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Why do we have so many meetings?

Reminds me of a video essay from SovietWomble about a game. Bit of a spoiler since he's got very few video essays posted so look away if you must buut:

In the game The Forest, he noticed that there's very little items connecting the game mechanics to the final story, and also how they messed up by doing part of the game world the wrong way around, mismatching two halves of the map and making facts from the lore mismatch the actual environment.

He mentioned how it was very likely a symptom of poor planning, and mentioned how the whole point of doing several meetings is so that even if you spend a lot of time just in meetings, you save a whole lot more by avoiding wasted work and keeping a consistent plan

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Kinda sus...

I mean, leaving aside their surveillance tasks, it's still their job to ensure national security. It's in their best interest to keep at least themselves and their nation safe, and considering how prevalent Linux is on servers, they likely saw a net benefit this way. They even open sourced their reverse engineering toolkit Ghidra in a similar vein

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Docker - what use is it?

Containers, the concept that Docker implements, lets app developers give a self-contained environment for distribution. For devs that means consistency in deployments across environments, which in turn means sysadmins can deploy each of these apps as fully isolated units.

With that, you get really clean installs/updates/uninstalls, and your deployments get done with a well-defined, declarative definition file which can also handle multi service dependencies (a la Docker Compose/K8s)