The name sounds like it is not going to stick around for long.
A product name with five syllables is doomed.
Readit NewsThis feels like willful ignorance.
Can you really read the blog without realizing that there is a possibility this isn’t referring to Apache beam?
MeetingsBrowser commented on Memory Safety for Skeptics queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?... · Posted by u/steveklabnik
> Hopefully, there are no memory safety skeptics, other than rhetorical strawmen.
There are plenty of such skeptics. It's why Google, Microsoft, etc all needed to publish things like "70% of our vulnerabilities are memory-safety linked".
Even today, the increasing popularity of Zig indicates that memory-safety is not taken as a baseline.
Good point. There are even two posts about Zig on the front page along side this post.
I think there are plenty of context clues in the first few sentences.
> ... fascinated with BEAM, how it allowed easy spawning of processes ...
> ... the appeal of BEAM languages ...
> ... haven’t read The BEAM Book yet ...
> ... examples are written in Elm ...
> This is my Code BEAM Europe 2025 talk, converted to a blogpost.
The blog is a text version of the talk, not an invitation to watch the talk.
MeetingsBrowser commented on Why I love OCaml (2023) mccd.space/posts/ocaml-th... · Posted by u/art-w
Why isn't it more popular if it's so good? Because popularity and merit are not the same thing. People confuse them all the time though.
Check out the most popular music today. Like the top ten songs currently. Do you think those are really the best songs out there?
Popularity is mostly driven by either trends or momentum.
I think popularity and regarded favorably are probably inversely correlated.
Many of the most popular languages are also the most hated. Many of the more niche languages are viewed the most favorably.
It is easy to dislike something yo are familiar with, and easy to be overoptimistic about something you don't know as well.
"the grass is always greener ... "
MeetingsBrowser commented on You should write an agent fly.io/blog/everyone-writ... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
Write an agent, it's easy! You will learn so much!
... let's see ...
client = OpenAI()
Um right. That's like saying you should implement a web server, you will learn so much, and then you go and import http (in golang). Yeah well, sure, but that brings you like 98% of the way there, doesn't it? What am I missing?
I think you might be conflating an agent with an LLM.
The term "agent" isn't really defined, but its generally a wrapper around an LLM designed to do some task better than the LLM would on its own.
Think Claude vs Claude Code. The latter wraps the former, but with extra prompts and tooling specific to software engineering.
Dove a bit into this topic superficially out of curiosity. Maybe not shut it down but greatly limit reach:
- Domain Name Seizures via ICANN and registrars
- Political/legal pressure on CDNs, SSL certificate providers, bandwidth providers.
- Propaganda and legal labeling ("malicious actor", "foreign agent", "terrorist")
- There are technical workarounds to keep the page up within Russia's sovereign internet (Runet).
Other than labeling, aren't these just different ways to block foreign sites? Some of them are mentioned in the article.
> This blocking regulation requires network providers, including CDNs, to comply with blocking notices within 30 minutes.
> orders that go beyond regular Internet providers, requiring DNS resolvers and VPN services to take action as well.
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I agree $4,000 is way too low, but a $400k salary is really high, especially for security work.