doliveira

Funnily enough, to me these aphorisms (?) sound almost like the replicant test in Blaze Runner. Like these are the unit bit of "nudging"

Only half-joking: maybe Java was a mistake. I feel like so much was lost in programming language development because of OOP...

As long as you don't keep switching the DC current on and off, which is what computers are all about

Yeah, perhaps. One I remember from last year is the cryptography and numpy package, for instance. Now they do seem to ship with binary wheels, at least for my current Python and Linux version.

Kerberos and Hadoop stuff obviously still doesn't, though. I guess the joke's on me for being stuck in this stack...

They all come as wheels, they just aren't precompiled.

Honestly I don't think I've ever used a precompiled package in Python. Every single C stuff seems to take ages and requires all that fun stuff of installing native system dependencies.

Edit: skimming through this page, precompiling seems like an afterthought, and the linked packages don't even seem to mention how to integrate third-party libraries. So I guess I can see why it doesn't deliver on its promises.

I thought so too until I got to interact with databases and Big Data tools written in Java. God, what a mess that requires so much upkeeping, more dependency problems than I remember from C++ and probably some orders of magnitude more resources than they should.

Is that an advantage? At the very least, what it entails is that losing your private key is game over.

I mean, that sucks, but honestly she's not a ~digital influencer~. So I don't think her views matter that much.

That's not the point...

I was watching a video about nesting in CSS and how it's just in Chrome and comments were all about how cool it is and how they can't wait to use it, and so on, and so forth. I think it's quite a representative example: we can do that much better with SASS today, but I guess Google needs to keep features pushing at full speed so no one else can keep up.

We developers are so gullible. Just give us some shiny things and we don't even realize they're heating up the pan.

Yeah, financial and social pressure is basically the only weapons we have against corporations when regulations don't exist. And honestly, financial pressure doesn't work at this scale or in this case.

They literally already store the whole conversation...

I have 4 banking apps and about 8 government apps in my phone. All of them require device attestation. I have no doubt they will use the Web Integrity API as well.

Even if they don't, a lot of websites are just breaking on Firefox. The development community decided they want a Chrome monoculture.