Manifesting solved problems · general

Stream: general

Topic: Manifesting solved problems

Dustin (Dec 09 2024 at 21:21):

If you could wave your hand and have 5 problems solved in computer science/software development what would they be?

Mine are

Dependencies
Linear types
Distributed authentication and persistence (aka local first being a solved/easy solution)
Wasm reaching it's full potential
It's easy in any company to analyze how much (technically) a feature costs

Honorable shoutout to a friend who said as his top would be only having to define your data model once

Tim Uckun (Dec 10 2024 at 01:08):

Doesn't namecoin solve the distributed authentication thing? I know there are several blockchain based identity efforts out there.

I would think some sort of a blockchain like distributed storage system would be able to solve this and the package management problem too. Something that's more efficient, immutable except for being able to delete, with permissions, etc.

Maybe postgres but globally distributed amongst millions of nodes.

Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 10 2024 at 06:45):

permanent end to all political proposals to weaken encryption for any reason, ever
permanent end to all schemes that prevent owners of devices from using them in ways the vendor/manufacture doesn't like (e.g. DRM, DMCA, etc)
proof of work block chains gone (waste of precious resources, climate change)
proof of stake block chains gone (already too many pay-to-win systems in capitalism)
surveillance-based advertising all gone, reverting us all back to non-creepy contextual advertising

Dustin (Dec 10 2024 at 09:52):

@Tim Uckun I was thinking more in the P2P sense and less the distributed but public and semi anonymous sense.

Tim Uckun (Dec 10 2024 at 20:44):

@Ron Waldon-Howe What a wishlist!. I am afraid those days are gone though.

BTW premined blockchains are a thing. XRP for example is very efficient and fast.

Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 10 2024 at 22:01):

Tim Uckun said:

BTW premined blockchains are a thing. XRP for example is very efficient and fast.

Yep, I'm not anti-block-chain, just against anything that makes capitalism or climate change worse

Tim Uckun (Dec 11 2024 at 21:00):

capitalism is like entropy. It only goes in one direction and that's worse.

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