From your description I think you accidentally applied for a position in an administrative sub-branch of Hell. This was the giveaway: "I had a little discussion with the interviewer, who said 0 was not a multiple of 3 and 5".
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
In addition to using more sensible and consistent syntax, WixSharp also provides sensible defaults that just work, such as always using "major upgrades" so that you don't have to worry about MSI trying to be clever and sometimes (but sometimes not!) only partially upgrading the app.
That not-invented-here locking mechanism was a big shock to me. I'd be very interested to know the rationale behind that, are locking primitives somehow not available in file system code?
Locks are perfectly usable in filesystem code, but test_and_set_bit()/wait_on_bit() has lower overhead, so they'll get used as an optimization. This function is called on every metadata read, so the improved performance/scalability of raw atomics over locks can probably make a difference on fast storage.
a bunch of useless processes, if only.. they started using Scaled Agile (or SAFe) a few years ago, which slows down software development by a factor of five or more and adds non-productive fulltime roles such as 'Release Train Engineer', 'Scrum Master' and 'product owner'.
Passkeys seem to make it harder for you to backup your own private keys to other devices or to paper. Is there an open source Passkey manager yet that allows importing and exporting?
And that I can sync to my other devices. I currently use one of the several keypass managers on my laptop and on my Android devices. As a matter of discipline (not to lose password) I add passwords only on my laptop and I send the db to my mobile devices with syncthing. I don't want to create a new passkey for each site on each device, so syncing is important. Manual export import doesn't work for the same reasons that manual backup doesn't work.
