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they are installing now smart meters with sim cards in Greece, and of course everyone started complaining, shaming the gov, claiming corruption, etc...

General population doesn't understand that fixed pricing includes an extra cost which is the risk that the electricity provider has to account for. That risk has a calculable price, which is passed down to the consumers. But because it's baked in the flat rate, nobody complains.

Smart/dynamic pricing actually benefits the consumer.

hey, but we got MCP...

That's very surprising... Between me and my partner we've gone through 4 of these over the last 10 years. One was lost to airport security, another (the first) just became too slow with newer phones. The other two still work perfectly fine.

Maybe they last for us because we're not heavy users? We only use them on vacations.

I still can't believe that Anker has not completely dominated the market... I almost always see other inferior brands when people pull out their powerbanks.

your way of thinking shows clearly your lack of comprehension on the subject... you didn't experience the world before the internet, so you think that the internet is "part of life". Let me tell you as someone that helped build it, that it isn't part of life. It's something that we made up, like our ancestors build the railways. Those were neither part of life. Unike the addiction to social media that was carefully engineered by top class psychologists, without anyone realizing. That shouldn't be part of life, but here we are :(

As an engineer who works at a medium-large publishing company, am also interested in this direction.

I have fully read Cloudflare's proposal, as I have RSL, and L402.

In its current state, RSL is not a full solution, but can be. The spec does not cover payments. Its basically just a new token type, which crawlers would register for to crawl your content, and predefined responses for more detailed states. But nothing around payments, yet.

Cloudflare's solution is basically the same as L402. This is very sad for me, because their attempt is basically one of locking down the ecosystem in order to create a monopoly.

If they were really about creating a fair internet where "pay per crawl" is possible (it already was with L402), they would openly support L402, implement it for their gateway, and try to push the industry towards it. But no, they just want the biggest piece of the pie; a pie that doesn't even exist yet.

ah, right...

IIRC, Kagi is written in Elixir

what kind of joke is this...

Exactly... Also it's already properly solved: L402.org

forget about self hosting email... I tried it for years, and even if you get it working (needs months), it will eventually stop working again. The problem is that in order to get the big boys to accept you as an email provider, you have to jump through infinite hoops, and be treated like a criminal and/or scammer in the meantime (or at best a business that is trying to send newsletters). You will never get a human to talk to, it's just an infinite loop of automated processes.

Anyway, the problem is "trust" which boils down to IP reputation. And since we are all still on ipv4, your IP was reused. Which means you need to spend months cleaning it. And you won't have a guarantee that you won't lose this IP in the future.

been using select for update for many years now, in production. never had any issues. (MariaDB)

I used to be a huge fan of disabled animations on Linux, but unfortunately many websites end up being completely unusable. Somehow the animations affect functionality. Probably the developers never test their software with disabled animations.

So now I just have the setting to be super fast, but not disabled. Works perfectly well.

we do something similar. IntelliJ (ultimate) has a text-based http client included. Like postman but you can commit .http files to the repo. Then this client has variables which can come from a json file. So basically all URLs that our software uses, are in that file. Eventually this led to the json file being used by scripts too.

me and my team have been doing code reviews purely within IntelliJ, for something like 6 years. We started doing it "by hand", by checking out the branch and comparing with master, then using Github for comments.

Now there's official support and tooling for reviews (at least in IDEA, but probably in the others too), where you also get in-line highlighting of changed lines, comments, status checks, etc...

I feel sorry for anyone still using GitHub itself (or GitLab or whatever). It's horrible for anything more than a few lines of changes here and there.

most pristine roads with most hostile arrangement towards drivers, at least in Zurich. There are some insanely complicated intersections in 4D, that if you don't follow the correct series of 10 consecutive lane switches and sub-exits in 2 minutes you end up with a 20 minute mistake. Country side is very enjoyable though.

I think the article misunderstood the debate... the debate is (or at least was) about gitflow, and specifically about having git branches per environment. So there are git branches for dev, staging, etc, all the way to prod. And git changes become deployed on the respective branch.

Trunk based development is about having a single master (sorry, "main"), and generating deployable artifacts from there, and then the remaining environments have only deployments of versioned artifacts.

Unless I'm missing some new debate about the value of PullRequests, but that sounds extreme.

People that can do these drawings would make awesome art for play.date games!!!

I had this happen to me on Claude Sonnet once. It started spitting out huge blocks of source code completely unrelated to my prompt, seemingly from its training data, and switching codebases once in a while... like, a few thousand lines of some C program, then switching to another JavaScript one, etc. it was insane!

I had similar discussions with my father who started his career in the 80s as an engineer, and has been a CEO for the last ~15 years. The discussion was a bit broader, about engineering and quality/usability in everything.

His perspective was that companies were "run" by engineers first, then a few decades later by managers, and then by marketing.

Who knows what's next, maybe nothing (as in all decisions are accidentally made by AI because everyone at all levels just asks AI). Could be better than our current marketing-driven universe.

"παν μέτρον άριστον"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy)

Brave is also extremely effective at removing ads while keeping websites functional (including YouTube). It even has some fingerprinting protection. (and before someone complains, you can disable all the crypto stuff)

what about PNG?

14% salary for executive director???

duplicate : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268850

oh... but then what's the point?

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But I didn't understand if they support the same container spec from docker or not: i. e. will a container created with docker run on apple silicon now?

if I understand correctly, the difference is that before docker on Mac was running inside a Linux VM, where now it's running on apple silicon.

easiest example: most components of a macbook laptop have their serial number baked in the OS (or some hardware controller, idr). So even if you can find a legit macbook part from another laptop, and you can even replace it yourself (which is also impossible but that's another story), the laptop won't boot. In order for it to boot, you need a special device which "official apple repair" people have, which can bake-in the new part's serial number.

the obvious solution is try-catch, Java style. Which I'm surprised it's not even mentioned in the article. Not even when listing cons that wouldn't have been there with try-catch.

But of course that would hurt them and the community in so many levels that they don't want to admit...