I do feel like better application sandboxing is needed but so much open source software is built on the Unix abstraction meaning you have to run in a container, but macOS doesn’t have containers as far as I can see, and containers themselves are a bit of a poor abstraction, although maybe the best we can do with Unix at the core. I think something closer to Roblox studio would be cool where when you open an environment stuff just spins up in the background, but there is a good debugger, logging, developer ide, good rendering, eg 3d graphics, separate projects are separate, and when you spin down a game (read app or project) everything spins down.
Readit Newsfizlebit commented on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code jamf.com/blog/threat-acto... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
Looks a bit like Rust. My peeve with Rust is that it makes error handling too much donkey work. In a large class of programs you just care that something failed and you want a good description of that thing:
context("Loading configuration from {file}")
Failed: Loading configuration from .config because: couldn't open file .config because: file .config does not exist.
It shouldn't be harder than a context command in functions. But somehow Rust conspires to require all this error type conversion and question marks. It it is all just a big uncomfortable donkey game, especially when you have nested closures forced to return errors of a specific type.
fizlebit commented on Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I think that vibe coding now with anthropic tools and the latest model means that the cost of writing integration tests is significantly reduced. When the company ships a large product that has components from many teams, there is still a role for QA engineers who run nightly tests and chase teams to help diagnose the issue when there is an issue found. If you don't have such a central team publishing golden versions, then everybody is chasing the same bug. Ideally the integration tests are part of the change acceptance flow, but low frequency bugs (occur maybe 1 in 100 test runs) can still sneak through.
fizlebit commented on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden andyljones.com/posts/hors... · Posted by u/pbui
yeah but machines don't produce horseshit, or do they? (said in the style of Vsauce)
fizlebit commented on More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage thundergolfer.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/birdculture
It looks from the public writeup that the thing programming the DNS servers didn't acquire a lease on the server to prevent concurrent access to the same record set. I'd love to see the internal details on that COE.
I think when there is an extended outage it exposes the shortcuts. If you have 100 systems, and one or two can't start fast from zero, and they're required to get back to running smoothly, well you're going to have a longer outage. How would you deal with that, you'd uniformly across your teams subject them to start from zero testing. I suspect though that many teams are staring down a scaling bottleneck, or at least were for much of Amazon's life and so scaling issues (how do we handle 10x usage growth in the next year and half, which are the soft spots that will break) trump cold start testing. Then you get a cold start event with that last one being 5 years ago and 1 or 2 out of your 100 teams falls over and it takes multiple hours all hands on deck to get it to start.
I actually prefer a game where the rules mostly come from the DM. I think it is better if there is no players handbook. The characters develop along their story arc, e.g. at some point you character acquires new powers, e.g. your character has been spending a lot of time developing new combat moves, they kind of level up and now the DM explains a new mechanic. Your character has become adept at disarming opponents and now gets such and such a bonus to attempt a disarm.
This is a lot to place on the DM, but I like the anarchy of a system like dungeon crawler classic. You expect some of your characters to die, e.g. in one adventure my character in a last ditch effort to save himself drank a potion of unknown origin, that potion turned him into a mithral statue. It was a fitting end to his short but eventful life.
Another character played by a different player managed through a long process involving books and negociations with his patron to construct a demonic sentient flying dog through whom he could cast spells and see.
This kind of exploration I think encourages players to see their characters much more as characters than machines to be min maxed and it is way more fun.
Give the DM total control to decide the dice roles that determine the outcome of the shenanigans. You try to hire an army of peasants you're going to be dealing with appointing sergeants, logistics, mutany, desertion all before you try to line them up to throw a ladder at some dude, which in the end is probably like a 1d20 >= ac for a chance of 1d4 damage, with of course crit tables, where on a critical success the dude might be tangled up in the ladder and fall over or something.
People say don't reinvent the wheel usually in a business context because writing from scratch is usually a lot more work than using existing technologies. Sure reusing technologies is also a lot more work than you would expect because most things suck (to different degrees), but so will your newly minted wheel. Only after a lot of hard lessons will it suck less, if at all.
That said there are also contexts in which the existing system that was built sucks so bad that rewriting it usually a boon, even if the new wheel sucks, it sucks less from the start.
You at a minimum should engage with the existing wheels and their users to find the ways in which they do and don't work.
In your own time I think it is great to tinker, pull apart, assemble your own things. Every Jedi makes her own light saber right?
fizlebit commented on I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) github.com/Efeckc17/simpl... · Posted by u/toxi360
Me no like inconsistent use of spaces.
x += labelW+20;
hDescEdit = createModernEdit(hwnd, x, y, editW, btnH, ID_DESC_EDIT);
x += editW + gap;
fizlebit commented on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/redm
Am I alone in thinking that all the stuff I get for free (in exchange for some amount of targeted advertising) from Google is pretty cool and that these attempts to break up big tech are going to be very bad for consumers and the economy and is just punishing successful companies that produce products that customers want to use. You all can use mosaic/edge if you want to.
Clanker (ai assistant) also love to unwrap and if you don’t catch them you have an abort waiting for you.