Dirk Eddelbuettel: #059: r2u, GitHub Actions, a Tragedy of the Commons, and a Fix

Welcome to post 59 in the R4 series. How did we get here: A initial words about GitHub. GitHub Actions provides (essentially unlimited) compute time. This further boosts a service already in a market-dominating position: GitHub1 as a code repository. Those of us old enough to remember the start of git (the program and protocol) may remember the extremely bare-bones initial hosting site repo.or.cz (launched in 2006). GitHub came two years later, and put an enormous amount of focus into…

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