> The entire thrust of this thread is that you can have a more reliable system that is easier to reason about if you use specific constructs that each have less power

Easier to reason about, sure, fine. Your earlier comment claims the actor model is a dead end in non-distributed systems.

> Unstructured concurrency should be reserved exclusively for contexts where structured concurrency is impossible, which is what the actor model is for.

Results from my quick search on structured/unstructured concurrency were all references to Swift. Is this a Swift thing? In any case, the issue appears to be more about managing tasks that don't require a preemptive scheduler. As I see it, that issue appears orthogonal to distributed/non-distributed systems.

0. https://atomvm.org/

> IMO the urge to use both the actor model (and its relative, CSP) in non-distributed systems solely in order to achieve concurrency has been a massive boondoggle

Can't you model any concurrent non-distributed system as a concurrent distributed system?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-to-completion_scheduling

> What explains the silence from activists outside Iran on this particular issue?

What explains the silence from the media on all other conflicts. It's certainly not because lives are not being destroyed in Sudan [1] and Myanmar [2].

1. https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166738

2. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1166004

> Honestly, I think the first category is somewhere between "microscopic" and "nonexistent", but most people in the second category will end up holding the bag when this thing inevitably collapses.

I agree. There may be folks willing to support open-source software via a crypto-friendly vehicle, but most involved in this are hoping to make money on a pump and not get left holding the bag.

Everyone involved in this scheme is fully aware of the game being played (or should be) and the risks involved. The notion that "crypto grifters" are corrupting naive open-source developers just strikes me as an odd way to describe such activity.

But we do this routinely with machines. Not saying I don't get your point re 100 PRs a week, just that it's a strange metaphor given the similarities.

https://lupus.bmj.com/content/11/Suppl_1/A109

“most” is a lot. Which parts of the world?

> While everyone WE know thinks slavery is morally evil

Who is “we”?

> also coming up with the plausible load paths and deciding on the geometry of the parts according to the actual loads

It would help with that as well.

We've had some of the highest overtakes per season in recent years. Tracks like Monaco have always made for low overtakes, but DRS has been a great addition. Overtaking in F1 is difficult because of the dirty air from the car ahead, which has only gotten worse with improved aero, not because the cars are wider. Yes, DRS only reduces drag, but it's a necessary counterbalance to the turbulence. I believe it results in a true slipstream effect, which is exactly what you would have without the dirty air.

Editing to provide some data: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/nf4jkq/f1_overtak...

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That's just a scheduler though, and not necessarily an actor-oriented one. Multitasking doesn't imply communication between tasks, certainly not actor-oriented bidirectional message passing.

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