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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
docker is not a sandboxing tool. On the contrary, it has a very significant attack surface.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
"transient" for 30 years? It takes much less to gather investments, build houses and sell them. People are building houses in countries where they sell at 20x lower prices. Unless construction workers in SV are paid 1 million $ &#
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I can also see why developers might have been reluctant to bet too big on new construction Why would that be?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Despite the idiotic downvotes you are absolutely right. A minority of people can afford living in an expensive and safe area. The majority is forced to choose less expensive, even if less safe, areas.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> -Don't test In an environment that rewards commits, unit tests can be a source of many little commits.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. ...which is a very misleading comparison. Measuring the build by weight is a rough but not terrible metric, and it applies to cars
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> command and control That's a very strange phrasing.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> immense reluctance of clients to deal with the upfront cost or uncertainty This is why human society invented regulations.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Are we ready to abandon this annoying phrasing - yet?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> I'm so tired of articles like this that never enumerate solutions. Anyone can enumerate the bad things about something. Highlighting a problem is very valuable. Enumerating solutions is a completely different issue and often requi
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Is it legal to lie? Obviously yes.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> There's lots of documentation Sure. > battle-tested Not at all.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
You were doing fine until you mentioned JS
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Cherry-picking C++ as an example?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The level of anti-union violence in US is higher that what people might think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> This is why we have tests, linting, code review. None of which is related to using a dumbed-down language. > At Google's scale, I can completely understand why they might feel that developing a new tool was the best way to prev
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
How about hiring better engineers instead?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> someone has the snuffles or diarrhea. Or a very serious and debilitating disease! > In america ... that note would actually cost people money Then fix the problem.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Unlike Arm, the RISC-V Consortium does not compel disclosure of use. In 2021 we are likely to see many new RISC-V chips spring to life fully formed out of secret R&D labs. Sigh. So much for the openness.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Spot on! It's obvious that a 10x smaller human population would have a 10x smaller environmental impact (assuming the same behaviors and lifestyle) However, what is killing us is overproduction, overconsumption and a whole economic mod
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
It's not that simple.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...and in many other places there isn't.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Yes, and this is why Linux distribution exist. Good luck maintaining 100.000 statically linked libraries embedded in 10.000 applications.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Updating OpenSSL or any other shared library is a "niche use case"?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The problem is not the size, but for Linux distributions to provide fast security updates for shared libraries instead of having to patch and recompile tons of packages.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> So I'd love an ecosystem where things tend to be statically linked unless there is a good reason not to. Security: a good distro provides security updates for shared libraries. With static linking it becomes too burdensome.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
It reminds people that the world is not the US. 30+ comments above and nobody pointed out the unspoken assumption.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> What can I _not_ do with Rust, Go, Java ... ? Trust the language not to be driven by corporate interests, for example by bending it out of shape in future when it suits some needs, or drop it suddenly... ...as it happened a million tim
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> Debian helpfully "updated" OpenSSL, and thanks to the magic of shared libraries, every program on a Debian system generated weak keys. I'm going to guess you never checked how many vulnerabilities have been fixed in Linu
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> You are spending your precious time and energy worrying about a resource whose marginal cost to you is about the same as a cup of coffee. I don't install tons of random garbage because I want to know and understand what is running

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