Clojure also has a powerful REPL allowing you to interact with running processes in Emacs and in other editors and IDEa
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It is also needlessly inflamatory; the USA is far from the only actor in the world; it even has a secondary influence at best in places like Syria and Ukraine where a ton of refugees have come from.
On top of that the US government debt is mostly owned by US organizations and citizens; it is assets owned by US taxpayers.
A very different situation from the typical debt/inflationary crisis in developed countries where you have a foreign-owned debt and limited tax base; these cause serious credibility issues for governments, which in turn further push up rates.
If you try to have your career go the same way as you would expect in Western Europe/USA - go to the best school, get the best internship in the best company and be rewarded for following the rules you'll be infinitely disappointed in this country. There is no shortage of people who feel unrewarded and unappreciated for their qualifications and credentials.
But if you try to make your own way - getting a skill by practicing yourself and searching out people who need that skill it might work surprisingly well and take you far.
Btw if you enjoy the linked writing you should check out Time Shelter, it won the Booker prize recently.
* Installing or starting your general-purpose runtime, passing the right configuration options
* Project glue where introducing general purpose language makes things more complicated because of tooling or startup.
* Simple cloud-init scripts
* A command line tool is simply the best library for the job and you don't want to get a general purpose language just to immediately shell out.
What I found in the fewest bullets as possible:
* The hype is obnoxious and unfortunately hides the really useful stuff. Here is my summary of the Observability movement in one sentence:
Record telemetry as unique, high-context events (unlike typical logs), containing many keys (as an alternative to having too many metrics), and provide convenient way to query instead of trying to frame it in a dashboard.
* Distributed tracing is really, really useful for debugging and is should what application developers focus on first in their monitoring story. Don't inspect monitoring tools designed for infrastructure to help you much. The reason is simple - debugging is inherently reactive; most other tooling suggests you take proactive approaches which are useful for known issues. When you are debugging production systems you are trying to understand previously unknown issues.
* Otel is really simple; often automatic instrumentation is not worth the trouble and simpler libraries where you manually instrument your code are not hard at all to use. My experience is with Clojure, but YMMV.
* Otel backends can range from very affordable to very expensive so shop around. This is a benefit of having a standard!
I think distributed tracing is perfectly suitable for small projects, even one-service ones; I think one should add it to one before even thinking about deployment. And is mandatory for micro-services.
Problem is, as things stand in almost all countries, (beside some oil-producing states), governments need to raise the money with taxes and it is a very high burden to get a non-trivial amount. States often can barely collect enough for pensions and to contribute to various forms of insurance (disability, unemployment and most importantly healthcare).
Now, proponents suggest scrapping existing social programs and replacing them with the UBI, but it will cost more and some people will actually much worse off.
Most existing social programs in the developed world are limited eligibility (means tested), so you have to prove your need to take advantage. This keeps costs low, although there are people who believe that i.e. requiring recepients be above a certain age, or to be children requires a huge and expensive administrative apparatus. This of course depends on implementation, but the point is means-tested programs became dominant across the world because they save money.
Now, about the point they don't always help, here is a simple example - will a 2-3 thousand dollars a month of UBI be enough to cover heart surgery? You could say people should buy health insurance, but to keep costs low you need to force people to buy it, and thus return to the typical national health insurance schemes around the world.
A more cynical person might think that many of the people proposing UBI are actually more interested in scrapping existing social safety nets than having a better working alternative.
* the CEO finds silver margins in reduced costs
* paying salaries is second to paying rent to platforms
Aspartame has been studied for more than 40 years and no regulatory body in any country has found it to be cancerogenic; it is a risky substance for people with a rare desease called Phenylketonuria.
So, the reader will be under the impression that it will cause cancer, which is pretty dubious, all while obesity for which sugary drinks are partially responsible is a very real cancer risk.