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But still, a sample size of _one_.

I highly recommend the book The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Muller for an in-depth look at these kinds of issues (in addition to Taleb’s work). Mistaking the map for the terrain (or any similar metaphor) whereby you think you know how things work solely through the lens of easily quantifiable (and gamed) metrics seems to be the mistake of this era. The book really opened my eyes to this problem everywhere (including software), and it only seems to be getting worse.

The executable piece is nice, but not the whole picture. Configuration and, more importantly, isolation of the runtime, are also huge benefits that come with containers.

Absolutely has nothing to do with the IP owner.

That much money (as well as being tied to a big name like Amazon) attracts the antithesis of creativity, where everything becomes ‘plastic’ (someone above called it a ‘wax museum’ which is a good way to put it) and means anything remotely controversial or original will be killed dead.

WTF is up with Nord? I always felt that VPNs were a pretty niche tech tool, but I see those ads freaking everywhere. Are there that many people that use VPNs that warrant the ad investment?

Assuming this goes through (whether it’s Apple, Google, Amazon, or whoever), I could see this becoming a cultural tipping point where your ‘average American’ sees the encroachment of big tech into ‘everyday American’ things - more than ever before. All cultural interactions will now be dominated by big tech, whether it’s sports, film, music, or literally anything they see through a screen.

This has been my understanding of the state of Postgres full-text search. It's great if your search requirements are fairly vanilla, but I haven't seen any solutions for more advanced search needs, such boosting, relevance, scoring, etc.

Thank you for reminding me about Journey! I didn't realize it was multiplayer the first time I played it, which speaks to how well it was implemented (no matchmaking, no waiting, no usernames, etc - you're just playing the game and someone appears).

I still have fond memories of traipsing around the ruins in that game with complete strangers. The restricted communication made it more memorable for some reason. Plus, just a great game overall.

What would the benefits of mirrord be over something like the NGINX Ingress Controller with mirroring enabled?

To echo the other commenters on this article, all babies are different and there are fairly few universal truths to soothing newborns. For example neither a pacifier nor driving worked for mine.

My only advice is to try everything until you find something that sticks.

It is absolutely a bubble. Many of these companies are practically printing money, which is great - until it eventually stops.

The current astronomical salaries are simply unsustainable, and there is no way that all of these companies are getting anywhere as much revenue out of their SWE's as they are putting into them.

I can’t hear about the Rijksmuseum without thinking of the presentation Rob Erdmann did at Pycon on how they imaged Rembrandt’s Night Watch:

https://youtu.be/z_hm5oX7ZlE

Incredible work being done there. I’m glad to see they’re continuing to make headlines.

Thanks for chiming in, Philip! I’m a big fan of your work.

I was referring to the issues around determinism in queries. These are easy enough to catch if you’re aware of them, but it pushes more onus onto the application layer / devs (not that it’s necessarily a bad thing, just a trade-off).

This exists already with rqlite: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

As much as I love the idea, Raft is not a silver bullet and can break in strange and inconspicuous ways that may be difficult to fix. It can also lead to subtle inconsistencies in the data depending on what data you are putting in it. Overall it may be good in some situations, but I doubt it will dislodge Postgres in any meaningful way.

That’s not my experience at all. I’ve been using the included wired Apple headphones every day for running (in the Texas heat, though only ~30 minutes) and I’m going on year 4 with the same pair.

That being said, there are many more contact points with a VR headset, so I could see it being a bigger issue. Plus many of them are padded, which will absorb sweat and are hard to clean without considerable effort.

The space is already crowded, though (many of them being open source), for example Insomnia, Paw, Fiddler, Hoppscotch, and even Thunder Client (a VS Code extension). I suspect that the Postman investors are privy to information that warrant the investment (plus the economic climate being what it is).

Because per user pricing is in line with the value you are receiving as a customer. If you are not receiving $XXX dollars per month in value, why use the service at all?

You are trading money for time and efficiency, after all.

That was 120 degrees Farenheit, not Celsius. 120 degrees Celcius is 248 degrees Farenheit, which is obviously not a surface temperature on earth (at least not yet).

This is the "hiding hand" principle at play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_hand_principle

I highly recommend anyone interested in "megaprojects" to listen to this EconTalk podcast episode with Bent Flyvbjerg:

https://www.econtalk.org/bent-flyvbjerg-on-megaprojects/

Very insightful conversation.

Versions are specified within the requirements.txt, if that's what you mean. Upgrading can be done by installing a later version of the package and rewriting the requirements file.

I suspect my use cases haven't been as complicated as some of the others listed in this thread, which may be why I've never felt the need to look into poetry and others.

That's a fair point, most of the applications I've worked on have been relatively simple (or I've just gotten lucky). It makes sense that different issues crop up at different scales, given the complexity of different workflows and package dependencies. I also haven't worked in ML before, so that may be a class of complexity all on its own.

I think this is it. I still don’t know what benefits poetry adds over the typical venv + pip + requirements flow, because that flow has worked pretty well for me.

Is there something crucial I’m missing? I feel like package management has largely been solved in python, but I admittedly haven’t done a lot of research into what other workflows are out there.

Call me a cynic, but I don’t have a lot of optimism for brain-computer interfaces. I can barely control my own thoughts, let alone understand how they are made or where they originate. We would need to make an exponential leap in our understanding of the brain and our consciousness within it to make this in any way a viable input method.

Why shouldn't a professional business use Let's Encrypt?

If you haven't already, I'd recommend reading up on dematerialization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dematerialization_(economics)

Modern, first-world society does seem to be reaching some sort of inflection point that might point to a "top" (of physical consumption at least) as we get more efficient and more stuff is moving digital. That's not to say there is really anything conclusive, but it is interesting to think about.

This is where error response messages should come into play. Returning a JSON object with a "message" attribute containing "No such route/path" vs "Object not found" depending on the context of the 404 makes it immediately clear where the issue is.

I wonder if this has been tested in court before. If I'm a licensed medical doctor and then I post under a pseudonym online on things medical-related (while not claiming to be a doctor or claiming to know anything about what I'm talking about), would it be possible to be sued for medical malpractice for that advice? That seems questionable.

I don't think The Good Dinosaur was a very good "children's movie" in the typical sense, but I'd recommend taking a second look at it if you haven't recently. I watched it again after seeing it when it first came out, and I found it to be a pretty good movie - even if it doesn't fit the typical kids movie mold.

It's ironic because The Good Dinosaur would be a good example of them taking a bet on a somewhat unique vision (a dinosaur spaghetti western?) with a more mature outlook, and then getting shit on by reviewers because it wasn't as funny or charming as Inside Out.

Support does not (directly) make money, so it is doomed to be seen as a drain. I’ve fought the same battle at every company I’ve worked at, and I’m starting to think it is hopeless.

This exactly. The line of questioning is very combative, and they will ‘claim back their time’ if your response doesn’t go along with their narrative. These hearings are more like televised platforms for them to create sound-bites they can use in their campaigns.