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Or it’s an elephant powder, and they just think that it’s doing something. What are the symptoms of an ‘unclean’ Mac? It should be possible to say with some ex

by jrmg 4y ago

Or it’s an elephant powder, and they just think that it’s doing something. What are the symptoms of an ‘unclean’ Mac? It should be possible to say with some exactness what’s causing them with the use of diagnostic tools like ‘top’, or just the Activity Monitor app. I’ll admit that _fixing_ issues might not be straightforward - but I can’t recall the last time I reinstalled my Mac aside from buying a new one with a new installation - although I don’t think that should really count... Dave is out walking early one morning. The streets are quiet, but for one man sprinkling a white powder along the middle of the road. Intrigued, Dave approaches the man and asks what he is doing. The man explains he is sprinkling elephant powder - he does it every morning. Dave is visibly puzzled. The man continues “it keeps the elephants away”. Dave, still puzzled, says “But there are no elephants here!”. In agreement the man exclaims “Great stuff, isn’t it!”

smoldesu 4y ago
The problems associated with impure programming environments are well-documented, I should hope I don't need to repeat them here. Anecdotally though, the packaging for lots of popular programs (rabbitmq, minio, mongo) is pretty consistently terrible. Many packages lack behavioral parity between x86 and ARM (software is installed to different locations) and linking becomes a total headache when your libraries are spread out across /opt/ and your lib folder. On top of that, Homebrew is extremely slow and processor-intensive, and demands root access for trivial operations. It's unsafe, impure, and wastes my time.
- d3nj4l 4y ago
  What are you talking about? Homebrew flat out refuses to work under sudo.
- oneplane 4y ago
  Are you seriously suggesting using system-wide installations and modifications to run development environments? Even if all else fails, you should at least have a chroot for that. Or if you don't know how that works, virtual machines have been a thing for decades. Vagrant exists. Containers exist, heck, even in a user-friendly button-click interface with Docker...

by jrmg 4y ago

smoldesu 4y ago

The problems associated with impure programming environments are well-documented, I should hope I don't need to repeat them here. Anecdotally though, the packaging for lots of popular programs (rabbitmq, minio, mongo) is pretty consistently terrible. Many packages lack behavioral parity between x86 and ARM (software is installed to different locations) and linking becomes a total headache when your libraries are spread out across /opt/ and your lib folder. On top of that, Homebrew is extremely slow and processor-intensive, and demands root access for trivial operations. It's unsafe, impure, and wastes my time.

d3nj4l 4y ago
What are you talking about? Homebrew flat out refuses to work under sudo.
oneplane 4y ago
Are you seriously suggesting using system-wide installations and modifications to run development environments? Even if all else fails, you should at least have a chroot for that. Or if you don't know how that works, virtual machines have been a thing for decades. Vagrant exists. Containers exist, heck, even in a user-friendly button-click interface with Docker...