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Cheap bidet attachments only spray water, fancier models spray water and soap, and blow-dry your butt.

Though, I guess the issue here is comparing bidet to no-bidet.

The bidet is so much better than TP only, it is not even close. Instead of feeling gross, you feel glorious, is what it is.

Bidet attachments usually have a self-cleaning mode, ie you push a button and then it sprays water over the sprinkler.

I bought mine off Amazon for like $40 and it does that.

BTW I do clean mine now and then, and there is like, almost nothing to clean. Compared to e.g. my humidifier, that needs almost-daily cleaning.

They do mention (but apparently do not recommend) that you can roll your own SSO.

This is really about having SSO, not about Octa or Google.

Sounds great in theory.

What we see in reality is that append-only database is unusable without making additional "projections" or whatever you call them, databases that are ready to be queried/updated, with maybe specific denormalizations, indexes and so on.

And oh, btw, those later databases are not "imutable".

I have a startup, we have a nice new product -- and obviously, there are some product specifics ,so we have our own support team, that we train to learn the product, and be able to answer customer questions, and so on.

If I hire Assembled to help with support, what can they provide?

Obviously, they will have zero knowledge of the product. What can Assembled help with here?

Is this about fending the first-line questions, like "please reboot your computer"?

BTW there is like thousands of companies that do that. Not clear what is special here.

So, how does immutability matter if we deal with the database -- which is what holds the state, and is obviously mutable.

>> It's an old open source project that isn't really actively developed.

Is it actively used?

>> There may be a valid reason to sign such an agreement without actually meaning it

Hmmm, I thought that if you sign an agreement... it does not matter whether you "mean it" or not. You signed it, so it has to have some meaning.

Or, can you back out of a signed agreement by saying "Oh, I did not mean it"?

Not an expert, but seems dubious/shady.

That's what minifiers/uglifiers do? Perhaps OP did not want to use them.

>> NULL doesn't really mean unknown; it means that instead of having a pointer to a result-set, you have no such pointer.

NULL in SQL has nothing to do with pointers.

It means that the value is missing or otherwise unknown.

Consider the column that is tracing the reading of a meter of some kind. And let's say that we could not get a reading -- due to some fault. So we did a reading, and we want to record that. What "value" should we record? 0 is no good - may make you think that we recorded a reading of 0 - which is not true.

NULL is the solution - it specifically tells you that the reading is missing or inapplicable.

Obviously, this complicates things, but incidentally translates well to other languages that have a (completely unrelated) concept of a null pointer.

"SELECT NULL IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NULL" ?column? ---------- t

That bothers me. It is like saying that "infinity" (+inf) equals other infinity. Which is just wrong.

Some other SQL dialects will return "UNKNOWN" rather than "t" (true), which imho makes way more sense.

>> Our platform uses dozens of hosts

>> We're currently at 1/10th of Amazon.

Curious, where is the "1/10th of Amazon" coming from?

Sure but you will still be paying property taxes, utilities bills, food and so on. It is not clear just how one would just "stop spending". Unless you want to spend your retirement foraging for food, sleeping under the bridge etc.

>> They load Google Tag Manager, Google Retargeting Pixel, Segment, Facebook Connect, and SmartLook (which looks like some kind of analytics package). >> This should not be controversial

This is tricky, as handling a person asking for a medical advice is a rather special thing, compared to a person asking to buy a vacuum cleaner.

The thing is, all of your medical info will go to all of the above trackers, and surely they will sell it to whoever wants to pay for that. Insurance companies included.

What are you going to do about it? a) just use parenthesis like everyone else, or b) turn the time back to 50 years ago and change that?

Seriously, the article was just a rant. Yeah, people 50 years ago did something wrong. So what.

What, where is the source for that? I've read "2x" and "3x" but never "tens of times".

I see. Curious about the latency between your GCP apps and the database on AWS - is it like 1 ms or 100ms? Does it affect the product?

"simple systems have less downtime"

That is not much of an insight. It is as insightful as saying "water is kinda wet.". Well... sure it is.

What we need to deal with, is not "make a simplest system".

Rather, we need to deal with: "build a system that does A, B, C, ... and so on". Now, if you can do all of the above and make it simple... awesome. But if you cannot do all of the above, but the system is simple.... that is useless.

Could that tool magically reduce the number of options? That would be quite a tool.

Sure, but how much money could they make off of it? 17,000 theatres X some # of movie-goers per theatre per month, times 12 months a year, times $money a moviegoer would pay for moviefone ($1?) experience per go... looks like not much money, not for AOL.

Is there a better way? Can we make gcc with less options, while still catering to all the use cases.

Interesting, I would like to know how you could turn quoted "17,000" screens into any amount of money that would matter to AOL - by buying MoviePhone.

Most of the money go to studios... theatre operators rely on popcorn and soda sales to survive. So what kind of money can Moviefone make here?

464? I run mine at just 450 and I was so proud of it. Now, this 464 -> 450 explains (I hope so) why I lost so many online Quake 3 battles ;]

>> if the CCP had been better about seeing the truth they could have eliminated the virus when only 100 people had it

Are there any "better" governments that eliminated e.g. cold or flu virus "when only 100 people had it"? I guess not. Cold and flu are common around the world.

Hard to contain, and the containment would cause too much disruption and cost. So we learned to live with cold and flu.

So, I wonder about these cardboard/paper containers that e.g. juice, milk, etc are being sold in. Are they biodegradable?

Above, there is a link to a report from Harvard Medical School, that claims otherwise.

Maybe they are wrong, but a post on HN is not exactly a credible refutation.

>> In particular, Authy, LastPass and 1password have a giant attack surface compared to a simple app like Google Authenticator.

Source? I've seen some vulnerabilities over time, but the "giant attack surface"?

Hmmm, regarding " https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/dont-form-a-company/"

you can set up your corp once, then present it as "doing-business-as" (DBA), depending on the jurisdiction, many times. I am not convinced that the above is good advice.

In fact, talking to a lawyer is probably better idea than picking up ideas from some blog.

London?

Thanks... though I think it would be great to refer to original sources, rather than some random site that adds... what value? They do add Google Analytics/tracking, I would not consider that "added value".