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I do think the problem is there is no differentiation between organic animal husbandry which has proven benefits (the pastures capture carbon dioxide etc) and the intensive factory farms. I have been reasonably selective of my meat sources over the past decade buying from a local butcher who sources from local organic farms and i am a happy customer and not ashamed.

When i looked the SDK was only available in certain languages which was a issue for me at the time. I just checked and they have python and csharp. Pulumi has potential to reduce the verbosity of infrastructure configuration and enable engineers to tailor it more to the application on demand. Adding a new queue can be done as part of a app release and not handled in a separate pipeline. It isn’t fun to wrangle infrastructure pipelines and when necessary orchestrate changes.

So true... I don’t do as you do with guest accounts etc i have premium because the only thing i hate more than my bubble is the adverts!

I tend to unsubscribe, or tell youtube to stop showing me this.

As someone that has the utmost respect for his accountant i have serious issues with almost every point in this post. The logic is juvenile ultimately because the management team is responsible for the organisation and the accountant will balance the books and with the help of the CFO use and manage capital effectively.

The justification to purchase the cars was idiotic. The capex spent on leases is corporate tax deductible, not so much when you buy them and they become depreciating assets (yes the paltry depreciation is tax deductible but the capex used to buy the cars isn’t). Organisations also use leases so they don’t have to manage the wear and tear maintenance on vehicles. Even when an organisation has a fleet manager logistically picking up broken down cars and taking them to garages is very expensive. For you techies this is similar to tech debt, imagine you cut corners on a project you did and left the organisation the person picking up after you will have to redo quite a bit of the work to finish it.

I would argue an organisation should never be held ransom to a pay rise. You simply acknowledge they are valued and promise to address at the next review. It sets a bad precedent to manage these processes adhoc.

I always had this in mind when i lived in London. In my experience i found the combination of vehicle exhaust pollution and pollen unbearable. Somehow the vehicle exhaust particles combine with the pollen and exacerbated my pollen allergies. I had zero allergies growing up and developed a very bad pollen allergy in south west London, then i moved to rural Dorset and i don’t have any allergies any more. Still get tons of pollen (i.e rural Dorset) but less pollution. I wonder if anyone has analysed the combination of vehicle exhaust pollution plus pollen?

No, most western countries that bought vaccines “over purchased” for this same reason too. For example the UK has purchased 400M doses so far. This PR piece summarises this objective. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-secures-add...

Why is Malaria in the list?

We ditched the the tls termination in nginx strategy, shifted to a nlb with tls termination in app. We used let’s encrypt because we needed something dynamic so we didn’t have to manage certs. Well we received one of those CISO forms from a big enterprise and one of the questions. Do you use LetsEncrypt? We said yes and the responded that it wasn’t a permitted tls solution. For what it’s worth I was happy with it.

Good for you as a parent I don’t allow my children to use apps with adverts. If the app is free with ads we buy the ad-free version or it’s a no go.

To me it feels as though the last decade and a half computational power has not grown vertically. Instead Intel and AMD have grown computational power horizontally (i.e adding more cores). I'm looking at the difference the M1 has had on compute performance as a sign X86 strayed.

The Goal is a book that influenced me over 25 years ago. The concepts are sound but i have gifted it to over 20 people since and a handful get it for what it is. However it isn’t a book about business and more a story about complexity and constraints applied to a theoretical business. I have never had occasions where there is an aha moment about a business i am in that literally is explained in The Goal.

It seems to me you have the makings of a good partnership and i have read your comments and it does look like you are committed. In my opinion you could shift to looking at how your customers view your business and working backwards. It might be that your answers are to be less self obsessed and more customer obsessed. Not saying you are not doing this already but in my view the hierarchy for a business prioritises the customer first and works backwards. Issues in your partnership can then be weighed against this mission. Good luck.

As an individual yes but i’m not aware of companies having this problem. Does Google treats all its creators as people (i.e income tax) only or does it have the ability to recognise companies?

I guess i can close this with the disbelief that content creators setup companies and then use Youtube as themselves. What kind of accounting shenanigans would be required to be a company and content creator on youtube? I am genuinely interested.

