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It seems instead that they just don't even want to touch it.
Oh yes. Simple! Jesus, this ML stuff makes a humble web dev like myself feel like a dog trying to read Tolstoy.
I see you have never been in any real pain, ever. What do you get for cancer in Germany? Still ibuprofen?
There's a reason opioids exist and were such a revolution in medicine. They really work. Ibuprofen et al are fine for what they are, but anti-inflammatories can only do so much. We should be able to solve the over-prescribing and addiction issues as a society without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Ha. Can confirm. Lived there 2 years and while I love the food, as far as I can tell there is no food available anywhere in Japan, at all, that the average south east asian would recognise as even mildly spicy. And outside the home islands I have observed Japanese people reacting hilariously to the actually spicy local food. My favourite was a co-worker who literally collapsed to the floor in the foetal position moaning after eating a mala hotpot which was, at best, medium heat.
Love the people, love the country, but Golden Curry's bright warning red "EXTRA HOT" is not bloody hot at all.
[1] “Because the elephant has a master, a mahout. And his master is an unforgiving son of a bitch with a nasty barbed-iron stick and an elephant gun. He is otherwise known as an institutional investor. All start-up entrepreneurs should say their prayers for institutional investors, those fabulous beasts, every night. “Dear Lord, thank you, thank you for institutional investors in big companies.”
As a founder, you don't have that reputation and track record to point to, so you'll need to be more careful, especially in the early days.
But I doubt it's about the pure dollars and cents. There's plenty of money in porn, even now. It's about having a plausible story to tell the card companies and PR. Twitter and Reddit are safe, and it's about that story, not steak dinners.
So many rules, especially in compliance, are like this. They all boil down to "we'll look the other way for minor violations but as soon as you piss us off, you have our full attention and not in a good way". Keeps everyone on their toes and is probably better than trying to define some kind of exact threshold (which everyone would then brazenly ride exactly on the edge of).
Note I'm not agreeing with it in the slightest.
Maybe things have improved, and maybe I was using the "wrong" languages, but when we tried this at a previous company the generated code was deemed so awful that we abandoned that idea almost on day 1. To this day I tend to believe the promise of "write once, generate anywhere!" to be mostly BS.
Not even picking on protobuf specifically here - last time I tried a REST generative approach (swagger?) the results were similarly unusable. The whole concept is a fantasy, unless things have staggeringly improved.
The reason the media isn't covering this nonsense isn't because of a cover-up, it's because it's nothing but fantasy.
It is the absolute textbook definition of conspiracy thinking. You seriously think some shadowy elite started "a lockdown, then a war, centralizing the banking system and unleashing A.I." in furtherance of some unspecified nefarious plan?
Wild claims presented with zero evidence can and should simply be dismissed without further thought.
> Deploying Phoenix is a nightmare when compared to Laravel.
It ships with a Dockerfile which is simple to deploy if you know docker at all. How is this a nightmare exactly?
> In Phx you have to reinvent a lot of things and often, of course, choosing the wrong path.
Like what? Give examples. I find the ecosystem pretty well developed, actually.
> Also, Phoenix is bad in environments with bad wi-fi.
Do you mean the (optional) liveview, which your preferred framework Laravel is in the process of also implementing with blade/livewire?
Programmed in a reasonably defensive way, Liveview will perform and behave mostly like any SPA application - often better, because there's less front end code to load up front. Of course, in cases where internet access is known in advance to be bad, it should probably not be used. This will be a pretty rare case, though.
> The experience with 1.6 and 1.7 rc was bad
The RC process was long, yes, but how can you fault the framework for this? What could they have done differently? It sounds like you wouldn't be happy either way?
> PHP is made for sloppy web programmers (like me).
I think I know why you didn't have a great experience with Phoenix.
The 99.999% of tech that does not, in fact, run (or would want to run) on friggin' AWS lambdas would like to have a quiet word with you.
Is there any reason in particular you think a lot of high-level language people are moving to Rust? That is not my impression or experience at all and I struggle to think of any reason to do so besides a large, individual change in career focus. As a higher-level language user myself, I can't think of a single reason I would ever use Rust for anything. Sure, I think it's cool, and it's always good to learn new languages, but in practise it's just not suited to my domain - and I think that goes for the vast majority of us.
