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There are decent plugins for the essentials you’d find in other harnesses. Pi shines in opinionated things you won’t find elsewhere. For instance the XMPP integration someone menti…

One could argue the death toll of WW I and WW II would not be possible without large scale manufacturing of firearms and explosives.

I believe you’d have a very different opinion if the size did change and she had the opportunity to treat it at a very early stage.

It was too complex. Just making system calls require white listing libraries goes a long way of preventing a whole class of exploits. There’s no reason a color parser, or a date li…

You know life expectancy in Portugal is higher than in California, right?

Definitely don’t dismiss it. While there are limitations, it’s already very capable for a number of tasks. Tweaking it to be more effective is skill itself.

100% agree. This is a low quality post both setting unrealistic expectations for a dynamic language and at times straight up making false claims. Suggesting OOP as a solution is pr…

You’d be surprised by the amount of companies handling critical infrastructure that are OK with using PyPI directly

There are no sources, this is completely made up.

It gets worse. ICP-Brasil, the AC mentioned in the bug reports, the the government run agency responsible for all things related to digital signatures. Digitally signing a contract…

Except it is literal “pcap” as they capture all packets at layer 3. I don’t know the exact specifications of Pico appliances, but it would not surprise me they’re running Linux + l…

You’d be swapping an open-source vendor independent API for a cloud-specific vendor locked one. And paying more for the “privilege”

If developers can’t produce code without bugs, what good are they? /s

I strongly recommend Acemoglu, Robinson classic book "Why Nations Fail" https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/d... It's very accessible, no economics backgroun…

Indeed.All exponential growth curves are sigmoids in disguise.

This is no excuse. At least in larger companies, you have safety inspectors that routinely visit shops unannounced and will give you and your manager trouble if you’re not followin…

If a 787 crashes and kill all passengers due to improper maintenance, the airline is liable. Does that make FAA regulations on maintenance unnecessary? Would you put your family in…

>might need to migrate over to something else for the blog, with a proper cache Never Update _Anything_ :)

Well, if only he had updated his server stack to something more scalable...

One-week turnaround to open a port would be a dream in most large companies.

>The analogy isn't very good, because the natural French language isn't a minefield full of undefined behavior. As someone who has been trying to learn it, this sounds exactly like…

Motorcycles are substantially more dangerous than cars. We can’t even convince people to buy European style compact cars instead of large trucks and SUVs

This smells like the supplier is running some sort of insurance fraud scheme

PE shops are great targets for being the “bad guys” in whatever situation, of course they are no different than your run of the mill investor or founder when it comes to greed.

The "issue" is Julia is not Just-in-Time, but a "Just-Ahead-of-Time" language. This means code is compiled before getting executed, and this can get expensive for interactive use. …