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> One of the few instances where I prefer the dub...

Phil really does a great job.

I feel like this whole thing is mischaracterizing funding for cost.

They are not the same and Star Citizen's cost, I think, is mostly unknown.

Saying that they've raised 500 million (funding) isn't the same as saying 500 million has been spent on development (cost).

I've had some success using this page and subscribing to the twitter feed from the same person: https://rpilocator.com

Adafruit appears to be the best resource for ordering Pis in the US as they require you log in with MFA and limit purchases. That is, if you're just in the market for a single unit.

You don't kick your prize chicken.

This appears to have been fixed in the Amazon page I just pulled up.

If so, that was a quick edit.

I'm pretty sure that's how Typhoid Mary became infamous.

But, we do that anyway. Mid winter, even in the south part of the U.S. I was standing in the dark and cold waiting for a bus to arrive.

> I'm informed that these are actually legal as long as you don't disrespect the police by doing it in front of them. It's the same way that going slightly over the speed limit on freeways is legal as long as you don't insult the police by passing them.

You and I have a very different view of what makes something legal.

I don't disagree. It was the comment about the California plate - almost like it was supposed to validate the practice - that I don't understand.

I commented as I have a concern that an uneducated reader may walk away with the idea that it's legal in that state. It most certainly is not.

Apparently, though, Idaho does have some provision for bicyclists and rolling through stop signs. So, there you go - an "Idaho Stop" is a thing for any potential bicyclists in Idaho.

Apparently, it's "Assertive Mode"

> My dad (when gowing up) was pulled over for a cop for doing a california stop in Colorado. The police officer let us off, because we had california plates.

I'm confused. A "California Stop" isn't even legal in California.

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Or, as an alternative, use wget and then press Ctrl+C after two seconds. Viola, you have a usable lisa.jpg.

This is how JADE/PUG handled it. And, for anyone that's used css, querySelector or jQuery, it seems quite natural.

I also wonder why the author didn't pick up these standard methodologies and continue from there.

I'm dying. This is hilarious.

I find it odd that you exalt democracy and the idea of limiting individual freedom in the same paragraph. Zuckerberg isn't a government unto himself and answers to shareholders and board members; one of which served as Chief of staff for the National Economic Council in the Obama administration. You seem to think that our government and large corporations are separate and isolated organizations, but the people that work within them often slip between the two. Taking Zuckerberg out of the equation will certainly not change the game.

> We are humans and like other industries, greed has crept in and we don't always make great decisions when left on our own.

I feel strange having to point out that Governments are made up of people too. If it's not people that are making the good decisions, whom do we turn to?

I think the author addresses your point one in the article:

> SQL is a perfect language for analytics. I love SQL query language and SQL schema is a perfect example of boring tech that I recommend to use as a source of truth for all the data in 99% of projects: if the project code is not perfect, you can improve it relatively easily if your database state is strongly structured. If your database state is a huge JSON blob (NoSQL) and no-one can fully grasp the structure of this data, this refactoring usually gets much more problematic.

> I saw this happening, especially in older projects with MongoDB, where every new analytics report and every new refactoring involving data migration is a big pain.

They're arguing that using non-structured, or variable structured data is actually a developmental burden and the flexibility it provides actually makes log analysis harder.

It seems that the "json" blobs are a symptom of the problem, not the cause of it.

Something like what? I was simply stating that when the market closes in on options, competition tends to pop up to meet the needs of the customers that don't want to be boxed in.

In a world structured like that, it sounds like there would be good business opportunity in developing software and services that run on a general computing device.

That was changed in 2018. They no longer have this as part of their "code of conduct".

Interestingly enough, there are airports that are dedicated to shippers.

For example, there's Wilmington Air Park in Wilmington, OH: https://www.wilmingtonairpark.com/

Apparently, Amazon started flying through there in September of 2019: https://airportimprovement.com/article/wilmington-air-park-w...

The author makes a case for why it would matter:

> XML, on the other hand, optimizes for document tree structures, by cleanly separating node data (attributes) from child data (elements).

Unfortunately, there appear to be some implementation issues here. You have to create a string version of your data to store them in attributes.

So, you lose a bit of context in the conversion.

Such as:

`<Document text="true" />`

Is the text attribute the word _true_ or a boolean _true_. Without referencing some other piece of code or definition there is no way to know.

Whereas in JSON, this wouldn't be necessary, as you can simply remove the quotes and infer that it is not a string, but a boolean.

That price doesn’t include usage as a shippable asset, though. The purchase page sets terms that indicate you can only do renderings for that amount.

They don’t seem to publish a price for usage as game assets.

Wait, are you saying the only valuable students are the ones that didn’t pay for their education? Because that’s what it sounds like you’re saying.

It appears that you're posting an opinion rather than informed fact. You should attempt following the development if you have a keen interest.

They've switched to a quarterly release system and have, in fact, just released their Q4 drop last evening. I would grant you that they have had a history of missing deadlines, but stating that they have "never made a single deadline" is disingenuous at best.

I have a slightly different take on what will drive adoption of these cars.

Insurance.

If there is a significant reduction of cost from an insurance perspective, the cost to insure a human-driven vehicle will increase substantially to the point that it will become a burden to own a vehicle that isn't driven by software.

That is, unless the government feels the need to intervene here. But, business seems to have the ear of government a lot more than the citizens do now days.

Even so, simply going to court on something like this could have staggering consequences.

The article specifically states that it concerns areas not trafficked by humans and pack animals.

The people in your linked article would likely still need to take additional precautions.

He's right though, with any luck, the SSNs of a slew of politicians will be included in the data leak and then we may just get the ball rolling on change. Hopefully, this is the one that gets us moving.