Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

One of the first big interpreted programming languages to go a bit further than Bash' word replacement insanity.

To the modern viewer, it feels like a middle ground between Bash and Python.

It was completely insane however, and it just died: Python is much saner, and Bash, although totally insane still golfs better, especially on the file manipulation context.

plutonium-based.

Its plutonium was produced at Hanford site.

Uranium-based, dropped on Hiroshima. The uranium was enriched at the Clinton Engineer Works.

This ISA basically completely dominated the smartphone market of the 2010s and beyond, but it started appearing in other areas as the end of Moore's law made it more economical logical for large companies to start developing their own semiconductor, e.g. Google custom silicon, Amazon custom silicon.

It is exciting to see ARM entering the server, desktop and supercomputer market circa 2020, beyond its dominant mobile position and roots.

Ciro Santilli likes to see the underdogs rise, and bite off dominant ones.

The excitement also applies to RISC-V possibly over ARM mobile market one day conversely however.

Basically, as long as were a huge company seeking to develop a CPU and able to control your own ecosystem independently of Windows' desktop domination (held by the need for backward compatibility with a billion end user programs), ARM would be a possibility on your mind.

The leading no-royalties options as of 2020.

China has been a major RISC-V potential user in the late 2010s, since the country is trying to increase its semiconductor industry independence, especially given economic sanctions imposed by the USA.

E.g. a result of this, the RISC-V Foundation moved its legal headquarters to Switzerland in 2019 to try and overcome some of the sanctions.

Owned/developed by Google as of 2020.

Early on jumpstarted from several acquisitions, notably Keyhole Inc. and Where 2 Technologies.

It is rare to find a project with such a ridiculously high importance over funding ratio.

E.g., as of 2020, their help login help.openstreetmap.org/ shows MyOpenID as an option, which was discontinued in 2014, and not Google OAuth.

They do still seem to have a bit more activity than gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openstreetmap on Stack Exchange.

Complaints:

All of this is a shame, because they do have some incredible data that you cannot find easily on other maps because people just edited it up.

Has some of the best map data available for the United Kingdom, but their data appears to be proprietary?

The first Bitcoin exchange. Coded as a hack, and they didn't manage to fix the hacks as the site evolved in a major way, which led to massive hacks.

Their creation is clearly visible on the archive history of bitcoin.org: web.archive.org/web/20100701000000*/bitcoin.org which started having massively more archives since Mt. Gox opened.

Size: 1-2 micrometers long and about 0.25 micrometer in diameter, so: 2 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 10e-18 and thus 0.5 micrometer square.

Reference strain: E. Coli K-12 MG1655.

Genome:

Synthesis project: www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/biologists-are-close-reinventing-genetic-code-life

Omics modeling: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5611438/ Tools for Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Microbes at Single-Cell Level Zixi Chen, Lei Chen, Weiwen Zhang.

Bibliography:

Maybe the most famous one is Mycoplasma genitalium byt there are others, and notably with lower biosafety levels: