They are just giving sleepless nights to the western tech giants.

Writing similar to this: is quite a normal way of writing for technical articles - especially when you are trying to make the point clear and well organized.

DuckDB is seriously an incredible utility.

FWIW: I enjoy working with Gambit, especially since it can compile to C and standalone binaries and also scores even higher than Racket.

This isn't a blog post, this is a homepage, and as a homepage it is selling its idea to its specific audience, which is developers who use WordPress as a CMS and deplore the rest of the tedious stack. Even if it's AI generated, its obviously been human-edited rather well.

OP, I thought it was well-done, great work, makes sense, I'll have to dig through the changes to see if its worthwhile, but I love the concept and limited attack vector size (a lot of WP security bugs are from their parsers and server-side rendering).

In the README it mentions that it puts the dev environment in a filesystem jail, but how are you able to use your hosts bins without leaking access to the rest of the system? Or is that just an assumed liability?

You are correct - looks like we had two alternative definitions, we agree with each other here! I categorize your definition of assholes as 'dicks', that makes sense.

Key phrase in the quote was 'until they fix themselves', reformation by other means, particularly therapy (prisons are not therapy, and incredibly inefficient, which is why they have such a high recidivism rate). So, sure, we should employ *reformed* murderers, psychopaths, etc. As long as they have had adequate therapy and confirmed reformation. Of course, on a tight leash, but nonetheless, yes.

Plus, just being an asshole doesn't mean someone can't be reasoned with, sometimes you need an asshole or two on the team to get shit done. The ability to stand your ground with a considerable weapon of knowledge on your back is not asshole behavior, that's just knowing your shit.

I wouldn't hire anyone if they weren't brilliant. I would and do hire knowledgeable assholes, because they tend to know their shit so well that its all they know. That's why I hire them.

@WalterBright, I've always preferred the idea that to explore the stars the only chance we have at doing so is by bio-growing humans (cloned?), and somehow uploading and downloading a current humans consciousness into the form.

basically 'seeding the universe' since we would just start sending little seeds of human life everywhere. :-)

Does this mean everything he does or says is right? absolutely not, sometimes its myopic and tunnel-vision induced with a smidgen of good points hidden within. Does he come across as 'off' to some people? a slight god-complex? is he likely hardcore autistic and miss practically all social niceties? absolutely, obviously unverifiable, true.

He should have gone into Academia (not that he would have excelled at the 'school' side of it), and he still could, because I am sure in the future he will be an excellent eccentric and transformative professor or researcher, if he wasn't so caught up in the rat-race libertarian capitalistic technology scene.

With all that said, even though we align on many things here, I don't think he or myself could stand being in a room with each other for anything more than a few minutes.

But, if anyone here is serious about this, and our hacker histories, please see the Cyberpunk Project Library, which features much more articles on all of this and then some: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/ ("Last updated somewhen on 1998")

There is another site that was built around the same time (92-2003?), that tracked privacy and other cypher/cyberpunk writings on a much larger scale (and other Extropian) writings, particularly by ~sasha (RIP), but I am unable to find it in my links right now.

Perhaps its time to rebuild and expand, and the Cypherpunk Library could be the place.