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Magic Wormhole: https://magic-wormhole.io/ An easy and secure file transfer program. I use it almost everyday since I discovered it. Author has a very good video on it at pycon-2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrTqQw0_3c
* IPv6. A genuinely useful tool, in particular for homelabs: multiple globally routable addresses per machine. One address per service. No need for Host/SNI vhosting. Works well with containers. To get v6 support, either find ISPs/SIMs that do v6, or wireguard to a VM that providss a /56. * SSH ForcedCommand. Lots of usecases here, for backups, file storage, git, etc. * Verilog as a tool for software developers to le…
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+1 for D. Python took 20 years after its introduction to become popular as today, thanks to its more intuitive syntax that was based on ABC. I really hope after 20 years of its introduction that D will be appreciated and becomes a de-facto language not unlike Python is now. Perhaps even more popular with the advent of connected tiny embedded sensors and machine in the form of IoT are upon us.
D has been out for 20+ years, or did I misread you?
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In ML/AI space, at least some people thing analog computing is the next big thing, https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2021/09/23/ibm-resea... . It hasn't taken off, yet, though.
I know, I've had my eye on this topic for a while. Honestly it seems like a perfect application. Neural networks are analog systems. An analog computer can represent neurons very accurately and the entire network is inherently parallel, for free! I can't wait to see what comes out of this research
and here for a book to learn it from: https://book.simply-logical.space/src/simply-logical.html
I think it is the closest thing to a "tool for expressing thought" with a proof procedure, which presently exists.
pen and paper
I just agreed with several other people that we'd start sending handwritten mail to each other.
get a mailbox people hand write letters to it
they get copied and redistributed
people can write to each other
or a paper version of HN printed like a newspaper
Not sure if you're looking for things as "trifling" as programming languages, but I do wish more people knew about Nim. It's fast, statically typed, reads more or less like Python, has a great effect system, etc. It's a joy to use. I've been working through writing an interpreter in it: https://youtu.be/48CsjEFzyXQ
I hate nim for depriving me of the joy to use tabs instead of spaces. It's just... unreasonable.