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_AzMoo··on Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube
A scary clown. Like Pennywise. Randomly popping up and loudly screaming in the middle of an educational video about buses. I don't want my kids being exposed to that either, and I don't know any parents that would. The commenter wasn't talking about letting their children watch unsupervised, even supervising your children won't stop this type of thing from doing damage.
_AzMoo··on A hiring test I'd like to run
Couldn't you just jam a multimeter into it?
_AzMoo··on The rise of solar is ‘jeopardising the grid’ and it's a lesson for Australia
So well that the anti-battery Liberal Party is funding its expansion.
_AzMoo··on Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
This sounds suspiciously like all business everywhere.
_AzMoo··on My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
Add a second source and it will prioritise that over pypi.

  [[tool.poetry.source]]
  name = "my-repo-name"
  url = "https://myrepo.url/"
_AzMoo··on My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
Right? It's literally the same set of issues.

Package Management - npm? bower? yarn? Which should I use this week?

Interpreter Versions - Revisiting a project I last touched 2 years ago on node 8 has a load of locked dependencies that only work on that node version. OK, let's bring in nvm so I can get a dev environment going.

Executable Packages - oh no I've got two different projects with different and incompatible versions of apollo, what do I do? Oh right, sure npx for executable isolation so we don't pollute the global namespace.

Every ecosystem has these problems, and if they don't it's probably because they're still relatively esoteric.

_AzMoo··on Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to negative prices
> and my guess is that Australian electricity isn't cheaper on average

South Australian electricity is actually some of the most expensive in the world due to incredibly high transmission costs.

_AzMoo··on Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
Why would you do that though? The underlying database technology is not really one of the problems access has.
_AzMoo··on Twitter to ban political advertising
It's funny that I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the comments to reach a discussion that I think really highlights the crux of the problem. We know that social media platforms will take down content that is illegal. The issue is that it's legal for political parties (or anybody) to post false or misleading statements for the purposes of political propaganda.

AOC's hypothetical ad shouldn't be policed by Facebook, it should be policed by the police, or at the very least be an example of criminal defamation that is handled in the court system. I Am Clearly Not A Lawyer but I am surprised by looking at the existing legislation on criminal defamation that it's not.

_AzMoo··on Ask HN: I'm losing faith in all we've invested in Apple software, what do I do?
On the flip-side, when relying on OSS you can often find yourself in a situation where the last maintainer of a library critical to your workflow disappears, and the only options you have are to fork it and maintain it yourself (at high cost), or switch to something else if it's available (often at high cost). OSS is not a panacea for development risk.
_AzMoo··on Show HN: Due.work – Simplify your work, to-do's and communications
I've been having the same problems with a project management tool. Almost all of them are either too simple or too complex. This looks like it might fill that gap.

I signed up and wanted to ask questions about what features were available, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to contact support. "Help" simply takes me to a video which is not very helpful.

I will ask here instead.

I have a single team working on many different projects. Each project needs its own individual tasks and timelines, but I would like to see a consolidated timeline which crosses projects. Is that available, or do you have plans to make that available?

_AzMoo··on The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy
That is a fairly strong assumption for a good chunk of the world.
_AzMoo··on Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian
You stand them upright so you've still got plenty of space in the bed. It's very common here in Australia.
_AzMoo··on Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian
Can't be too hard to just mount a wheel carrier in the bed, or swinging on the rear, and just use that spot as extra storage though. I don't know a single off-roader who doesn't mod their vehicle in similar ways to make up for perceived shortcomings.
_AzMoo··on Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog
I don't work in ops so I can't talk for the Meraki experience from that perspective, but I can tell you that their python SDK is beyond shocking.
_AzMoo··on Pocket Casts Is Now Free
> Pocket Casts going offshore to a boring anonymous US outfit

Uh? NPR? WNYC Studios? This American Life? Not really a "boring anonymous US outfit".

_AzMoo··on Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
> Who is to decide what's still acceptable and what not?

You are. Don't they teach people ethics anymore?

_AzMoo··on Webpack Doesn't Work on Monday (On Windows)
"Sure. See you Saturday then."
_AzMoo··on REST and GraphQL framework to build API-driven projects
It's the supporting libraries. GraphQL itself is fantastic and solves so many of the issues that crop up when using REST, especially around excessive requests, extraneous data and poor transaction support. My team's core knowledge is in Python and Django so that's where we're most productive, even hamstrung by the tools, but with a bit more flexibility in timelines I'd probably go the typescript/node/apollo route.
_AzMoo··on REST and GraphQL framework to build API-driven projects
Yes. The transition has been frustrating. We won't go back because of the benefits inherent in GraphQL's design, but graphene-django has so much boilerplate that a more complex application becomes very convoluted. In my opinion there's a lot of work to be done to get it to a point where it's not a frustrating experience to implement.
_AzMoo··on Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
There are loads of options for BI backends. Snowflake, Panoply, Redshift... the list goes on and on and on.
_AzMoo··on Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China
We should be quite confident because there are signs they're already adopting environmentalist policies. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/a...
_AzMoo··on Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter
I use twitter specifically because it's focused on people and not interests. I love learning more about the history of communist mapping because somebody who I followed after meeting them at a conference tweeted about it.
_AzMoo··on Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption
Don't they have access to any satellite services?
_AzMoo··on Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership
If you're developing something novel and it's not deployed as it's completed you risk a competitor beating you to market. As well as this, the time between having a product or feature complete and ready for release equates to lost revenue. The ideal is to have all aspects of the project completed and ready for deployment (actual feature, supporting documentation, training materials, marketing campaigns and materials, etc.) at the same time to maximise possible revenue.
_AzMoo··on The Cult of Homework
I pick her up, but there's also plenty of public transport available for her to take, which is what she does when she's with her father.
_AzMoo··on The Cult of Homework
My step-daughter's school library is open until 5pm and she goes there every day after school to do her homework. Do other schools not offer this?
_AzMoo··on U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person
All of the chemistry sets I've seen for the last 10 years have been severely nerfed. Nothing like the type of thing I had when I was a kid in the 80s.
_AzMoo··on Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)
At least you get paid in an apprenticeship.
_AzMoo··on Some young people are buying houses with friends
I absolutely recommend a cleaner for anybody that can afford it, but cleaners only clean around stuff, they don't tidy things for you. At least none that I've ever had. If you've got a housemate who leaves their breakfast dishes on the counter on the day your cleaner comes in, that counter won't get cleaned.
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