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I did some more research and it looks like the EFTA (Electronic Fund Transfer Act) protects electronic funds transfers (EFTs) in bank accounts, not the FDIC.

https://www.thebalance.com/banking-fraud-protection-315828

I don't understand how banks can claim to have federal FDIC-insured protection of $250,000 per depositor if they don't actually reimburse you when a simple wire transfer fraud happens??

Then there should be a setting that has to be manually approved to allow the clipboard interactivity feature.

I use a password manager on my iPhone and I am copying and pasting my passwords all the time. If some random app is scraping my clipboard silently and sending the data to a third party, that means my passwords are compromised. I am very much NOT OK WITH THIS.

Keep in mind, this permission should be fundamentally different than the permissions for just manually copying and pasting. I don't want to have to deal with permissions to "allow clipboard use" that I have to approve every time I want to paste something. That would be obnoxious. I am only worried about restricting permissions for invisible passive snooping.

Don't forget that you have to explicitly block every host name (including subdomains), if you are using the hosts file method.

For example:

127.0.0.1 reddit.com

127.0.0.1 www.reddit.com

I'm mainly just worried about how this will affect my development environment and ability to compile linux libraries and things like homebrew apps on the command line.

I can only imagine that changing the CPU architecture will mean pretty much every tool I use is going to break and have to be fixed (or abandoned) by random open source developers slowly over the coming years.

Or am I wrong? Will this all be seamless?

But does it have middle out compression?

Whenever I got bored enough to actually do something like this, I just read a book.

Where do you get the idea that Nest/Google will simply hand over video from users without an actual warrant?

That's not what I'm reading/interpreting from the information here: https://nest.com/legal/transparency-report/

The light problem is solved very easily, by the way. Just use a small piece of black electrical tape to cover the LED.

This is awesome!

Is there any way to exclude certain tables or customize what is generated in any way? It seems like it just creates a model for every single table in the database, no matter what. I would love to be able to customize the config to exclude certain tables.

As a side note: I was able to get the GraphQL server working for a small mysql database, but when I tried to hook it up to a larger database, it gave me this error: Error: Field "UagFbDataAggregate.min" can only be defined once.

I'm so sick of all these high level people resigning as if it's some kind of effective way of protesting.

It's not effective. You were in a position of power, and a place to actually make a meaningful difference, but now you have effectively relinquished your influence and power so it just can be handed off to someone else to abuse.

Quitting instead of staying and fighting for the good cause is straight up cowardice. Claiming that you are doing it as as protest is disingenuous.

Actually, I would argue that mapping Ruby's syntax and method name choices to Crystal has been a major goal in Crystal's development. It's practically in the tag line for the language, "Fast as C, Slick as Ruby"

To be fair, method_missing has caused more nightmares and problems with debugging than probably any other feature in Ruby. I actively avoid using it, and even the Rails team has massively dialed back on its use in their libraries over the years...

It sounds like the public need to wake up to the reality that politics are driven by money, and instead of using a voting system, we should just crowdfund sponsor our candidates and lock them into contracts.

The longer we keep our head in the sand instead of facing reality, the more delusional we get.

If we, as the public, are unwilling to actually pay our candidates the way that lobbyists are, and if we are unwilling to change the laws that allow lobbyists to continue influencing politicians in this manner, then we effectively have no representation.

If you defund the police but keep them around (after all, they are necessary), won't that just force them to self-fund by seeking funding from corrupt sources such as civil asset forfeiture and drug busts?

Isn't this already a solved problem in other parts of the world, such as Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and New Zealand, where most officers are unarmed when they are on patrol? Why can't we learn from other countries?

Will emailing your state representatives a bullet list of demands actually result in any laws being changed?

Wouldn't it be less work to just contact the Department of Transportation and make them aware of the issue?

I think the demand for PCI express 4.0 is going to be a lot higher than you realize.

The new PS5 is going to have SSD speeds of over 5000 mb/s, and is coming out soon.

PC gamers are going to be jealous until they are able to have speeds like that. After all, they are supposed to be the "PC Master Race". But the only SSD devices on the PC that can come close to the PS5's SSD speed are PCI express 4.0 devices.

This is a very tragic story, but I just want to point out that the child was not playing a VR game as the article claims.

He was on an iPad. The iPad is not a VR platform. You can't wear it on your face like a headset because it's too big.

