Readit NewsFunctions need to build on top of simpler functions to be able to abstract problems and tackle them one at a time. There's innate complexity around and without trying to tame it into smaller functions/packages it seems you'll end up in a worse spot.
Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.
This seemed like a solvable problem.
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I thought it was an exaggeration so I checked. It's actually even worse:
EU is 0.2 ng/kg body weight and US is 50 µg/kg body weight. So the US limit is 250,000 times higher.
> So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my website with containers (be it Docker, Kubernetes, or otherwise), matching the vast majority of software deployed any time in the last decade.
Containers offer many benefits. To name some: process isolation, increased security, standardized logging and mature horizontal scalability.
no, that's sandboxing.
That's a very weird implication. All human beings are complex products of social, economical, genetic, environmental and historical factors.
External factors do not make a person "less themselves" or "less real".
Additionally, distribution packages are tested by a significant number of users before the release.
Nothing of this sort happens around any language-specific package manager. You just get whatever happens to be around all software forges.
Unsurprisingly, there has been many serious supply chain attacks in the last 5 years. None of which affected the usual big distros.
Just think about Gitea vs GitLab.
Maintaining tenths of binaries pulled from random github projects over the years is a nightmare.
(Not to mention all the issues around supply chain management, licensing issues, homecalling and so on)
And by proportion, that library would add an extra .7 bytes to a Commodore 64 program. I would have cheerfully “wasted” that much space for something 100th as nice as Clap.
I’ve worked in big organizations and been the one responsible for tracking dependencies, their licenses, and their vulnerable versions. No one does that by hand after a certain size. Snyk is as happy to track 1000 dependencies as 10.
This is not true