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After reading this, Its killing me not knowing what they built, used, or implemented instead of using sshd. It would add much more context.

Is the author a Lead? Manager? Architect? On the same team, or department? A direct peer?

All of this matters in order to better answer the main question presented in the article.

Why wasnt more than one dev involved in discussing a design or possible solutions before the work was performed? If that was the case, where was the author when that happened?

Why didn't you just already know they weren't using sshd?

Thanks for this.

Yep, I've thrown 10,000 round house kicks and can teach you to do one. It's so easy.

In reality, it will be super awkward, possibly hurt, and you'll fall on your ass one or more times trying to do it.

This is awesome, thanks!

If the paragraphs were set to wrap, I could actually read it on my phone when zooming in.

I could zoom in and scroll back and forth on each line, but that's worse than squinting.

Do you have time to do this? If not, will you accept pull requests, and or is the source available to contribute to?

This. I totally agree.

One fallacy I've seen is a reviewer only looking at the diff on Github, where a minor change in the middle of a function is made, and they don't expand the diff to notice that the new change completely invalidates a comment, params, call signature, return value..etc.

Thanks for your words tonight. I've been in the same boat and that's why I replied to the overly generalized, naive, parent comment. I hope you're okay. I'm nowhere near SV, but reach out to someone local if you need. Maybe you drink the wine, maybe you dont, but dont give up okay!

Alcohol use, itself, does have traits that some are more sensitive to. Alcoholism, though may be the case for many repeat offenders, and is a disease, not really a trait, but a series of traits that are symptoms.

In general, impairment is a trait that does lead to bad decisions, like driving under the influence.

It must be just a coincidence that PHP 7.4 was released today, and surely FB doesnt rely on PHP version updates to latest, right?

Just speculating..

Edit: that twitter thread is quite entertaining

Names can be extraordinarily long or just a single char. Theres a lot of stories where serious issues are caused by software systems and their implementation of handling names.

To answer your question: I dont know if theres a good single spec to follow.

5 gallon bucket, kitchen 33 gal trash bags, foam swimming pool 'noodle', paper towels (for absorbtion)

It's not environmentally friendly, but cheap for a temporary portable toilet.

Note: cut the pool noodle down and it sort snaps right on to the bucket.

After slowly reading this with inquisitiveness and looking up a lot of things, I'm really curious to know the years / level of low level systems programming and experience that this kind of debugging and write up takes. I am humbled by the knowledge of the OP, and deem myself not worthy!

This entire thread kept me up last night. Revisiting it this morning, there's a ton of well expressed, clear, opinions and facts here in this discussion. On the other hand, the amount of information expressed in the issue, does not nearly contain enough of what's in this HN thread.

Good morning. If you commented yesterday, express your product needs for zero telemetry and trust here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5672

No thanks. If I had a dime for every function that's so obviously self-documenting to what it does.. etc. If you tell others what it does and why, concisely and thoughtfully, no one has to try and mentally parse the what of some clever undescriptive block of code.

That sounds awful, but I/we do name feature branches as team-<TICKET #>(TICKET TITLE),with the title as usually optional