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I don’t love that tweet because it’s not the suffering, but the fact the diamonds were naturally grown in the Earth. Put another way: why would anyone buy sea salt when can we produce pure NaCl?
(This is not to say you can or should ignore the suffering caused by the diamond industry)
We recently switched from Rust to Elixir on a new service in no small part to this. The idea of sharing objects through Tokio async processes felt difficult compared to this being a first class feature of Elixir. It’s not that it’s hard, per se, but it felt harder to get right.
My biggest concern is that my siblings and parents have all signed up. So (more or less) my DNA is in this database, even though I have never interacted with the organization.
I also love thinking through how to store data, e.g. in Redis, and aligning it with your access patterns. The biggest challenge I’ve faced is that access patterns tend to change over time and Redis isn’t flexible (e.g. you use an HSET to pull user data but now you want to query by a different key). So you probably will end up storing data in SQL for persistence and Redis for caching, anyway.
This would be more akin to being logged in to a specific site with a JWT than to tracking writ large. Basically, if your site has access to this secure key, then it already knows who you are (i.e. because you are logged in). This key would never be shared with third-party sites and doesn’t introduce any novel ways of doing so. You could clear the token by clearing website storage or disabling JavaScript.
Biggest question is if the miles driven by autonomous vehicles are the same likelihood of crash as the non-autonomous miles driven in the survey. Effectively, all roads aren’t equally safe, and often times autonomous vehicles (rightly) drive on safer roads in calmer climates.
I’m not sure I agree with the premise. Given the examples in the article, seat space is not limited just to upsell customers. Smaller seats means more fares. Similarly, priority boarding became a thing when airlines started charging $40 for checked bags, and thus overhead space became a coveted commodity. There is surely a sweet spot, however, where upselling is valuable (that is, the marginal price of an upgrade is a lot higher than the marginal cost for the airline).
Isn’t there also a concern on battery quality? If batteries are expensive, then you don’t want to swap a good one for an older or reduced capacity battery, but you would have no way of knowing a priori how good the replacement might be.
In the above referenced example, it would say “or” if it means what Kagan implies. Cut it down to two items: “Do not: drink and drive” clearly allows the exclusive use of either.
I search a lot for programming topics and when I get frustrated I switch to Google and get literally the same results. I’d say it’s pretty good for web search and keeps up to date.
The downside is things like Sports and other knowledge items which shows a widget I’ve never understood in my life.
Maybe a good place to ask this question: I recently wanted to share lib code between three separate codebases (JavaScript, Swift and Kotlin). I considered writing it in a wasm-compatible language and sharing it as a wasn module. Curious if wasmer may cover these use-cases, since a) it’s cool to share code, but b) building high-quality native wrappers is hard (e.g. to wrap complex data types when different languages may have preferred styles).
I feel the easiest path around this is to use wireless charging instead of plugging into a multi-use port. As we have seen operationalized USB attacks, I don’t quite buy the premise of the article.
Do you mean Neobanks that generally attach to existing banks through partnerships? The OCC nearly stopped granting de novo banking charters since 2008: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47014 (see Figure 1 on page 21)
I guess my question is: as you invent new phrases to describe more complex words, aren’t you effectively expanding the size of the language, even if this is “implicit”? Snowman in English is counted as a word, for instance. The advantage here of compound words is that you can easily get a gist without knowing exactly the meaning, similar to characters in Chinese that have a phonetic and meaning radical both present.
I've had this problem a lot when I use a VPN. You're served a captcha that is impossible (I choose all of the correct squares and it still fails), and then I'm given a captcha with the ultra-slow click and reload images. At this point, I think it's more of an IP rate limiter than a human-bot detector.
I just want to upvote this so much. For those unaware, Scheherazade is the narrator from 1001 Nights, where she tells a story to her partner every night, since he otherwise would kill his lover in the morning due to his jealousy. He falls asleep to the story and prolongs the event for another night.
Not sure I believe in 'security by not finding the link'-- links get leaked through a variety of means that don't imply consent (e.g. browser history, metadata requests, or reshares).
My spitball solution is to add an excise tax on revenue based on market concentration, potentially paid back to consumers or new market entrants. So if you own 50% of a market, maybe you pay a 25% excise tax, and thus the market finds an equilibrium except in cases where a monopoly is warranted, despite the high tax.
I surmise that love or hate for a language is closely coupled with its stdlib. My favorite languages (Elixir, Rust) have some of the best standard libraries (and even, Go, for instance, includes JSON encoding and decoding in its own). This shields developers from code bases that need to constantly reinvent the wheel or pull in many dependencies for simple tasks. JavaScript is on the cusp here with a bad standard lib that has improved (in some ways) over the last 15 years.
Yeah MDN is the de-facto reference guide for web frameworks. W3schools feels like beginner tutorials. For me, I want “what happens if I pass undefined as the second arg to this function” and w3schools doesn’t answer that. It’s fine as a site, I suppose, it was insane when it outranked more complete websites. Off topic I see this more and more with Stackoverflow where semi-related questions outrank official docs.