> This isn’t just academic elegance, it kept phone switches running with five nines of availability.
Hmm....
> Erlang is the strongest form of the isolation argument, and it deserves to be taken seriously, which is why what happens next matters.
OK I think I know who wrote this.
> The problem isn’t that developers write circular calls by accident. It’s that deadlock-freedom doesn’t compose.
Is there a need to regugriate it in this format? "two protocols that are individually deadlock-free can still combine to deadlock in an actor system." This is the actually meaningful part.
> Forget to set a timeout on a gen_server:call?
People have pointed out its factually wrong in the thread. Eh
> This is the discipline tax. It works when the team is experienced, the codebase is well-maintained, and the conventions are followed consistently. It erodes when any of those conditions weaken, and given enough time and enough turnover they do.
I know this is an LLM tell, but can't point out. It makes me uneasy to read this. Maybe the rule of three? Maybe the reguggeiation of a elementary SE concept in between a technical description? Maybe because it's tryhard to sound smart? All three I guess.
I could go on, but sigh, man don't use these clankers to write prose. They're like negative level gzip compression.
Amazon has been quite useful for me as a single bachelor living in an Indian metropolitan city.
1. I get very useful items at very good prices, many of which I would have to wander the city for hours to find, or couldnt find at all:
- Eg: I got a pair of adjustable dumbbells at <2K INR. Some of you would call it a cheap knock. But it has been super useful and I would have not bought it if it cost 8k INR. I brought a whole bosch repair toolkit at good price and it has been invaluable for fixing electric/plumbing etc.. issues. I got a high volume travel bag - I didn't even know 40L travel bags existed and wouldnt have brought one if not for amazon. I could go on.
2. Amazon Fresh is usually cheaper for groceries and maintain consistent quality compared to local supermarkets. I will also avoid the need to walk long with the grocery bag.
3. Electronics are significantly cheaper on amazon and again the need to search.
Maybe all of this can be even better as you said. But bottom line is that their operations look pretty efficient to me. Their catalogue is pretty much unmatched. (They may be losing money on retail business - but that's not my position to care as a customer. As other commenter pointed out, it may not even matter much for stock price.)
Are there any car brands which don't do this fancy-useless-tech kind of thing? I have never driven a car, but a motorcycle with handle-lock would never be unlocked without the physical key.
Hmm....
> Erlang is the strongest form of the isolation argument, and it deserves to be taken seriously, which is why what happens next matters.
OK I think I know who wrote this.
> The problem isn’t that developers write circular calls by accident. It’s that deadlock-freedom doesn’t compose.
Is there a need to regugriate it in this format? "two protocols that are individually deadlock-free can still combine to deadlock in an actor system." This is the actually meaningful part.
> Forget to set a timeout on a gen_server:call?
People have pointed out its factually wrong in the thread. Eh
> This is the discipline tax. It works when the team is experienced, the codebase is well-maintained, and the conventions are followed consistently. It erodes when any of those conditions weaken, and given enough time and enough turnover they do.
I know this is an LLM tell, but can't point out. It makes me uneasy to read this. Maybe the rule of three? Maybe the reguggeiation of a elementary SE concept in between a technical description? Maybe because it's tryhard to sound smart? All three I guess.
I could go on, but sigh, man don't use these clankers to write prose. They're like negative level gzip compression.