have soldered RAM and no option to add an SSD... who is this for?

There is so much our software needs to improve to reach the level of sophistication of even plants :-) https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/11/12/book-review-the-... https://en.wi…

Oh the irony: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceos-easily-replaced-with-ai

How does it compare with N.Wirth's? https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?k...

This story is missing the impact that Tom Lord's TLA had on the git design.

I would recommend reading: Complexity by M. Waldrop https://commoncog.com/learning-from-waldrop-complexity/ The Systems Bible by J. Gall (This one is an odd one but it is good for …

I wonder how this connects with this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_West_Rules%E2%80%94For...

Does this make Risk V more attractive?

How does it compare to https://nicegui.io/ ? How does it compare with https://flet.dev/ ? Does it compete in the niche of making simple things easy and hard things possible?

You should read these books: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43889703 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25733505 And some of the myths you have may be dispelled :-)

This was a more interesting comment: https://wordsandbuttons.online/the_real_cpp_killers.html

Why rebuild a bridge? Watch this and wee at the cost for a tunnel these folks managed to make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EruSZNI4th4

How about a bus that carries hi speed network and power... and everything running Plan 9 to glue it up together :-)

Like Perl's: Make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges

It's dead Jim...

Did you try running it using DuckDB?