You choose to trust Encyclopedia Brittanica, and someone else chooses to trust CNN or some guy on X with 100m followers.
This is an appeal to authority, you’re still not checking any facts by yourself, and that’s exactly how people get manipulated.
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This is an appeal to authority, you’re still not checking any facts by yourself, and that’s exactly how people get manipulated.
Since the 50's, Europe and select Asian countries received large investments from the US; Latin America received coups supported by CIA and governments that sold out to foreign interests.
If I started from scratch, I would get rid of UPDATE and DELETE (these would be only very special cases for data privacy), and instead focus on first class views (either batch copy or streaming) and retention policies.
- With more wood available it’s more economical to use it as a building/manufacturing material over other emissive sources (concrete, steel, plastic)
- We can replant the same area multiple times
- Even if we plant crops for biofuels, it’s closer to carbon neutral than burning fossil anyway
Every move we can make towards planting (and managing) more of the surface of the Earth is an improvement, without waiting for miraculous new technology.
Python packaging has always been painful and it’s a popular option for CLI regardless.
I don’t think there only rational explanations, technology choices are a lot about culture and dogmas too.
The other hypothesis is that some cultures may be more attached to things. Yet another is that some cultures might have problems following orders.
It should be the opposite: with more messages you want to scale with independent consumers, and a monotonic counter is a disaster for that.
You also don’t need to worry about dropping old messages if you implement your processing to respect the commutative property.
> a squircle doesn’t look like a square with surgery performed on it; it registers as an entity in its own right, like the shape of a smooth pebble in a riverbed, a unified and elemental whole.
But I seem to remember reading about Jobs or maybe Ive stating smooth pebbles as a source of inspiration for how objects should feel in the hand – I believe it was in the context of the first iPhone shape.