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FOSS Won and Why It Matters(softwaremaxims.com)
5 points by di4na 10mo ago|1 comments
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by di4na 2y ago
I would not call it harm. The use of uring in higher level languages is definitely prone to errors, bugs and security problems
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by di4na 2y ago
Depends who you talk to.
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by di4na 2y ago
You are getting this wrong. Basically the framework, like the Shield before, is the Commission trying to show "look, we fixed it". Sadly, for the previous two times, the ECJ pointed out after the fact that no framework can fix the
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by di4na 2y ago
Why would you owe them something if you already provided the code and docs?
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by di4na 3y ago
Can I recommend looking at what people studying Experts at work and how they manage to do better than they "should" be able to have found? There are tons of domains looking at this empirically :)
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by di4na 3y ago
There is work in progress in the high-level inquiry that should manage to produce most of it. Besides that, you can try to check the appeals court reports, which are not too bad.
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by di4na 3y ago
It happens to be even worse. Because we have no way to detect all the cases. A lot of the cases were handled in the "Post Office courts" (I don't remember the correct name, not a British), and there are more or less no record
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by di4na 3y ago
I recommend reading https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-horizon-it-scand... Private Eye definitely did a lot of work, but they were not the only ones, and multiple freelancers and journalists worked on it &quot
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by di4na 3y ago
Note that there are already some of this stuff in the compiler for AOT. Using these new specs for AOT optimisations is going to be a far taller problem than catching some of the errors
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by di4na 3y ago
Yes and that is what these analyzers do. The problem is that your space grow really fast and that your compilers are really not built to extract that information in a few ms. Even less to regenerate only part of it based on partial input. E
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by di4na 3y ago
If you are interested in writing down more of what problems you have with scripting languages, feel free to shout me an email. Should be in profile. I have been slowly working on a model of what problems i see in this domain and my own idea
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by di4na 3y ago
yes but it is portable. On the lisps machine, you could not port to a different type of machine by another producer in general, even less across version. The Linux ABI is stable.
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by di4na 3y ago
One thing i think forgotten here, which actually is in the Worse is Better talk. But people tend to miss it. These ST and Lisps systems failed at another aspect. Reuse. The biggest change of the past 2 decades in software engineering compar
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by di4na 3y ago
Google has longer tenure. The thing you seem to miss are the other common denominator. Huge amount of money and unreasonably far into the future expectations of returns. Means there is no short to medium term pressure to optimise for effici
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by di4na 3y ago
Promise yes. Reality on the ground is that there were governmental subsidies to implement them, so everyone got them. How much they actually help vs create problems is still an open research problem
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by di4na 3y ago
Tbf, i was working at one at the time. Finding the space in the chassis for the battery and adapting it and suspension to the weight of an EV meant they had to develop platforms for EV nearly from scratch. Without any idea of the market dem
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by di4na 3y ago
Yeah a problem we were talking about a lot a few years back, before Starlink, was that SpaceX could not find enough market for the amount of launch they needed. Starlink has been their solution to that but it is still an open question how w
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by di4na 3y ago
Ecto documentation is definitely i think one of our weakest point. Which is great on one hand, because it means we are quite above the average stack in term of onboarding and doc. But also really makes ecto documentation and onboarding a vi
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by di4na 3y ago
You need both. As there are some things you cannot conpromise on. Like. Idk. Things factually impossible. Or Human Rights.
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by di4na 3y ago
I spent 6 months exploring the Haskell ecosystem for these. The answer is no. They are nowhere as easy. At the very least because their documentation is usually non existent or non comprehensible.
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by di4na 3y ago
In my experience... Nope it is not really. Not to that extend. But sure i get you.
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by di4na 3y ago
To extend, the answer is the BEAM itself. It ships with these tools built in. From the whole zoo of system probing stuff or the downright amazing dynamic tracing. Have a quick look at https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
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by di4na 3y ago
You are not wrong on that level, i have been slowly writing a language in Rust anc all these point are deeply felt. And yet... The Rust ecosystem win. Easily. For a simple reason. Salsa. Oh and also clap. Lsp bindings. Ungrammar. Miette. Cl
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by di4na 3y ago
Note that illich is against cities. In his mind, a more atomised world would emerge from such a ban, more localised and focused on communities in neighborhood, with less dependencies outside. So the only thing using roads would be emergency
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by di4na 3y ago
You forgot the road themselves. Note that Illich also refuse train, so you have to build them with all logistic to build them on bicycles cargo. On top of this, the ambulance we know how to build today are not the one from when we first man
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by di4na 3y ago
I have. And I think it is definitely worth it to read it, because he brings a lot of clarity to a lot of things. Buuuuuut. In the end, I think Illich fail his own test. He claims to analyze systemic impacts, but fail to recognize the system
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by di4na 3y ago
I am unashamedly stealing this one, it is both apt and making me smile. Kudos
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by di4na 3y ago
Yes, mostly on the durability side. NVMe actually has the relevant API to be sure that a write was flushed, while posix like filesystem API usually do not handle it.
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by di4na 3y ago
Yes. That plus the way apple implemented it. In my case i was already on passkeys and google decided to just... forget them all on my other computers. I can't use them to get in anymore. Why? Who the heck knows. This whole passkey shit

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