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Interesting that being sealed for 5 million years did not yield any life forms more complex than insects.

Maybe sun and space are importance factors for intelligence.

This article sums it up perfectly. I was interested in building a compiler long before going to college and this was the most accessible body of work.

Building a recursive descent parser from scratch was an eye opener to 17yo me on how a seemingly very complex problem that I had no idea how to approach can be made simple by breaking it down into the right primitives.

Thanks for this. We resorted to setting ram thresholds in systemd.

Is earlyoom a better solution than that to prevent an erratic process from making an instance unresposnsive?

You can do this with SES on AWS or Mailgun. We use SES for this exact use case. Giving agents programmatic access to an email inbox and programmatically creating inboxes.

The free version doesn’t show ads. Come on.

The problem is, it's not necessarily the job of the person who is tasked with doing it.

These are the kind of things that fall between the gaps in smaller companies and there's no expert to build this disaster recovery plan because there is no risk or compliance department.

It falls into the lap of whomever is dealing with the audits or whoever has a reputation for getting things done and unblocking people.

It’s all relative. Having lived and driven in India for many years, the driving in Sri Lanka is very organized and civil.

But I get what you’re saying.

Optimizely also sold to private equity many years ago. Presumably the founderts aren't there any more.

It is interesting that their 'About' page mentions a lot of their work but no mention of Adani - which would have arguably been their biggest.