The law was hastily passed to discourage copycats while working on the exit tax law without haste.

Just means an attacker also needs to mitm DNS if you MITM the host. Not trivial, but depending on setup might not be harder.

This is not really different than C vs Rust, or even Perl regular expressions (unbounded execution time) vs real regular expression. With great powers comes great abilities to shoot yourself in the foot.

The power/guarantee balance is delicate, and you can’t hold the stick at both ends. People will always complain.

Real regexes (actually regular…) are infinitely better than Python code matching the same string (if they are sufficient) - you can compute their intersection, union, complement; check if they can match anything at all (and generate an example automaticallly).

For software builds, Bazel and others use Starlark, which is a restricted Python subset, so builds can be guaranteed finite and can be reasoned about.

Ansible may or may not offer any benefits in return for the limits (I am not an ansible guru), but in general, most tasks do not need a Turing complete configuration/specification language - and it is then better to NOT have Turing completeness.

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Stable, but many issues. Stay away if you value your sanity and do anything nontrivial.

Newer drives I bought will refuse reading what they won’t decide themselves (e.g. wrong region).

But that follows A and A+ which were extremely column oriented and date to early 1990s or even late 1980s ; and to various APL implementations going back to the 1960’s

Columnar DBs were very much a thing among APL users (finance and operations research) but weren’t really known outside those fields - and even in those fields, there was a period of amnesia in the late ‘90s/early 2000’s

You cannot have precise enforcement with imprecise laws. It’s as simple as that.

The HN favorite in this respect is “fair use” under copyright. It isn’t well specified enough for “precise enforcement”. How do you suggest we approach that one?

Which means of course m, that it was already in use before the Bible was canonicalized.

The English word comes from "calculus", meaning, apparently, pebble, because original counting was done with pebbles.

(I had to look both up. Thanks for asking)

However, it is just an expanded version of Ynet’s business/economy section, and Ynet is probably the closest equivalent to USA Today or The Sun.

Retro Amiga trackers don’t count.

But in the places I frequent (backoffice, municipal, finance) it’s all gone web and rdp-through-web (which is web, in the sense that it doesn’t require windows on the client) with centralized administration with minimal (not quite self-serve but reasonably close) thin client users.

Microsoft tried in the past without a Rosetta equivalent; Apple succeeded twice with Rosetta. They did not try to switch cold turkey the way Microsoft did.