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Another alternative reading is The Gulag Archipelago, which precisely and painfully lays out the consequences of what happens when a small group of people decide which ideas are okay to discuss or believe.

I don’t support trump in any shape or form, but if this mass de-platforming doesn’t make you the slightest bit uncomfortable, that in itself should make you a bit uncomfortable.

It’s even more bizarre because things like Patreon and SMS text authentication weren’t around in 2002 and hardly even in 2012.

Might as well criticise Tim Bernes-Lee for not developing the HTTPS spec in the 80s

If all that’s changing on a site is the presentation/ordering of elements, then you just need to update some XPath selectors every now and then and have a notification system for knowing when those selectors aren’t working.

You can even automate this process by having a known input (eg, URL to a book on goodreads + its known [and hopefully unchanging] book title) and have a script that periodically checks that the xpath string matches the known pages text / generates a new one to point to the title. This is harder for values that do change but there are always workarounds

I'm an Australian working in CA at a tech startup. Lmk if you have any q's about the E3. Tldr of it is that it's really easy to get if you have an offer of employment. So easy you shouldn't need a lawyer, which my company found weird because they're used to the complexities of the H1b.

+1 to compound weightlifting (Barbell squats, deadlifts, bench press, military press) have done more to help me manage my mental health than any other avenue. 45 mins per day, 3-4 days a week and life just feels brighter. Keep it simple, https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Look into Go, specifically the colly pkg. Learnt Go just so I could use this library after wrestling with highly parralelized Python web scraping. The 1k/requests/sec/core figure is true and frankly deadly, and Go borrows a lot of useful stuff from Python like array slicing.

It was pretty remarkable to go from 32 cores being maxed for 100 concurrent workers to... A 10-15% usage spike on a 4 core XPS :)

https://github.com/gocolly/colly

That metabolic pathway diagram is utterly insane.

The pandemic is orders of magnitude more impractical than a end-to-end -70C logistics chain.

YouTube's stronghold is because of community, not technology. It's also been around for 14 years and has so much internet history baked into it that it's just hard to conceive it being dethroned.

Is the state of carbon capture tech like where transistors were in 1950, or has it already reached the physical limit and the only gains to be made are through better/cheaper/cleaner energy sources to power carbon capture?

Unix timestamps aren't human readable

I didn't mean to imply that FAANG cloud storage completely mitigates the risk of memories being lost or debate about how to minimize the likelihood through means such as owning the hard drive or inscribing the data on titanium disks stored in vacuum-sealed cannisters.

This is just about choosing a cloud storage provider that I can feel reasonably confident will still have my photos backed up on any given day for the foreseeable future.

Out of all the 1s and 0s that I want backed up in the cloud for an indefinite period of time, nothing is as irreplaceable as a photo/video that will make me smile 2/5/10/20+ years from now. I'd argue that the threat of "X is shutting down" or worse, "X has shut down" but it landed in my spam 3 months ago is worse than any benefits that a non-FAANG co can offer me. At least with keeping backups on icloud/Gphotos, I know that both co's would kill those services abrubtly as their last dying wish.

What is the exact point that a crawler needs to be decoupled (at the corporate level) from it's front end? Is it measured by MAUs? Pages scraped? Or is it going by "it can be decoupled, so it should".

The extreme version of your argument would have companies own the IP to a particular for loop's iterator variable name.

Serverless just means that your infrastructure is programmatically defined through configuration files rather than manually stiched together, so (in theory) the underlying silicon is abstracted away in a similar fashion to the x86 ASM that your code gets compiled to. In practice that isn't always the case (horror stories of rogue $xx,xxx/day lambda functions) but from my understanding that's the serverless end game.

It feels no less wrong than having, at best, a surface-level understanding of how seratonin / dopamine / norepinephrine receptors work and still being comfortable enough to drive a car at highway speeds, knowing full well that an error along this obscure signal processing pipeline is a potentially fatal swerve into oncoming traffic.

I think it's easy to forget that modern tooling (+AWS/GCP/Azure) let's one dev match or exceed the productivity of 15 developers and a couple of PMs in 2005.

Or really just where the buck is meant to stop.

The problem is that a pandemic is an n-th order effect nightmare, with a distinctly low failure threshold based on covid's epidemiological parameters. A country's commander in chief needs to listen to scientific expertise & provide clear public communication and apolitical leadership to avoid this kind of calamity, which just didn't happen.

The Docs take Vue to a league of its own. I'd contend that no other JS ecosystem has docs that are as lucid, concise and beginner friendly as Vue's. This intro to VueX (Vue's state management library) is a good example: https://vuex.vuejs.org/

By the same logic no internet company has ever done anything more than a tiny blip of work compared to the accumulated effort of millions of scientists spanning many years that lead to mass produced GHz microprocessors.

...by governments motivated to have launchable nuclear weapons, not by private citizens creating profitable companies through venture capital. Reusable rockets put his companies work way ahead of government rocketry capabilities.

Systemic racism exists globally

Is it weird that all the licences were from New South Wales and there's no other compromised buckets for the other states?

In unrelated news the cost of launching a space telescope (that doesn't suffer from atmospheric perturbations or cloud cover) has decreased by several orders of magnitude.

You can post anything you like about Trump on FB/Twitter and you won't have federal police erase you 2 days later. The threshold for that in China is comparing it's current president to a cartoon character.

Being able to influence geopolitics and orchestrate a pro-CCP feed to target demographics is a long, subtle plan that spans decades and TikTok is just the current instrument that the CCP has in their arsenal, and it's very likely early into that plan.

It's a little naive to think that there would be a red herring found with a packet inspection, though the author deserves credit for settling doubts.

Devils advocate argument: A refund (probably) reduces the LTV of customers, and Apple has no control of the cause of those refunds, whether it be a buggy app or misrepresenting features.

The ethics of this scheme are debatable but it should be assumed that some refunds are legitimate and Apple loses tangible customer $LTV from some refunds.

That number stands out more than anything else in that report.

99% availability effectively becomes the weakest link in the chain. Would they still have pushed this report out if they phrased it as "...where GitHub was only down for an hour for every 99 hours of uptime"

Chilling to imagine a tweet from Trump declaring a nuclear strike has been launched against China.

Was that in 2010?