Peter Toft Jølving

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

How quickly he forgets. We were many that "railed" against crypto for exactly those reasons. Thankfully, the world moved on and so could we. Hopefully, the same will happen with the current infatuation with GenAI, and we can all get back to more sensible things.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Good to know

Nice. Have you tried avif? Should be even better.

The main point of reactive extensions is the temporal coordination.

I think you get a lot of that from the event stream concept. And I'm definitely not going it justice in my explanation of it.

My mental model of it is more like streams of events/data and associated handlers. The core concept are observables and observers that subscribe to them, along with a plethora of operators to fold, switch, map, throttle, sample, and so on.

Oh, I meant reactive extensions. I find Akka very straightforward, as do I their dotnet sibling Orleans. Amazing frameworks.

I'm a huge fan of the concept. In practice, I had a very hard time getting it to work, always ending up in crazy deadlocks. Obviously from a lack of knowledge of the framework, but at least I found the learning curve very steep.

I'm getting a little bit reactive extensions-vibes. In .NET we have AsyncRx (github.com/dotnet/react...) which seem to get close to what you're looking for?

I'm curious how that would look in a programming language. Do you have a good example of what you mean?

I stopped using Just-Eat altogether for that reason. They would consistently promise 35 minutes right up until about 5 seconds after payment, at which point the estimate was now 1 hour and 30. Needless to say, that would most of the time have been a deal breaker had I known.