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Ugh. REST and HATEOAS are just, only just:

1. an affirmative statement that HTTP semantics are mature and robust enough to express networked application communication

2. that using those semantics is better than not, when communicating over HTTP

This shouldn’t be controversial! Want GraphQL? Cool, ?foo[bar]=quux. Want a special data transport format? Cool, Content-Type: application/furby. Want a big blob of different content? Multipart has your back.

There’s nothing special about REST. Use the format! The only special thing is you have to… use it. POST / everything ain’t that. Sure it’s convenient for your custom format that doesn’t interop with anything. And then it’s a decade of articles about no one using common standards. Welp, this standard was here all along.
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I hear this presented as a by-product of bitcoin all the time. People also say it will create world peace.

Here are the first two google searches:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinrivers/2021/06/15/how-bit...

https://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-how-bitcoin-can-end-...
That's a common trick - "overly-specific lie". "I never stole your wallet from your purse" (I stole it while it was lying on the table), "I never told your wife any rumors about you" (I told them to her best friend to whom she talks daily), "we never sell your information to the highest bidder" (second highest is ok though), etc.
Bitcoin doesn’t need to be used for everyday transactions, just like gold doesn’t need to be either. That’s not it’s strength. It’s strength is a store of value that is highly resistant to fiat type inflation.
this is hilarious, they are finally doomed. sorry not sorry. i was a media major, i have nothing against the people themselves but, it’s an old system, it’s connected to old school broadcast tv. there are more voices now, ones of the people. not saying broadcast employees are not people, clearly they are but the system is changing just like cassettes and cds, out with the old in with the new
Why do you think they get divorced frequently? Could the significant factor be the irregular or long working hours for people in medicine?
Sorry to the author but this one doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

Generally, the syllable breaks for these words are not quite correct. The two words that I got were Paulotomy and systerectomy. These were broken into Paulo-tomy and sys-terec-tomy. That generally goes against length-of-syllable-in-English rules that... I can't articulate. I would break these into pau-lo-to-my and sys-ter-ec-to-my (sys-trec-to-my would also be acceptable).
Lynch and Jodorowsky had wildly imaginative visions for Dune. A precedent has been set that Villeneuve failed to live up to.

The new Dune relied on mostly the same key scenes, and lifted dozens of shots directly from Lynch's Dune. Villeneuve isn't enough of of an artist to imagine his own film, so we instead got a watered down version of Lynch's Dune.

Baron Harkonnen was properly villainous in Lynch's Dune. In Villenueve's Dune we got a fat guy in a mumu, and Gurney had to explain to us that the Harkonnen's are "brutal", because no actual brutality made it to screen.

The new Dune had way more expository talking heads than the old Dune, yet I still managed to lose the plot. The battle sequences looked like something you'd see on the history channel. They sent a full crew out to the Wadi Rum desert and somehow managed to make it look like the rear-projection set of The Mandalorian.

I loved Blade runner 2049, but I suppose with that film Villeneuve had an established style guide to work from, and understated performances fit with the tone of the film.

Dune is a different beast, and Villeneuve doesn't have the chops, unfortunately.
You do you, man, no one is stopping you if that's what you believe. Just don't be surprised when hundred trillion dollar notes enter circulation.

https://www.thehoopsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Zimb...
Sure, factories run on many inputs, you cany do much with just electricity either :)
I'm pretty OK with vanilla Terminal and XQuartz.

iTerm has nice features, but Terminal seems to work pretty well.
People don’t understand risks or logarithms. The risk of a given consequence can vary by several orders of magnitude depending on characteristics but people want the same response. The risk can vary by time by orders of magnitude but people want the same restrictions.

Ultimately people can’t accept nonzero risk and conversely think that it is possible to eliminate all risk of something (at the same time happily accepting risks thousands of times higher)
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The evidence is all around you.

Each year, more women obtain degrees than ever have before. Many are post graduate degrees. More women are participating in the workforce than ever have before. More programs exist to promote women into STEM fields than we've ever had in the past. Western culture worships the idea of the strong, independent, intelligent woman. Women are participating in professional life like they never have before.

But go do a patent search. How many women do you see on a few random patents? Go do a search on LLCs in your state. Pull up a few. How many women do you see as the registered agent? Go do a search on LinkedIn on a few big tech companies. How many of the engineers, scientists, or programmers are women?

You can argue that things are just still not equal, and won't be until 50% of all programmers, engineers, scientists, etc. are women. But the trendline is pretty obvious for anyone willing to look. As more women and fewer men participate, you get the results I described above.

There's a lot of reasons for this. The first order effect is that men's productivity goes down as they devote more time to child rearing. That's just reality. I'm not even saying it's a bad one, but it's a reality nonetheless. That happens more frequently as men are expected to pick up the slack as women spend more time in the workforce.

