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How about Erlang or Elixir using BEAM?

Supposedly WhatsApp scaled to serving over 1 billion users with Erlang and BEAM.

RabbitMQ, used by Reddit, uses Erlang and BEAM.

Discord uses Elixer and BEAM.

I just traveled down the BEAM rabbit hole. Fascinating story. The Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory cranked out some amazing products in the early 1990's.

Their goal was five nines of reliability for Ericsson telephone switches.

According to Joe Armstrong (an interesting fellow from Ericsson), the AXD301 ATM switch achieved nine nines over a nine-month period using Erlang and BEAM in 2002. That calculates out to 24 milliseconds of downtime.

Here, I will give you my upvote! That's how Issuetrak is. The founder (me), still owns a majority of the stock, there's no outside investment, and we have customers who've been with us more than 20 years. Multiple employees as well!

AI won't replace Ann Wroe at The Economist. It is difficult to appreciate until you've read a few, but Ann Wroe's approach transformed The Economist's obituary section into one of the most widely read features in international journalism.

I do this too. I use Claude. I picked a voice I like. I go on a three mile walk. I will ask it questions about a topic that I want to learn about. If it starts telling me more than I want to hear right then, I will say "stop". It doesn't get offended. I then ask it something else. I find this very effective. I control it so it only explains to me what I want explained. If what it says sparks questions on a related topic I jump to a brand new topic. No personal tutor could keep up with this or adjust to exactly how I want to be addressed like Claude does. I'm very excited about the progress I'm making mastering new topics.

And yes, it is not that it is just presenting the facts. By me taking control of the direction the questions and answers go, I can flesh out my mental model. I won't retain every little thing it tells me. But I am much farther ahead than before.

On my iPhone, when I press Audition, it looks like it is playing something, but I do not hear anything coming through the speaker.

I see your point. The others are self-hosted, and you bring your own key. Personally, I like the convenience Eve's online account provides. It's dead simple to be up and off to the races, getting useful work done with little effort. After struggling with OpenClaw, it has been a very pleasant experience. Several people in our company are using it now.

I fed Claude the WSJ article, and asked it to come up with a summary I could post here. It sounded too much like AI wrote it. So I asked it to summarize again but sounding more like my voice and not an AI voice. It still failed, but I thought I'd post its summary anyway. It is a fascinating story.

"A college kid at RIT cracked one of the biggest cyberattacks ever seen, mostly from his dorm room. Benjamin Brundage mapped out a botnet called Kimwolf — 2 million hacked Android devices being rented out to launch massive DDoS attacks — by infiltrating hacker chat rooms and sweet-talking insiders with cat memes. His research eventually fed into a federal takedown. The feds are sending him a t-shirt. "

As a student I worked at a lab, and had a PDP-11/10 all to myself. But of course I desired more. I heard such wonderful things about the 11/34. Six years later I worked for a small company that was able to purchase a PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E. I had died and gone to heaven!!

Love the Mitch Hedberg reference! Thank you! Always good to get a little Mitch!

‘I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.’

‘I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.’

‘I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.’

‘I like to play blackjack. I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.’

Including the Trump family

Thanks for the comment. To think, a Hacker News person was in our offices. How cool!!