About bundling assets I'm not convinced. I've run a year-long test where 50% of our users would download a single JS bundle, and the others would use about a dozen distinct files. All using HTTP/2. I've checked every metric I could think of to see what's best. In the end the not-bundled pages would be a tiny bit quicker to load, but I the few milliseconds of difference was not significant. So I stopped bothering and do not bundle my JS anymore.
Where do you get that average life expectancy of 10-12? I never heard a figure that low, and I doubt humanity would have lasted that long if the average life expectancy was barely enough to reach sexual maturity. Also, I think these life expectancy in the past stats mostly do not distinguish between the extremely high death rate for infants, and the more normal life expectancy for those that survived past 2 y.o. The distribution is so skewed, I guess even the median expectancy would not be really useful.
When you have business in space, having independent launch capabilities is a strategic matter, whatever your relationships with your partner countries are. E.g. Europe wants to keep access to space without having to rely solely on the United States.
I don't want to sound harsh, but "my personal comfort is more important than finding ways to reduce energy consumption" seems pretty selfish to me. That's the kind of things that make me think trying to reduce our carbon footprint is utterly hopeless. How is it weird/defective to adapt to natural conditions? We're not talking about letting people freeze in their home, but just putting on one more layer when it's cold outside.
Is there any artist whose style cannot be imitated by an AI given selected images? I'm pretty sure an AI can correctly mimic Picasso if you give it 32 blue period paintings. Does that mean Picasso has no artistic value?
I'm (badly) paraphrasing Brett Devereaux, but for most people, knowledge of the past comes not from history books, but from popular culture. When pop culture is wrong about some aspect, the collective mental representation gets a little more distant from the historical reality.
My understanding is that they analyzed remains from Cambridge cemetery, meaning they were probably city-dwelling people and not peasants, so less prone to agricultural works where you catch the worms.
I started learning Go maybe 2 months ago, and we're now using it at work in production for small-scale projects, with plans to make it our default server-side language. The onboarding experience has been quite easy and effective I must say.
I have only written javascript for the past ~5 years and while I've never gone bored of writing code in a ~15y career, Go has brought some pleasant freshness to my work.
All that to say that this guy and the whole Go team have done some good work.
That was my first thought upon reading the title, but you have ton ponder it, though. Does it fit the "reallistically" criteria? I mean, sure it's been done already so it is possible, but this is advanced work and probably not really accessible to the average hacker.
"The innovation combines food-safe Casein labels with the p-Chip micro transponder — a blockchain crypto-anchor that creates a digital 'twin' for physical items. This scannable new food tag is smaller than a grain of salt and highly durable, delivering next-generation visibility and traceability."
I, for one, had never heard the term "blockchain crypto-anchor" before.
It's nowhere near these volumes, but at work we recently experienced traffic spikes like 35-fold in the span of 30 seconds for a few minutes, then faded regularly for a few hours. Our scaling was too slow to be of any use for such pattern. There are legitimate needs for things that scale as fast as possible.
This idea was present in Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series, where all human who ever lived are brought back together. There's a scene that struck me where characters from different eras such as the paleolithic, middle-ages and the 19th century share some jokes and discover they all know the same ones.
The idea that such jokes are a universal constant of the human experience through millenia is somewhat recomforting I think.
Or France, where the first 4 procedures are paid for by health services. Going to the pharmacy for the ovarian stimulation drugs for my wife and seeing the one-week treatment would have cost us hundreds of euros; I sure was glad to live in such a country!
They can probably out-lawyer and out-PR nearly every company on the planet, so it's not surprising from Facebook that they try this route when the negotiations failed, if they really wanted that name.
France has invested a lot of money into this company. And it was approved to become the official search engine on many state administration's computers, even after an audit revealed the terrible quality of their product. Things are a bit shady around Qwant, and this is ground for all kind of suspicions (not that I'm endorsing any).
There are 2 competing offers to buy the company, as I know of. One from OVH founder Octave Klaba, the other from JB Kempf, of VLC fame. So no, I don't think it should go out of business - in the short term.
It took me the description of the mithraeum, well into the article, to remember that I've visited this church, some 25 years ago. It's wild how these teenage memories are coming back :).
Very interesting article otherwise, I've always been fascinated by the entanglement of history we see in these old cities of Europe and Middle East.
I recently set up one of their "stardust" instance, which is the absolute cheapest one I found at ~2€/mo. Works as intended , not much more to say about it.
I'm aware of that, but that was an afterthought. Anyway, it's not made to be stared at, and with light modulation it's quite faint when the room is dark. so I don't think it matters in the end.