Shalabh
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Programmable software systems "research" and philosophizing. shalabh.com/programmable-systems Computation is a physical process. Any models we use to describe this process is imposed by us. What models would you choose?
SPy is my new favorite "fast python" variant. The key insight is that almost all of the dynamic nature of Python is useful at import time, not run time: your metaclasses, dynamically generated methods etc, all the magic happens at import time. So you can freeze before runtime!
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I quite liked this talk – sets up a clear perspective on how to look at consensus protocols. I didn't find Raft all that simple anyway (but I also bias towards leaderless consensus).
Alex Miller@alexmillerdb.bsky.social · last yr.I gave a #HYTRADBOI talk which was a plea to not just choose Raft by default for replicating data: transactional.blog/t...
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Has anyone ever heard of a live programming system that uses the types of dynamic values to feedback into static analysis?
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Most hobby OSes and OS courses mimic the Unix model with a "filesystem", "executables", "processes", "byte streams" and such. This is unfortunate. The design space to explore new core abstractions here is so much bigger.
How does one introduce a substrate without building an operating system?
"Databases should handled schema migration" 💯 Indeed, systems should handle schema migration. A big bling spot in the PLs of today is that they cant imagine versions - they only ever imagine one version of the program, and consequently, only one version of the schema.
Jonathan Edwards@jonathoda.bsky.social · 2y agoVideo: Operational Version Control vimeo.com/944945281/53...
Computation is a physical process. Any abstractions we use to build these processes, view them or make sense of the are all made up. Look what we have done!
