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> I don't get it

Is it hard to understand that for some people it may be difficult to read ? It might be due to motivation issues, thrust issues, or concentration issues. While at the same time they may have a rich inner imagination or thinking that they would like to share.

My impression is that humanity might miss valuable insight by rejecting whatever is not "well written" whatever the reason might be.

You may feel yourself very luck if you don't have any difficulties to read and write. Avoid to judge severely people who don't share the same facilities.


I think there is lot of fair questions if such person is able to effectively write. And write in a way that enough people would be willing to spend time reading it.

Context is important. The blog discusses people taking training to be writers. Which I take means they aim to do it at least some way as career. And that puts lot higher bar for what they should be producing.

That is like someone aiming to be artist in visual arts never would even look at any other visual arts. Or understand the history and such. Probably not that useful education if you aim to be hireable or sell.


Yeah, I don't think anyone is missing anything from someone who doesn't know/like how to read, sorry.

There's other mediums to express ideas that isn't books if you are functionally illiterate.


I'll resist the temptation to dunk on that last line.

The case for reading (and why its demise may lead us to dark places) was laid out very recently: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-...


Having "difficulty, lack of motivation and concentration" for reading, but not for writing, doesn't make sense to me. It's far more arduous, and in the first place you have to re-read what you wrote unless you're throwing a stream of consciousness straight into the void/dumpster.


Imagine instead the post was about people who want to make music but don't listen to it.

I literally cannot imagine being a musician who doesn't listen to music.


This isn't a real counterexample, but an interesting case is Bobby McFerrin, who wrote "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He avoided listening to singers for 1-2 years in order to develop his own voice/sound:

"First was the vision, then the technique of working it out. I wanted to find my own way of singing by knowing myself. I knew that if I started listening to other singers, it would take me years to develop. So I shut myself off from other singers for along time."

from page 25 of https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/R%26B-Re...


That makes sense to me. If I was about to write a doom metal record I'd probably avoid listening to doom metal for a while.

The difference here, as you point out, is that Bobby already had a lifetime of listening to music and appreciating other singers.


There are many game devs who don't play games. A lot of artists would rather be working on movies, and a lot of programmers who just love to program.

The best game devs all do though.


But are these game devs designing the gameplay loop? Or are they working on backend, like the engine?

I could imagine a (solo) game dev not self-describe as a gamer, but they must have some intuition about what makes (video/board) games fun and engaging.

I can't imagine you can obtain that without ever playing games yourself?


How does mox compare to maddy, another Go all in one mail server ? Does mox support antivirus addition ? Didn't see that in the docs but I may have skipped that section.


> Does mox support antivirus addition

No, not currently possible. I think it needs milter-like functionality in the smtp server. Would be good to have eventually.



humor: I wonder if the upvotes are cheerings that he finally stepped down or a respectful salute. I give my respectful salute.

Go is awesome and I hope it will continue to progress in that direction. Thank you Russ Cox


While I agree that we're not there yet, I'm one of the people who assumes that it is feasible to beat humans intellectually.


I believe computers have been doing that for decades.. I'm not sure if simplifying these outputs into a tldr; text is feasible


The problem is not being unpaid. The problem is lack of verification and control, which itself result from lack of help and participation. You won't fix these problems by throwing money at it.


And will people do verification and control without pay?


And human generated data may not ?


What I don't understand is why computers and operating systems have not adopted the TAI as time reference which is monotonic, etc. Time is a complete mess.


I would have tried parallelism just by curiosity. Split and spread the computation over multiple cores. If you have n cores you could get close to a factor n increase minus the cost of spreading the data and combining the results. That's an easy optimization right out of the box with go (no assembly required).


Oh, we do also heavily parallelize. This blog post is just focusing on the single-core perf.


It depends on the distribution of probabilities of being used. If least recently used data has the same probability to be requested than the others, then random picking will do as well as LRU.

When the least recently used data does have a lower probability to be requested, than LRU will outperform random picking.

There is no silver bullet algorithm.


The peer review system is definitely biased. It's ok for many articles, but there are outliers. For instance really original theories or experimental data. The publication may be stopped to avoid putting the journal's reputation at risk or because the reviewers have personal reasons to not support the article (it would shade their own pet theory, invalidate their research project, they didn't understood it, etc.).

The problem with publishing elsewhere is that many people unable to objectively evaluate the validity of the theory juge its value by the reputation of the journal. Also the other journal will most probably have less visibility. There is thus a higher chance that the other theory will not be reported in reviews.

There are many assumptions in the above comment that I can't agree with. But my experience is with physics, not computer science.


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