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No, you cannot. Our abstract language abilities (especially the written word part) are a very thin layer on top of hundreds of millions of years of evolution in an information dense environment.

Sure, but language is the only thing that meaningfully separates us from other great apes

Not it isn't most animals also have a language and humans do way more things differently, than just speak.

> most animals also have a language

Bruh


Only if you are doing in-place updates. If append-only datastores are your jam, writes via mmap are Just Fine:

  $ go test -v
  === RUN   TestChunkOps
      chunk_test.go:26: Checking basic persistence and Store expansion.
      chunk_test.go:74: Checking close and reopen read-only
      chunk_test.go:106: Checking that readonly blocks write ops
      chunk_test.go:116: Checking Clear
      chunk_test.go:175: Checking interrupted write
  --- PASS: TestChunkOps (0.06s)
  === RUN   TestEncWriteSpeed
      chunk_test.go:246: Wrote 1443 MB/s
      chunk_test.go:264: Read 5525.418751 MB/s
  --- PASS: TestEncWriteSpeed (1.42s)
  === RUN   TestPlaintextWriteSpeed
      chunk_test.go:301: Wrote 1693 MB/s
      chunk_test.go:319: Read 10528.744206 MB/s
  --- PASS: TestPlaintextWriteSpeed (1.36s)
  PASS


Before it was an ACID compliant database, it was also the fastest backup solution on the market: https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html


It isn't even really that -- most CLI tools are single-threaded and have a short lifespan, so your memory allocation strategy can be as simple as allocating what you need as you go along and then letting program termination clean it up.


"I came up with a step-by-step plan to achieve World Peace, and now I am on a government watchlist!"


That sort of thing is why I wrote my own DHCPv4 server that is directly integrated with the core product at $DAYJOB. 10 years ago. Having the DHCP server determine how to handle PXE requests straight from the machine database made my life so much simpler.


Just need to make sure all your computation is done in a volume with infinite surface area and zero volume. Encoding problem solved. Now then, how hyperbolic can we make the geometry of spacetime before things get too weird?


I still miss my Trackman Marble FX. Never found a trackball design as elegant and useable as it was.

https://www.lenzg.net/uploads/images/Trackman_Marble_FX.jpg


From I Palindrome I, few albums later on Apollo 18:

Son, I am able, she said, though you scare me. Watch, said I. Beloved, I said, watch me scare you though. Said she, able am I, son.

Brilliant.


Give monthly donations to your local NPR affiliate. Most of them have decently middle-of-the-road biased news, and a few have really good music programming (looking at you, KUTX).


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