I would say golang has scooped off more of the dynamic language types myself, although I also consider it a productivity downgrade and/or cargo cult to mostly be ignored without compelling reason. Which is even more the case with Rust!
But yes, now it is personally inconveniencing me, and so I'm looking at alternatives.
I have to admit I don't know anything about Portugal but with a little research it is very possible to find a territorial tax-based country to live, where one does not owe any money on overseas income, and live completely legally there as a tax resident, taxed only only your minimal local salary - if that. Now I suppose that's not for everyone but if people were moving to Portugal specifically for tax reasons then I'm surprised they didn't, you know, check it out a bit first.
I suppose it depends on your definition of "hefty" but a couple of thousand USD is usually sufficient, depending on jurisdiction, and obviously is expected to pay for itself many (, many, many) times over.
It's not that hard and it's not just for the 1%. Especially if you're anything approaching a "digital nomad" I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't establish a consulting company somewhere offshore, bill from that, pay yourself a quarterly dividend and then import only the money you actually need.
Well that's funny, because I see a desperate post by a gmail user with an unresolvable 2FA glitch (except by screaming for help on tech-oriented forums hoping someone will notice) basically every week, and yet somehow Fastmail isn't out of business yet. And who knows how many "normies" without an HN/Twitter megaphone just silently lose access, weep a bit and give up?
I have no doubt that Google won't actually lose my email data, but if I can't access it and have no recourse then there's no difference in practise.
A few months later it suddenly worked again, and I seized that opportunity to move permanently away from gmail. I was lucky. I do not want my access to my online identity to be governed by luck, however, so really advise anyone who will listen to make the move before this kind of sob story happens to them.
"It won't happen to me" - I thought that too, and no doubt so did the OP. Won't it? How much will it cost you if you're wrong?
It now costs me $50/yr to know it won't happen to me and I'm more than happy to pay a fair price for a good product, like I do for everything else.
I don't know why we ever thought free email was a good idea. Of course Google doesn't care about a free email user. They're just another useless eater out of billions. And yet so many of us (me included, until switching) basically built our whole online existences around gmail.
Email is important. Important things are worth paying for. You have status and recourse if anything goes wrong. Gmail works until it suddenly doesn't and you are reduced to desperate moves like begging for relief on HN. Move away before that happens, and vote with your wallet for fair service for a fair price.
No fan of Binance but it's a reasonable explanation and submitter has given no reason to think it is not, indeed, a temporary situation, as has happened many times in the past without particular note.
The exercise and showers maybe, but feeling like you need your yubikey with you literally 24 hours a day certainly is. I use them extensively and with everything properly set up perhaps need it a couple of times a week at best. Having it on a keychain or in a backpack is fine.
Hate to say "you're doing it wrong" but you (or your company) certainly seem to be doing something wrong to have this level of hassle. No-one would use them if they were this much trouble.
Good mentors, on the other hand, can be very valuable - but they choose you as much as you choose them, and it's rarely about money, not directly anyway.
In countries known for their lawlessness, perhaps Brazil for example, or Papua New Guinea, HNW people do indeed have security details and live in pretty fortified areas (whole districts, typically, not just houses). A visiting CEO or whoever, depending on how well-known they are and how publicly knowable their visit is likely to be, might well organise such protection when they visit. Countries like this, all countries actually, have companies specialising in exactly that.
But I think in countries where there is a credible claim to rule of law, attacks on the actual person are pretty rare. Kidnapping as a general crime is all but extinct in most of the developed world, and you'd have to kidnap someone to make any actual money - it's not like they have a billion dollars in cash on their person. You'd have to kidnap for ransom (or I suppose crypto keys these days?) which is just extraordinarily risky and unlikely to succeed in the modern, developed world.
As to the "uber from the airport" question, anyone above a certain net worth has at least one assistant who organises their calendar and travel (and their whole lives, actually) and they will have arranged transport to/from airports in advance.