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  • Moreover, codebase in pure funcional languages is hard to understand and maintain, that’s why they are rarely used in production.

    This is incorrect. They are rarely used because procedural languages have momentum. It’s way more likely you’ll get Joe Codemonkey to learn and be productive quickly with functional features added to a procedural language than to learn and be productive quickly with an entirely different paradigm. So that’s what happens.




  • This is a common take and maybe it has merit, but I’m not convinced.

    Hillary had decades of propaganda to compete with, a general attitude is “it’s my turn” (political dynasties are bad) and made some major gaffes.

    Kamala was chosen without any voter input at all, was not popular as a primary candidate in 2020, ran on being “the top cop” in an environment where only the right likes cops, and lurched right to compete for the Republican base, completely betraying the base that voted for Biden. I was personally sick to my stomach listening to her praise Dick Cheney and parade around with Liz Cheney. (I voted for her anyway because what choice did I have). Harris was a weak Democrat candidate to begin with AND the campaign basically did everything wrong.

    Anyway, it’s possible that the US electorate won’t elect a woman for president out of sexism but I personally don’t think that’s what has happened because I don’t think a woman that also happens to be a good candidate that ran a good campaign has gotten past primaries.





  • The one that comes to mind is changing the security group for lambdas from an auto generated one (unspecified in terraform) to a specified one. It had some kind of chicken/egg situation so I ended up having to run two change sets - one to have both security groups set then another to remove the extra. Had to do the same thing in cdk and it just worked. There have been other similar things where everything is fine until you hit some edge case and then you’re just wasting time and money doing acrobatics to work around the quirks (that don’t exist in cdk).

    I’m not in the devops group and they’re attached to TF for some reason so I don’t get a say in what we use, but I am the “everything is busted call in anyone that can help” guy so I end up dealing with the problems lol