I don't see the point - ASCII vs. binary doesn't make any real difference. And there's no an actual unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic, so there's no incentive to censor.

> A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

That's what the recent Signal tormoil is like.

Communication via Signal app that's safe if you could be sure it was compiled from verified open-source code, but Signal still doesn't provide any way to in principle eliminate the possibility that client binary distributers put in a backdoor at the last minute.

Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology.

https://x.com/iskander/status/1903077361152610374 -- about a dozen of us with math/CS backgrounds ditched tech for biomedicine. And we got humbled hard: most of what we did flopped & techies

> Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology.

No surprise given that biotechnology has a lot more stakeholders. Ethics aren't just an afterthought because unlike VC/the stock market, academia has lots of ethics review gates in place. And for those that think they can sidestep ethics by going private (be it Theranos, 23andMe or various other such services), they'll all find out one day that it will catch up to them.

they are all very different worlds. math works purely in theory and simply explains phenomenon. Likewise, much of software is ephemeral and gets its ethic indirectly once people are involved.

to work with life is to work in factors that directly affect others, Unless you're doing something like pure biology where you simply observe. Even then, the art of observing sentient beings has its hundreds of quirks.

Yup, I don't understand why Google would sponsor McLaren F1 team. They've already done a better promoting Chrome.

> I'll be expecting my Nobel peace prize in the postbox and several job offers in my DMs within the next 3 working days.

This joke alone was worth the read.

No-modularize is strictly good if you can avoid it. Hardcode memory addresses at compile time is simpler and faster.

More than decade ago, I didn't understand an actual value of Lisp, but I remember this song well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc

I always preferred this one: https://youtu.be/5-OjTPj7K54?si=TYuCLJ9_2WvRHcHM

Every programming language should have a music video!

Heh, every function in every Lisp needs its own song (:

Here's one for clojure.core/lazy-cat

https://suno.com/song/d012fa48-d5c1-46f4-8561-9a031cfb8925

Makes me sad that Clojure has mapcat and lazy-cat functions, but they've never made any effort to create mapdog and lazy-dog variants. I firmly believe that is the unique and only factor that has prevented Clojure from becoming a mainstream language at the top of the RedMonk chart.

As the name suggests, it's just a Perl alt... everyday chores, data analysis, some automation tools.

If Android had provided an defining UI API like this entirely in C without using Java, Android would have 100% monopolized the mobile OS market. So fast, efficient.

Somehow I don't think it's that easy. But yeah, the way Java was used and with XML etc was horrible. Android development continues to be pretty horrible to this day, but due to a variety of reasons.

If I need to target Android natively today, I first consider Flutter (non-web).

For iOS only apps there's little reason to stay away from Swift.

Excellent. If these compiled data structures were the web standard instead of HTML, www would be ridiculously fast.