Because at the end of the day everything gets simplified to a 1 or a 0. You could store a fraction as an “object” but at some point it needs to be turned into a number to work with. That’s where floating points come into play.

That sounds fine if you have something reading the file independently. But the actual executable code should not be able to access its own comments.

That license was laughable and blatant

I’ve come to the conclusion, people who use vim just continue to do so out of a stubborn sense of pride for finally learning the key combinations.

folks that have been doing this exclusively for 30 years

And yet the number of people I hear “just switch to Linux!” When the other person has been using Windows for 30 years blows my mind.

Inertia is a hell of a drug.

I’ve done a 1PB sync between a pair of 8-node SAN clusters as one was being physically moved since it’d be faster to seed the data and start a delta sync rather than try to do it all over a 10Gb pipe. M

You can’t successfully use an email server on a bare metal machine in your own Datacenter

Calling complete BS on that. I work in a medium size company and we do just that. Don’t know what he’s thinking.

W4MM

VMware went with Purple for their hypervisors so you get a PSOD instead. Always was fun when you’d hit the console for a server and get greeted by that instead of the yellow and black split screen.

And why leave them nameless? Name and shame. You can get multiple people asking at that point and apply more pressure.

I know others will expand on this, but in the past there were two main “bases”: Debian and Enterprise Linux (EL). The main differences were their package managers and how the handled things in init.d and configuration like networking. This was due to how they made their modules iirc.

So a lot of distros forked off of these two bases rather than reinvent the wheel. Ubuntu is based off of Debian and CentOS based off of RHEL.

There’s probably more nuances but that should give you an idea.

My favorite is seeing developers directly reach out to a DB of another microservice because “it’s just easier to pull the data from there”. One of the few times I’ve literally said “bruh”

My thoughts on software in general over the past 20 years. So many programs inefficiently written and in 4th level languages just eats up any CPU/memory gain. (Less soap box and more of a curious what if to how fast things would be if we still wrote highly optimized programs)

QA vs first release to customers.