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New comment by cjalmeida in "Magnifica Humanitas"

cjalmeida — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:07:58 +0000

One could argue the death toll of WW I and WW II would not be possible without large scale manufacturing of firearms and explosives.

New comment by cjalmeida in "Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it"

cjalmeida — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:41:38 +0000

I believe you’d have a very different opinion if the size did change and she had the opportunity to treat it at a very early stage.

New comment by cjalmeida in "We all dodged a bullet"

cjalmeida — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:26:50 +0000

It was too complex. Just making system calls require white listing libraries goes a long way of preventing a whole class of exploits.

There’s no reason a color parser, or a date library should require network or file system access.

New comment by cjalmeida in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

cjalmeida — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:51:23 +0000

You know life expectancy in Portugal is higher than in California, right?

New comment by cjalmeida in "AI can't even fix a simple bug – but sure, let's fire engineers"

cjalmeida — Sat, 24 May 2025 17:56:54 +0000

Definitely don’t dismiss it. While there are limitations, it’s already very capable for a number of tasks. Tweaking it to be more effective is skill itself.

New comment by cjalmeida in "A Tragedy of Julia's Type System"

cjalmeida — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:55:37 +0000

100% agree. This is a low quality post both setting unrealistic expectations for a dynamic language and at times straight up making false claims.

Suggesting OOP as a solution is probably the most laughable “solution” though. What does this have to do with error handling and union type inference?

New comment by cjalmeida in "PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine"

cjalmeida — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:08:11 +0000

You’d be surprised by the amount of companies handling critical infrastructure that are OK with using PyPI directly

New comment by cjalmeida in "Why Canada Should Join the EU"

cjalmeida — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:15:12 +0000

There are no sources, this is completely made up.

New comment by cjalmeida in "A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com"

cjalmeida — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 01:32:04 +0000

It gets worse. ICP-Brasil, the AC mentioned in the bug reports, the the government run agency responsible for all things related to digital signatures. Digitally signing a contract, a deed, accessing tax returns…

New comment by cjalmeida in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

cjalmeida — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:07:03 +0000

Except it is literal “pcap” as they capture all packets at layer 3. I don’t know the exact specifications of Pico appliances, but it would not surprise me they’re running Linux + libpcap + some sort of timeseries DB

New comment by cjalmeida in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes"

cjalmeida — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 01:04:00 +0000

You’d be swapping an open-source vendor independent API for a cloud-specific vendor locked one. And paying more for the “privilege”

New comment by cjalmeida in "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024"

cjalmeida — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:42:43 +0000

If developers can’t produce code without bugs, what good are they? /s

New comment by cjalmeida in "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024"

cjalmeida — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:26:29 +0000

I strongly recommend Acemoglu, Robinson classic book "Why Nations Fail"

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/d...

It's very accessible, no economics background required. Along with Krugman and Kahneman, one of the few economics scholars that take the time to write a book for layman.

New comment by cjalmeida in "Large Enough"

cjalmeida — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:53:58 +0000

Indeed.All exponential growth curves are sigmoids in disguise.

New comment by cjalmeida in "Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade"

cjalmeida — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:18:47 +0000

This is no excuse. At least in larger companies, you have safety inspectors that routinely visit shops unannounced and will give you and your manager trouble if you’re not following procedures. They answer directly to higher up and can’t be pressured into letting it pass.

New comment by cjalmeida in "Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the US over the last decade"

cjalmeida — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:03:01 +0000

If a 787 crashes and kill all passengers due to improper maintenance, the airline is liable. Does that make FAA regulations on maintenance unnecessary? Would you put your family in such aircraft?

New comment by cjalmeida in "Never Update Anything"

cjalmeida — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:22:26 +0000

>might need to migrate over to something else for the blog, with a proper cache

Never Update _Anything_ :)

New comment by cjalmeida in "Never Update Anything"

cjalmeida — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:21:21 +0000

Well, if only he had updated his server stack to something more scalable...

New comment by cjalmeida in "The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)"

cjalmeida — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:09:48 +0000

One-week turnaround to open a port would be a dream in most large companies.

New comment by cjalmeida in "What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code"

cjalmeida — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:51:01 +0000

>The analogy isn't very good, because the natural French language isn't a minefield full of undefined behavior.

As someone who has been trying to learn it, this sounds exactly like French.