They sort of do have that power. They have the ability to lower the max vehicle weight and eventually it gets lowered to where no real traffic can go over it. Grady talked about it in the video.
because one doesn't tend to get drunk on pie and then go beat up your wife or run over a pedestrian with your car. Is it biblical? No, but people rank sins by social impact out of habit.
And has Optum conveniently forgotten to ship refills, but only for the expensive drugs? That happened to my wife on multiple occasions.
Or maybe they've rejected refill requests until right before your supply runs out, such that you have to go days without your meds while the new supply is shipped?
Optum is the shadiest shitshow I've ever dealt with.
They make it extra painful sometimes when it's time to refill, requiring re-authorization every year. My doctor has a woman working for his practice who spends almost full time battling insurance companies so that patients can get their meds, and she's been my ally at managing these fights.
A lot of the doctors I've seen recently just don't take insurance. Basically they just tell me what something costs and then I pay it. Obviously if you are poor this is a problem, but then again so is everything else and you probably can't afford health insurance anyway.
Getting new prior auths every year is annoying but not exclusive to Optum, thats been the case with all the specialty pharmacies I've gotten prescriptions from.
I used to think like that until I got to see some legacy systems in action. Sometimes it just makes financial sense to keep paying Larry and avoid a big rewrite.
Solaris may have had a handful of helpful features but even by the late 1990s it was obviously inferior in numerous ways to Linux and BSDs. One of the most obvious manifestations of how slow it was was the overwhelming latency of fork, orders of magnitude slower than its free competitors and the reason its ecosystem needed hacked up threads libraries. The system was sprinkled with surprise complexity traps that could kill you in production, including the fact that its TCP receive path was O(N) in the number of IP addresses associated with a given network interface, meaning if you tried to hang an entire subnet off 1 port the system would effectively hang. In 1998 the people I worked with could not run away from Sun quickly enough. As soon as we could port anything to FreeBSD, we did. The writing was on the wall even then.
By 2006, Nokia was still mostly a HP-UX and Solaris shop on the networking side, and CERN still had quite a few Solaris boxes, with Scientific Linux project alongside Fermilabs slowly taking off in 2003.
Not everyone was racing to jump out of UNIX proper during the late-1990's.
The article specifically discusses Solaris as a gleaming success for web startups in the 1990s. I am here to tell you that as a member of that scene, I would have burned Solaris at the stake if it had a suitable physical manifestation.
Support. (Like, official vendor support & hardware support)
It's really nice to type a command and see a CLI representation of where the drives are physically located on your system for example.
All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.
*EDIT:* Seems OpenIndiana is not binary compatible due to using glibc over Sun Studios libc. Which might prevent some people from switching.
> All the IllumOS distributions are defunct (SmartOS hasn't seen a release since 2020 and that's the most recent) aside from OpenIndiana, which I haven't looked at in a long time.
Eh, if the physical security isn't good enough you'll have laptops going missing whether they're encrypted or not. There's a lot more opportunist thieves who'll snatch a laptop than there are industrial espionage spies rappelling down your elevator shaft or whatever.
The real reason for the policy is so when some dumbass sends a dick pic from their work computer and gets fired for it, they can't claim "it wasn't me" and expect to keep their job.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like podman is by and for linux devs. Once you move to Mac or Windows, you give up podman's main benefit of running containers without a daemon since you're still having to run a VM.
It's for folks who deploy to Linux. In the most recent case, I just needed it to mirror some images from DockerHub to an Amazon ECR.
Not having a Linux box for a dev machine, I'd have to involve one somewhere, and it'd either be a local VM or a remote one.
In my case, the main benefit of running Podman is not versus Docker. I don't want to run Docker Desktop because of its licensing. Podman doesn't have to offer me a technological benefit that Docker doesn't, at least for development use cases.
For development use cases like devcontainers, I agree, though. For that kind of stuff on macOS, I use Nix instead of a VM-based solution like Podman Desktop or Docker for Mac or whatever.
