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> The author seems to have a penchant for taking the most dangerous assignments.

He says as much in the intro at the bottom - he literally volunteered for the posts his colleagues studiously avoided. I guess he’s the diplomatic equivalent of an adrenaline junkie. (To be fair, those places are precisely where low-ranked diplomats can actually make a massive difference, unlike in glamorous capitals where they are basically glorified office staff.)
There are address services for businesses too, which might also offer the service to individuals. I think they are called registered agent services or something like that. They recieve mail, accept subpoenas, etc.
Very recently, with the advent of the NNUE evaluation and it's incorporation into stockfish, it is the undisputed champion over all others by a very significant margin.

It even beats out lc0 running on an RTX 2080 while itself running in single-threaded mode (it scales well in strength up to at least 32 threads, beginning to taper off from there)
Hopefully a good bot will write an awesome article about taking nude pics at the dirty dishes in your place, as long as you mind at such nonsenses' issues while people needs a job to do.
Epic purchases exclusivity whenever it can. Some games were kickstarted with the promise of being available on Steam until Epic gave them a sum of money to make them an Epic exclusive, screwing over their backers in the process. In some of those cases, Epic funded refunds to the backers, in others it didn't.

In plenty of cases this exclusivity also shut down cross platform support of the games. Fundraisers planned macOS and Linux versions of the games, but when Epic purchased exclusive rights they were effectively made Windows exclusives as well (Epic's store is only available on Windows).
My theory on the Brexit trouble as a Canadian is that David Cameron screwed up this system by trying to emulate other systems: he made fixed elections dates and used a referendum.

Both broke parliamentary tradition. Normally, if a govt loses on a matter of confidence, there would be an election. Instead Teresa May’s zombie govt lost and lost and lost and still kept going.

Meanwhile the parliament was beholden to a referendum result, which has no precedent in British tradition.

Further, it was nonsensical to hold a referendum to do something you do not want to do. Normally the way referenda are used elsewhere is to test popular support for a policy the govt actually wants to do.
Re: 'Headless CMS' in the article: Since the introduction of the JSON REST API, I've been using Wordpress as the back-end to various personal and professional projects, built on various web and native mobile frameworks.

One of the good things about Wordpress is the familiarity to it from the people who have to use it. (Authors/Editors/Contributors). (Though, I'd say Gutenburg might stir that up a bit).

Also, once you learn how to write plugins, the sky's the limit really.
Don't quit before the miracle happens.
> I can confirm I don't require the use of any database for "$15 on Lightsail with periodic backups".

Yep and then you'd be subject to what they call https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure.

> Suggesting a "need" to run fault-tolerant database operations doesn't quite concile with running it in RAM only.

The wisdom is: You don't need a database at all to avoid SPOF. Use static pages and let Netlify and others cache them in their CDNs world-wide ("RAM").

> Ghost Foundation provides their 1-click Ghost droplet bundled with MySQL.

And how much does that cost?
This. "it's an investment!" is a horrible way to justify spending more on a collection than you can afford.

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'Mercy triumphs over judgement.' (James 2:13, NIV)

Also:

'Esse quam videri'. "To be, rather than to seem"

'If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.'

'In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.'

'If' by Rudyard Kipling was a compass of mine for a long time, practically every line is a motto.
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It's clear to pretty much any pet owner that "I'm usually fed about now" is something that they think.

Most treat oriented dogs will happily take an extra treat, and keep looking for them if there's a potentially indeterminate number.

My experience is that for small treats, 1/2 sized treats are just as good as ones that you haven't split. It's not like you're feeding the dog, you're treating it to reward/train. This is often with high value treats like bits of lunch meat that's ripped up to give them. (This is like a couple of grams for a 20kg dog, a snap and a gulp and it's gone.)

If the dog is used to getting 2 treats after an activity, that's what they'll wait for. If they're used to one treat after coming in, that's what they'll wait for.

If you, for some horrific reason, don't have the usual number of treats at the right time, you will be hounded for them. If you split them so that there are the right number but a smaller overall quantity, They're fine with it.

My experience is:
* Dogs now how many treats they get for a specific context, including that there might be a long string of them.
* Within reason, it's the number of actions rather than the volume.
* Be very careful what actions you're actually rewarding.

