Because, like many other tech companies, Tiktok is funneling most of their global revenue through Ireland where the corporate tax rate is very low. I don't know the specifics of the mechanism used by Tiktok. But, most companies do this by registering all of their IP through their Irish company and then paying licensing fees to the Irish entity that just happen to be all of their profit abroad. This is why the Irish regulator punches way above its weight globally and is why it is often the entry point for EU regulation on foreign firms.
I still use them for ham radio QSL cards. They work everywhere that is a member of the Universal Postal Union (nearly all are). You can buy them online from Swiss Post. They will mail them for free.
I send international reply coupons with QSL cards. They no longer sell them in Ireland, where I live, but you can still order them from Swiss Post, online. They work everywhere. They mail them to you for free.
As a ham radio operator who still likes paper QSL cards, I’ve bought international reply coupons from Swiss Post because they still sell them and you can order them online (I live in Ireland but here they no longer sell them). Any postal service that is a member of the Universal Postal Union (nearly all of them are AFAICT) is obliged to accept them. They work in most places.
Hopefully this is legit. There is no real info. They say both that they are responding to the announcement and that they have been planning it for a year. I doubt that the last part was intensely planned or they’d likely have announced something sooner.
I suspect some likely fracturing of efforts here. Would be great if everyone did get behind a single solution. I’m not sure if this is it. A US-based non-profit is not maybe the best solution.
The point is to make it expensive to crawl your site. Anyone determined to do so is not blocked. But why would they be determined to do so for some random site? The value to the AI crawler likely does not match the cost to crawl it. It will just move on to another site.
So the point is not to be faster than the bear. It’s to be faster than your fellow campers.
They host their own repos, and builds are done on their system, but the layout is pretty simple. Numbered, named files in asciidoc, markdown, etc. your choice.
C nodes are under appreciated. We have one (Cgo) for communicating between Go and Elixir services running in the same Kubernetes pod. The docs are also pretty good for Erlang and its C libs.
I’ve used various forms of S6 init, you might take a look. It has its own scripting called execline, which is good, but you can also just use any shell. It doesn’t do everything systemd does but it’s quite small and very modular. https://skarnet.org/software/s6-linux-init/why.html
O’Reilly author here. Seems the author stumbled over pitching them the book. You can almost certainly start with an email. Our initial contact with O’Reilly was only an email. We filled out a small form later with the details of the proposal, but it was not laborious. I can also attest that their tooling is great. From any git commit I can generate a full version of the book in any of its supported formats. I wrote all of my part of the book in vim.
Have been using it in production for years for small projects. But also have a current, larger project in it that is going well. A few years ago I built a high throughput (20k shortens/s) link shortener for work, in Go. I later rewrote the main path in Crystal to test it for performance. It was a bit faster than the Go version (22k/s) on the same infrastructure… but running on a single core! We did not finish/ ship it, but it was revealing.
I write a lot of Go. It’s great. CGo is also good. But Crystal is even more easily interoperable with C libs and has a slimmer runtime. It’s also even faster in my real world testing. Down sides vs Go are compiler speed and general ecosystem is much smaller. But I’ve written several things in Crystal in prod and it has been very good.
This is true but I still can’t figure out why more stores don’t copy Powell’s used and new on the same shelves model. In retrospect it seems so obvious that this is a good idea. And Powell’s has been doing it for decades.
Apotris is the funnest version of this that I’ve played. I have it on an R36s and also on my iPhone via emulation. Works better with native controls but still fun on the phone.
There are so many examples in the US where this isn’t true. Examples of where lines make economic sense but have not been built: Ohio (Cleveland/Columbus/Cincinnati possible extension to Detroit ), Texas (Dallas/Houston), Cross-state lines like Detroit/Chicago and Madison/Milwaukee/Chicago. There are others. The problem is a lack of will to do it, a century of demonization by the auto industry, and seventy years of deep pocketed sponsorship of the interstate freeways by the federal government to the exclusion of railways.
In live in Ireland where there is hardly any rail, despite once having the densest network in Europe. Would love to see further state investment here as well. Ireland is small enough that it should be possible to be in Dublin from either Cork, Galway, or Limerick in an hour.
This guy already found another big deal find that was legit, a papal bull. They are part of a historical preservation group. I think you can bet on it being real.