It's about legacy, legacy brings personal satisfaction too.

I would be very happy to be part of something that dates back hundreds of years.

Also, unfortunately for our climate, fossil fuels are easy to store, even for decades (potentially forever, they don't decay) and transport and require no advanced technology to be useful, you simply need a way to set them on fire.

There was a discussion few days ago about fossil fuels bootstrapping the industrial revolution(s), one of the theories is that without them we wouldn't be talking about renewable energy at all (except in very basic ways like running a watermill)

That's why it's highly unlikely there was a civilization on the Earth before ours.

... unless that's what we're burning when we burn fossil fuels....

Erlang processes are not green threads.

Green threads can share memory while Erlang processes cannot, they are strictly forbidden to do it.

Also Erlang scheduler is highly optimized to work as a soft real-time platform, so they never run for infinite amount of time, they never block and never (at least that's the goal) bring down the entire application, the worst thing that can happen is that everything slows down but it's still functional and responsive.

I don't know about Tokio.

> Erlang processes are not green threads. Green threads can share memory while Erlang processes cannot, they are strictly forbidden to do it.

So message passing is the only way to communicate between proccesses? I guess that makes sense with elixir being a fp language. This was not clear in the article:

> Lunatic takes the same approach as Go, Erlang and the earlier implementation of Rust based on green threads.

> So message passing is the only way to communicate between proccesses?

There are escape hatches. Obviously, you can do something really heavy like open a network port or open a file descriptor, but it also provides you with use ets, which is basically "really fast redis for intra-vm stuff" and you can transact over shared memory if you drop down to FFI.

Basically only message passing. As another poited out, you can use FFI calls and Erlang Term Storage, possibly some other means to communicate, but the central feature is that each process has an ID, and then you send() a message to it.

each process also has a receive() block where you essentially listen to everything that ends up in your mailbox and pattern match on it to take action.

> They’re a hardware company that makes the hardware more attractive with software

They also make hardware that to take advantage of the new software features need to become obsolete

Linux extends the life of any hardware it runs on

Proof?

I have never seen a Mac in a Bank, an Insurance or a financial institution

I was issued a MBP when I worked in finance.

That doesn't prove that influencial people mainly use Macs.

It's probably an US thing, where Apple has an higher market penetration.

With a global 8% is highly improbable that most wealthy and influential people use Macs.

Also, for 4 billion people in the world (China, India and most of Africa) the most used operating system is Android.

I didn’t assert that. I’m responding to this:

> I have never seen a Mac in a Bank, an Insurance or a financial institution

I worked in a financial institution, all the programmers were issued a MBP.

"Identify which country calls them vasistas because Germans used to ask "was ist das?" from a smaller aperture on the door before opening the actual door"

For anyone else who didn't know about this:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vasistas

Semi-related- in Poland when you speak about something you don't know the name of you often call it "wihajster" (Wie heißt er?)

To be fair to the Americans, it seems like the word originated in France

As an American, I’ve never heard of this word. Strange stereotype.

If you wanna operate in some market you should at least try to speak the local language.

That's a well understood protocol too.

we call them "strisce pedonali" (pedestrian stripes) in Italy, no one refers to them as crossing, and usually we just call them stripes.

Insightful!

I feel the same, I sold my car 8 years ago and never bought a new one since, I'm planning to get a new one (hopefully kids, old parents, I'm gonna need it sooner or later) but I am struggling too.

I usually use the Renault Zoe as an example, the EV model costs 40% more (~26,000 euros VS ~37,000 euros) for no - obvious - added benefit, it's the same exact car.

I've been researching and thanks to state bonuses I could buy a Renault Twingo EV for ~17,000 euros, it's a very good deal but it's a smaller car, not that it's a problem now, I still mainly drive inside the city, but it makes me think of the economy of the operation: I need it for a future larger family, I should settle down on a smaller car.

I'm probably getting it anyway and I am also excited about it, but really it shouldn't be about excitement, it should be about being a better deal overall.

Until 10 years ago me and other 3 friends used to go snowboarding weekly, we live in Rome and the nearest ski stations are in Abruzzo, about an hour away in the central Italian Appenines.

One of the places we went more often is called Campo Felice, which is famous for its extreme weather conditions. Sudden snowfalls are pretty common and they can be very heavy.

But the main danger are temperature drops, sometimes temperature can go as low as -33 C, forming thick layers of ice on the roads.

We got stuck there a few times because either the car doors were completely frozen and would not open or it was too cold and the engine refused to start, not mentioning the suboptimal traction of our 2WD cars.

To solve the problem we put some money together and bought a used Fiat Panda 4x4 (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b4/d6/dd/b4d6dd1544d24d3c8d73dadda...), it's an affordable 4WD with many features that rival with much more expensive cars (excluding of course the luxury stuff).

We never had a problem after.

The new model costs only ~16 thousand euros and it improves a lot over the old one which was admitedly quite spartan, but for me it was a feature not a bug.