First of all, I can guarantee you that AI was not involved even the slightest bit in the writing of the articles. If it's insane, that insanity is in my head, not artificial. In an AI written article, the person "writing" genuinely has no idea what the words on the page actually mean. There are whole paragraphs they don't even know exist. Any sense that it all ties together thematically is a lie. I know the text, but more importantly, it is all coming from something that I know. There is no jack-in-the-box sneaking in surprise details that I'm not aware of. If you threw a dart at a random blog post, I'd explain more about whatever it landed on. Over voice, if you don't want to believe the text.
The idea that I don't get into details, and need to write code, both are misunderstandings of the main point. What you call not getting into details, I call not hyperfocusing on some small bit when I haven't even explained the overall concept yet. Believe me, I have tried to write deeper about systems or jump into coding. The problem is, I'm one of those people who got into very bad coding habits. In college, when I sat down to write code for an assignment, I sat in front of the computer for a few minutes thinking and then the finished program spilled out from my fingers. That's not me bragging. I don't understand how to lay out a framework and then fill in the details. I have *tried*. You have no idea how many completely insane things I have sketched out on a whiteboard or spilled across notebooks trying to capture the idea that I have in my head. When I have tried to grab python and make a basic web server that implements part of the core concept, gears try to mesh in my head and instead lock up. If I try to write out a plan first, I end up writing in a circle. If I try to explain one part of the system, I end up explaining where it fits into something else that I haven't described yet, because I'm talking about multiple new, interlocking systems. It is insane, and I'm trying, but it's really, really not easy. The point of coming here is not that I expect someone to be my monkey and do everything for me. I am alone, and I don't mean that I have no one else working on the project. I am *alone*. I have never once in the twenty years I have been working on this thing been able to bounce ideas off of anyone. There's not been anyone who has given me feedback on something I said, who asked me to clarify anything. I have never once in my life had a peer. Not in *twenty years* of working on this. Many of the fundamentals are stuck in my brain in ways that don't make sense to anyone else, and I don't even know that until I'm trying to explain why something else makes sense. I will not be able to code until I can get help untangling the knot in my own head, and believe me, it's not the sort of thing my therapist can help me with. That I have thought too much about security is a fair point. I have done similar elsewhere, even if I don't highlight it in the blog. A large part of the project is tacking conceptual hurdles, and once I know there is a solution and I kind of know where it is, any other thinking about it prior to implementation is kind of extraneous. >From what I can see, Plan 9 does... somewhere in the 60-80% range of what I >want. 90 is a slight exaggeration. Some of the differences are in core >systems which would mean redoing other work. But I generally agree with the >overall point: there's nothing there that an engineer or coder can simply go >out and do. Because I wanted to explain how the pieces fit together on a >large scale before I ramble endlessly about, for example, the layout of the >distributed filesystem and how that ties into the user model and the app >deployment model. Meaning no offense, but where my blog doesn't get into details, your reply also doesn't ask any questions. Is there something in particular you wanted to know? Or is it just too weird and you bounce off of it? Because I fully understand the latter, but I was kind of hoping for more of the former. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T452ddc5e2ae3bb39-M737eff6f4cb158bed58f1576 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
