I thought it got out of his hand when he got married 40 years ago?

I presume your idea is they want to prove he is an unstable pervert fooling around instead of a calculated strategy to exfiltrate secrets to China.

Or it's just China doing that. Maybe Jensen is not the chinese spy but the board members are? Once he is ousted they can claim to have fixed the problem and NVIDIA continues selling secrets because the real mole is somewhere in the board or adjacent to it.

A database is a store for globals only if we don't care too much about introducing complexity.

Globals often need to have the following properties:

1. Need to persist for the duration of the program.
2. Everybody needs the latest value out of the global variable.

Now both of these things don't need to be explicitly a "global variable" in the programming sense. Logically speaking we just need code that implements the behaviour of the global variable well enough to satisfy our requirements.

most DBs are most often an overkill for our requirements of a global variable.

sqlite is a fantastic fit for this use-case if one wants some level of ACID properties.

One can go with a redis cache or some other kind of disk caching KV store.

Or simply just go with a global variable and measure how it does before doing all this crap.

Not related to the PHP thing. It's e-mudhra incident. They were (yes, they voluntarily shutdown their business) a Certificate Authority (Who sell SSL certificates like Cloudflare or Let's Encrypt). They generated 8 security keys that were something like 4, 8, ... Which can be guessed easily. In effect when you go to your bank's website, how do you know the website is actually your bank and not some scammer pretending to be? Based on the SSL certificate. Usually to prove this, websites use a 384-digit number that cannot be guessed easily by anybody else. '4' is easy to guess and can be used by other people to pretend to be your bank.

India. Lots of people use Facebook. AND probably other high population countries except China.

the grand unifying architecture of the fronted is either wrapping a 40x inside a 200; or for everything.

^/s^

Edit: But on a serious note, yes that's how I have always simplified webdev for myself. I have been reluctant to enter the js ecosystem only dipping my toes into react frontend as recently as two months ago.

My goto backend is python + flask. Naturally I started with jinja templates for the frontend. I have now gravitated away from fully relying on templates into having a partially REST API with JSON payloads and asynchronous requests. This is nicely fits with the three layering transformation that this blog endorses and is optimal from a manageability perspective.

Modern society is built on destruction and cruelty. Doesn't mean I can advice somebody to give up living in society and sound smart.

To suggest that "compromising on ideals for practicality" is the same as "roll-over and accept it" is dishonest and only done by people who want to win the argument by attrition so they get what they want.

I feel like you're describing the people who are crazy about AI right now.

Somehow you consider even a little pushback crazy but won't listen to people when they ask you not to jump into AI madness headfirst wearing blinders?

I think you're trying to solve a NP Complete problem (Boolean Satisfiability) via brute force. It's expected you will hit this wall. Try to use heuristics/guess work.

My setup is pyenv + venv + requirements.txt/pyproject.toml

good usecase for find ... -delete. Test it out on a trial directory and it's should work. You can set -maxdepth if you are concerned about sumlinks... but i bet there is an option to not follow symlinks