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I have stopped using DDG since they started censoring or down-ranking some sites. I'm not even remotely interested in the things they down-rank, but it bothers me that they betrayed me for my main reason for choosing DDG in first place.

I started reading their website once their TV channel was blocked. Really just out of curiosity too see what all the noise is about. Now, I read both sides every time and I understand both sides tell the story the way they want to tell.

There are good APIs for doing that like messagebird.com

What are some of those missing new features when you use MOBI?

You can still use other formats on your Kindle. That restriction is for publishing new books on Amazon store.

If you want to publish a new book on Amazon, you have to use EPUB instead of MOBI. That's the only change afaik.

I promised myself that I would never try to learn Cloudflare until it made its pricing clearer and easier to calculate. How do they expect someone to use their services when no one can do a simple math without contacting their sales team?

How hard is for them to build something similar to https://calculator.aws ?

> My plan was to just build it from scratch using socket.io.

This doesn't scale, or you end up wasting all your resources on things that are not important to your customers.

Use something out there, if the business grew and you had nothing more impactful to do (building features that customers actually care about), invest on infrastructure.

Divide and conquer (democratically)!

Everyone is re-writing the Ukraine narrative.

Not so long ago relations were not as bad as it's today.

Everything has changed during the last 20 years.

Why is there a .min version? Did the author confuse it with JavaScript?

He did mention in the lecture that Russia was too weak at the time to step up against neighboring countries joining NATO.

The whole thing is really sad indeed. I believe any country should have the freedom to choose its security and financial alliance, but my point is that isn't how it works with geopolitics. Any major power would do the same if they were in Russia's position.

Replace Ukraine and Russia with Ireland and UK, and apply the same events that happened since 2000, you will end up with UK invading Ireland in 2022.

I think this lecture (2015) explains the situation very well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

Not anymore.

Last week we had an article about "Why babies cry" on the first page.

Exact title was "Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do"

I think a better approach was to fine individuals for breaking the law.

I never saw him retweet any of this!

123 comments about "why babies cry" on the first page!!!!!??

I stopped consuming caffeine almost two years ago. My wife became pregnant and stopped drinking caffeinated beverages throughout her pregnancy, and this continued during breastfeeding. The first few months were kind of annoying to feel drowsy in the afternoon.

I definitely feel I have more energy than before. But, I also became a father and I have a new source of energy in my life. So it's hard for me to confirm whether it's all due to caffeine or not.

My creativity and problem solving have noticeably increased and I really feel like I'm back in my 20s. But again, to be honest, I do not know if this is because of the new love of my life or the decaffeinated life.

I'm certainly busier at home, I probably sleep less than before, and I have a lot of new responsibilities as a dad, but surprisingly my output at work is significantly better than my peers and myself two years ago.

As a software engineer I still don't understand how this is even possible.

What kind of logic behind a URL preview can bypass everything? I think companies like NSO Group are just finding backdoors not software bugs.

For me, it was a combination of

- Light weight lifting and stretches.

- Kinesis Advantage II keyboard with some key mapping (I think Ergodox EZ is also a good option).

- A bigger mouse (MX Master 3).

- VIM keybindings everywhere to reduce how often I need to reach my mouse.

- Trying not to type too fast.

I just unfollow anyone that shares BS. You get a clean timeline after a while.

I guess self-service is good most of the times, but how is it going to handle temporary increase in resource usage? Think of a big infra refactoring project where a team may create lots of temporary instances and terminate them after a couple of months.

What's your view on Saving Plans vs Reserved Instances? Saving Plans seem to be much more flexible overall. Why only RIs then?

Looks cool.

How big is your sockjs-node infra? How many concurrent users do you expect it to handle?

Building ships and moving bridges. Aren't Dutch notoriously good at both? Why is it a big deal then.

I just go for a walk after I wake up even before having my breakfast.

macOS at work, Linux at home

Some countries don't have enough vaccine not because they can't pay for it. They are just way down in the queue cos others with more cash did a lot of bulk pre-orders.

We do not really have to rush to publish a short news article. We all regularly get this kind of breaking news in other places. I'm more happy to read a piece with technical analysis of the attack on the HN after a week.

That means they have to put staff on all flights. I'm sure someone did the calculation and what they do today was the most cost effective.

Cool! But, as someone who used to be very competitive with fast touch typing and then suffered some long-term injuries, I say do not overdo it. It hurts your fingers. Learn how to type correctly, but do not hurt your fingers and do not aim for speed.

Even though I have recovered physically, my fingers still (mentally) hurt when I try to type very fast. It hurts even when I think about it.