Agreed completely. I also leverage sun shirts quite a bit.
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Always been that way for me at least.
The more you're able to build up a base tan the less you need it to avoid a burn at least.
That is workload specific. Title should be "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite for Analytics" IMHO
Evidence of technical competence wasn't what I was talking about. I meant that it creates a trail of evidence for police to actually pursue them, particularly in the case of phishing.
To setup DMARC, DKIM and SPF you need to control a domain. Somebody has to own that domain, unless you just hacked a DNS or somebody's already configured email server.
If you hacked it, there's a trail to contact the domain owner to notify them. If you bought it, there's a trail to find the domain owner.
You can obfuscate that with stolen cards and fake registration details, but now there's a central point where identity validation and security can concentrate itself.
A lot of positive side effects happen when the bar is raised from "any email server can send email claiming to be from anybody" to "email can only be sent claiming to be from a domain if the domain approves the sending email server."
At least when the spam concentrates from major senders like Google, etc those major senders have the means to analyze and take steps to prevent it.
The experience was so good that we haven't moved off. Even if we did build a more formal conference site, we'd still keep the substack blog. The mailing list has grown from nothing to right at 1000 subs which isn't bad for something I do in my spare time. By far the most effective communication. Social media (all channels) are a fraction of the engagement that I get compared to substack.
It would solve a lot of issues globally.
This should create a means to go after the domain owners via registrar and trail of ownership, even so far as blocking email from the domain.
Forcing the spammers to pass DMARC creates a burden and an evidence trail that didn't exist before.
Quite a bit and it's much more interesting than I imagined! The amount of interconnection and reference across thousands of years of text is fascinating. The historical aspects and context alone got my interest when I first started attending again. The preacher at the church where I first started back was very good at framing lessons from the history of the time, putting the events in the context of the day. A lot of that context comes from history outside of the Bible itself, from the work of many historians at archaeologists working to piece together history.
One time, we were reviewing a lesson that talked about this bronze snake that Moses put on a pole that people could look to in order to be healed from poison. I thought that sounded like an familiar visual...a snake on a pole for healing so I went and looked it up. A later story references a King who had the bronze snake destroyed because the people had begun worshiping it as an idol. That was 800 years later. 800 years is a long time especially when you put the entirety of US history being 250 years for perspective.
Went down a huge rabbit hole. The symbol used for medicine, the Rod of Asclepius from Greek mythology is actually predated by this story by about 1,000 years but it sounded so familiar I kept researching to see if they were connected. It turns out the Jewish tribes in Israel had a tribe of traders on the Mediterranean Sea called the Tribe of Dan. They made harbor on Cyprus and traded all the way to Athens and beyond.
This made me curious about other potential influences on Greek mythology like this so I got curious and decided to look up the most obvious one: Samson and Hercules (Heracles to the Greeks, Hercules is Romanized). It turns out Samson was from...the Tribe of Dan. The Greek's called these Jewish traders, "Haroclim" the Hebrew word for merchant. What is the likelyhood that Jewish traders telling stories about a man from their tribe being granted incredible strength by God evolving to influence the story of Hercules?
So I kept investigating the origins of Hercules. It turns out, I was in good company because Aristotle also investigated his origins. Aristotle traced the origins to Argos on the island of...Cyprus.
10 years ago people found...an ancient mosaic of Hercules...on Cyprus.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-15/rare-roman-mosaic-unc...
All that was from about 2-4 verses. I found it deeply interesting.
If you like history at all, just understanding the context of the time periods around any of the stories adds to it tremendously.
> my experiences, one must dare not question it
I suppose that depends on the church and maybe the question? I don't know what was asked. The Bible is probably the most studied text in the world and if you do have questions, there are a lot of well studied answers out there. I was always very open about my own questions and found people who were genuinely interested in helping me to find answers, particularly the teachers. Those who aren't teachers probably just don't know how to answer appropriately. Churches are filled with a lot of people who have variety in their study, faith and experience. Learning not to assume everybody else had the same level of knowledge was a trap I had to get myself out of.
I asked enough questions and participated in enough lessons that I was eventually asked to teach a few. I had to teach a lesson about alcohol in an adult Sunday school class in a Baptist church! And I didn't teach what I was supposed to because the Baptist view and what the Bible actually says are two different things. I talked to other teachers about it and they were completely okay with it while also challenging me on some things, which gave me a greater understanding. The Bible itself talks about moderation. Not drinking too much. Baptists emphasize abstaining entirely. This bothered me greatly because, as far as I can tell, it's a man-made rule attempting to be stricter than the Bible itself. Jesus first miracle was turning water to wine after all.
