killbrad

This is hyperbolic nonsense. Having worked at AWS, I've never encountered a business that is more serious about their security position.

Unfortunately, while I agree with you on the monoculture angle, I'm not sure this article covered it in any meaningful way.

It's really sad to grow food and know what it looks like, and then go into a grocery where everything looks like an identical twin. A forked carrot? Must have been mutated by nuclear waste! A strawberry that isn't the size of a Snickers bar? Can't possibly be good!

It's consumer attitudes and opinions that need to change to make this better. It's interesting in America especially where one of the foundational attributes of the culture is "individuality" that the consumers expect the opposite of their produce.

You know MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres don't have licensing costs, right?

What is better for society: a warning that says something is toxic, or pretending that a poison is perfectly harmless?

A toxic company

I'm confused, are you arguing that cellular changes cannot impact a larger organism because they have too many cells?

And the case was not for, against, or anything other than casually adjacent to GMOs.

Well corrected on his affiliation. Great quote too... Drink RoundUp? "I'm not an idiot".

This case and this verdict had nothing to do with GMOs, but ok.

Everyone that enabled this behavior should be blacklisted by any and all respectable companies and investors.

I vaguely remember watching an interview with an exec from Monsanto saying RoundUp was perfectly safe, safe enough to drink. Then immediately refusing to drink it when offered, because of course it's poison.

Our government, and moreso, our society through cultural and government apathy has devalued anything academic that does not produce material gains - capital, wealth, patents, etc.

I fear that the total commercialisation of academia means that we are unlikely to see meaningful material gains for society in terms of new cures to disease or technology advances outside of those that can be monetised for recurring revenue in the next decade.

It's really an unfortunate but self inflicted American problem.

The"new" Gmail is the slowest website I use. I'm trying to give it a go but honestly I'm gonna have to switch soon. It's nearly unusable.

Child-side foreign keys? Does that mean constraints in app logic instead of the database?

I'm probably really ignorant asking this, but how do you "pause" schema migrations period. And even if you did, how do you ensure a consistent experience for your users if your db is broken? Some sort of application logic to deal with inconsistencies? That seems really expensive (from a development work perspective).