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by biorach 2y ago
You're confusing psychiatry, which is a branch of medicine, with psychoanalysis. This article is about the former. Psychiatry has become heavily focused on prescribing drugs for diagnoses based on the DSM, where only the presenting sym
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by biorach 2y ago
I think you're being unduly harsh. The term "serverless" is broad enough that it's use here is fine.
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by biorach 2y ago
Links? He cites a _lot_ of empirical research and the book is generally highly regarded in the field
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by biorach 2y ago
> The Erlang/OTP documentation before Erlang/OTP 27 was authored in XML ouch
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by biorach 2y ago
> inferior mechanisms frequently gain popularity then they haven't "failed" > people shouldn't use measuring cups either; since scales are more accurate low accuracy is fine in many cooking applications. you'r
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by biorach 2y ago
Nobody wants to keep working on X11, its design is fundamentally mismatched with the needs of a modern graphics stack and it contains a ton of legacy code and layers that make development difficult. Check the lwn.net archives for some artic
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by biorach 2y ago
100 million years ago is pretty much the equivalent of last week on an evolutionary timescale.
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by biorach 3y ago
Thank you
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by biorach 3y ago
Oh no, it really does mean animal excrement here
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by biorach 3y ago
I can't speak for the US, but in the EU this is not true
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by biorach 3y ago
> As a European, I don't think that's true It's true. EU food safety standards are generally higher. The specific examples you've given are... controversial
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by biorach 3y ago
Very dramatic. No actual technical arguments. It's easy to envisage systems where this would have no negative impact whatsoever.
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by biorach 3y ago
Depends where you are. In much of Europe, especially in the south, the small farm families would be regarded as "payasan", or equivalent
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by biorach 3y ago
Well said. Power users chasing points and power now dominate and their incentives are not fully aligned with maintaining a high quality Q&A site
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by biorach 3y ago
That's not enough on its own to fix the problems outlined
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by biorach 3y ago
> The problem is that fine tuning (and occasional restructuring) needs to be an ongoing process, and it has stopped. This is exactly it. SO is ossifying. Plus a small number of power users have final say on things like e.g. duplicate sta
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by biorach 3y ago
It will play a role tho
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by biorach 3y ago
> I've also heard it say that the old school nationalists feel unsupported. The major Irish historically nationalist party is seen to be almost compromised as they are pro immigration and open borders where historically they were mo
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by biorach 3y ago
> Depending on the versioning scheme of the library, but yes, pulling in minor release. We currently do that using Debian packages and just rely on the OS to provide security updates to underlying Python packages. Why not use a venv or D
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by biorach 3y ago
OK but your occasional contention was that > Virtual environments doesn't solve any of the problems as python authors either don't specify the version or their dependency author doesn't specify it. This is a problem of lac
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by biorach 3y ago
> Say you pin 10 external libraries to three year old versions, how many security holes does that expose you to? > That's really my issue with dependency pinning, you end up with software that are just allowed to rot, making upg
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by biorach 3y ago
> But only in what you deploy You mean only your direct dependencies, right? And yes, of course
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by biorach 3y ago
> I needed to pin 10 dependency versions manually to make it run um... You should have been pinning all your dependencies from the very start
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by biorach 3y ago
I think the strokes are a bit too broad for meaningful conversation
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by biorach 3y ago
> The margins on support might not make sense. Yeah, maybe. Without some real figures this is very speculative > TAMs, CSMs, constant PFRs, constant escalations, etc You seem to be assuming the customer takes up man-weeks or months of
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by biorach 3y ago
$8m doesn't cover retention (what retention?) and support? Not sure that makes sense.
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by biorach 3y ago
> something virtually every other systems language Huh? Apart from C++?
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by biorach 3y ago
> cutting edge languages; Whatever about anything else, Rust has definitely moved past "cutting edge"
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by biorach 3y ago
> a bit more wasteful The whole point of Rust is to not be a bit more wasteful
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by biorach 3y ago
> That's silly. That's unnecessary and a bit childish and devalues the rest of your reply

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