Dogs are pretty smart. I'd be surprised if the smarter ones aren't on the verge of tool use. (collie pups are scary smart. greyhounds on the other hand.... not so much)

(source, dog fosterer, ~15 in the last couple years. )
Do you think he'd have a better treatment in a US prison? Because I don't know if that's a realistic viewpoint to hold.
Phone calls or text messages are rare for me. I can't remember the last time I sent an SMS message. I've not received an MMS message in over a decade and even then that was relatively rare (less than 10 times in the years that that was a thing at all). So, that stuff is completely dead as far as I'm concerned. I don't think most young people even know stuff like MMS exists. Did Apple ever bother to implement that at all on IOS? As I recall they were not in a hurry to implement that when the iphone launched originally.

The only numbers I call are people like my Doctor to make an appointment because they don't do email for whatever reason (which would make a lot of business sense for them). But mostly my phone is a mini tablet for me. Young people here mainly distinguish themselves by maybe using different networks.

People who hate Facebook are common. People who understand Facebook actually also runs Instagram and Whatsapp are less common. Last time I checked they are still getting a lot of daily use, also from Denmark.
How does that benefit me, Joe Customer? I’m not getting a lower price by going to EGS. I’m just getting more friction in finding a game I want to play.
The incompetence starts with the thought that an "app" would reach any meaninful fraction of the population.
I've heard this requested a lot in the last 24h, will add this.
That same sentiment is found across the Arduino forums.

There's a fine-line between receiving a comprehensive and correct answer to your EE/software questions vs. getting snidely berated for being an idiot.
But I thought the purpose of the Anthropic principle was not to answer, "why is this thing?" but rather, "why is this thing so perfect for us?". Those are very different questions.
Burning is better for the environment than landfill. It's getting less good comparitavely as grids become carbon free via renewables, but especially for district heating its probably going to be a good thing for a while. Half recycled and half used to avoid burning coal seems a pretty good deal, especially if its paid for by the producers. So why the big overreaction?
Nothing, absolutely nothing surprises me about that. Public Infrastructure in the disaster management system is a - disaster.

Example: Yes, my home village and the surrounding 20-30 Villages all have their old air-raid sirens to notify the members of the fire brigade. A system which is quite old and was rock solid reliable. During the transistion from analog radio to digital radio, the receivers were upgraded to be triggered by digital radio (TETRA to be precise). This, we found out, now means that during a power outage, there is no way to alert the fire brigade because the sirens dont have power. We now have people sitting in the fire station again whenever our Village has a power out to use the on-vehicle radio to communicate with the dispatch.

TETRA itself is also a disaster. And even worse: Its not even universally accepted. This means that local muncipalities can decide to stay with the old analog system while others have the new digital one.
In theory, the digital one has a bazillion advantages. However, all of those advantages in the end create more problems than they solve.

For example, better voice quality - just leads to people being completely not understandable when using breathing masks to enter a building (Something to do with filtering).

Also, analog fails gracefully. Digital stops working. And it stops working a lot earlier. This means, you now have to use a repeater at the entrance of a building to talk to people in the building, because the digital radio often does not work. This happens mostly in direct (Walkie Talkie Mode)

When in cellular mode, good luck finding a signal in 50% of the rural areas - This mode is vital to talk to the dispatcher to call for support/additional units.

The whole system is supposed to be used by everyone. Military, Federal and Local Police, Fire Brigade, EMT... which means there has to be a rights management system to access certain channels. This is hardcoded into every device. This often means that a device does not have the permission to cooperate or that only the one device of the commander can access certain channels.

There is a 2 Second delay between pressing the talk button and a connection being established due to the encoding and permission management leading to people often having to resend because the first words were cut off.

Its just a complete and abject failure everywhere. And you can look wherever you want, and its the same. Working things get rationalized, or "modernized", resulting in a less capable, more expensive, more complex system.

Or, in our case, to carry two devices, one digital and one analog.
Thank you for pointing this out. This is the main reason why so many engineers I know got basically nothing when their company was acquired after slaving away for years.

If you join a startup, you should either do it for the experience (lots of responsibility, wearing many hats), or as a founder. Anything less is a recipe for disappointment.
We know that waste is sitting in a pond, it's not set free, it's not capable of magically moving itself. We have no idea where any of those coal emissions ended up, and we still have piles of extremely toxic ash just like the nuclear waste.
Why should you use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript? (2014)
Have you tried soft line wrapping in GNU nano (M-S)? As long as you're running nano in an 80 column wide window, that should work fine.
The parent comment stated the best solution was to allow both an app store and consumers the choice on how / where they get their apps.

If the default app stores provides as much value as you claim, developers would continue to distribute there, pay the fees, and consumers would go there for discoverability and convenience. Let consumers decide.

With options, consider maybe someone could provide those services even better / more cheaply and you also benefit as a developer.
> Less than 66 keys is like playing a 2-string guitar.

