In case it's useful to anyone: another implementation of this idea is Weeve https://shop.weeve.ie I bought one of their books (a study in scarlet) but it wasn't great. Lots of mistranslation, especially later on in the book. The general idea seemed to work well though, with better implementation I think it could really help my french.
I'll give this one a try, being able to add my own books is particularly exciting.
I guess this is mostly relevant for software that runs on shared infra, sends requests to a url provided by an attacker (e.g. webhooks), and uses a SOCKS5 proxy?
The article was too vague for me to really understand, but I think it's suggesting something like Brandur's deeply-integrated idempotency keys design [1] except that the infra is provided by a saas company? Also somehow it supports rollbacks?
Does anyone know of any other more concrete explanation of how these kinds of systems could work?
As far as I know givedirectly have found that cash transfers are effective at improving people's long term wealth. But I've never heard anything about them moving people from the poor to the "less poor" mode of a bimodal wealth distribution. Maybe the difference is that this experiment was run in a place that has a clear bimodal distribution, which allowed them to observe this more easily?
Wish I could read the paper but it's behind a paywall and not on scihub.
I'm probably missing something, but it sounds like using Warp has a bunch of downsides vs "just" creating a read only replica using logical replication and then failing over. Did you choose Warp only because of Azure's limitations or were there other reasons?
Another problem with the current situation which isn't mentioned in the PEP: I often see people writing `foo_bar or 1` instead of `foo_bar if foo_bar is not None else 1`, which is usually incorrect when a is a number (zero is falsey). I think a terser "official" way of doing this would help there.
But, I often solve this with a function like:
```
def default_to(x: Optional[T], d: T) -> T:
return x if x is not None else d
```
I wonder if having this function as the official way to do it would solve the problem without the "specialness" of `??`.
But there's no good equivalent that I know of for `?.`, that's a real pain to do with python as it is now so it seems like a nice addition.