enigmo

not in the Hotmail dev team but about as close as you could get otherwise. I even reported to their general manager for a minute or two.

fun times for sure.

the FreeBSD migration didn’t take that long - iirc this was the frontend migration to an IIS ISAPI.

the Solaris bits (storage and routing tables) took far longer - and again iirc the frontend had been rewritten in C# before all the Sun hardware had been decommissioned.

you pull packages from a trusted package repository, not from the internet. this is not rare in my experience (financial services, security) and will become increasingly common due to software supply chain issues.

having a local simulator (DynamoDB, Spanner, others) helps me a lot for offline/local development and CI. when a vendor doesn't off this I have often end up mocking it out (one way or another) and have to wait for integration or e2e tests for feedback that could have been pushed further to the left.

in many CI environments unit tests don't have network access, it's not purely a price consideration.

(not a turbopuffer customer but I have been looking at it)

yeah all the major airports are class B and they need atc at jet cruise altitudes.

there are uncontrolled airports with runways large enough for jets.. like Alpine Wyoming.

not going to argue with that, there were single engine comments on the thread though.

it depends on the airport and airspace. it's not required everywhere.

this already exists, many apps use it. I do wish it was mandatory for _all_ apps to use it instead of being optional.

this is a common enough need that

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most dairy cow meat is used for hamburger, it's rarely sold as steak or roasts.