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wildoats
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
It's far easier to write an app safe from memory corruption in Java than C.

Java is as safe as Rust. It's just 1/2 the speed and uses 2-3X the ram. It was the best C alternative for DB until a couple years ago.
wildoats
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
But you don't usually need to scale it. We run 1 million+ LoC Java monoliths on machines with 2GB.
wildoats
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Java already does this AFAIK. If you use a GC that supports class unloading (all the new ones do).

Unused classes can be unloaded from RAM and it's like they don't exist. The executable is still huge but lower memory and CPU cache footprint.
wildoats
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Java isn't the worst choice. It's mostly safe, reasonable to work with, and quite fast.

RAM isn't a bottleneck on most servers these days. Even the cheapest EC2 tends to have 2GB which will run nearly any Java app fine.

Sure, Rust is better. But it will take years to replicate what's already out there in Java.

I'll take a database written in Java over C any day given equivalent choices.
wildoats
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Space is like international waters and I predict similar hijinks in coming years unfortunately.

Satellites harassing with close passes, blocking antennas, maybe even poking each other. "Damn ye Russian satellites!" The politicians bellow as they shake their fists at the cosmos.
wildoats
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
This is a bit hyperbolic. Wide scale COVID vaccination is needed for a functioning society.

It's clear that waves of death won't stop without it. Especially now with Omicron, the fourth wave. In the US, average life expectancy dropped more than 1.5 years in 2020-2021. More than any year since WWII.

Right now, COVID vaccine is more important than wearing clothes in public. And being naked in public checks more of your boxes for making you a non-person than nonvax restrictions. Being naked in public you go straight to jail.

So is forced wearing of clothes even more authoritarian than nonvax restrictions?

Well, no. Neither are authoritarian because they're both needed for a functioning society. Unvaccined are a literal danger to the public with how contagious and deadly COVID is.

If you don't want to wear clothes or be vaccinated that's fine. But expect to be pushed to the edges and marginalized for not following basic requirements for a functioning society.