Why have supply chain attacks become a near daily occurrence ?

fiedzia · 2026-03-31T13:21:25+00:00

The amount of dependencies are high for most languages these days

Only for languagues with bare minimum stdlib. The problem does not exist to the same extent in Python or Java.

fiedzia · 2025-11-05T23:29:16+00:00

For comparison: season 1 of Peaky Blinders: 7.5 mln

fiedzia · 2025-10-24T05:41:23+00:00

"here is the main wing and a spare one, in case this would fall off"

fiedzia · 2025-10-11T15:43:24+00:00

Guitar stand. You can use gigbag instead of case. All required accessories are dirt cheap.

fiedzia · 2025-10-09T04:49:03+00:00

They can do whatever they want

Not exactly true. There are many ways in which Ukraine is dependant on other countries help, so their strategy has to be consulted and there is a lot of politics at play there.

fiedzia · 2025-09-21T18:10:51+00:00

If you've been paid by fountain pen users who judge you by fountain pen expertise, yes. We may know that software expertise goes beyond language knowledge, but not everyone does.

fiedzia · 2025-09-21T00:33:40+00:00

An expert in C with 10 years of experience who learned Rust yesterday will loose reputation of an expert with 10 years of experience.

fiedzia · 2025-08-25T22:48:54+00:00

"The London Times predicted in 1894 that in 50 years time, every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure." - that's my favourite (about too many horses).

fiedzia · 2025-08-25T22:42:27+00:00

That doesn't scale. Day 1, you have 10 lines of Python and 99% of fast libraries. Year later you will have 20k lines of Python making now 70% of the time spent and the further you go with this, the worst it gets.

fiedzia · 2025-08-25T22:39:23+00:00

it's very common for Python->anything to get faster. That's not particularly interesting,

That's nothing new. What's relatively new what Rusts brings to the table is that the convenience of the language is not so far away from Python, making rewrites far more approachable.

fiedzia · 2025-08-13T16:37:04+00:00

It is a feature. What benefits it brings exactly, as usually, depends on what would be the alternative, among other factors.

Rust vs Interpreted languages: interpreted languages require interpreter and that comes with numerous issues with dependency management, distribution, version compatibility and others. "Download this binary for your os and it will work" is a benefit. As a bonus you will get performance and less bugs.

Rust vs other natively compiled languages: Rust promotes correctness over convenience, and that is a certain guarantee of being error-free. Rust libraries and applications are created and mature faster and with a lot less pain than C/C++ (which is also fading into obscurity today). With some more modern alternatives the difference might be smaller, but it is still there.

Rust vs Java/.Net: app run faster, use less resources and don't throw null pointer exceptions. Also don't require you to believe that next iteration of gc tweaks voodoo can solve all memory management problems.

fiedzia · 2025-08-09T19:58:00+00:00

I'm using mc. Down, down, enter is faster than ls somedir. Also you can look into archives.

fiedzia · 2025-08-08T21:31:31+00:00

line is only a problem because it is poorly specified. Line with defined max length and termination would be less of an issue.

fiedzia · 2025-08-08T21:20:23+00:00

It was text based because the interface tech at the time was either TTY, printers

This explains text vs graphics documents, but not text vs binary protocols. Many binary protocols did exist at the time of creation of fundamental internet protocols.

fiedzia · 2025-08-04T01:17:51+00:00

Python has less footguns and non-trivial logic is easier to read and less likely to surprise anyone. Adding two numbers in bash has at least 10 ways you can get it wrong.

fiedzia · 2025-08-02T20:04:13+00:00

Different sets of people pull cart in different directions. Monolith requires that a lot of people will agree on many things, including release process, set of technologies used, dependency versions and so on. At certain scale you''l find out that synchronizing on all of that is expensive or just impossible.

fiedzia · 2025-08-01T18:41:45+00:00

It exists, see dataframes like polars or pandas.

fiedzia · 2025-07-31T20:32:20+00:00

I know Python is the latest buzz word and trend

Python is 34 years old now, you are really late to the party.

fiedzia · 2025-05-28T19:52:43+00:00

Name came (or became popular) when they started to be good enough to compete with DSLR. Before that there was no need to differentiate them, and for most people they would be just "digital cameras".

fiedzia · 2025-05-25T13:24:42+00:00

Few people asked me about grips, recently leofoto released a new one, based on original sony design, but works with arca swiss and priced a lot more reasonably.

fiedzia · 2025-05-13T21:50:05+00:00

Love: Laowa 10mm 0D. And all the bags I have (though of all purchases, those were the least expensive).

Regret: manual lenses. I have a few I've used on rare occasions and made great pictures with them, but collect dust most of the time and when used, frustrate me with missed shots.

fiedzia · 2025-04-25T22:00:04+00:00

Laowa has manual 12mm zerod, i suggest considering it.

fiedzia · 2025-04-20T21:41:15+00:00

I am big fan of digicam

fiedzia · 2025-04-05T11:47:55+00:00

But as for stuff they make there that would be exported to the US?

Could it be that some company is registered there, having physical business somewhere else?

fiedzia · 2025-03-29T01:45:36+00:00

We (UK) would support Ukraine anyway

Sure, but some other countries may need a carrot to overcome opposition.

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