That's where speaking to another teacher made an impact on me because he explained the reason. "Yes, you can moderate," he said "but the Paul says in Romans 14:13-23 that we should not cause another to stumble in their faith and specifically talks about food and wine. While you may be able to moderate, not everyone can. Baptists advocate for abstaining in an effort to help prevent others from stumbling."
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2014%3A1...
That changed the way I viewed everything. I taught the lesson and highlighted the perspective.
> But those people probably truly believe, unlike me. Thus, I might as well stay home at that point.
I was just trying to showcase the option to try in a low pressure situation. There will always be opportunities to talk, but for somebody curious and introverted this type of option makes it easier. It can be harder to walk into a smaller church where new people will stand out more if you're more introverted.
> We must have wildly different experiences
Every church is different. Baptist churches in particular all have their own different constitutions. Methodist, Episcopal, Catholic and some others are much more standardized. There are over 1,500 different denominations and many independent churches. IMO this variety is a feature, not a bug.
> However, there is absolutely a reason to fake it.
I get that. To be completely honest, I initially did the same thing. I went because it was important to my wife and having grown up around church my entire life I felt like I knew what to say to fit in. Eventually that changed as God started working on me.
God saved me at the lowest point of my life about 18 years ago when I was struggling with so much anger that I didn't even know I was capable of. It went on for 2 years. I tried to move on, to get over it. Nothing helped. Nothing would make me whole. It gave me chest pains. My wife asked me if I had asked God for help and at the time, I had not because I didn't believe it would make a difference. I bowed my head, closed my eyes and said, "God, please help me forgive." That night He took the anger and the pain away in a moment that I will never forget. He changed my life. I didn't do anything to deserve it. I have felt obligated to share my experience, and more, ever since.
I hope some of this helps you or anyone else reading it.
https://siliconcanals.com/sc-d-spacex-amazon-and-google-want...
I’ve had great experience with Elixir and the new compiler combined with Ash.
Recommendations elaborated on in the article are a solid set. Mark Twain or Walt Whitman would probably get my vote.
> women bodily autonomy (being anti-abortion)
Pro-life has never been anti-women and this is a political hot button topic that isn't getting settled on HN. The conceived child has it's own life, it's own DNA and the goal is to protect that life. If the baby is a girl, then pro-life is the only real pro-woman stance. Churches also offer extensive support for mothers, single-mothers and their families.
> want to take away the right to vote from women
I have no response to this other than...what stuff are you reading on the internet? This is nonsense.
> openly attack children (yes attacking trans children is attacking children)
Nobody attacks children. This is not a church topic. Protecting children is a church topic. Children are innocent.
> believing the civil rights act was a mistake
Again, I have no idea what you're reading on the internet but this is not something that comes from church. I vaguely remember some political agitator in the last couple of years going viral for saying something to this regard and then it went away.
This isn't accurate at all. Christian churches welcome everyone but there are no zoning laws directing people to specific churches. Many happen to be very homogeneous as a side effect of people often being more comfortable. There are numerous "black", "hispanic", "chinese", etc churches that are out there by perception but not by requirement. None of these churches are going to turn you away if you don't look like them anymore than a predominantly white church would.
Regarding women, I'm not sure what you've been reading to make that suggestion? There's probably no institution in the world that cares for women more than the Christian church. Strong families are part of the bedrock. Visit one on Mother's Day sometime. Check out the low cost and sometimes even free child care available (Mother's morning out, VBC, etc). Jesus treatment of women was radical in the context of the time period.
You're there to learn. It's called Bible study for a reason.
When I came back to church after 10 years as an avowed agnostic/atheist I didn't believe. I did listen and pay attention a lot better than I did as a child. Listening with an open mind and an unhardened heart make a difference.
There are different types of churches too. In my experience most "mega churches" truly cater to this more curious audience. It's more of the movie going experience where you can walk in like anyone else, without having to know anybody, sit down and just listen to the service. Then get up and leave without talking to anybody if you don't want to. Messages tend to be tailored to the idea that any given week you're going to have people who have never set foot in a church before in life.
When I came back, I went to one of these for about 6 years (New Spring Church in South Carolina). Eventually, I wanted more and we switched to a more traditional church with Adult Sunday School and a men's (or women's) Bible study one night a week.
Churches are welcoming places but everybody there is going to be different. If you tell somebody you don't believe, some people are going to be thankful that you're there and others aren't going to have any idea what to say. That's pretty normal. Faking it is a little different though. No reason to fake it. Just be honest that you don't believe but you're here and willing to listen.
I've been very pleasantly surprised. The combination of the compiler improvements in Elixir 1.20 and the structural guardrails from Ash seems to have led to very consistent, organized and readable code.
Somebody asked an AI how to interpret it.