There are plenty of examples to the contrary of this. In particular, I know that factorio has literally never gone on sale on principle, and has only ever gone up in price upon leaving early access. Despite this, it shows up with some regularity in the store.

It’s certainly the case that Steam can be a rat race for developers to get attention, but I don’t believe your framing is accurate.

Honestly it annoys me how much the well has been poisoned with rust that we’re even talking about the language here. There is so much focus on rust that we’re not even talking about how they literally couldn’t tell the difference between their software crashing in production and a ddos attack.

They had no visibility into their runtime environment, and from my understanding of the Blogpost, didn’t even look into the possibility until the entire cluster went down from this bad config.

Like, even assuming they did input validation, what should the clickhouse services do when they’re fed an invalid config? I’d argue the only sensible thing would be to refuse to start. But it seems like crashing wasn’t being detected at all.

That might be true, but claiming that people only moved because they were propagandized into doing so by a for-profit company is absurd.

This is incredibly reductive and at best looking at mumble through Rose tinted glasses.

Mumble has had a rocky past as a useful piece of software and it’s absolutely not been a discord competitor any more than TeamSpeak is a discord competitor.

Maybe it’s changed recently, but mumble has not had the feature set that made discord useful in the first place.

It’s a bit of a mixed bag for me to be honest. I understand the desire to accurately package dependencies and maintain control over the dependencies without relying on a third party host, but I feel like everyone (whether that’s rust, node, python, ruby, etc) should just maintain a separate registry. As in not package it in the “Debian repos” but a debian mirror of crates.io that the debian maintainers maintain. To whit I can just download the Debian rust toolchain and have it be pointing at the Debian rust package mirror.

I’m sure there’s a lot of extra infra required for something like that, but I genuinely believe it’s more sane to try and get these languages to adopt that, rather than what we have now.

I could be easily swayed another way, but that’s how I feel currently.

I don’t know that the OP or anyone else necessarily disagrees with you here. It’s one of the reasons that I believe we’re fucked when the bubble pops. Every other sector is shrinking otherwise, which is only making the mania more extreme.

Trump has fucked the economy, but I don’t expect the next administration to be able to pull off a miracle and fix the mess we’ve created within the next 10 years. Foreign relations and our status as the reserve currency are shot to hell. The US is going to have to answer for our behavior.

Phoronix comment sections never fail to be cesspools

The stress-ng package is like 5MB.

There are a lot of possible ways to validate this, namely just downloading a benchmarking tool and using it. Is there a reason you don’t want to do that?

Does anyone remember the wizard of Oz where Dorothy returns to oz and that Lady changes her head? That stuff creeped me out when I was little to no end. Not sure I ever even finished it.

From a completely unscientific but ‘experienced’ perspective I think the problem is that life just gets in the way as you get older, and you prioritize your own life rather than trying to learn.

Whether neuroplasticity means you can learn things later or not, the opportunity to learn things later just isn’t there without effort.

Having a job, kids, a mortgage and no social obligation to learn in a structured and organized way probably impacts you more than anything neurological.

I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding what this project is working to achieve. Why wouldn’t a web server be a basic requirement for an identity provider?

Personally I am living for the next time I hang out with one of my “friends”. I don’t really know them all that well, but they seem interested in getting together and playing factorio with me. Just remember you don’t have to have long term, grand reasons for sticking around.

Isolation has the connotation of a single thing or individual being… Isolated from the group. Atomization is meant to evoke a sense of the more widespread impact on society. After all, if something only impacts a small subset it’s considered… “Isolated”

That being said, atomization is definitely not a new term to describe this…

I read the first book or two series in middle school(‽) and it was pretty good, if I recall correctly this had a pretty good sibling relationship, and the only thing stopping me from finishing it was the library didn’t have the rest.

Definitely don’t just dismiss books for YA though! There’s no reason you can’t enjoy a good book because of the target audience. I still re-read my favorites all the time, and try out new books.

Are atanmodernism and cscmodernism a thing?

History and good explanations of what was changed and why is incredibly useful for being able to determine if something is a bug, a feature, and why something was written a particular way.

I’m not super stringent on commit style, but it absolutely helps to structure commit messages, especially in larger projects where they’re being worked on piecemeal.

2fa isn’t a panacea and won’t solve every problem. It does help though. Why do you think supply chain integrity isn’t something they care about?

Phoronix comments are always such a mixed bag. I get that something still running after 20 years is cool and all, but it’s not necessarily a good thing.

Personally, I usually take issue with the missing institutional knowledge on such projects. It doesn’t matter if it runs, it matters that we’re running something we can fix if it explodes.

I recently built some stuff with the latest gcc compiler that was written in c89, but still compiled. That’s pretty sweet and very convenient for us, but the flags and the commands aren’t documented at all. So we have to spelunk through ancient scripts to find the right incantations or worse, read the code. Because who needs docs for an internal tool ammirite?