I feel for business owners today, reviews are gamed more than ever and as a result have become much less valuable, harder to use for consumers, and with this fraud a few bad reviews can tarnish what is an unblemished customer service record. When making purchases i find i skip over dozens of reviews to find one or two that have some quality to them i can relate to based on the product and my expectations. When i see a really bad review i weigh it for much less than i used to especially if it lacks all the necessary components of a review. Does anyone else do this? Have you noticed that some reviews just look the same even the bad ones?

Yes I agree, but I think you miss the point. The reality is folks buying bitcoin are also indirectly betting on the failure of our globalised central banking systems. This was the pitch in the early days and it remains a key value proposition. Think of it like this how much reach does a USD have? It’s limited by some factors but all things equal the reach of a USD is pretty good. I can use USD in most African and Asian countries. However the USD in China has limited reach. I’m using the word reach to loosely describe how usable the currency is in a foreign country. The sterling pound has a very limited reach if I were travelling I would convert it before. So one day in the future when the SHTF and no one wants to trade there will be a currency that is decentralised that has an unlimited reach. The reality is we need to get serious about the predicament of our financial systems or the folks with the BTC will be holding all the cards. I own no crypto and am just a interested observer wanting to share my perspective.

Nice work, I love WireGuard, what it needs is more recognition and definitely more integrations like this.

Novelty plays a part in this too.

I'm still on Mojave, I dread upgrading to Catalina and watching the 125GB FREE disk space halve in a single installation. For the first time I am behind by 2 releases. Is Mojave the XP of MacOS installs ?

As a mac user i shifted all my development to use containers for deps management and runtime efficiency. My thought process was this would also translate well to a productive move to Linux (i have similar concerns to you) and it just so happens to also work with my cicd platform. The biggest pain on linux is dependency management across a variety of languages and software stacks. I believe you can be productive on Linux today with a similar approach.

Yes the attack surface before and after is the same ergo this is not security at all. The difference between 22 and 2222 is a nominal delay on a port scan.

It would be far easier and more convenient to use a ip whitelist and a firewall to protect access to 22.

Fortnite essential to daily life?

Actually nothing on my phone is essential to daily life.

A better analogy is the game is like a ride at a theme park. The theme park was built by Apple. Many companies can make games/rides for the theme park but must pay a share of revenue from each customer going on rides. You can go on a ride at the theme park but you pay an entrance fee for the theme park and you pay to go on the rides.

I couldn't agree more. It will only get worse if companies are allowed to create their own Appstores. Using these devices is already a difficult user experience we should be doing more to protect consumers who have already invested in the ecosystem. Apple is indirectly doing this.

the commenter is right and you have missed the point. There is no competition in this space. You can only get Fortnite from the Epic Games Launcher.

Valves VR looks awesome!

I haven’t seen this in the comments but its one reason I wonder why convertibles sell so well in the UK. I have a sun roof and i hardly ever use it because i hate the smell of exhaust. I may use the sunroof on a coastal road once in a while but not for long periods. I chose the car i drive because it has a hepa filtration system built into the climate control. I agree with comments about pollution but i must add that as a motorcyclist for a decade in London i blamed most pollution on short journeys like school runs. During school breaks the roads were much cleaner. So getting everyone to commute to work by bike won’t fix the problem when from experience most of the pollution is parents taking kids to school!

When did Google meet get better? I used it actively in April had a some really bad customer meetings on it (it seemed to be bandwidth heavy though that is anecdotal). I decided on Zoom and haven’t really looked back. I also was irritated at the Google Meets browser compatibility issues as I mostly use Firefox.

Yes my frustration is the entire frontend in x framework now requires nodejs by default. I develop with Javascript (nodejs), Erlang(Elixir) and Ruby(Ror and Jekyll). The one pain point is managing the nodejs dependencies in these projects.

I paid for Audi connect - total waste of money. Mercedes me connect - total waste of money. Mercedes recently changed to a subscription model but I honestly would not pay for nice to have features. Must have features? maybe.

I always considered a machine backed conglomerate to be the next big thing.

Agree completely, I remember the books by brothers grimm as a young child. Trolls and goblins and all manner of imaginative creatures used to keep me up at night.