7/ ...runs inside a virtual machine called "The Javascript Virtual Machine" (JVM). Why a VM in your browser? To strictly limit and control the possible operations the code from 3rd party websites can do, so that it can't format your hard drive or disconnect you from the 'net.
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18/ OK, we're back to the part of the thread that normal people can follow. So, we've got this new programming language called Hoon, which runs on top of a new virtual machine. So what? Well, the software is free. You can download it and run it on your windows, linux, Mac >
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19/ and when you do, the software on your machine is in connection with every other person in the Urbit-verse, or, rather, the software running on THEIR machines. You can type at your local Urbit, and interact with other people and their local Urbits. These local things >>>
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20/ were once called "ships", then "yachts", and after three or four renamings they are now called "planets" or "comets". A planet or a comet is a bunch of things at once:
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21/ * a window you can type into * a store of information on your local disk * a "mailing address" that is unique from every other "mailing address" in the urbit-verse (kinda like an email addr, or a domain name, or an IP address) * NFT "property" that can be subdivided & sold
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21.5/ Twitter apparently broke threading here. Thread continues ---> (tho if you go here and look for context, you can see that I threaded it correctly and 21 precedes it )https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1502285486865403911 …
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wow, thank you! this is the best explanation I've yet seen of what's going on with Nock & Hoon.
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