For the benefit of other readers, this is (to my deep chagrin) just a coincidence. Some other fun false friends (i.e. w/ no actual etymological connection), some sillier than others:
- そう sō, "so"
- 名前 namae, "name"
- 乱暴 rambō, "violence"
- 被る kaburu, "cover"
- 孫 son, "descendant"
- 銭 sen, "one hundredth of a yen" (sounds similar to "cent")
It is even worse, we had decent answers for some of the stuff back in the 40s, 50s and 60s (e.g. Dijkstra's work on concurrency, before there even were computers to run them on.)
Someone will reply to my comment with Lovelace or Babbage or Pascal :-/
Not super aware of what Djikstra's work on concurrency you're referring to are. I've had to try to implement things from CS research papers directly and have always had a _bit_ of trouble (disclaimer: I'm dumb), and appreciate this book getting down to the implementation details in a bit of a fool-proof way.
Of course this book is a bunch of "research papers" stapled together in some sense but the act of curating is quite nice
this is another data point in my "year of the linux desktop";
linux is slowly becoming a decent option, not so much
because of linux improving leaps and bounds,
so much as what happens on the windows side collapsing on its own.
10 years ago, I was used to that windows "of course"
would have drivers available for stuff.
Difficult to asses whether it's overall a good or bad thing, but operatively speaking, WSL basically makes any machine a working Linux machine. The year of the linux machine arrived :)
1. WSL is effectively Linux. 2. Most importantly, Linux support is mediocre at best (I owned 10+ laptops) - for developers who don't want to pull their hair on hardware incompatibilities, or want to be bound to a small part of the laptops/desktop parts, it's either that, or a Windows-only machine.
Fun (in a sad way) stuff: even the Ubuntu certification is a joke - Canonical is allowed to use customized versions of Ubuntu that they aren't required to release to the public; as a consequence, even hardware certified by Canonical as Ubuntu-compatible, can effectively be incompatible. I've been bitten by this twice.
It makes sense to ask WHY this is hard. People can disagree endlessly on why.
But a big part is, that antitrust/monopoly legislation has been almost completely dismantled and detoothed within the last 35 years, starting back with Reagan,
and accelerating through the 90's when Clinton was at the wheel.
The tiny bit that is still left, is only enforced either when parties fail to pay the bribe, or are bribed to enforce it, by other actors.
Once you allow markets to consolidate into a single monolith, any new competitors will only be allowed to live, until they become big enough for the established incumbent to notice and then squish, with their unlimited access to resources.
There is little incentive to start a competing business, if you know the trajectory is "IF SUCCESS THEN SQUISH".
You may be poorly educated as to how antitrust is supposed to work.
Breaking up monopolies that already exist is only one of its purposes and tools. It is also there to prevent mergers that will be detrimental to the public.
Past a certain (very low) scale threshold, this should be assumed to be "almost all of them". Rather than the government having to prove that a merger would be detrimental, the companies wanting to merge should be required to prove that the merger would be beneficial to the public in long-term ways that do not require specific (and easily breakable) "commitments" on their part to do things like keep prices low.
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