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    Comment #37850726

    What about PID namespaces? (You can use those without using a full-on container solution like docker or podman)

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    Comment #37790738

    The main issue with the android app for me is how slow it is. Everything seems to take anywhere between 500ms to 2 seconds. The worst is the play button, which is arguably the most…

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    Comment #37715157

    To me it's pretty clear that safety is a spectrum (e.g. we give cars safety ratings), and therefore so is type safety. Is "type safety" something you saw defined in a PL book or so…

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    Comment #37689670

    I use `less` with help output because if the help output is long, it starts me at the top of the help output rather than the bottom, and the top usually has a nice summary of the c…

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    Comment #37689457

    I guess the broader point they're driving at is that attempting to port familiar programming constructs to YAML DSLs will result in this kind of ugliness. If that's true though, it…

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    Comment #37611916

    I agree that -o pipefail is not great since it's totally fine for pipes to break in some cases (e.g. I've occasionally seen it cause problems with pipelines like `grep | head`). Ha…

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    Comment #37585401

    Huh? It's called observable because it can be observed (that's what "-able" means). If it were actually meant to observe something (as you say), it would have been named "observer.…

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    Comment #37508660

    As a side note, using a future as a map key struck be as a bit weird, though perfectly valid. It'd be more natural IMO to use a list for the futures, and have the fetch_url functio…

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    Comment #37480513

    I agree with you. We can complain about Bash all we want, but Bash is everywhere and isn't going anywhere anytime soon (as much as I'd like something better). So if you want to be …