Mutual exclusion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion

Are you saying that the Erlang VM enforces mutual exclusion within its Actors, and that mutual exclusion should not be enforced within Actors?

Every Actor has a region of mutual exclusion.

However, the region of mutual exclusion can have holes so that

    * activities can be suspended and later resumed
    * other activities can use the region of mutual
      exclusion while a message is being processed by
      another Actor

For example, a readers/writer scheduler for a database must be processing multiple activities concurrently, which is very difficult to implement in Erlang.

"concurrency includes parallelism as a special case." -Carl Hewitt http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5231?from=200&comments_p...

Is this a joke?

Yeah. It’s a slightly modified transcript of a conversation from the movie Training Day.

It's the transcripts they'll recite during the canonization of St. Acton, patron saint of "After I get Mine".

Lol at the flak being hurled at this guy like we wouldn't all do exactly the same thing, were we in his position.

Not true, I would have stuck it out for another year for the extra $850 million.

I mean, that's a lot of zeroes. I was going to say commas but that doesn't really reflect the magnitude right :P

And then used it to build a tech antitrust Super PAC!

I meant the snipes about having sold to Facebook in the first place.

FEC is forward error correction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_error_correction

Thanks for this. I read it years ago and was unable to find it since.

I would be careful taking that stuff too seriously. It's ok as entertainment though.

> Obviously infinite objects are irrelevant to modeling the real world.

I disagree. The concept of infinite objects are essentially object sets with an unknown limit. This represents a general case from which we can draw important concepts.

It's a good thing we don't actually need the square root of two!

Related discussion on flicks implemented in C++: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207913

Good use of metaphor.

> metaphor

Simile. Or analogy, perhaps.

... Is that kind of pedantic correction a sign of unlikable intelligence? :P

Not a domain name registrar, but looks useful nonetheless. Looking into this. Thanks.

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