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Suppose you have a stack A which contains some resource used by stack B, and that you no longer need this resource. Here is how you can get rid of it:

Remove all uses of the resource from stack B. In stack A, force the resource to continue being exported by writing

this.exportValue(this.resource.property);

Deploy.

Now, and only now, you can safely remove the resource (and associated export) from stack A.

Deploy again.

Juan Valdez brand coffee

A mug saying (in English) “It's Colombia, not Columbia”

But! There's a problem now: our President-elect is busy spinning conspiracy theories. And it would be unfair to prohibit commenters from spreading the theories that the soon-to-be-President spreads.

Apparently, the Times' editors decided then to give the President a magical power where he can admit nonsense theories into the permitted discourse. So, you're allowed now in the comment sections to say that three million undocumented immigrants voted in the election, if that's a thing that for some reason you want to say. But, the editors also decided, you're not allowed to present any evidence for these theories, because there isn't any evidence, because the theories are totally made-up. So, you're not allowed to say, for example, that you saw three million undocumented immigrants go to the polls, because you didn't.

Sometimes my colleagues and I discuss ways to make computer systems seem reliable despite the fact that computers are actually unreliable. A suggestion that often comes up is to put some kind of fancy retry logic into mobile clients, and I almost always try to dissuade folks from this approach, because smartphones and mobile wireless connectivity, while amazing, are still far more failure-prone than pretty much anything that one can do within a datacenter.

But there is an even worse thing that you can do, which is to put a retry button on the screen, because if there's anything less reliable than cheap smartphones and shoddy 3G links, it's making human beings mash on dumb pointless retry buttons.

Think about how amazing that is, though: here in the second decade of the 21st century, the connection between you and an object which is literally in your hand can still be less reliable than the radio-wave-mediated connection between that object and another object on the on the other side of the world.

David Graeber, "Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class", HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

so, like, if you:

buy one of the officially blessed devices directly from Google, and then

subscribe to the security updates, so you know when you should

troll reddit to find links to zip files on android.googleapis.com and then

do some weird command-line magick to install updates by "sideload"

then you can have your device patched to fix things only a month after "partners were notified about the issues".