I've found I need an odd number of octaves. Even number of octaves is kind of useless. The songs I can play on a 3 or 4 octave device are the same, but 5 octaves opens up more. I bought a 49 key controller and had to send it back.
me and coworkers had the app (nina) and nothing happened... no message, nothing, if I opened the app also there, not a single text about some alarm. They should have used SMS
Yes, apparently "SLD" is quite a common term but it does not encapsulate the likes of 'pvt.k12.ma.us' or 'uk.com' (in the sense that it's not a registry per se for the latter)

So there's an awkward way of defining things in various contexts, like cookie permissions, whether a domain is registerable, whether it is a registry the next level up
There's multiple examples of successful companies with their core product using a browser extension like honey, loom, grammarly etc.. yet the Google Chrome developer experience is seriously lacking, someone is going to be successful building Expo for browser extension dev !
PWA doesn't compare to React Native or Flutter as PWA is a web application whereas React Native and Flutter are cross-platform native widget approaches.

The problem for React Native (and Xamarin) is that the more layers of abstraction you have the more layers that can get out of sync with the native OS. Xamarin and React Native take cross-platform UI definitions and map those onto native UI widgets and it's not unusual to run into problems with the abstraction mapping as expected and debugging is an exercise in frustration.

Flutter is different animal in that it's not using native UI widgets but is a complete stack. My imperfect analogy: React Native/Xamarin is like bringing a translator with you to a restaurant to help you order: will probably work but there are edge cases. Flutter is like bringing your own kitchen staff, kitchen equipment, and food... as long as that's not prohibited you'll get exactly what you expected. In theory this works just fine but there's no guarantee that Apple won't protect it's walled garden (eg: keep your people, food, and cooking gear out of our kitchen!) by banning apps that bring their own Skia canvas and "runtime." Even if that doesn't happen there's the issue that you might not have all of widgets you want or need (though as time passes this is less of an issue).

With cross-platform solutions you are on your own if things don't work: you cannot contact Apple and get help because the official answer is "Apps for iOS are written in Swift or Objective-C in Xcode."

And yes I'm jaded after spending several years doing work with Xamarin and looking at React Native and finally deciding that betting on the web (PWA or Hybrid) is the way to go: HTML5 works the same on all mobile platforms (and in the case of iOS if your needed features aren't available with PWA the code and time need to convert that to a hybrid Ionic app is shockingly minimal).

EDIT: Ever since Ionic switched from the legacy Cordova base for hybrid to their Capacitor project it's possible to mix fully platform native UIViews in with your hybrid app with minimal fuss just in case you need a feature set that requires "going straight to the metal" for part of your mobile app.
Wordpress will probably outlast most of the alternatives mentioned in this thread, including every static site generator. It's too cheap, powerful, flexible and easy to use to disappear. Also, the Wordpress devs do actually make radical new changes to it to keep up with the times, like introducing the visual eidtor Gutenberg or moving towards a headless Wordpress.
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Having to go to the EGS for a given exclusive game is not choice. It’s not freedom. It’s definitely not competition.

Even if I buy a game broadly available on multiple platforms, I’m not getting a discount on it for going to EGS, despite their lower cut.
AFAICS sirens aren't intended to warn the populace so much as calling firemen to make it to the fire trucks ASAP. But that's only for voluntary fire brigades in villages rather than professional brigades ready to jump onto trucks immediately, with fireman's poles and such.
The story of flexible glass had contemporary doubters. My guess is it’s likely apocryphal but created as a fable with political and economic undertones.
To me the issue is all of the artifacts in the sensors. Obviously most of the time this is corrected in software but they look pretty rough.
Besides what the other person said, paper packaging is often bleached with dioxins because consumers like clean white packaging. Dioxins are really nasty stuff.
'couse I guess you won't mind at those projects and no one might (yet) care at what would do all those workers whom dishwashing is actually them main job.
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Are you still adding suffixes to the list? If so, wouldn't refusing to add new suffixes help with the issue? If no new organisation can make use of PSL to link their subdomains, then they are only left with SOP. Since the list stays like it is now, no existing websites, depending on the list suddenly break down.
Please give me examples of apps I’m missing out on as an average consumer because I’m all for missing out on malwares
It's not very likely the US will come out ahead economically. Countries that had stricter lock downs seeing great economic revivals as case numbers dwindled and lockdowns get progressively more targeted and less intrusive. This can't be done successfully in the US.

