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I think the strongest claim they could be making is that DDG (1) collects and stores search results, and because the results are tied to your IP someone could in theory associate different search results records, to identify you. E.g. they could know that someone who lives in town X and has searched for "Warhammer 40K" a lot, also searched for "does Company Y do drug tests" or something.

It's not clear to me that DDG even does (1) though from the article - all the claims I can see are slightly weaker.

I haven't done any maths but I bet the order's of magnitude in terms of energy flows are wildly different for human usage vs solar + geothermal flows.

It's a requirement under UK law. They have retail operations (as stated in the disclosure) and a large number of suppliers in a wide variety of countries. I agree that they are fairly low risk on average but some of those vendors will be in high risk sectors.

Agreed, the main app prioritises showing you gimmicky tree houses over places which are much more interesting (perhaps with a more convenient location, or remote work friendly for 2 people).

They are probably trying to push back against the commodisation of AirBnB stays. In the last few years they seem to have become extremely standardised, within a certain price range and star rating you know almost exactly what you'll be getting in terms of service, cleanliness and outfitting of the apartment. I like it a lot as a cheaper alternative to hotels for longer stays! But perhaps lower margin than littering the countryside with wacky constructions.

Mini splits are widely used and have become dramatically more economical and popular over the last decade or so. They are much quieter and more efficient than window units.

Some areas (cough nyc cough) may need some regulatory breakthroughs but the technology is there.

OP is wrong

It lacks the strong standard lib support that c# has sadly, and the open source alternatives are a really mixed bag in terms of quality or complexity of usage.

If this was run by a major collection or archive it would have been cool to link out from the gods to images of the works that depict them.

None of those are really adding anything new though - they'd definitely fall into the nostalgia/copy bucket.

what a journey, and then that final twist at the end! :chefs-kiss:

Yes, and you can group the messages such that messages within a group are (almost?) always consumed in order. I think the distinction though is that with SNS each message is consumed by each consumer, whereas SQS each message is consumed by one node (so you can only really have one system that reads from the queue)

> A time zone is an approximate (and weird) spacial coordinate system which causes nonlinearities in the representation of time, and unless you want both of those properties it comes with baggage.

That approximate and weird system is how humans tend to think about future events though. You're right that often it is not necessary, but for many usecases (e.g. when a TV show will be first broadcast in the future) they are the most robust model we have.

Scanning the paper the effect seems surprisingly weak (and has p=0.045!) and weirdly dependent on family size (it looks as thought he difference only exists in larger families). While the results seem believable I'm not convinced by the results as presented.

I had always thought that the reflections of the willows were little waterfalls - the whole painting takes on a completely different feel now that I know

Also very annoying for everyone else if there isn't a standard system of weights and measures. Being able to trust the coins and communicate clearly about what you are buying or selling removes a lot of unnecessary hassle from everyday life - imagine going to a pub but not knowing what a 'pint' will mean until you order!

This seems like a really attractive way of publishing events to a third party. Platform independent and easy to understand.

> We integrated pretty well with AWS so that the basic constructs of autoscaling and load balancer were well understood by everyone.

This is an underappreciated point I think sometimes. Once you have a team which is familiar with your current, working setup, the benefits of moving away have to be pretty huge for it to be worthwhile.

Wise manages it via push notifications to their app, no need for you to enter a password or similar on a third party domain.

I did a quick comparison with Wise (previously TransferWise)

This is cheaper for GBP->EUR transactions over £800, but a lot slower (arrives "Friday" instead of within 5 hours. In practice I've found that Wise transfers are normally nearly instant). It's quite substantially cheaper for large transfers (e.g. about £2000 for transfering near their max) and possibly faster. I can't tell if you can lock in a rate like with Wise.

There's a lot of "Let's add a queue to deal with scaling issues" type thoughts which don't really work in practice. Like 95% of the time the system works better without one.

This is a visa scheme, you have to apply and stuff at a centre, and the centre in Ukraine is closed!

This looks so cool. I've always wanted something like this, especially being able to write the policies in Rego. I can't work out if it supports delegation though, i.e. service A temporarily allows service B to access a resource which normally only A has access to.

I have memories of pasting 10 line powershell scripts into one of those tiny windows XP text entry boxes, and being happy I could do so!

It could also reflect a trend towards more precise use of language and more accurate communication of the outcomes of the author's work. You'd have to do a more in depth study of the actual work and usage to determine which is the case.

I wasn't impressed until I tried the finger smudging tool - there was a noticeably more realistic effect there than normal.

Istio has lots of support for retrying and recovering from network errors, which is fortunate because adding it to our infra introduced a lot of transient network errors

Why would they run this as an NFT though. They're going to want control over what assets can be added, and TBH would probably much rather they could do something about theft, money laundering etc to avoid bad publicity.

I don't think it's satire at all - it's an earnest attempt to imagine how we might look back on current practices in the future.

Even their console has really basic bits of weirdness and friction. Like if you want to view the logs from a fargate container running in ECS (possibly one of the most boring things you can do on AWS): * For some reason, the log viewer within the ECS console has worse filtering capabilities than the Cloudwatch one * Attempting to view logs for an instance which crashed more than a few minutes ago is very risky - sometimes the last ones are either missing completely or very hard to find in the UI (Cloudwatch will have them though!) * They tried removing it in their ECS console revamp briefly

> Stanford’s neuromodulation therapy could be widely available by the end of next year — that’s when scientists are hoping FDA clearance comes through

What's taking a year? It doesn't sound like there is an additional study the FDA is waiting for results on.