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Python isn't weakly-typed. > Over the years, I’ve used Perl a lot (that one doesn’t care if it’s int or string… no, correction, in Perl everything is a string, ints just don’t exis…

> Things break at random for reasons you can't understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best. Depend…

To repeat my comment from a previous discussion which brought a lot of downvotes: what happens when (not if) a self-driving car runs-over and kills someone (e.g. because of a softw…

Exactly. Asynchronous programming + promises + some unhandled failure case somewhere and you end up with timeouts instead of error responses.

So what happens when one of these cars runs over someone? Tough luck, 5 million dollars to the family?

The email you're searching wasn't posted to the list. You won't find it - no matter the interface.

One can read any amount of similar articles, but if they don't understand the data model behind all this, git will remain a complex and fragile beast for them. The feature-set is h…

> Deciding to hire both, and then assigning them to the same team is clearly the wrong solution Couldn't Microsoft also get into trouble by hiring just one of them (the other one c…

> Rape is much more common than false accusations of rape. You're throwing away a datapoint - "the police decided not to press charges or Bob was found not-guilty in court".

> Once a judge catches a lawyer in a lie the judge will question everything the lawyer says. Not a lawyer, but isn't is taken for granted that lawyers (along with everybody else) a…

`ip link set qlen 1000 dev tun0` (so it matches the eth0 queue, instead of being an order of magnitude smaller) on both ends of the tunnel, and you get 90% of direct connection spe…

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Mandatory XKCD link: https://xkcd.com/949/

> the only reason we used this at a previous company was to kind of handwave around hey we have this tool doing regular security checks That's the only reason for most of their cli…

One congestion-control parameter which don't get it's fair share of articles is initcwnd. And for HTTP traffic over high bandwidth+latency links it has much larger impact than the …

It's... sad. A few months ago a friend was asking whether I know a service to convert a gif to a video. Which was also sad.

Maybe it's just that potential investors don't get how the startup is going to earn money?

Note that SELinux mitigates the issue with default configuration.

I read someone saying "we're best at creating things which do some things better than us".

> They have a tendency of 541-ing mails for no apparent reason There is a reason. It makes people switch from own email servers to gmail.

My two-year-old son calls my DSLR "phone". So I guess you're right. Just like "WiFi cable".

Interesting findings. Though I didn't get why the author concentrated so much on the security issues of the UI while the real issue is that the whole thing is snake oil. I mean - w…

Meta: I can't believe how often xkcd nails it.

I don't think developers have anything to do here. There are two kinds of companies: those which don't care for quality, security, performance, good/evil and those which are bankru…

Now they just need to feed it its own source and turn it into Skynet source.