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I appreciate the fact that IMB is trying to present a optimistic view of the future. Not all sci-fi needs to be negative or dystopian, and his remains plausible despite its optimism.

I think if you’d rather read about the downfall of the Culture, then you’ve somewhat profoundly missed the point of Ian’s writing.

1. Exercise good judgment about what projects are “away team-able”. Be okay saying “this needs to be done by our team” even when that’s hard. Otherwise you’ll end up with tricky features implemented by people who don’t understand the full context (this sucks very badly)

2. Make sure the amount of process matches the amount of complexity. If the change is very simple or only a few lines, make it trivial to submit code changes that will pass review. (So have really good automated style checks/test suites.) If the change is complex, make sure you’re doing design reviews before implementation, to ensure the away team doesn’t waste time with bad implementation strategies

How does that work when the thing you want to change is a complex micro-service with a public API? Do you want to spin up your own version of that service and own it forever? Even if you’re okay with that, you’ll not have the clients the older version has

Open-source model works for libraries, or small changes in service code (where the maintenance burden is trivial). But it doesn’t work for complex services with high maintenance burdens

There are more than two kinds of infinities. Consider the set of all subsets of the real numbers.

Also the rationals are countable by diagonalization.

This should never happen on Prime Video. Major breach of customer trust.

If it’s happened to you please call customer service and complain. If they can’t fix it or refund you, please get in touch with me and I will try and get it fixed for you

I don’t follow. It’s exactly like C in this regard, except with Box::new instead of malloc.

I feel like this is easier if you’re a non-lever-puller. If you think it’s wrong to pull the lever if it causes anyone’s death who wasn’t dying anyway, then most of these are easy.

Except the “you can’t see the track” one I suppose :P

I think (3b) isn’t true, since the sanctions are effecting every part of Russia’s economy. And while the petroleum industry is like 40% of their exports by revenue, the other 60% is obviously significant. Also from a Russian point of view, the difficulty importing and lack of access to the international banking system may be more painful.

In fact if the west could target everything except oil, they probably would (since that’s the most critical export that Europe needs).

Your overall point still stands though. Your argument is strong. It’s not practical for Russia to simply redirect their flow to maintain “business as usual”.

Is it really sane to have a world of software that can’t survive new compiler or loader warnings? That just seems crazy to me

1. The parent comment is referring to waste in the environmental sense. Nature does not care how expensive the trash was--just the volume/composition 2. It's a big stretch to call AirPods "disposable" I (and many others) keep them for years. In the long run everything is rubbish; an expensive electronic device that lasts for years and years is not "disposable"

How is removing 3rd party kernel modules a “pure political decision”. Do you really believe there are no technical/security factors behind this choice?

I think this comment implicitly assumes that just because people survive on less than 18, it’s livable

That’s not necessarily true, since many people around or below the poverty line rely on government assistance to survive.

Also, the federal minimum is so low and our social safety net is so weak (virtually non existent), many people would be instantly screwed by any sort of drastic/expensive event. (Like unexpected illness or the loss of a job or a car accident.) Is a wage livable if you can’t live through times of trouble?

Bounds checking, dynamic dispatch is more expensive, wasm semantics have no undefined behavior to exploit for optimizations. And there is bloat in the process. I’m sure losing information effects things as well