It is not; it’s a distinctly British-influenced if not outright British term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_container

You nailed it.

Salesforce is an absolute nightmare fuel product.

They own the language you code in. They own the database you’re using. They own the ONLY infrastructure that can execute the code you’ve written.

It is the epitome of vendor lock-in.

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I honestly suspect antitrust is the reason Google hasn’t laid more fiber (not that antitrust is bad). They’re dangerously close to being broken up for so many other things adding this would be a very high risk gambit. Especially because ISPs are known for their shitty business practices and leveraging lawyers to maximum pain on any legitimate competition that threatens them.

Both can be bad.

It’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).

On some level yes, but reading the article nothing persist between boots. This seems like a vulnerability that’s really only that serious A if you don’t apply AMDs patched micro code and B there’s another vulnerability on your system that lets this persist between operating system reinstall/in the BIOS.

But they are not the default option. And your new job may not use them.

Who cares if it’s the default? If it’s the best tool, use it.

It’s silly to have a reason for “going Rust” be the build system, especially in the context of something as new as a WASM context where basically any project is going to be green field or green field adjacent.

Exceptions is a non standard exit point. And by “non standard” I’m not talking about the language but about its surprise appearance not specified in the prototype. Calling double foo(); you don’t know if you should try/catch it, against which exceptions, is it an internal function that may throw 10 level deep ?

And that’s a feature not a bug; it gets incredibly tedious to unwrap or forward manually at every level.

By contrast fn foo() -> Result<f64, Error> in rRst tell you the function may fail. You can inspect the error type if you want to handle it. But the true power of Result in Rust (and Option) is that you have a lot of ergonomic ways to handle the bad case and you are forced to plan for it so you cannot use a bad value thinking it’s good:

You can do this in C++ https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/expected (and as I said, if you feel so inclined, turn off exceptions entirely); it’s just not the “usual” way of doing things.

I use Kopia to B2, then on a monthly basis I copy the current Kopia repo to an external drive that’s otherwise kept offline in my house.

I mean, maybe it’s not easy because they don’t provide debug information, but a sufficiently motivated person can debug a web assembly binary.

1. It’s statically compiled and isn’t dependent on system binaries and won’t break if there if the system has the wrong version like C/C++, allowing you to distribute it as a single binary without any other installation steps

You can do that with C++ too.

2. Still produces fairly small binaries unlike languages like Java or C# (because of the VM)

I mean, the jars are actually pretty small; but also I really don’t get the storage argument. I mean we live in a world where people happily download a 600 MB discord client.

3. Is a modern language with a good build system (It’s like night and day compared to CMake)

Meson exists … as do others.

4. And I just like how the language works (errors as values etc.)

Fair enough; though why? What’s wrong with exceptions?

I work in a code base where I can’t use exceptions because certain customers can’t use exceptions, and I regularly wish I could because errors as values is so tedious.

The minifiers have long made JavaScript just as indecipherable

I work in a small company that doesn’t hire hardly at all… Stories like this scare me because I have no way to personally quantify how common that kind of attitude might be.

Netflix is like the only one on Android I have that ISN’T opt-ed out.

Well it sounds like this is the thing for you! Haha

I installed it, but I’m probably just going to use it periodically. I really appreciate the website prioritization feature of Kagi … so it’s unfortunate that isn’t compatible.

Eh… Without examples, I don’t know that this is a good warning.

Everyone gets into different technologies at their own pace. Even if it does bite OP in some abstract way because they eventually get to some complex use case, that’s okay; it’s all a learning experience.

As someone that uses a custom domain for the majority of his email, it’s not really a privacy thing, it’s a control thing.

I have hundreds of unique unpredictable email addresses and I can disconnect them at will to stop spam.

Yeah I’m with you. Just reinforcing the cockpit doors is enough to take care of the majority of the problem.

They can bomb a plane but they can also bomb a bus or a subway.

As someone that was 6 when 9-11 happened, I think this country majorly overreacted and made the state itself one step closer to an authoritarian nightmare.