>The name 996.ICU refers to "Work by '996', sick in ICU", an ironic saying among Chinese developers, which means that by following the "996" work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)
>The name 996.ICU refers to "Work by '996', sick in ICU", an ironic saying among Chinese developers, which means that by following the "996" work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)
But why are Chinese companies making their own security protocol / libraries rather adopting "cryptographic best practices"? Do they actually think that common crypto libraries are flawed? Or is this a part of China's deep tech / self-sufficient efforts?
Back in those days where the CN internet infrastructure as we see today was laid down, devs and PMs literally didn't know for sure what were they doing, but they still worked overnight because it the new features must be shipped before next weekend.
And since the services worked pretty well until today it's kinda better to keep the s__tpile there and don't change it. Also there's a lot of unmaintained 'PWA's in the wild that relies on legacy APIs that you dare not to break.