The article should be titled, "Child falls from third story window while playing a game on his iPad". VR has nothing to do with it.

That seems cool, but we haven't really needed anything fancy. As engineers, we are always trying to build solutions and over-complicate things, but sometimes all you need is for some people to just agree to do something (like posting a status message), and then everyone needs to hold each other accountable like adults.

There are still a lot of zoom/tuple/phone calls going on between people (in an asynchronous manner, as needed). We also do weekly retros as a team on a group call.

Our team does our stand-ups in Slack, in a separate channel called "#daily-status".

Every morning, each team member posts a short bullet list of the items they are planning on working on that day, along with details about any things they are blocked by. This happens asynchronously as people start working every day, so one person might post their message at 7 am, while another person posts at 10 am.

Any conversation that needs to happen about someone's daily status message happens in a thread under their message. This gives the team and management an easy way to see what each other's intentions are for the day, without a bunch of distractions or bullshit meetings or people's eyes glazing over while someone goes on a side tangent rant for 10 minutes. Instead, the information is quick and to the point.

It's also very common for people to post a summary message at the end of the day to let everyone know what they actually got done (or didn't get done).

Our whole team is remote, and this method seems to work really well for us.

All they need to do is build mechanical/hydraulic systems for storing solar power during the day and unleashing it at night.

For example, use solar power during the day to pump fluid from a lower reservoir into a higher reservoir, and then harness the energy of the water flowing from the higher reservoir into the lower reservoir through turbines.

As long as your output energy is always coming from the turbines, and as long as your solar powered pumps running during the day can keep up with double the rate of drainage flow, then you should have a constant loop with a steady supply of power.

This type of system could be retrofitted onto virtually any dam, giving you a way to create a closed loop with constant power and without the water loss typical from a dam (other than evaporation).

For areas where water is scarce and a dam isn't feasible, there are also other ideas, such as gravitational potential energy systems that use solar powered energy to lift weights on pulleys, which then power a generator as the weights are lowered by gravity.

Other ideas: Thermal storage including molten salts which can efficiently store and release very large quantities of heat energy, compressed air energy storage, flywheels, cryogenic systems, etc...

Yeah, the whole notion of this being something generated with a markov chain feels too much like hype.

The guy admitted on reddit that he manually cherry-picked and assembled the lyrics, and then he sang and recorded the song himself.

For all intents and purposes, he might as well have just fed a bunch of AC/DC lyrics through a word randomizer and then assembled the new lyrics by hand. No AI or markov chains required.

On the other hand, here is ACTUAL real music generated and played entirely by AI: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/

Because crystal lang has all of the main syntax and features that people love about Ruby, but it's way faster because of the typing and compiling.

"Fast as C, slick as ruby"

I find it strange that you believe that Elastic Beanstalk is not reliable... That hasn't been my experience at all.

My company has been using it to host our production infrastructure for over a year and a half now, and it has been performing excellently. Our site reliability over the past year has been somewhere around the 99.99% range (and few outages we did have were not related to Elastic Beanstalk in any way).

We have our site hosted in multiple redundant physical locations (AWS regions), with a load balancer routing requests between multiple nodes.

We do about 10-20 deploys to production on a daily basis, with zero downtime. Any time there is a deployment, the code is automatically deployed in rolling batches, and the nodes aren't added back to the load balancer until they pass their health checks.

But according to the dictionary, and engineer is a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines/machines/public works.

An engineer isn't just someone who designs things... but also someone who builds and maintains them.

Wouldn't that mean that even a lowly programmer who is just simply maintaining code is also an engineer?

According to the dictionary, an "engineer" is a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works.

A computer is a physical machine that runs programs which are encoded digitally on physical hardware (memory).

I could see an argument for considering a computer program to be an engineered "machine" that runs on a turing-complete computational platform. Just because a computer program is digital doesn't mean that it's not an engineered mechanism. In fact, early computer programs did run on physical hardware in a physically mechanical manner.

A doctor or lawer, on the other hand, is not building any type of machination. They are diagnosing patients and having arguments with judges. What exactly are they engineering?

Wait... so in your mind there is a distinct difference between a developer, programmer, and engineer? Because in my mind, they are all the same.

How are they different, in your mind?

With many apps, you can completely bypass kubernetes entirely and just use something like elastic beanstalk or heroku for scaling (just by adding more nodes behind a load balancer).