But the bigger second order effect is that, at a societal level, we have at least two generations where both parents worked full time. Instead of mom staying home to raise them, they were raised in day care centers or with parents who were always distracted by work, neither one of which was 100% devoted to child rearing. One parent devoted 100% to a child's development is much more impactful than two parents devoted 50% of the time.

A society full of devoted, involved, active mothers increases productivity, discovery, and economic growth. You get children who grow up well adjusted, ready to face hardship in adulthood. Ready to build the future. And you get a larger quantity of such kids because parents aren't worried about the marginal cost of one more kid at the day care when both parents work. And those kids go onto have their own well adjusted kids, and you get new inventions, discoveries, etc.

We are lying to young girls, telling them the best thing they can do is go to college and get a great paying white collar job. And then we scratch our heads as to why birth rates are plummeting, and why male participation in the work force keeps dropping, and why family formation continues to fall. We have propagandized these women into despising motherhood: the culture doesn't even call them mothers anymore, they're "birthing people."

There's the first order effect of less male participation in ways that drive progress in science, industry, and the arts when you increase the participation of women in the workforce. But these second order effects are huge, and no one even realizes that they're happening under the hood. The Albert Einsteins or even Rosalind Franklins of tomorrow won't be nurtured, or even born, in a society that functions like this.
Can't give enough credit to arQon for his work on Quake 3 CPMA and whoever wrote the unlagged code for OpenArena and its peers. Truly some of the best examples out there.

That was well before the modern shooters kids play these days. I'd say things have not improved dramatically over the last 10 years or so. Sure CS servers now run at 100 or more FPS but other than that, not a whole lot of change. In fact, popular examples such as PUBG suck immensely as far as networking is concerned
It's cool for individual contributors to say they have 30-40 patents too. We all get our thrills different ways.
No, Jeff Bezos loses. Everyone else wins. Yes, the consumer pays more for a book but he also lives in an economy with better paid jobs, free healthcare, free education, and more competing bookstores.

Amazon's low costs is only possible because they externalize their costs to society.
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We are all taking part in a grand experiment whether we like it or not, because the SARS-CoV-2 virus definitely has a broad range of known short-term outcomes, many bad, and unknown long-term outcomes, likely also bad. All choices are a bet on the future. 77% is betting with loaded dice.

Seems to me that one doesn’t pause when being attacked by a bear, a big cat, or even a wasp. And unless you’re anaphylactic, the latter can’t fudge you up as bad as a virus. Don’t pause too long, leopards are on the prowl.
Unless you’re implying the banks would be mining as well - that’s the type of centralization Bitcoin tries to avoid.
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Men don't see it coming because they don't care. Quite frequently men are in bad relationships that don't affect them much but they generally don't walk away.

Women pull the trigger when they can't take it anymore.
Which Android version? Some of us have no Google Play Services and no relevant notifications on older devices.
Yeah me too, But there is a point where you have to stop. I also at some point switched from Excel/Origin to Pandas because of scaling, and now I'm making my first steps in to learning SQL. A point comes where you have to grab and learn a different tool. But it's a difficult to thing to do when you have to get stuff done!
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A company is very different from a currency. Apples and oranges comparing those in terms of centralisation.
> Do you really believe (...) conspired together to manipulate the price?

> Yes, there is a lot of small scale shenanigans with crypto currencies, but (...).

There are no buts. Either the market is manipulated, or it isn't. You already acknowledged it is manipulated, but somehow the degree of difficulty to pull it off is of any relevance? Why do you feel this matters?

Meanwhile, here's an interesting read.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/research-...
Django REST Framework (and I’m assuming later work by its authors) get this right and literally populate URLs rather than giving you patterns.
I heard about this "Outside". It seems pretty new and interesting, but how do you explore it? I heard it was still slow and expansive?
Yeah, on that 'creating a startup' approach. Tried it, indeed much much harder.
no famous families owned tullips?
SOAP, REST, Big Data, microservices - it's funny how, at the time, everyone seems to be unbelievably vociferous that <technology_of_the_moment> is the only way to do things and that we should all be thankful that the great magnet in the sky gave us this sacred cow. Then, 5 years later, it's obviously the worst thing ever next to the <new_hotness>. <new_hotness> always being unevenly in some ways worse and in others better.

We need to, in our exuberance, ask ourselves: what are the current false Gods? Are we technologists that reason or a headless flock?
Congrats!
My wife went back to work for like 3 weeks after 3 months off with our first. Then she just decided to no longer have a job that gives a paycheck. She works, harder than I, and of more import. She just doesn’t get a paycheck.

