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Just what Reddit needs, an even better reason for bots and reposting. It will be interesting to watch this play out.

With all of the changes in the past year or two of the Reddit team trying to monetize it in any way they can I've noticed I find less and less interesting content.

Is the implication that it is hard to find the owner because it is messy and any number of agencies could place them or that it is difficult to find the owner because it is purposefully hidden or "super secret"?

Is there a significant limitation in using Rust on the stable branch? Every interesting tutorial, book, or tool I find seems to use nightly. I know it shouldn't be a big deal but it "feels dirty" and perhaps I should just view nightly as any other language's "stable".

I mean cargo culting tech and languages is practically a meme at this point in tech. I'm not sure I can scientifically argue that its widespread but I think it is equally futile to argue that it does not happen frequently.

You do all of those things because you can not because you have to. When I worked in the office I would routinely do those things as well, but I knew I just wanted to get up, walk around, and shoot the shit with whoever else was bored of their 3 grey walls.

Why did it have to be better? It just had to be created and evangelized to a specific group (and likely because it was by a specific company). I don't think it has anything to do with "better" in one way or the other.

Developers are constantly looking for new languages to fiddle with without any objective reasoning.

I work with a lot of people who didn't take the college track to become what they are today. I'm not saying that college is necessary or that one way is better or worse than the other, but the one thing I notice most about them is that they do not communicate through writing well.

The single most important thing, in my opinion, that these folks are missing is they do not write with an audience in mind.

Our manager's boss doesn't need long technical emails.

"javascript|ruby|python developers" should not need documentation on how "javascript|ruby|python" themselves or their standard libraries work. There is documentation for that already, but I have been asked to document such things.

> What good is social distancing and quarantines when residents use elevators? Masks on the other hand greatly reduce R0 and aerosols.

> Cuomo just found out the “shocking” statistic that most hospitalizations are from people who stayed home. Elevators play a huge role.

I don't understand your reasoning here. Obviously if everyone is following the lockdown then most new cases are going to be from people that "are staying home". In quotes because no one is truly isolated so of course there are going to be new cases, such as the elevators that you mention.

Are you suggesting that there wouldn't be significantly more cases if the lockdown was ended?

I mean, I'm sure a lot of people want it if it improves their mobile experience. It isn't really something that the average person is going to celebrate on Facebook.

> This is a tooling problem that I'm convinced can be solved. We need a ubiquitous, open-source, cloud-like platform that developers can use to get started on day 1, hosting from home if desired. That software platform should not have to change when the company needs increased reliability or better air conditioning for their servers. If its a Wordpress blog or a minecraft server or a petabyte SQL database - the Vendor should be a secondary choice to making things.

This is the intent of Kubernetes. Not that I particularly like it.

Unless your entirely Kubernetes (and even then there are some sticky points), using a cloud of any kind already has you "locked in" with some of the most basic things like IAM. If you are going into a cloud you may as well reap the benefits of the premium you're paying.

That is true but more likely they try to push back against every request that isn't simply zip up files or documents and deposit them.

They are using the "defense" that it may be difficult to do, but their aim (avoiding the more sinister possibilities) is to stop precedent for other unwieldy requests.

Are you arguing for prohibition? Or just prohibition outside of a few handful of cities where driving is uncommon?

I think there are a few varieties of regulations across different states regarding the shipment of alcohol. I'm not sure how far they go with respect to "last mile" delivery but it could be an inhibitor in something like this.

For example, I can't purchase wine to be delivered to my home over the internet in my state.

Has Quora gotten any better for content? Maybe I just don't use it right. It is on my list with Technet for sites that are entirely garbage. Every time I was led to Quora the answers were always 3 top comments of different companies advertising something.

I like the design, but is anyone choosing storage based on price? I can see comparing cloud-to-cloud, but within a single cloud the type of data (blob, block, database, etc...) and the frequency of r/w prescribe the storage you should be using regardless of price.

I just don't see a scenario where I say I'm just going to move from EFS to EBS or such because its 8% of the price. I chose EFS for a reason in the first place.

Not meaning offense, I'm just unsure of usefulness. Appreciate all the content you provide though! Didn't realize who you were :)

Its not that I want to, its what is given to me. I've personally not seen any companies providing Linux workstations which was my surprise.

It isn't that bad to me anyway, developing in containers with vscode or WSL works just fine 99% of the time for what I do. But that adds confusion to the question for me.

If it was I wouldn't have asked.

When it says "I primarily develop Go on...Linux|Mac|Windows|Etc", is this question referring to the platform the project is intended to run on? Or is it the platform people are actually using their IDE in?

I'm just surprised that Linux only is so high and Windows so low if its referring to the "workstation".

Is Blazor still "experimental"? I looked at it a year ago I believe and most people didn't seem to recommend it at that time due to not being optimized.

I think DataDog does this. I've vowed to never advocate for their products because of their relentless salespeople and however they got a hold of both my business and personal emails.

Depends on the circumstances of his contact, what parts of the site he was in, who he came into contact...etc. I'm not sure one potential case warrants the entire warehouse being shuttered if appropriate disinfection and continued monitoring are in place. They seemed to catch his exposure via some string of events, so there is some effort in risk analysis happening.

They're gig workers trying to make ends meet, not drafted soldiers. I can't believe this is the take you got from this.

I work with some local governments in cloud consulting. They use different clouds the same as anyone else.

We actually see a lot of local governments (cities or metro agencies) doing things in AWS.

I'd say the likelihood in my experience of them grabbing this kind of thing and deploying it is probably pretty low. The ones I work with would leave that up to a contractor.

I don't think there is any way to know but I'd be interested to see some kind of study/data around people buying or passing on a car because of the presence or lack of touch screen.

It seems like a feature that no one would really care about either way that car manufacturers just seem to think people want. It may even be because its cheaper than to R&D a user friendly tactile system with enough features vs just throwing software at it.

I'm surprised at the number of people who use a real number confidently. I just grab enough to feel "safe". I'd guesstimate 4-6 on average of the double thick rolls but never stopped to count.

> I still have to explain to people why ITIL doesnt work with Agile DevOps ever since I left

Do you have any interesting reading on this subject? I'd like to get some material for my heavily ITIL-aligned shop.

> I bet you, they also rather use their own private washrooms.

Underrated perk. I used to have to go down 6 floors and search for a nice, hidden restroom on a mostly female floor to be comfortable.

That's because looping was an afterthought. I think the project was initially supposed to be a purely declarative language, with Hashicorp pushing back against proposals for common functions.

Then they succumbed to demand with HCL 2. As much as I like Terraform in the general sense, their obsession with this weird DSL bothers me immensely.

Alternatively, I'm really enjoying the AWS CDK and hope Pulumi garners some more traction here.

Throwing "microservices" in there seems like a reach. I'm not familiar with Netlify, other than the static content generator CMS thing, but I don't see how its more beneficial to a microservice design versus any other API backend.