Looking at how my servers update themselves and the recent Copy Fail vulnerability, I'm considering an automated weekly restart to make sure services and kernels are up to date. It'd also ensure that services are correctly configured to start on boot.
Any thoughts? Feels crude.
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There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail.
Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions.
Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.
I really appreciate that GitHub has separate icons for pass and fail in CI. I've worked with Jenkins plugins that rely on red/green colour too much.
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This is really neat: an online collection of programs that can pass the type checker but fail at runtime, in a bunch of languages (Java, Scala, OCaml, Haskell, Rust): https://counterexamples.org/runtime-misinformation.html
It also discusses the design tradeoffs that led to these behaviours.