I had a similar reaction - the article gives vibes of reductionism and/or as someone pointed out, naivety.
It should be self-evident after a certain point (age) that approaching life through the lense of “what could give me an advantage over others”, whether that’s maths or just knowledge it won’t get you very far or if it does, it will at a severe cost on how you’re perceived in society furthermore interhuman connections will take a toll.
Indeed, I'm a native Romanian — his original works are almost lyrical. They did wonders during my depressive stages, especially “Pe culmile disperarii” (“On the Heights of Despair”) — will try it in English soon.
>One thing I want to note at this point is these findings are being misreported across the internet as evidence Fukushima’s radiation output is “spiking” or “soaring.” This is not the case.
>The radiation levels within Reactor #2’s containment vessel have been largely unknown for years, due to the difficulty of getting proper readings from remote equipment in the first place
In the context of work: the act of “creation” i.e. abstracting some reality into tiny encoded parts that elegantly fit together to perform something useful.
In the context of life: it does derive itself from work i.e. I need work - other than that I don't believe in perfect balance, there's no such thing in life.
I'm usually trying to be an active nihilist i.e. less a passive one as much as I can. So I guess something in the realm of a “quest” of knowledge - the known unknowns and the yummy unknown unknowns.
- true parallelism (this is why we need guilds in Ruby 3)
- the BEAM
- functional yet OO at a higher level [0]
- all the Erlang/OTP goodies for free
- Phoenix/Ecto are quite nice frameworks and solid alternatives to the server-side JS world
- “looks” like Ruby though is an entirely different beast
Crystal on the other hand looks more like a Rust alternative to implement almost-as-C-fast Ruby gems. I'm sure it can evolve into an ecosystem but since it's quite far from being stable it will take some time, time in which the Elixir ecosystem will grow because its Erlang foundation already fixed the big issues.
