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They let you do it because GitLab was first to let you do that. MS had to match the offering of their most noticeable competitor. They also felt like thay had to one-up them... wel…

I've lived through two acquisitions by the world-largest companies (and few more smaller ones). Here's my impression of what often happens in situations like this: * There's a huge…

Yes. That was my impression too. Github Actions aren't a good product in many ways. It's also very complex and requires quite a bit more infrastructure than the rest of Github. Unf…

I saw a graph of Github outages somewhere. The drop in uptime strongly correlates with the introduction of Github Actions. To be fair, it's a huge chunk of functionality, also, har…

Not going to work... I have to schedule an appointment, using the phone (they used to have special devices that could be used instead, but they discontinued them too). If I just sh…

Not in my experience. My bank wouldn't even talk to me when they discontinued support for a phone I had. They don't even have anyone to complain to, which is by design. You can com…

I don't know what exactly do you mean by Android system. Does storage count? The idea of how applications aren't allowed to access each other's storage is very bad from the user pe…

1 in 3 is end of the line awful... Back when I was in college (former USSR), we had a subject roughly translated as "integration with industrial processes". USSR industry was highl…

Look at how SELinux is structured, or AppArmor. Neither one is enough. I.e. you need both: file access permissions and permissions to run commands and more... Trying to restrict to…

That's a tautology... But, maybe if I try to salvage what you were trying to say: while failures are a fact of life, higher-quality products will try to minimize and mitigate more …

There's a difference. It was a matter of principle for a Web site (not) to use pop-up ads or ads in general. It would be highly inappropriate for a large and successful business to…

It still makes it a single point of failure...

I believe that the target market for this equipment is small / medium size enterprises that need a solution for local storage of whatever information they process in their day-to-d…

You missed the point the author really complains about: soldered in memory chips create a single point of failure. What you quoted needs to be seen in the context of what author ca…

The question about designing elevators used to be the mainstay of programming job interviews. I had an annoying interview where I was asked, for the umpteens time to design an elev…

Surprisingly, I've met non-programmers who easily learned languages considered "strange" or difficult to understand by professional programmers (Forth is even somewhat popular amon…

> So let’s say you want to create a program that doesn’t have bugs. How should you do it? Fundamentally the only way to make sure a program will always do what you want is to under…

1. There was a discussion few years ago to remove the signatures from the format at all. I don't know what the resolution was, that's why I don't know if it's still supported, as i…

No, I didn't imply that. PowerShell introduces many different error modes that aren't possible in Unix Shell because it tries to operate on structured messages, has a type system, …

There are many programs that aren't applications. For example, databases. You wouldn't argue that because you can program in eg. SQL it should be able to make applications with a r…

Yeah... in the place I worked, for a while, they didn't have a package index for Python packages (similar to PyPI), so, I wanted to write one. At the time I had a love-hate relatio…

PowerShell is a bad choice for the system shell because it's too complex. I'm not trying to justify all the quirks of Unix Shell, but minimalism is a very important feature of such…

1. There are multiple levels at which things are hashed, signed and checked when it comes to Python packages. Eg. each file in the Wheel beside the RECORD file is hashed using SHA2…

There's no reason a public index should allow any "staging" time for releases. It's the whole point of the release: once it's done, it's sealed. Oh, you messed up? -- Either make a…

It's kind of hilarious how everything that has to do with Python is so obviously wrong, with the obviously right way of doing things being right there, on the service, having been …