The problem of reliability isn't really with Home Assistant. It comes from the pain of integrating the almost-but-not-quite compatible cheap Chinese devices that claim to work with a standard, but don't.
The ecosystem is so fragmented between cheap race-to-the-bottom gadgets and the more expensive "works only with OUR app" that integrating anything more than just a few bulbs is a pain.
And that's not even considering the amount of customer support that someone doing this professionally would have to provide.
> Russia and Ukraine generate a quarter of the world's grain, and nearly as much so of corn.
They generate a quarter of the grain export. That's a very important difference.
Russia stopping wheat exports would be a very bad thing, but it's not nearly as catastrophic as some present it to be.
How's that going to backfire?
What you've presented as the "bad option" is the current status quo. Putin had sky high approval for decades and the Russian population has supported him while he strengthened his grip on power.
Hear me out. Russia is corrupt to the core with leadership that's only focused on enriching themselves.
It wouldn't surprise me if their conventional military proved to be way less capable then they're presenting it to be.
Sure, they have enough smart people that are able to design advanced weaponry, but do they have the industrial capacity to actually build? And do they have the capability to maintain it? How about troop training?
They did have those secure means for communications up until now. Nothing changed. Or, dare I say, it changed for the worse. The regime in Russia got worse by the day and the people of Russia, at best did nothing, at worst cheered Putin on.
I want Epic to win.
It's fine if you want to have Apple as an option.
It's not fine to have Apple as the only option. Apple should either allow 3rd party IAPs or 3rd party app stores. Having neither is Apple abusing it's power and forcing it on consumers.
Edit: The OP expanded that the post was about the linked article... now my comment doesn't make too much sense.
If you say that about Milewki's talks then I don't agree. He does use Haskell notation a lot, but gives C examples as well and most of his arguments are based in category theory/general programming.
Anyway, I think that the series of talks linked in the GP are a must watch. Even for people that don't fully agree with the viewpoint of Category Theory being a "holly grail" the videos do provide a different point of understanding.
I mean, I don't expect Google to show the same results to everyone (this is what I get: http://imgur.com/a/go3pU ). Funny thing is that the results changed between my first and second query (there was another unrelated result before the first link to Samsung).
I'm not complaining about ads and this fine is not about ads. It is about Google favoring Google Shopping links instead of competitors even though Google Shopping was inferior when it started. Google basically pushed their product no matter how shitty it was.
If it were not for Google being a near monopoly in search this would not be a problem, but Google is a monopoly, so special rules apply to them.
> I fail to see how showing links to search results pages from other companies in response to a product query is better for consumers than just showing them a listing of the products they actually searched for.
But that is not what google does. I just did a search for "samsung galaxy s8". Instead of the first result being a link to a Samsung page I got 3 results that where ads (one of them being for the new oneplus). How does that match the "show what people searched for"? The results where sorted by "how much money did google receive" instead of "what the user intended".
Or you should be happy, that the EU actually uses their regulatory power to benefit the consumer no matter how big the company they're going against is.
I guess it is the "vast plume of gas" that the article mentions:
The star has been observed in many other wavelengths, particularly in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope astronomers discovered a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System. Astronomers have also found a gigantic bubble that boils away on Betelgeuse’s surface.
IMO that is also true for Scala. And is something that gets criticized every single time I see a reference to Scala on the internet.
Yet very few people acknowledge that the problem these languages are trying to solve is complex and that the solution is not always pretty because of the interaction with the platform they're supposed to run on.
And what do you think the reason for that is?
> while providing all the R&D they use to play audio on the device for free
Simply absurd logic. The device owner paid for their device and the OS. Apple already got their cash bag for it.