Though... she went back to Starbucks and service industry != tech industry by a long shot so....
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For context: The Cost of Bitcoin Mining Has Never Really Increased

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2020.5654...
Seveneves was about global warming ... kind of ;)
i think it’s just an old system. it’s time for it to retire. who really watches major news networks these days anymore? besides anyone in their mid thirties, barely anyone below that demographic. even those in their 40s are kinda meh about the news. i should say broadcast media because news will always be around just not in this current format
It could be both?
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You can already refer, at this stage, to pattern recognition for criminal tendency from physiognomy, "Active Phrenology 2.0".
That sounds a lot like consent manufacturing to me. "The Berlin Wall is to protect you from future impulses that could get you exploited by the bourgeoisie."
But then the weird thing is that web developers have software developers as 4th most likely to marry. Behind nurses, teachers, and managers.
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Pretty exciting!

If anyone knows, some questions:

Is Vulkan 1.1 performance at a useful level on a Raspberry Pi 4 yet? How does it compare to OpenGL ES, etc? Any improvement roadmap?
No, amazon loses here. They cannot dump the market with prime anymore.
Bitcoin aligns incentives. It's in the interest of those with lots of bitcoin to have everyone else use the same fork, so their coins have value. This discourages bad behaviour from whales.

Let's not forget that bitcoin's monetary policy is fixed. Everyone earns coins the same way as everyone else: by mining or buying. No printing of new money for example. Central banks are far bigger whales than bitcoin's given their ability to print new money on a whim.
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For an opposite point of view on the agreement:

"Why EU-Qatar deal raises concerns in aviation sector"

https://blazetrends.com/why-eu-qatar-deal-raises-concerns-in...

Note how the OP article mentions "no fifth freedom" even right in the title, while this one complains about "fifth freedom" in the treaty. The reality is that the treaty offers limited fifth freedom.

"Fifth freedom" is broadly the right to use EU airports as a stopover foe longer flights, as far as I can tell. "Limited" means that the number of such flights is limited.
Perhaps it's because gun owners love to festoon everything they own with American flags and not because of some nefarious plan to "sow division," a kind of paranoia that sounds to me like a mirror image of the liberals seeing Russians under the bed every night.
In situations like this the end user typically pays dears for that "luxury'.

Similar to cell phone service in Canada. Prices are carefully negotiated with carriers and as a results Canadians pay some of the highest cell phone fee in the world.
As you note, "networking" is often just having access to college career fairs, where companies go to hire for the internships which are required for later employment.
Actually what's been happening is they've been replaced with the voices of moneyed interests who have the means to do "reporting" at a loss, but hey at least a lot of people got fired.
Depends on the university. Stanford got much more aggressive with investments in the 1990s. They spun off the endowment as the Stanford Management Company, headquarters on Sand Hill Road out by the VCs. They did very well - part ownership of Google, Cisco, Yahoo, etc. 12.2% average return per year over 30 years. It was starting to look like SMC was the tail that wagged the dog - a VC fund that ran a school as a side project for the tax break. They had their own CEO.
So they were pulled back to the main campus, made a department of the university, and made somewhat less independent.
In some sense you're right, but I feel like this is also a symptom of how unhealthy news organizations are and will accelerate the trend where local news reporting is anemic and toothless outside of the major media markets.
This. And also the west seems completely obsessed with safety, it trumps any other value now. But safety has a massive price, but that doesn’t matter any more.

I’m also guessing a large part of how politicians can make themselves seem useful is making people safe. There’s not much else for them to do any more everyone is so well off.
My experience of small local bookshops is the complete opposite of your description.
I like it, thanks for sharing.

Why not a standard unix shebang line at top of index.py ?
Apple has many different types of data centers.

Some are actually hosted in a cloud provider like Google, Microsoft, or AWS.

But they also have a fair amount of their own physical data centers, and I would not be surprised to find that they start filling them out with Apple Silicon hardware.

And they might roll out a lot of services on AWS using Apple Silicon hardware, because AWS has recently made available actual Apple hardware in some of their regions. I think this could potentially be a precursor, but this is just my own personal hunch and I have no information outside my own brain towards this end.
Given the thousands of banks, exchanges, services, countries, etc.. holding Bitcoin it’d be practically impossible for any one entity to acquire enough to begin to have any sort of control over the price.
"An NBC News analysis also identified Gates as the largest farmland owner in the US.

Almost 300,000 acres is a lot of land for one family or private individual to own, but it’s still just a small part of the estimated 911 million acres of farmland in the US." - https://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farml...

Not sure what is the point of this "Bill Gates is single largest holder of US farmland" narrative. It seems like a conspiracy theory in the making.

When put into perspective, amount of farmland he owes is not that big, if it was in a single square it would be 20x20 miles.
I’m disappointed to see this comment. What don’t you think can be expressed with REST that can be with RPC?
What I've been doing recently, is exploring Anonymous FTP sites again.

