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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I’m not buying this. Sure minimizing dependencies is a good practice, but not updating? That’s a recipe for disaster.

    It’s important to note that you can’t predict supply chain attacks or vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities are much more common. Also, while frequent updates might expose you to that supply chain attack more quickly, it also mitigates it more quickly. Frequent updates in combination with vulnerability scanning, and limiting downloads to reputable sources (that try to prevent supply chain attacks and discover them quickly) is a much better approach.

    There also the maintainability argument, that I’m having right now with a couple of our legacy software teams. Not updating can lock you into the past, for entire ecosystems of dependencies. You cant update if you have to, you cant take advantage of new features anywhere in the ecosystem, and it’s now an expensive emergency when something stops being maintained or has an unresolved vulnerability. If you’re being continually kept up, then choices or features are easy

    Then the goal is how do you automate your updates as smoothly as possible so they do not become noise, do not create extra work? Tools like dependabit and renovate bot have a lot of config options to help that




  • This is where you get to properly reducing lanes can improve speeds.

    My town has a major road lined with strip malls that used to be two lanes in each direction. It was also one of the most dangerous and aggravating roads as there was always someone maneuvering for position, and sudden stops or lane changes when someone wanted to turn.

    Then a few years back they restriped it, plus coordinated the lights. Now it’s one lane in each direction and that lane is a through lane. Every strip mall gets a dedicated turn lane, so there’s no more reason to maneuver, no more sudden stops or lane changes. The stop lights are more likely to let you through.

    Now it’s clear and measurable, everyone’s individual speed is down, accidents are down, but stopping for any reason is way down so you get through the busy section noticeable faster. And it’s much calmer


  • I don’t get micro greens, can you point to actual non-hype details? Excusing the oversimplification, but is this just growing sprouts and clover to add to salads? When people talk about micro greens , they do NOT include spices, right? Nor anything we normally classify as salad?

    I see one description including arugula but that’s “lettuce” found in any grocery. Is it just to harvest ypur own baby arugula, or is there no distinction?


  • bikes still have rubber tires.

    I don’t see how this matters. It’s not whether that materials exist, but how much wear away into microplastics. Aside from the occasional kid screwing around, bicycles probably are not.

    Connecting microplastic from runoff seems like a wasted effort

    For sure it’s better that it not be created, however it is. Even if we were able to stop using it, there are mountains of goods already using it and goods already disposed of, leaching pollution into our air, our water, our food, our environment. Even if we were able to find away for tires to stop emitting microplastics, we have billions of tires that will continue to do so.






  • Supposedly you can recycle them, but normally they will be confined to a a small section of landfill. While “on a landfill” is not a good answer, it’s much better than “in the environment “

    You could even argue that leachate is “good” in that it pulls all these contaminants out of the landfill to a concentrated place where they could in theory be removed (and placed in a landfill 🤪)