Medium has a lot of dark patterns by now - like seriously they expect me to pay perpetually to read somebody’s random rants?
Needing to login or register just read something etc
I’ve moved my blog off Medium a long time ago to ensure the content stays in the open for free
"I worked with a network engineer who misconfigured a router that was connecting a bank to it's DR site. The engineer had to drive across town to manually patch into the router to fix it.
DR downtime was about an hour, but the bank fired him anyway."
so prod wasn't down and he fixed it in a hour and they fired the guy who knew how to fix such things so quickly. Idiot manager at the bank.
just a small nitpick in the overall correct train of thought - is that it this reduction in output still does drive up the inflation - as fewer cars are made, their price increases (and it has knock on effects of increasing prices to anything affected by cars - delivery, logistics, you name it)
"CO2 is catalyzed into Methane using an 'inorganic catalyst', there is this paper[1] which uses a ruthenium catalyst at 400 degrees C" that either alchemy or more energy consuming than agriculture. "Silver-gray ruthenium metal looks like platinum but is rarer," - great to keep the costs down and avoid wars in places like congo eh? ;)
it's funny because when it comes to any real disputes, AirBnb sides with landlords as much as possible (and as much as PR will allow), because that's who are they getting the money from. The guests are just the 'meat' in the machine so it would be more consistent if they allowed property owners to vet guests even more to avoid any issues/disputes in the first place.
For RoboCat's case - it does still allow to not accept a certain guest after looking at hteir profile etc, but IMO that's too far into the journey - it'd be better from UX perspective and satisfaction if such a guest never found the property as available in the first place.
or you could pay $1m to someone like Corey to revisit the architecture a little and shave $100-200m off that bill by not doing silly things? https://www.lastweekinaws.com/about/
but they're 'smashing' the likes of Ant Financial who were doing predatory, unsecured lending on an unprecedented scale.
So IMO the thesis of smashing 'Internet' companies is incorrect - they're just making sure economy doesn't go into bubble territory (lending fuels spending) and the likes of Jack Ma, who are detached from the party don't get too much power/money.
Solving some societal or civilisational challenge with supersonic flight seems very narrow minded now.
Yes I would like to fly to my work HQ faster but due to pandemic I have not visited in 3 years now and it’s been fine, so a better solution is excellent remote work tools such as HQ videoconferencing etc which is such an easier problem, yet many people and companies still struggle with it.
In the overall ROI for things to do, I bet we shouldn’t be building businesses that REQUIRE supersonic flight to succeed.
This story looks borne from the helicopter parenting theme.
Some kids learn some things slower and it eventually cleared up.
But with helicopter parenting he was sent to pre school and all this reverse psychoanalysis was done.
It’s not wrong and it’s borne from parents caring about their kids, but letting them be kids is cool as well.
“ The best thing is, the screen turned on immediately, delivering missed Tinder notifications, without any damage.” I hope the guy finally gets some action - I mean he’s got iPhone 12 Pro with a magnet. Must work on the chickas too, right? ;)
„ Without our apps, the iPhone has little value to most of its customers today.” I call bs on that. I can’t be the only person who uses stock apple email and very few 3rd party apps. Yes it’s even better with those apps, but even on its own, a nicely working phone with email and good camera provides a lot of value and utility for me. The 3rd party apps only add like 5% for me.
The article just says the radiation is too low, but it matters to know. Some 30 years ago, it was possible to bring a glowing glass sphere as a souvenir from various Uranium mines in then Czechoslovakia.
There were numerous reports of acute radiation illness and cancers after that - one couple kept the sphere on the cupboard and therefore were exposed to direct radiation for many hours every day.
They both died with leukaemia and complications.
So switch like statements and branched execution are the enemy of caches and especially in the light of recent CPU predictive execution vulnerabilities I guess that is not an ideal syntax. What’s a better way to guide the programs flow based on some input?