JonAtkinson

Yes. It's section 8.2 onwards of this document:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The majority of apps need a very small subset of database features; they need somewhere to park strings and numbers in a reliable way, and retrieve them (sometimes in order). The Django ORM supports this across all of the backends it supports.

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`import asyncio` is a standard part of Python.

`aiohttp` is a a 3rd party package if you want a more succinct expression of the same functionality.

There are no winners or losers here, just unexpected feedback in an unexpected forum. Best to move on from it.

To your broader point about reviewing libraries; it is an interesting area. I feel that a lot of people (myself included) will assess a library based on an odd combination of heuristics; last commit, timely issue response; thorough documentation etc. Everyone has different priorities. I do wonder if there is value in bringing together reviews or real-world-use feedback in a single place. But you'll need to bring asbestos gloves.

Wayland remains very immature, and it still has significant shortcomings in hardware support. It's a beta-level technology at best, while Xorg has 20 years of stability behind it. It isn't responsible to suggest it as an alternative.

This is wonderful. I’m thinking of doing something similar. Please could you email me? Detail in my profile.

This seems very useful; a universal solution at the OS level makes it easier to firm the habit of using PTT rather than relying on each individual app to offer (and then need to configure) PTT.

On a related note, I started using Nvidia's RTX Voice a few weeks back; I've never found anything better to remove background noise (and the noise of my mechanical keyboard). That includes some very expensive hardware solutions. It's incredible.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice...

There are .msix releases on their Github page.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases

There are. Awareness is growing and all organisations which are serious will have a plan in place and facilities available.

Should someone present at almost any shelter now their case will be assessed on whether violence occurred rather than gender.

My organisation is in the UK, so I can’t speak for elsewhere.

I’m sorry to hear about your friend, and for your loss. DV is truly horrible in all circumstances, and the effects ripple through many people.

That is a pretty flippant comparison.

I’m the trustee of a regional women’s shelter; we run a small building of 8 apartments which we offer to women and children as short-medium term refuges at no cost.

The people who arrive with us are experiencing trauma past breaking point (often abuse is normalised and needs to be significantly escalated until someone is willing to take flight), with symptoms of PTSD, depression, and often significant physical injuries. Children absorb this abuse in a similar manner, without any means to process the trauma.

Organisations like our face an extremely uncertain future; while the need for what we do remains, and probably increases, many women are unable to move or scared to due to the government advice on travel. This is against the backdrop of being unable to procure supplies; we provide our residents with everything from food to nappies, all donated or bought from cash donations.

I appreciate that living with a difficult roommate is a testing circumstance. But domestic abuse is truly a different level of horror.

I read that paragraph as they have moved on from “scummy Etherium ... nonsense”.

We always need convenient monikers for concepts and while “dapp” isn’t the most elegant, it is no worse than “cloud”.

The fact that people are putting their creative energies into decentralised technology (which is very much swimming against the current and involves solving many very difficult problems) is to be applauded.

Ah. I don’t have Apple News installed. I get prompts to install it occasionally which I decline. I didn’t realise it was the default handler for RSS feeds.

Aside: it’s incredible that you can’t tap an RSS link (or long press and share) to open it in Podcasts in iOS.

There has been huge advances in this area recently. Real-time ray-tracing and lighting is Nvidia’s primary marketing push right now with their RTX cards. Unity/Unreal/Blender can all produce very high fidelity real time lighting while editing. It’s great technology.

That sounds like a really positive change in your life. I hope you continue to feel good.

I think I broke through. But I haven’t done DMT before or since, so I can’t be sure. I definitely went somewhere far away in my perception, I felt like I had travelled a long distance. I was alone and I didn’t note the time though, so it’s possible it only lasted a few second.

I’m afraid there was no secret. I went to a drug dealer I knew and asked him to source some for me. It wasn’t expensive, but I needed to wait a few weeks.

I used another psychedelic (DMT) to self treat my alcoholism. While it is early days still, I am almost 600 days sober.

The drug allowed to me introspect and access my mind in a way which was previously blocked. From the perspective it unlocked, it was easy to see the harm I was doing to myself and others. It changed my life.

Off-topic: I absolutely love the design choices made by the author of this site. It's the basic browser stylesheet with some nice refinements. A real triumph of minimalism and incredibly readable.

It is the EU's job to do both, but neither is done to the exclusion of the other. We are lucky to have such a privacy-focused federal body which can bring about change effectively. I'm thrilled at the passing of GDPR, for example.

I imagine that is due to the combination of easily available firearms in the US and the ethically dubious position of a lot of SV companies.

I work in the UK and I have only worked in one office with a security desk. Most are very relaxed.

The idea that there is a joined-up strategy at a national level to ‘buy our garbage’ is weak.

These countries have immature regulatory and inspection regimes and garbage is being bought and dumped by for-profit entities because they can get away with doing so. It’s really ugly capitalism.

Please don’t presume to know my position on this. I never said whether I do or I don’t find this objectionable.

I asked you to expand on your comment, that is all.

Why should it be banned?

Why?

The authors argument that Markdown should be discarded because there are several competing implementations isn't valid.

For many years (even now), we have several competing implementations of HTML, yet the HTML document is the dominant presentational document format (and UI layout language). It hasn't done anything to hurt adoption.

The fact that Markdown does have a common subset of features, and that Markdown is widely interoperable with a vast amount of products is why it wins. As far as I can tell Org-Mode markup is used within Emacs and really nowhere else.

Windows 10?

Your demo video completely undersells the potential here.

The hook for this product is an emotional one, a way to understand and better connect with remote colleagues, and removing miscommunication anxiety -- so where are they in the demo?

Apart from a brief glimpse of a meeting space, 80% of the time is spent messing around with an awkward whiteboard implementation. The video needs to show open collaboration with other humans in VR. I catch a quick glimpse of another disembodied head in the demo but that's all.

Possibly, but as mattlondon's sibling comment alludes to, the statement of a single rape prosecution in more than 300 years is still a long way from the truth.