Dropbox is a lot more than file storage. The syncing itself has been through serious tests to characterise its behaviour. Sure, some may not like the decisions taken to direct its sync behaviour one way or another but at least all these are known through formal testing.
There was a discussion of a self-built dropbox on the frontpage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673394). This is just to show that dropbox is thoroughly tested for all kinds of wierd interactions and behaviours across OS using a very formal testing framework.
This is the kind of thing I think about when i see the mindset of “we’ll just replace all the SaaS with vibe code” pitches.
Not everything is a CRUD app website.
I was running my own hacky sync thing to the cloud a decade ago. I would never in my boldest dreams compared it to dropbox.
Even if you know the use cases, the edge cases could be 99% of the work.
POCs are 100x easier than working production multi-user applications. Don’t confuse getting to a POC in 2 hours with getting a final product in 4 hours.
For (1) you can prepay i think up to 10 years? And every year you just prepay 1 year again and you will have 10 years to remember that you forgot to pay a domain registration bill.
> Although the research marks a milestone in the search for treatments of type 1 diabetes, it’s important to note that the study involved one one participant, who received a low dose of cells for a short period—not enough for the patient to no longer need to control their blood sugar with injected insulin. An editorial by the journal Nature also says that some independent research groups have failed in their efforts to confirm that Sana’s method provides edited cells with the ability to evade the immune system.
I’ve had T1D for more than 30 years and have seen every headline under the sun with a “cure” always sometime in the next 5 years, so my expectations are properly tempered.
Still excited by it but a long way from clinics handing this out as a solution (if it’s viable).
5 years is modern for a long time. Used to be in the next decades. I've had it for about the same time and about 10 years ago I stopped following all research since it never goes anywhere. I'll wait till they start doing late stage trails to be even interested to read the full report.
The thing is that with such a sample, we don't really know
1. If the effect is real. i.e. had the patient not been given the injection, would his/her condition improve spontaneously.
2. Assuming the effect is real, what are the circumstances that make the treatment work for this person.
Not to be overly dismissive of the good work but it is too early to be optimistic about this given the above and the fact that the results were not replicated out of Sana suggest that there is a lot that we need to work out before this becomes a viable treatment for the masses.
The harms of hyping this up is that readers will get their hopes up and then be disappointed when things don't pan out as do most scientific endeavours. Overtime, readers will learn to distrust anything that is being reported because 90% of which do not translate to real world impact. It is hard to get the nuance that "science takes many many failures and iterations" to the public and the more likely outcome of such reporting is general distrust of science when things don't go the way that is hoped for.
Just have sane firewall rules and you are good. E.g. if I install openssh-server and it auto starts, it doesn't make it out of my machine because my nftables does not allow inbound on port 22. It's just knowing the default behaviour and adjusting your practices for it.
No, because you can install and configure the firewall before you install package X. (without knowing anything about X, your firewall defaults can just prevent X from doing anything)
But you can't (easily) configure package X itself before you install it; and after you install it, it runs immediately so you only get to configure it after the first run.
Dropbox is a lot more than file storage. The syncing itself has been through serious tests to characterise its behaviour. Sure, some may not like the decisions taken to direct its sync behaviour one way or another but at least all these are known through formal testing.
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