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They charge a full $59.99 too. But I know the target audience would happily pay full price.

> Forum software is notoriously annoying to configure securely and to maintain.

I'm not familiar with setting up forum servers specifically, are they difficult to setup for just one user? I can totally see how having proper authentication, emails, caching, etc getting complicated, I'm just curious if it's any user for personal use? Obviously you lose the ability to receive comments though.

> So it's not criminal to push habit forming narcotics from behind a corporate curtain?

Basically yeah.

The "war on drugs" was pathetically laughable for reasons like this.

You're saying that they breached their contract - he's just saying that the contract may not have been valid in the first place, thus it cannot be enforced/breached. We don't know if their contract was valid, that's up to the court(thats why this article is here).

Same with all those news articles about "studies" - Why can't I find the DOI on there? The study is the most important part

How do people feel about ubiquiti cameras? Just curious.

Web search engines generally are also full text search engines.

This project is useless for people who have their own private text to search.

It’s relatively small compared to similar incidents-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nucle...

Django's migration tool is one of the main reasons I can't leave django.

What comparative ORMs do you use for non-django, or non-python languages?

Without some decent advances in battery technology I have strong doubts about electric planes being common for commercial flights.

This is just based on the wh/weight ratio - lithium batteries are far heavier then oil based fuel per watt hour, and aviation is incredibly weight sensitive.

Wikipedia sorta supports something like this with a lot of English articles if you chance the domain to simple.wikipedia.com for the language. Then it gives you articles that are much more ElI5.

I totally understand your point about the environment.

Given that I only fill my car once every 14 days, and only use 1 single glove for the hand touching the handle, I'm not overly concerned about the generated waste. Even if every American did this during the pandemic it would be dwarfed by the number of gloves used by hospitals even before covid.

I certainly agree that plastic waste is a major issue, and I'll certainly re-evaluate my current method when we aren't mid pandemic, but I'm confident there's simpler ways to reduce plastic waste in more meaningful amounts. I'm pretty sure that I've removed more unnecessary packaging plastic from purchased goods in the past month then gloves I've personally used total this year (I dabble with stuff you want to wear gloves with).

This is in LEO so the damage would be limited - these are designed to decay and fall out of orbit in a few years - and so would most debris.

Most communication satellites (currently) have much higher altitudes, where such an event would be much worse as the debris would stay in orbit for much longer.

The reason why the largest telescope observatories are on earth is because it's I feasible to get them into orbit.

And it's not a theoretical problem - there's plenty of people who have already had their work impacted

Software to remove the satellites would be great, given that the satellites are already interfering with astrophotography, can someone point me to the software to remove the starlink satellites from my images?

Interestingly you also can't purchase kindle ebooks on Apple devices at all, which I beleive is to skip the apple tax.

He's talking about operational safety - your application applies validation to inputs to the database. This ensures that only valid data is stored.

What happens if you have a field that's supposed to be 0-9, but it's an int field and someone types in 22 on accident? Sure it might be valid for the database, but it's not valid for the application.

There's certainly different ways to take the problem, but it needs to be considered.

Yeah I actually choose gas stations that support contact less payments. No card contact + one disposable glove is the way to go.

Overkill.. Maybe? But it costs me nothing so I'll take the peice of mind.

I don't know what archetecture your website uses, but our site for example we just cache the view into redis for however long. It's built into a lot of webframeworks, but shouldn't be too crazy to implement by hand.

Please, please, please still release your source if you don't mind! Especially for "random hacks" like a home brew bridge!

You have no idea how many tiny repos I have used for reference with those types of projects! In many cases your code might be the only working example.

You can put a big disclaimer in it, declare it a PoC, and just ignore issues if you'd like - the code doesn't even have to still be working, it's still cool and helpful!

I've been wondering this too. To my knowledge I don't know of any language/framework threading implementations that let you do certain functions in a "fast core thread" and others in a "slow core thread".

I'm guessing this means the kernel is making the decisions, which sucks for application developers.

The moon is interfering with radio signals? Doesn't this only happen if the moon is literally blocking line of sight? It seems like being outside of earth's atmosphere and ionosphere would be the biggest benefit for radio.

r/wallstreetbets calls these (rather unfortunately) "fd" options.

Basically you can use not that much money to buy unlikely to be profitable options and make an actual crapload of money - and it would look identical to just being lucky.

The thing is 90% of people don't trade options themselves, and 99% of people don't do random fd plays. If you tipped off someone from WSB then they'd likely get away with it - that's what they do. Tip off a family member who has never traded options before, well....

We might be talking about different things, but many vaccines are potentially useful post-infection particularly for slower diseases, as it doesn't necessarily help the actual infection, but can help prevent it from spreading to new cells.

It's highly dependent on the disease, how it spreads, etc. But it is a thing.

Have you met r/wallstreetbets? While this certainly wouldn't be true for most people, many "day traders" make exactly these kinds of option plays that are in many cases literally just luck. There's many thriving communities around public market information before it's seen by the "mainstream".

For these people buying $10,000 out of the money contracts on a random ticker is completely normal and still legal. So tipping somebody like that off would certainly hard to correlate.

Wait do you mean they bought millions of dollars worth of put options or they bought put options they then sold for millions of dollars?

Because anyone could just buy a crap load of $0.10 options marked a week out, wait a few days, then tank the stock. It would look like you got stupidly lucky, I have no clue how anyone could connect that to the twitter event directly. Especially since it’s not like you’ll be the only one that “won the lottery”.

(Tesla isn’t a great stock for doing this though because their IV is so high that the premiums are crazy expensive)

Github actions has been a huge let down for me. Between uptime issues and the lack of support for so many basic CI features is killing it for me (and has been for a year).

The only reason we're using it is because it's free..

Do these companies not have live error reporting and tracing? Like surely github got alerts that things weren't working? Why don't they just hookup their status page and their alerts? Or is it a political/relationship thing, and they want to have a human give out the status page updates?

This could have been caught with a cron job and some curl requests :\

I think the point is only certain use cases (usually related to number crunching like crypto, but undoubtedly games too) may see substantial improvements, they still aren't close to "native" speed, and nearly all other use cases won't see much if any benefit, especially compared to the additional complexity of another language, compiling to was, etc.

Plus things like competitive games and what I'll call "pretty" games have to squeeze out as much performance as possible, and no hitching is acceptable to competitive games, which IMO means WASM is still a no-go for those types of games(although games that don't have this requirement undoubtedly benefit)

Can you not gamble with a credit card in vegas?

It looks like the person in your example was selling a call, which has potentially unlimited losses - that was a rather poor decision on his part. There are much safer methods of making "the same bet".

Gambling is a random game designed to extract money from people. The stock market is a math game that doesn't care if you gain or lose.

> How much does a Vegas casino let the average person gamble that they don't already have?

Do people not just gamble on credit? I highly doubt casinos care about the average person's financials, as long as the money ends in their pockets.

I see no difference between the stock market and gambling, sure there's "smart strategies" to the stock market but at the end of the day it's the same result for anyone with a gambling addiction to either.