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by badlibrarian 523 days ago
Because we use Nix recipes to deploy our Datalog-ish backend connectors that talk to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk via a bespoke database we wrote in Julia that's deployed on Snowflake Container Cloud. But there's a missing backslash somewhere and nobody can find it because even ChatGPT cannot decipher the error messages.

Maybe it's an expired certificate but the guy who knew how that stuff works built a 12,000 line shell script that uses awk, perl, and a cert library that for some reason requires both CMake and Autotools. It also requires GCC 4.6.4 because nobody can figure out how to turn off warnings are errors.

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The problem with astronaut architecture is that nobody tells you about (or has a handle on) all the space junk.