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> However, the Internet Archive expanded its library project during the covid-19 pandemic. It launched the National Emergency Library, allowing an unlimited number of people to access the same copies of ebooks. That’s when the publishers banded together to file the lawsuit, targeting both online libraries.
The digital copy could be checked out by many people at the same time.
It’s a classic case of mismatched incentives - the Retail org is just focused on increasing sellers and listings because they have reviews to bail them out, but Devices really need quality results which Retail is not motivated to provide. Their recent focus on mimicking Temu and Shein is only going to make things worse.
This is a joke. Everything seems to be designed around their proprietary app, so why bother with a blockchain and custom currency at all?
Seriously, _what_ are they gaining by eliminating access to third-party clients? If they want usage data, they already have all the API calls. If they want more ads, they can change the APIs to inject them.
> The Chamber explained that a transfer in this context must also be assumed when data can be accessed from a third country, regardless of whether this actually takes place. The fact that the physical location of the server that provides such access was located in the EU was irrelevant.
I think this is an interpretation of GDPR that most companies are not prepared for. You could write an implementation that restricts access to EU data, but if the parent company is not in EU, I guess the implementation could always be changed to allow access. Ergo, GDPR violation?
Personally, I’m sick and tired of dealing with safari issues, and can corroborate the ridiculous amount of time wasted because, for whatever reason, Safari needs to be special and do things differently than Firefox or Chrome. As the article points out, their lack of funding and low quality implementations is, in essence, forcing the rest of us to subsidize the richest company on earth.
> Employees say the founders’ memos unfairly depicted their workplace as being riven by partisan politics, when in fact the main source of the discussion had always been Basecamp itself.
> “At least in my experience, it has always been centered on what is happening at Basecamp,” said one employee — who, like most of those I spoke with today, requested anonymity so as to freely discuss internal deliberations. “What is being done at Basecamp? What is being said at Basecamp? And how it is affecting individuals? It has never been big political discussions, like ‘the postal service should be disbanded,’ or ‘I don’t like Amy Klobuchar.’”
> Significantly, the Xinjiang and Sichuan regions of China combined account for more than 50 percent of the overall Bitcoin mining hash rate
This is horrific on so many levels, I’m not even sure where to begin. My heart goes out for those poor miners slaving away for... what?
Sorry, why exactly can’t they also define the json.parse/stringify behavior of bigints? JSON was initially derived from JavaScript, so it seems a bit weird that a new ES standard can’t interoperate with json
Is there any equivalent for the latter with swagger? Yes, you can do everything in there with custom redux middlewares or sagas/observables, but it’s more glue code you have to write and maintain.
> It's worth noting that the Swift devs disagree with the Rust and C++ codegen orthodoxy in one major way: they care much more about code sizes (as in the amount of executable code produced). More specifically, they care a lot more about making efficient usage of the cpu's instruction cache, because they believe it's better for system-wide power usage. Apple championing this concern makes a lot of sense, given their suite of battery-powered devices.
This is blatantly wrong. The RFC (and Dan Abramov’s video) make it clear that server components can only be run on the server: https://github.com/josephsavona/rfcs/blob/server-components/...
Wow, and I thought Facebook was sleazy... imagine if the rest of the App Store was like this as well.
Previously, the abstraction level between your server and client used to be APIs, with well-known patterns for versioning... this has now shifted to the level of component props, which I suppose is still workable — it’s very similar to graphql — but is certainly not very intuitive.
SQL would have been such a better choice. It’s been battle tested for decades and is so much more expressive.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/09/much-more-pessimistic... https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/09/why-smoke-situation-i...
Basically, no good news till at least tomorrow:
>> So I am not optimistic for improvement either today or Wednesday. With smoke production (at a lower level) by the continuing fires, a "stuck" weather pattern, and smoke trapped in a relatively stable lower atmosphere, things just can't improve rapidly.
> "The green onion flavour is too mild."
The whole concept of a spicy cereal seems incomprehensible to me, but I _am_ curious now... I've never had anything close. Has anyone here tried this, and would you recommend it?
I think you’re right though - Kubernetes is a massive red herring, we should ideally be running containers/functions on as close to bare metal as possible. Fundamentally, VMs are the wrong abstraction if all your code is containerized.
Joyent’s triton is the closest thing we have to this... I really don’t know why AWS/Azure/GCP haven’t cottened onto this, it would massively reduce their COGS and improve our developer experience.
I mentioned this in a previous thread, but we absolutely do not want Mark Zuckerberg or his employees to make decisions on what is or isn’t newsworthy. They have far too much power, and not enough internal controls, to be involved in politics. (And yes, you can have an independent moderator system - but they’ll end up in the same position as Facebook as well, with no accountability to the public.)
Just to take a simple example, what would have happened if a facebook moderator had decided to remove the initial video of Floyd's murder because, hey, the official reports said he was doing something wrong and the video had the potential to incite violence? (which, in hindsight, it absolutely did.) I'm fairly sure we would not be having the discussion we're having today, and we would have lost a vital opportunity to improve our democracy.