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The Insecurity Industry

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Re: The Insecurity Industry

#5

Post by bambax »

> it is still hard for many people to accept that something that feels good may not in fact be good

This strikes me as surprising. I have always been taught the opposite: if it feels good, it's probably bad for you, or illegal, or immoral, or all three.

Re: The Insecurity Industry

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Post by ASalazarMX »

bambax wrote: post #5

> it is still hard for many people to accept that something that feels good may not in fact be good This strikes me as surprising. I have always been taught the opposite: if it feels good, it's probably bad for you, or illegal, or immoral, or all three.

I'd take out the immoral, as it feels puritan. Also, there are nice things that are good, legal and moral, like stretching after a good night sleep, a professional massage, ad blocking, etc.

Maybe I'm being too literal here.

Re: The Insecurity Industry

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Post by mikewarot »

ngneer wrote: post #2

Loved seeing language safety features called out. How can we prevent monoculture yet retain interoperability and profitability? Are these inherently at odds?

Diversity can help improve interoperability, if everyone sticks to only the public APIs and protocols, you can cross-run unit tests and make sure that everyone passes all of the unit tests for all implementations, and yield the same results, the only difference should be in performance.

Like farming, monocultures seem profitable, until the pests show up, and can swamp out all of the advantages.

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