which browser are you using?

My first question was "If this is a free service, how do I know it will still be around in even a few years?". This was answered by your comment that it is (or at least appears to be?) funded by Harvard.

In which case, why isn't this prominently displayed on the main page? Or why not use a Harvard library URL, which will significantly boost the trust level? Especially vs a CC TLD which are known to be problematic?

I want to like OCaml, but the tooling isn't great and async operations require a library to work for some reason. I tried f# but if you want to do async operations there, you have to do them in these even weirder "computation blocks" with this annoying ! Syntax. I've found that the best way to write ML family programs is to let an imperative language handle IO and then write any more mathematically or logically complicated work in ML, but only after you've loaded all of your data

For those who have never seen it, Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" for Wired in 1996 is the must-read classic of this genre. Wired seems to have paywalled it recently but it's available on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired...

Is there any resource to read about the economics of subsea cables? I bet it costs a huge amount of money and time to set it up, and a lot to maintain it. Curious what are the actual numbers. And does it pay off?

Reading stories like this makes me wonder why I don't have a long term trade in place for a low amount and hope to fish a good one during a flash crash.

Seen them on the stock market too. Back in my day I wrote a few trading bots, they never went anywhere positive after about a week of profit.

Seems to me now that the smartest robo-trader algorithm is...

    10 wait for human mistake...
    20 goto 10

I was thinking/wondering this myself. Not to reinvent the wheel - more toss an idea around, but a 'venv for LD_PRELOAD' sounds like it'd deal with this pretty handily

Not... in a way I'd use as a distribution/release maintainer. Probably as an administrator [of my LAN]

Unfortunately this is exactly the type of stuff that makes supporting commercial apps on linux a nightmare. Weird crashes due to weird linking of system libraries.

Common distros are very adamant about dynamic linking everything in order to support the use case of "core library has vulnerability, upgrade it in place without rebuilding consuming apps." Along with a desire to avoid "dll hell" and force a single canonical version of every library systemwide. This leads to these sorts of issues.

Windows gets around it by letting applications put the DLLs they care about beside the executable, and having it check there first by default.