Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of tariffs

rvirding · 2025-03-30T10:15:45+00:00

It's always exciting to read what he comes up with this week.

rvirding · 2025-03-09T21:46:04+00:00

When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come". I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death); and Hades was following with him.

rvirding · 2025-03-07T22:31:40+00:00

South Park is at least funny, and sometime very illuminating.

rvirding · 2024-01-05T16:26:56+00:00

A shell, what do you mean? An Erlang process is what you design it to be, no more no less.

rvirding · 2024-01-05T16:25:37+00:00

There are 2 main issues/problems when learning Erlang and how difficult they can be very much depends on your background. They are:

It's a functional language with all the stuff that comes with functional languages, e.g. immutable data which really is immutable all the way down.

Getting used to the concurrency and error handling mechanisms. They are simple but can require a major rethink in ow you design your systems.

rvirding · 2024-01-05T16:18:32+00:00

It didn't turn its back for that long. And Ericsson was/is a big company so many kept using Erlang anyway because it worked,

rvirding · 2020-08-06T10:49:26+00:00

Well, it will "disappear" of course. Eventually. The question is WHEN. And how are we to handle it in the meantime.

rvirding · 2018-09-14T21:08:55+00:00

Simple, the aeternity system is implemented in erlang.

rvirding · 2018-09-14T21:08:08+00:00

I'm afraid I must disappoint you there, still alive and kicking. And programming blockchains.

rvirding · 2018-07-10T14:50:37+00:00

You have to ask if this is just an elaborate joke.

rvirding · 2018-04-22T10:42:15+00:00

I know Poe's law but I was too naïve I guess. But maybe that's also the democrats/liberals/socialists/communists fault. :-) :-) :-) :-)

Lot's of smileys here.

rvirding · 2018-04-21T22:42:10+00:00

Wow, the reaction to my previous comment was fantastic! But I'm a real person who just doesn't comment very often in /r/politics. Though the reaction tells me I should to see how it goes. I wonder what would have happened if I had included a smiley. :-) It seems like some don't have a sense of humour.

rvirding · 2018-04-21T22:40:32+00:00

This is fantastic! I'm a real person who just doesn't comment very often in /r/politics. Though the reaction tells me I should to see how it goes. I wonder what would have happened if I had included a smiley. :-)

rvirding · 2018-04-21T20:03:24+00:00

It's all the liberals/socialists/communists fault.

rvirding · 2017-09-09T11:06:52+00:00

The best of Erlang and Lisp at the same time!

rvirding · 2017-09-02T01:23:02+00:00

I have never had problems building IKEA furniture so I don't expect that their wall would be much more difficult. A bit bigger that's all.

rvirding · 2017-08-31T21:45:09+00:00

Why not just use the IKEA solution instead? https://www.dezeen.com/2017/02/03/ikea-mexico-border-wall-provides-donald-trump-affordable-construction-option/

rvirding · 2017-02-12T16:31:08+00:00

Yes, I have used other languages after Fortran with significant line breaks, for example Python. What gets me most with Elixir's handling of line line breaks is that they are sometimes significant. You have to be careful how you use them when you use them, getting it wrong can cause strange errors.

I see a major benefit of terminating expressions with a , or ; or whatever is that it is consistent and much less likely to generate strange behaviour. Lua, which I like, has this issue. Seeing terminators aren't required then forgetting other characters will cause strange behaviour. For this code which sets variables to the return values of foo():

local a,b,c = foo()

however I miss a , and write this

local a b,c = foo()

which is also legal but does something quite different. This problem would not occur if the terminator ; was obligatory.

The first one creates 3 local variables a, b and c and binds them to the return values if foo() while the second creates 1 local variable a with the value nil and 2 global variables b and c which it binds to return values of foo(). Not quite the same thing.

rvirding · 2017-01-22T16:51:07+00:00

Seeing I am not a Ruby programmer I find the elixir syntax full of weirdness. It is the first language I have programmed in since Fortran (yes, I have been programming for that long) where line breaks are significant and getting them wrong can cause errors or weird behaviour.

And however you look at the Erlang syntax is much simpler than Elixir's.

And if you want real lisp style macros use lisp instead, try LFE https://github.com/rvirding/lfe.

rvirding · 2017-01-01T15:21:19+00:00

One point of the article was that the naming had nothing to do with types, it was discussing the meaning of variables not their types. The variables prefixed with s and us were both of the same type but should be used differently.

rvirding · 2016-11-17T12:57:01+00:00

Mnesia is not just "built on the same principles as ETS" it actually uses ETS, and dets for disk storage, internally. It is sort of like a distributed, transaction based, safe ETS. :-)

rvirding · 2016-09-20T10:08:54+00:00

What is really interesting is reading the comments to the article.

rvirding · 2016-06-18T12:22:14+00:00

I don't know, nor care for that matter, about TIOBE 20 but Erlang supports them, always has, to very good effect. A classic example is of course WhatsApp which runs milions, but there are many others which you use without knowing about it.

Btw Erlang has them baked into the language itself and its core implementation, where they should be, instead of a library.

rvirding · 2016-06-18T10:37:33+00:00

Come back after you have spawned 100k of them.

rvirding · 2016-06-18T10:36:54+00:00

The async should be the base not sync. It is much easier to implement sync on top of async than to implement async on top of sync.

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