What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Cloudflare's problems today confirmed what I have known for a long time: if a customer is down for half an hour due to some kind of server issue (disk replacement, etc.), they immediately start saying a way must be found to avoid it.
When it's Cloudflare that goes down for hours, they accept it with resignation.

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafeStefano Marinelli a customer sent us a requirement recently for a thing that should go on cloud infrastructure (they ask for commercial cloud as part of their requirement, which is already somewhat mad).
They demand 97%+ uptime from the infrastructure, which, ok, the providers say they give.
Then they demand 99%+ uptime from the applications on that infrastructure. And, I asked, they don't mean 97%*99%: they fully expect the server apps to be operational when the infrastructure isn't.

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Autonomous systems don't make mistakes. That's not to say they're infallible, only that they don't have INTENTIONS. I only mention this because people are already laundering tradeoffs accepted by decision-makers as "mistakes" made by machines. NO! Someone CHOSE to put that incredibly fallible system in place without sufficient checks & balances so they could squeeze every single penny they legally could out of every situation their corrupt lobbying created

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One of the first things I learned when I started with Rust is to never use unwrap, the reasons to not handle the error variant is almost always lazyness.

Rust beginners usually have the tendency to avoid usage of clone() to save memory, but use a lot of unwrap() to save coding time.

I advocate for the opposite, use a lot of clone() when you don't want to deal with lifetimes, but never ever use unwrap.

I use clippy on pedantic mode with auto fix and it is annoying but in a good way.

https://github.com/rochacbruno/rust_memes

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Palantir

United States of Palantir

"In den USA vollzieht sich ein grundlegender Umbau des Staates. Die Hauptrolle spielen dabei Tech-Unternehmen wie und , an deren Software wichtige hoheitliche Aufgaben delegiert werden. Dieser Trend zur „Privatisierung der Souveränität“ setzt sich immer mehr auch in Europa durch."

monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/

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