Backing the late 1990s, I was lucky to have (although I didn't appreciate it at the time) an unfettered always-on internet connection at work. I had to jump through some hoops to get it[1], but it was there, and unmonitored.

I spent most of my free time, wandering around FTP sites seeing what was there. It was a magical doorway to so much random stuff; source code, images, text documents... Most of which has now been lost to time.

I even managed to get a the source of Mosaic for VMS, and then compile it so I could use it on a VAXStation that was also in my office.

Anyway... So I've been exploring anonymous FTP again... They are a shadow of their former selves I think. There's a few nice nuggets out there, but mostly it's just mirrors of Linux distros, and fragments of the old SIMTEL and Walnut Creek collections.

What I did find out is that there are no Archie servers anymore. There's a few Web based FTP search engines, but that just not the same. So I'm toying with building one.

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[1] Crawl under the floor of my office, splice a CAT3 cable to another one, then configure SLIP on my Windows 3.1 PC using Trumpet Winsock.
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what does control mean here?

they can print more bitcoins into existence?
they can fake a transaction?
they can undo a transaction?
they can steal from other wallets?
That’s not what a monopoly is.
Given women almost always marry up (i.e. they marry men who earn more than themselves), if you break this up by sex I am pretty sure the numbers will look very different.
You don't know that the rapid inflation and deflation relative to today isn't because of poorer coordination in the liquidity of markets, in the supply chain, because we didn't have airplanes we didn't have computers etc.

It's like pointing out that people were starving in the streets during the depression. Well yeah. We didn't have modern agriculture, freezers were a luxury, Flintstones gummi vitamins weren't a thing for kids etc.
If I was one of the richest man on the planet, I would also invest in various fields, which would probably mean I end up one of the single largest owners in that field (through sheer fact I am one of the richest people on the planet).
It proves that after people are repeatedly lied to - remember "don't buy masks"? Remember "go out and celebrate!"? Remember "restricting international travel is racist"? Remember "two weeks to flatten the curve"? that's just covid crap, there was 10x that on other topics, I'd just nominate "fiery but mostly peaceful" and let it rest at that. After all that overwhelming torrent of lies people don't believe a word that is coming out of our ruler's mouths anymore. And I hardly can blame them. Every gatekeeping institution that was supposed to take care of them has failed, has failed miserably and has failed willingly and eagerly. Of course people are looking for information in random weird places - because non-weird places they used to trust lied to them so much they finally gave up on them.
Reminds me of the plot of Snow Piercer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Piercer#Plot
I disagree. The idea with REST is to push state to the backend, and add links to substates, so that the protocol doesn't have to be stateful, and logic is pushed to the edges of the network.

SPAs breaks this principle by making webpages into fully fledged apps who do their own state tracking and navigation. This was never the intention of REST. The idea was to make the webpages themselves linkable RESTful substates of the application, and having the browser do the rest.

From the SPA angle, RPC might look like a good solution. But RPC in itself doesn't solve any problems except literal remoting.

A RESTful API makes states linkable and removes ordering dependences from the API.

Look at web frameworks which tried to make web sessions stateful. They are dealing with all the pains that REST solves.
Yeah plus the fact /bookstores sell through Amazon/ and have for a while. It shows what sorts of dinosaurs are running things.
I think switching the version to 4 is the most viable path. Make the last GILed python 3 an LTS release that interested parties can hold on to, eg. Ubuntu can keep python 3 as a default for a long time. One can always use conda to run multiple versions simultaneously.
There seem to be a lot of similarities between crypto and growth stocks that are held by founders with > 15% ownership. Similar to early stage investors who have essentially zero cost basis, early BTC holders have zero cost basis when BTC was pennies each versus late stage current investors paying in at $60,000 for each BTC. For early BTC holders its easy to diamond hand.

There are a lot of similarities for sure between Tesla stock and BTC in terms of price versus traditional measures of value (based on current income and enterprise value), not to mention the volatility.

There is not as much price discovery when a handful of owners own more than 50% of stock or crypto and are easily diamond handing. The price discovery is only happening on the portion that's actively trading which can distort the market price. I bet in the early days of BTC there were a lot of tricks like the Jason Fried/DHH Basecamp unicorn example[1].

As they eventually lose interest/need to pass assets to the kids, when they start unloading, there will be price drops as there were once Bill Gates started unloading MSFT stock. Part of the challenge that Steve Ballmer faced (other than lackluster leadership) was the headwinds and downward pressure created by BillG's retirement related unloading of MSFT stock.

[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
Not familiar with Django sadly but it sounds like it would act as something of a proxy that sits in front of your microservices.

My point is that if you are starting with just e.g 2 microservices, one for customers, one for orders, then hypermedia on it's own is not useful enough to justify adding a new proxy/ layer, just so that an API produced by one of those microservices can include hypermedia for the other.