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It’s not. They’ve blocked some countries entirely.

Great idea! A few weeks ago a non-technical client of mine decided to optimize his AWS infra bill with the help of AI. The costs went down significantly along with the application.

Seems to be the case in Estonia as well.

Looks like Github Actions is having another bad day today as of an hour ago, but status page is not yet updated.

When working at an influencer marketing company a while ago, back when Instagram still allowed pretty much complete access through their API. As we were indexing the entire Instagram universe for our internal tooling, we had this graph traversal setup to crawl Instagram profiles, then each of their followers etc. We’d need to keep track of visited profiles to not loop and had an Apache Storm cluster for the entire scraping pipeline. It worked, but was cumbersome to work with and monitor as well as couldn’t reach our desired throughput.

Given there were about a billion IG profiles total at the time, I just replaced the entire setup with a single Go script that iterated from 1 to billion and tried to scrape every id in between. That gave us 10k requests per second on a single machine, which was more than enough.

> React makes sense if you're making Gmail.

Except the old Gmail used to be so much faster…

> For the life of me I don’t understand why people absolutely insist on using JavaScript to render HTML. Backend frameworks do HTmL just fine.

There’s an entire universe of front-end developers who don’t even know JavaScript. React is the only thing they’ve ever touched and they’re completely helpless without it.

> I'm not saying this product is good, it's looks interesting but in reality will suck (due to not being able to just close the laptop)

It's one of those situations where the more seamless they make the experience, the quicker the user will end up totalling either the laptop screen / hinges or the touchscreen. Given the position of the connector and how people generally close laptops, it's the perfect lever to crack something.

It's perfectly reasonable for a Swede to invest in miltech, given current political climate. In fact, it would be irresponsible not to.

About a decade ago, a mobile gaming company I was at, accidentally shipped a full-screen ad without the art asset for the close button, so the button was invisible. The ad basically forced users to visit the in-app store for a moment before they could close it.

The sad part is that day we broke all previous daily revenue records.

> I never understand how people bought the propaganda on this. Why would anybody think Russia would blow up a pipeline that they spent years and billions of dollars building? It requires completely rejecting all logic.

Wouldn't be the first time Russia to make a bold move that blows up in their face... 3-day special operation and all.

There was already no gas flowing through either pipeline at the time and with European gas reserves having been kept at an artificially low level, this could've put a lot of pressure on Germany to certify and permit gas flows through the remaining undamaged NS2 pipeline if it hadn't been a mild winter.

This could've been a massive strategic political win for Russia.

> Yep, if Russia wants to expand its conflict against Europe, Narva in Estonia is most likely place for it. Over 90% of its population is ethnic Russian, and it's located right next to the Russian border. It's the perfect place to send some armed "separatists" to see how NATO responds.

Fortunately while close, the border runs along a fairly wide river with just a single bridge across, so logistically somewhat complicated to supply with heavy equipment from the Russian side. At least covertly.

But definitely a scenario that needs to be considered.

Even in the US, lie detector results are generally inadmissible in court.

> To restore decorum and professionalism

Given the complete absence of either in the current administration, this is clearly not the real reason. So “woke” is the only explanation left.

Are you implying military personnel aren't a legitimate target in a war?

I'd understand if you were arguing against using excessive force, eg using thermobaric weapons in residential neighborhoods against an individual target, but there hardly exists a more targeted method than the pager attack / arson of specific houses.

Russia isn’t using these recruits for anything more than meatwave attacks, so their life expectancy isn’t long enough to be useful for sabotage. By the time they’ve been transported to the front, they will be dead whether they go willingly or not.

> The YouTube app is easily the worst app on Apple TV.

I would've agreed until Netflix did their redesign and started pushing wrestling for whatever braindead reason. Some executives should just quit.

It makes perfect sense when you consider that the average Javascript developer does not know that business logic can exist outside of React components.

I keep seeing this implication that microservices somehow allow teams to move faster, but every company I've seen them at has moved at a snails pace mostly because of the clusterfuck of microservices. What would've been a trivial change in a monolith became a cross-team nightmare.

Existence of elections does not mean a democratic process. Soviet Union had elections as well.

Most people are equally bad at math with or without a calculator. The problem for the average person isn’t that they can’t add two numbers, it’s that they can’t tell which numbers they should be adding in the first place.

I might be wrong, but I don’t think these motors are intended to be used inside the wheel. That would add a ton of additional requirements in terms of physical durability as well as constrain optimal torque and RPM of the motor design.

Apparently, archive.today uses an unbeatable captcha.

Another usecase that already works better without any cryptocurrency or blockchain involved.

In Estonia, the government offers public key infrastructure, so any party needing to prove legitimacy of documents from a 3rd party can get it digitally signed by the originator. For example, when you need a bank statement, you can just download a signed PDF (technically it's a zip, but whatever) that proves the legal entity (or person) that ensures it's legitimate.

I have the last gen 27” 5k iMac with nano texture as my primary monitor these days and you can immediately tell the difference between image quality, compared to a glossy MacBook pro. Don’t get me wrong, it’s by far the best quality matte finish I’ve ever seen and I would buy it again, because it works great in a room with south-facing windows, but it definitely affects the overall image quality noticeably.

Why would you trust current gen AI to make decisions when paying thousands of dollars for flights and hotels? That’s an insane amount of risk to take.

That was last quarter. Now they need to achieve even higher profits for the next one.

SIM farms are another possible explanation. FBI just busted one with hundreds of thousands of SIMs just a few weeks ago.

It's not the code itself that makes review difficult. Even the best written code can be difficult to review. The complexity of effective code review arises from the fact that you need to understand the domain to evaluate correctness of both the code itself and the tests covering it.

> Lots of people manage to drive in poor visibility without radar, lidar, etc. If that's safe and normal for people, the principle that self driving should work with just cameras isn't such a strange one.

No camera system comes close to the capabilities of human eyes, combined with general intelligence.