To give an extreme example of where countries with stricter lockdowns will be soon, look at China. Their economy is almost already at pre-pandemic levels.
Which is not necessarily safe depending on the type of plastic (not sure how it goes in Turkey though).
Hey there, I work in the Linux gaming space. Epic and Tim Sweeney are not hostile towards Linux. The worst you can say is they're indifferent (and can you blame them, given the size of that market?), but even that is not true. Epic's game engine supports Linux. Could they do more to support Linux gaming? Sure. But that's not the same as being "incredibly hostile."
The one time I was brought on to a WordPress project, it was deployed via ftp and there was an ominous text file (not named Readme) in the root that said something like "we had to use a lot of symlinks to get things to work. Be careful deploying"
Interesting how differently competent people can perceive things. To me, YAML is a cruel joke, and I carry suspicions about the competence of anyone who opts to use it out of all possible options. I think I've even grown to like XML configuration over it.
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Some corporations are shamed into doing the right thing, typically after an extensive period of morality-free cash-hoarding. Apple was just fine with their supply chain until news emerged of conditions down there (and Cook being a logistic guy, he’s clearly always known), at which point they hd to save face. Similarly, they keep saying they are green but have no qualms pushing out billions of unrecycleable and un-serviceable electronics every year, without taking any real responsibility for disposing of them.

Corporate ethics are hypocrisy all the way down.
You can already install your own software on your own iOS device without review. You can even install it on 3rd party devices (up to 100) without review!
I as a customer like the Epic Games Store. I even more like the GoG store. And I kind of like the Steam store, but least of these.

When I shop for games, I never pay the list price - ever. Well, maybe once every few years when I buy a game in the GoG store made by CD Projekt Red, which run the store but are also a publisher of AAA titles I really, really love. I pay full price for them because they really deserve it, and they get 100% of the well-deserved money if I buy in their store.

All the other games? I'll happily wait for a sale in one of the aforementioned stores, of which there are plenty and with huge rebates, because they must compete for me as a customer. First sales are usually coming just a few months after a games' release, and with lots of games to play still in my pipeline and less time to actually play them due to work, family and all that real-life stuff, I can usually muster the patience to wait for reduced prices.
Maybe she won't care, maybe she will.

I'm forever grateful for my dad's records.
I'd be very interested to see your source on how this is supposed to be a joke.
I've recently discovered Publii (https://getpublii.com/).

The single big plus for me is, that it allows me (as a DEV) to provide the typical non-DEV user (aka my mother) with a simple, non markdown user interface to edit and update the page on her own.
That's literally Wordpress minus plugins powered by a theme you created yourself.
> and they cost game devs money in lost sales from me.

I don't think the exclusives are good for users, but from a developer perspective this is an oversimplification. Epic is essentially pre-funding games.

If you're an indie dev who's been working on a game for 3-5 years, literally everything you have is riding on that release going well. It's incredibly stressful.

So suddenly this billionaire shows up and says, "no content changes, no interference, we'll just guarantee up front that your game is profitable. We'll just give you the money to justify the last 5 years of your life, and after 6-12 months you can sell wherever." Of course developers take that. Suddenly you have the freedom to be experimental, to make games that are personal and niche without worrying about going broke.

There's a real sense in which PC exclusives are bad for the industry overall, I don't like the direction the market is headed. But from a developer perspective Epic has been pretty objectively good for indie games. The lost revenue from not being on Steam means nothing if Epic is willing to fund your game upfront. Think about how much peace of mind that means as a developer, to not have everything riding on a single launch, to not have to spend months leading up to launch getting sick worrying about what's going to happen.

And also let's be real, from a user perspective we had Steam exclusives, even if Valve didn't directly require them. I buy my games exclusively DRM free, I won't use Steam or Epic. The number of games that refuse to release outside of Steam, or who tie their multiplayer and modding communities to Steam's servers have been a pain in my side for over a decade. There are games on GoG that are missing patches and that will never get multiplayer, because Steam just happened to release frameworks encouraging devs to make themselves utterly dependent on Valve's infrastructure.

I won't install the Epic game store on my computer. But at least a game that's exclusive to Epic games store eventually becomes non-exclusive -- on average, I'll end up getting access to it later. Most of the games that get released exclusively on Steam never get ported off and I never get access to them. It's a little bit irritating to hear people pine for the day when most devs were still effectively releasing store exclusives, just without any extra compensation and to a storefront that more people happened to use.
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it's great that it's selling more than cds, but that's like being the best in the losers bracket. i don't know a single person in my life who actually buys vinyl records. everyone i know has a spotify or panadora account.
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