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I agree with this assessment. My consulting business partner and I are in the process of moving a bunch of applications from an old deployment managed with Ansible on EC2 over to a…

After a re-read, I realized the claim wasn't "single purpose", it was "primary purpose", in which case this makes even more sense to me. I guess everything else comes from understa…

I agree with all of this, I read into the "single purpose" of understanding the code and complaining about what you don't understand implying that if you understand it, you will be…

Thanks for sharing that. I read through a lot of this. Interesting to read those perspectives in the context of today.

Thanks for pulling that thread with me. It would be interesting to see if the lower bound on information needed is ever swappable with the upper bound on the speed of information t…

I appreciate this narrative; relatable to me in how I have experienced and watched others around me experience the last few years. It's as if we're all kinda-sorta following a simi…

I'm pretty far away from learning about these things in school, but this made me wonder on the connection between the mentioned communication complexity lower bound and special rel…

This sentiment has been rolling around in my head for a while. I assume one day I'll be using some hosted model to solve a problem, and suddenly I won't be able to get anything out…

I think you missed a critical step: 1.5: know that "allowed tools" is the correct incantation required to summon the relevant documentation; which, at least to me, is not obvious a…

I definitely agree with the spirit of this, but I also know a lot of non technical people who aren't as paranoid about things like this as I am (we have a keypad lock, backup keys …

I think a link would have been far more helpful than "RTFM". Especially for those of us reading this exchange outside of the line of fire.

While I agree with your sentiment, there's a pretty good chance that at least some of this is, for example, data that inadvertently leaked while someone accidentally exposed an aut…

When I first began experimenting with Linux my first frustration was that it "didn't support" cd.. my mind was blown when I mentioned it to a friend who promptly demonstrated that …

A tiny bit of thought about your situation IMO should lead anyone to conclude that you just first-hand experienced the fallout of today's nightmare, and then took a step back and r…

This is a fascinating question. It's incredibly rhetorical, and I've sat here pondering it for a bit. It's very easy to reply to this question with "well I suppose it depends." And…

I never knew this, but I think it makes sense. Is there any documentation that explains why this is the case? I suspect it is to distribute bias to the first option, but I'd love t…

Thanks for the link; I had no idea what to even search for to understand this.

This reveals my severe ignorance about quantum mechanics; but I've always wondered if entanglement could be used to transmit binary data by way of timing and presence or lack of pr…

This malice metric is confusing. How malacious is Google then? They misspelled "googol" for over two decades, but there's only one domain. Do we count the 1e100.net as a misspellin…

Thanks for this. My beloved aunt was diagnosed with cancer years ago, and has been fighting an awe inspiring battle against it the whole time. She was given bad news last week -- a…

Very insightful question. This gives me an alternative context in which to frame the "wage slave" concept. Thank you.

I'd say there's not anything to even judge if it's not just a way to charge a credit card. Picking a plan asks for a web address (which isn't validated in any way, you can type a s…

I remember thinking a long while ago that the whole "clipper chip" thing was going to be the end of this debate. I'm completely astonished by how this just continues to play out, o…

This has always been my worst fear. Solidarity to the people at gitlab dealing with this no doubt incredibly stressful situation. <3