@Shotagonist @socketwench I feel like at some point the common impression of the word "diplomacy" became "being nice", rather than "getting what you want out of someone who doesn't want to give it to you"...

Man, one of the wacky awesome things about #Rust is that the ecosystem is so *young* it's really easy to contribute.

I start out writing a small #webassembly interpreter for fun and next thing I know I'm three levels upstream submitting patches to the official webassembly binary tools, just 'cause I need some damn bindings to their test driver functions...

Heard a great comment about #ipfs today: "Nothing can be deleted, but it can be forgotten."

Plato came across Diogenes knee-deep in a stream washing vegetables.

"You know," said Plato, "If you knew how to pay court to Kings, you wouldn't have to wash vegetables".

"And," replied Diogenes, "If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn't have to pay court to Kings."

Cogent, if somewhat superficial, discussion of federation vs p2p architecture: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/federation_future.html

I'm not convinced cause I think there are uses for both. Nothing stops distributed systems from being able to have "server" nodes that collate information for clients that don't want to participate in the full p2p network

@natecull part of the problem is that mathematics is pure but the machines that implement them are impure

Part of the problem is humans just suck at building systems

Part of the problem is we still don't understand the details

Programming is currently like engineering in the 1850s, when the laws were empirical, there were lots of colliding locomotives and collapsing bridges, and every machine shop made it's own, incompatible nuts and bolts.