Now instead of just querying the goddamn database, a one line fucking SQL statement, I have to deal with the user team

Exactly, you understand very well the purpose of microservices. You can submit a patch if you need that feature now.

Funnily enough I’m the technical lead of the team that handles the user service in an insurance company.

Due to direct access to our data without consulting us, we’re getting legal issues as people were using addresses to guess where people lived instead of using our endpoints.

I guess some people really hate the validation that service layers have.

Why would java have an impact on battery performance ? Pretty much all credit cards run java for their encryption algorithms, and they need pretty much no power to run.

Most surprisingly, the inspectors observed barefoot employees working in a sterile area of the facility, where they should have been wearing shoes—plus gowns, gloves, and shoe booties. (The barefoot workers were also not wearing gowns or gloves.) A production manager puzzlingly told FDA inspectors that shoeless work is “standard practice.”

They were supposed to cover everything including the feet.

Reference counting is a GC though ?

It’s a bad one sure and will leak memory in cases of a cycle which most tracing GC are able to do.

It’s main advantage is that there are no GC pauses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting

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You can absolutely go to a corner store and buy alcohol. It’s not a coincidence that it kills 3 million people per year worldwide.

Making drugs more accessible will increase consumption, that said it might reduce the negative effects for the consumers. If we allow the sell of drugs we should do everything we can to avoid the current situation with alcohol.

Make the packaging ugly, make people understand that they are consuming something that will at best reduce their life expectancy at worst kill them and generally reduce he quality of their lives.

Sure but look at alcohol, the consumer knows exactly what he’s purchasing. Didn’t stop a person I knew from dying from this shit.

Drugs should be difficult to get to reduce the chances of recreational use.