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by cle 6y ago
There are thousands of engineers (at least) who use it or its equivalent every day. Just because they’ve built abstractions that allow you to ignore it, doesn’t mean nobody has to deal with it anymore.
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by cle 6y ago
Not necessarily, and vendors don’t only do it to reduce competition, and not all vendors do it either. As a consumer, having 50 nearly-similar options to choose from is arguably worse than having only a few. With 50 choices you’ll get an
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by cle 6y ago
A computer is a mutation machine, you cannot escape mutation by hand-waving it away. If you are writing programs in which you can achieve concurrency without threads and shared memory, it’s because you’re building on the shoulders of all t
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by cle 6y ago
I honestly don’t think it will, not for a long time. It’s going to make things more complicated, because now we have to figure out how to move the entire ecosystem to it incrementally, while operating and maintaining systems during the lon
695.
by cle 6y ago
How can I verify that?
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by cle 6y ago
In shops where stakes are high, it’s not uncommon to do just like you said—have mechanisms that force someone else to verify what you’re about to do, before you do it. If someone else can’t verify, the tool will block you. It’s similar in
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by cle 6y ago
Even better than you confirming your own action, is someone else confirming it. If the stakes are high, require two people to turn the keys, instead of just one.
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by cle 6y ago
It most definitely comes with the territory.
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by cle 6y ago
You would do that even with a GC language like Java. The serious performance code paths in Java also do meticulous memory management to minimize allocations, GC costs, and utilize off-heap memory (Netty comes immediately to mind). In my op
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by cle 6y ago
This. The Bash script actually has more dependencies, it relies on a number of external programs (ps, kill, mkdir, sort, ls, cp, echo). What versions are on your system? What versions on the systems of the people running the script? Do t
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by cle 6y ago
I've been using gopls with lsp-mode for a while and it's been working great, I haven't had any stability problems.
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by cle 6y ago
I regret saying "unprecedentedly dangerous" because it puts the focus on comparing this with past pandemics, which is irrelevant to my point, and I'm not really interested in having that conversation.
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by cle 6y ago
I presented an argument that your point is irrelevant to the discussion, and you provided no meaningful counter-argument in response.
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by cle 6y ago
Sometimes too. I think a big factor also is coordination costs. Working with a bunch of engineers outside of your company, with different goals and visions, is very time consuming. For companies who need to build-or-die, spending a bunch
705.
by cle 6y ago
Don’t be absurd. Of course there are costs and tradeoffs to guardrails, and you have to balance the tradeoffs based on your requirements. This person had to publicly apologize to their customers. One or two low-cost guardrails could have
706.
by cle 6y ago
No. Your systems and processes should protect you from doing something stupid, because we’ve all done stupid things. Most stupid things are done whilst sober. In this case there were like 10 relatively easy things that could have prevented
707.
by cle 6y ago
Why should I care? How should the accuracy of qualitative comparisons of this with past pandemics affect our decision making? If this isn’t as bad as the Spanish flu, how should that change our response to the current pandemic?
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by cle 6y ago
How long does immunity last? How robust is it? How will we know what the cost would be, so we can make an informed decision on the tradeoffs? Do we have a robust model of the broad immunity response that can help make sound policy decisi
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by cle 6y ago
Is fear bad a priori? I don’t think so, this is an unprecedentedly dangerous virus, I think if you’re not at least a little scared then you’re delusional. Dismissing action as motivated by fear is ridiculous, we should be scared of dangero
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by cle 6y ago
Do we have any evidence indicating the likelihood of that working?
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by cle 6y ago
There’s also Secrets Manager which integrates with other services and has hooks for custom secret-fetching and rotation, so your application doesn’t need to.
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by cle 6y ago
That’s not the point.
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by cle 6y ago
So what? Web pages can do more than they used to. Engineers of yore similarly decried the ugly machine code generated by compilers. The HTML and CSS our browsers download are targeted at browsers, not humans. If someone writes a buggy, i
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by cle 6y ago
I'm definitely not advocating for hoarding or scalping, I'm just curious about what specifically the systemic inefficiencies are that prevent sellers from undercutting the hoarders and scalpers by raising prices on their own.
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by cle 6y ago
If they can hoard goods and sell them all at higher prices, then does that imply that the goods are priced too low to begin with? What's keeping the sellers from recognizing this and raising the prices themselves?
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by cle 6y ago
I'm not really interested in having the 1,000th discussion about the definition of "serverless". The parent was wondering what the value of the paradigm is, so I provided a list of specific features that many companies consid
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by cle 6y ago
Among other reasons, enterprises love serverless b/c it relieves them of many server maintenance costs and risks. This includes things like: - OS patches and emergent fixes - Compliance certification - SSH access control and a
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by cle 6y ago
You still have to reason through “what if it collides with the real hash function?” How do you know it will behave the same if you don’t test it? (I can sympathize with both approaches and don’t think either one is better.)
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by cle 6y ago
We should be more nuanced than that. There are also many standard libraries where the HTTP implementation is the standard. Why? > There's just not a lot of advantage to being in the standard library, and numerous downsides. Look
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by cle 6y ago
I agree, there's no silver bullet, only tradeoffs and our appetites for them. From looking at the list of crates above, I see a lot that are often part of the stdlib of other languages, such as HTTP, concurrency/nio primitives, an

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