They did have usable file system search decades ahead of Windows.

> Halley’s intervention saved science from being reduced to “things fall down because they do” for another century.

Well, that might be stretching it. Speaking as someone who has done a little university level physics the understanding still seems to be basically that things fall because they do - we haven't made much progress beyond a firm strike-through of the word "down".

Newton's contribution was a very precise description of how rapidly they fall, and how we can calculate and understand the direction that things fall in complex multidimensional settings.

This is a question we asked 6 years ago.

What if we wrote it in Rust. And leveraged and WASM.

We have been at it for the past 6 years. https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio

For the past 2 years we have also been building Flink using Rust and WASM. https://github.com/infinyon/stateful-dataflow-examples/

Rust support next? RN I am manually [de]serializing my data structures as byte arrays to/from the kernels. It would be nice to have truly shared data structures like CUDA gives you in C++!

Nicely put. I like Lauren Oyler's formulation of a related thought, in her review of a work by Otessa Moshfegh, when she refers to Moshfegh's "bored manipulation of the fallacy that the more unpleasant something is, the truer it must be."

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/ottessa-moshfegh-s-affe...

Edit: and for the life of me I could never understand what anybody saw in that vile show "Euphoria." It seemed so obviously just to want to do nothing but luxuriate in its own vulgarity and graphicness and expected audiences to be very impressed by how big everybody's feelings are. Same for "The Power of the Dog," which was as unsubtle and uninteresting a melodramatic turd as I've ever seen.

This is amazing. I’ve been collecting images of tables in an are.na album for a while, trying to get a handle on all the ways they show up in visual culture. This one is by far the oldest I’ve ever seen! If you’re interested in this you might enjoy the album, too. It’s https://www.are.na/joshua-kopin/tabular-presentation

the one who solves this problem will flood the world with a neverending wave of light..

every day I wonder how come I do so few now that I'm paid compared to when I was jobless and hacking prototypes for $0

finding the recipe for creating goal driven, high speed, high quality, frictionless teams is a difficult quest