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If you'll recall a few years ago these products did not exist, largely because miniaturized battery technology wasn't good enough

I think we basically agree.

My position is: if you're a danger to yourself and society you should be coerced into receiving treatment (either in a prison or mental institution) if you are not you should receive housing and non-coercive treatment options through a publicly funded healthcare system.

This seems weirdly controversial though. Seems like people vehemently opposed one or the other half of the solution and we get the terrible situation we have now.

Everyone deserves safe housing, living among raving maniacs is not safe, ergo we need to house dangerous people like that separately. Ideally in a way that helps them the most.

Shuffling mumblers are not dangerous.

Correct, but screaming at people on the street is a being danger to society. And the choice is: should that person be prison or mandatory treatment?

I really hate comments like yours, trying to justify bad decisions instead of admitting you're wrong.

Of course there are reasons, they are just not good ones. They were bad then, and disastrously bad now in light of the climate change threat.

What you are describing is called a "mirrorless" camera which is what the article says will be the future. They also have interchangeable lenses, but there are less constraints on the design since they don't have to interface with another optical system, just the digital sensor, which is the main point the article is trying to make.

Huh, you're right. I guess I gotta message an old coworker and tell them their "perf optimization" didn't work.

Lesson learned, thanks!

Postgres is somewhat different mainly because it doesn't use clustered index primary keys. So the row's position on disk is not related to the primary key index entry's position on disk.

Additionally using the less cryptographically secure uuid v1 can be a performance optimization since it has implicit time based sorting.

It's another example of cyberspace is becoming more like meatspace.

I don't nap but I have definitely found it easier to keep a regular sleep schedule. Probably because I can intersperse my household chores (laundry, tidying up, grocery shopping) in the workday as a break so I it doesn't compete with personal time after work. Much easier to not stay up late and therefore get an earlier start.

Also I don't drink as much at home so my sleep quality is definitely better.

(Note I don't yet have kids and my partner has a similiar sleep schedule as me)

If the islands appear bigger then the struggle to control them appears more worthy.

Hard to get anyone enthusiastic to fight over small rocks in the sea.

It's fundamentally the same thing, but when the kernel is refuses to deallocate memory you can't just terminate the process, you have to reboot the system.

NEWSEQUENTIALID() on SQL server generates a monotonically increasing GUID since last server restart, but monotonicity is not guaranteed between server restarts.

I am not aware of an equivalent function in postgres.

This happening. I live in Europe and number of American companies hiring here has skyrocketed over the last 18 months. And it's great. European tech compensation is finally starting to rise. I don't think it will ever match the insanity that is the Bay Area. But a senior engineer making ~€200k total compensation while living in Germany is no longer unheard of.

Anecdotally I've heard from Indian colleagues that wages back home are also rising fast.

In the end I think this will balance out in favor of Europe/India and against the Bay Area. Which is fine by me. But I understand that the $500k/year Palo Alto people are getting nervous...

You are aware that abortion is illegal in Germany right?

It has been de facto "decriminalized" in the first trimester, since the government has declined to prosecute such cases, however a doctor even advertising that they perform abortions is grounds to lose their medical license.

It is legal in other European countries, but I just want to point out that Europe is neither homogeneous nor universally "left" of the US

Unfortunately it's easy enough to confuse MyPy that you can't really fit in with the rest of this list.

It is actually about 1.6% of the population

Yes, those would also be a very bad choice for a large project. But at least they have the advantage of being very lightweight so can be a good fit for adding simple crud features to a microservice, especially ML services that already need to use python for other reasons.

Django is the worst of both worlds. Not suited for small services, and not able to scale with large ones.

To your "load of crap" point, web development looked very different >10 years ago, Django was a lot better fit for that era. There is _zero_ reason to use it today.

I agree, the “batteries included” approach makes it very attractive for a new startup to use to get off the ground quickly. But in every case I have seen (3 separate companies now) it lets the team run up a huge amount of tech debt and get a lot of features locked into a very unscaleable, unperformant, architecture.

It’s tempting to prototype with it, but I can’t think of a single use case that wouldn’t be better served with another framework.

Django is not appropriate for production imo

Based on the documentation this seems to be very limited in the queries it can accelerate, just LIKE and SIMILAR TO

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/managing-cl...

It's actually worse than you think since the @version notation needs to be explicitly marked by the maintainer of the package.

If they don't do this then there is no easy way to install an older version of a package, you will have to get the old .rb file from the brew git history and execute it yourself.

Because one camp (guess which) won't accept this solution since their actual goal is complete dominance.

I use this on my Manjaro KDE work machine and it has been a life saver since switching from Mac after 10+ years.

It works shockingly well.

Only annoyance is that applications are not necessarily aware of the new mac layout so if you're using an unfamiliar application looking up the keyboard shortcuts won't map exactly to what you need to press.

This caveat would apply for columns queried, not columns stored right?

I work for a sustainability startup in Berlin that is focussed on helping businesses analyze their carbon footprint to become neutral through reduction and offsetting.

We are looking for frontend (react), backend (python mostly), and data engineers.

If you're interested let me know how best to contact you!

This is similar to the advantage to amnesty for corrupt dictators proposed by Mesquita & White in The Dictators Handbook.

Basically giving authoritarian regimes an alternative to fighting to the death might increase overall utility.

Leonardo DaVinci is certainly more well known for his engineering and inventions than his art.

Does it need to be a binary publisher/distributor distinction?

Why not create a legal culpability for "editorial" decisions only. For example: if Twitter/Facebook/Youtube shows you content from users you follow in chronological order they would be exempt from responsibility. But, if they recommend you content based on some more advanced algorithm then they would have an "editorial" responsibility for the content of that content.

So if youtube recommends some insane conspiracy videos denouncing HRC as a lizard person, then they would be open to a libel lawsuit. But if they just hosted it and only showed it to subscribers or on search the platform would not be liable.

I guess "search" could be considered a recommendation algorithm but that could be carved out. And I don't think that search is really driving the social pollution of these large online platforms.

Seems like a fair compromise to me since it wouldn't affect fundamentally what could be posted online, but only affect how the platforms are processing those posts.

I live close to this. And while I can say it is a interesting historical curiosity, it is very obscure as a monument.

The main legacy of the Nazis grandiose architecture is just down the street at the site of the former Tempelhof airport which is no longer in service but at the time of construction was one of the largest structures in the world.

It is a truly gigantic swept wing eagle shaped building that even when it was the main city airport was only partially occupied. It's now falling into disrepair, but the guided tours are well worth it for the history and architecture.