With?

I run projects inside Docker on a VM away from important data. It allows me to test and restrict access to specific things of my choosing.

It works well for me.

Hands up if you have done this at least once in your life…

The SCSI solution requires making sure that you have the right terminator connector because of course there’s more than one standard … ask me how I know … I think the Wikipedia article on SCSI says it best:

As with everything SCSI, there are exceptions.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector

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There’s a reason why there’s only privileged write access to /dev/sda.

If you run unknown software as root on any computer you get to experience first hand the impact of: “fuck around and find out”.

I can absolutely guarantee that you are not the only person to have spent quality time getting to know the intimate backwaters of a codebase tracking down a bug that you introduced whilst tracking down a bug.

Source: I’ve been writing software for over 40 years.

About that.

Just because I’ve done it this way and haven’t had issues, doesn’t mean it’s the best or only way.

You dared to ask a question and the tools to explore answers are readily available.

This is how we as a society make progress.

Please don’t feel like my experience is the final answer to your question … my experience tells me that this is rarely … if ever … the case.

So … please … explore!

If you genuinely attempting to quantify this, you can create a swap file of any size right there on your drive. You could iterate and test every setting for every scenario. You could even change settings dynamically if you wanted to.

That said, I leave it to the kernel to figure out and over the past 25 or so years that’s been fine.

My excitement is muted by two things:

1. Every X11 application runs in the same Xserver, so there’s no isolation which would be a massive incentive for adoption.
2. Attempting to run anything Wayland inside a Docker container across the network is doomed to fail. RDP, VNC and the rest of these are a massive loss in functionality compared with X11 across the network.

I want this to work, but so far it just doesn’t.

In case you’re wondering, try running a GUI application on a remote server side by side with one running on another server on the same display and copy/paste data between the two.

Because the only thing coming out of them is shit?

Because the only thing coming out of them is shit?

😂

It’s funny. When I first started, functional programming was going to be the next big thing. It bubbled along for a decade or so. I interviewed company founders about their functional software projects.

Nothing happened.

Sure there are a few, let’s call them niche, applications, but you just have to look around and see that object orientation made a bigger splash and even that is beginning to be evaluated.

Perhaps functional software will have its day in the limelight, but with the latest AI slop fad, it’s going to be a while.

I’ve been writing software for over 40 years and this is the first I have ever heard of this. Much appreciated.

I’m still trying to grok it, but for anyone playing, here’s where I started:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/310974/what-is-tail-call-optimization#310980

Fortunately you’re likely to run out of memory or swap space and it will stop all by itself 😇

Arguing about which browser does not make much sense to me because ultimately to render HTML with CSS in the way that the designer expected is the whole reason you need CSS.

ePub is interesting, but the functionality supported in the HTML is limited, as is CSS support.

You make an interesting point about JavaScript, but in my experience, the use of it is increasing, not decreasing.

I never said that Firefox, Chrome or Safari was required, there are plenty of light(er) weight browsers around, there’s even a Wikipedia page about it:

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

My point stands, use a browser.

A browser is specifically designed for rendering HTML and does it better than anything else.

However, if you must, you can use something like pandoc to convert the HTML to something else, like a PDF or an Office document.

An alternative is to use a text only browser like lynx.

The ides that a browser is overkill is only true if you don’t already have one installed and only if you’re happy to put up with half baked rendering.

So … use a browser.

I’ve never used the tool, but I’m guessing that your Oracle database can create an SQL dump of its schema which presumably is how this tool ingests a database to chart.

Depends entirely on what “Production” means. In a corporate environment it means something completely different from a homelab

If you’re doing this for real, you’d have two identical environments.

If it’s playing with Docker or Kubernetes, you don’t need anything more than a VM with Linux and Docker.

If you want to get serious, you can also set up a sandbox on EC2.