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>Do people allocate a certain amount of time just to upgrade Rails?

Is there a framework or technology that doesn't need constant maintenance? I feel like Rails is actually quite low maintenance. Major version changes are rare - Rails 6 was released in 2019.

small correction: gcp will still charge you but at a reduced rate.

>the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the result not of their practices but of individuals' inevitable failure to be conscientious

according to Seaspiracy, almost 50% of the plastic in the garbage patch is from the fishing industry.

only a few plastics can really be recycled. plastic recycling is hard and not worth the money as long as pumping out new stuff is way cheaper. Thus the need of taxing the production of single use stuff.

> what harm is simply photographing an accident scene, as long as you are not causing disruption

Because it always causes disruption.

When the money from ads and classifieds moved to the web...

You should check your envelope again. If you did your taxes online in the past you don’t even have to snail mail the receipts anymore, they accept digital copies/photographs now.

this reminds me of https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/135610566671739289...

yeah, all DNS records are gone.

dig notion.so

  ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> notion.so
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 17971
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;notion.so.   IN A

  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  so.   1098 IN SOA d.nic.so. hostmaster.nic.so. 2021021213 21600 3600 604800 1200

  ;; Query time: 303 msec
  ;; SERVER: 2a02:168:519b:0:5d0a:c6a1:b908:a391#53(2a02:168:519b:0:5d0a:c6a1:b908:a391)
  ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 12 14:25:11 CET 2021
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 91

I drew a circle and it got flagged nsfw

My broken usb c charger cable plug and port tells a different story. Please bring back a MagSafe style charging connector.

This is pretty cool! However, these two samples are very simple to solve. I'd love an "AI" to find root causes for problems that are not obvious. Just throw the whole log collection at it and let it solve all the issues. One can dream ;)

When I was travelling the US for a few months I drove the old Mojave road. at the end you pas by some lava tubes[1]. about 30min before that place there was a stranded Ford Mustang with a couple in it. They got stuck in the sand, had no water, no food and no means to get out. The were on their way to Las Vegas and wanted to see the tubes. they just followed Google maps.

Another time in I encountered another tourist in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, totally lost. Again, blindely followed Google Maps.

In Death Valley I crossed tourists in a rented SUV who wanted to cross over the Lippincott Pass to get to the Racetrack Playa, again following Google Maps. I talked them into turning around, there was no way they were going to make it. Also, they were not prepared at all (no water, food, etc.)

In Ecuador, Google Maps lead me down a mountain road which turned into a mountain bike track. I made it out in one piece, it made for a good story[2] but it is pretty damn dangerous.

If you are in a remote area, always double check google maps suggested, eg. with an OSM based map.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mojave-lava-tube

[2] https://www.bueti-online.ch/talks/overlanding-and-sre/

it's a shame, google photos is a really good product. but not that good that I'd pay extra - I already have 1 TB of storage from Microsft 365. I guess it's time to move on in June.

and who is gonna believe them that? now the customer is no longer not only the product but is also paying for that.

since when is the seattle coffee culture largely dead? o_O

Why would you need a manager for 1 person? There are 0 benefits in creating a team like that.

You left out the part where most items on amazon don’t ship to Switzerland. The probably only item with free shipping is books.

Nope, about 160years.