> it should be trivial regardless.

So should nuclear fission reactors. The concept is absurdly simple.

In practice, however ...

> those are trivial problems in the well (and oil) drilling industry.

Ah yes, an industry well known for its adherence to safety standards and never having surprising blowouts.

Vibed infrastructure? That sounds like it undoes a lot of Nix's advantages.

> I can't tell you the amount of times I've pulled a precompiled tool and it just doesnt work because of one quirk of their packaging or another.

This is a serious problem in Nix too. I often trip over buggy and abandoned Nix packages. Nix often makes it easy to roll back or work around them, but they're absolutely there.

They still build though. No one said anything about Nix being a solution to buggy software or bad maintainers, that's an absurd expectation.

Ah yes, the ol' GitHub method of reporting. "When we're up, we have lots of nines!"

Which is why people who run websites shouldnt be allowed anywhere near powerplants.

And built well, which has been a source of big delays in the past.

Many times the reason for this was that the regulations changed during the build necessitating parts to be rebuilt

Sounds like people building it found a way to cheap out that was technically within regulation.

And I’m sure no corners will be cut!

> Owing to spite or just a foul mood, have you ever peeled one of those stupid Calvin stickers off of a pickup truck?

I figure that, long after the strip is forgotten, those decals are my ticket to immortality.

(from the Mentalfloss article linked a few comments down)

Yeah, so? Turns out the papers were bluffing/complaining. This sort of thing happens in many parts of life.

If each Bluray is 2 hours long, that's 4.5 years of nonstop watching.

Just parallelize watching.

I have 50 agents watching blurays for me 24/7

Tokendealers love that.

No upside whatsoever? Clearly you're not an insider trader.