In Europe contactless payment is nearly everywhere - nearly every store supports it. Even in Germany (which is historically very pro-cash), since Covid more and more people pay with card and many of whom pay contactless.
In the EU we have some rules that even contactless payments with card sometimes, but not always, need to have some kind of additional authentication in the form of entering your PIN. Contactless payment methods via phone or watch don't have this need because they already have their own authentication methods. That's why so many people pay with their phone or watch. Its just more convenient and always contactless. (no PIN needed)
How is it in the US? Are things like Apple Pay still limited to certain stores?
I cannot directly answer your question, because I am looking into this topic myself currently, but I found this HN discussion from two weeks ago, which should give you more insights about pi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822
You could argue the same with Boeing vs. Airbus. Why should Europeans build their own aircrafts? Today I think a lot of people are happy, that Airbus exists to compensate for the problems that Boeing has. Competition is good and will lead to better solutions in the long run.
Me and my wife had the plans of visiting the US every year for vacation before our daughter starts with school in a couple of years. Not anymore. I think this administration will not only destroy a lot of goodwill and business relationships, but also the dreams of many people who had a positive attitude towards the US.
Oh yes, my wife bought a new Intel MBA in summer 2020... I told her at the time Apple planned its own chip, but it couldn't be much better than the Intel one and surely Apple will increase prices too... I was so wrong.
Using Sublime Merge for over a year now after using Magit/Emacs mostly (and git command line for years before that).
What I like about Sublime Merge is its performance and the stage/unstage UI/UX is intuitive and fast backed by a competent text editor engine, similar to what I liked about Magit. Having multiple repositories open in a tab interface is also nice.
What you have to keep in mind is that Sublime Merge also includes a competent merge tool (hence the name). Sometimes we have to do more complex merges and Sublime Merge does this in an intuitive and integrated way, which would be a completely separate application in many other popular Git front-ends. Therefore the price is IMHO fair and justified. I can recommend giving it a try for a couple of weeks.
That's not true. I have a German eBay account from May 2001 when we still had the DM. eBay was very popular back then and had a completely different feeling because it was mostly used by private individuals for selling their stuff instead of mostly professional merchants like it is today.
> And from Microsoft / GitHub - who would have a lot additional information (logs, ip-adresses, use of two-factor auth etc.)? Have they made a statement?
Based on a HN comment from a couple of weeks ago, by analyzing the attackers IP addresses from IRC chat logins, it seems they used a VPN service. If you think about it, it makes sense to always use VPN when doing an operation like this. So I think the ip addresses won't be of much use.
Exactly. I remember that many PAL PS2 games at the time had big black bars at the top and the bottom, and as a result a distorted image overall. The video game experience was not great for PAL gamers at the time because most developers made bad PAL ports. Most gamers wanted undistorted images and 60fps, which was solved when we came to the PS3/360 era with digital output via HDMI and newer flat screen TVs.
Your privacy policy is very short and missing some important information. Where are your servers located? What cloud providers do you use? Do you use encryption in transit and at rest? How do you protect my data? Where are you located?
Because task managers are storing a lot of sensitive information over time this is an important topic for a lot of people. The website should cover these questions.
We switched from using SMTP to the AWS SDK for SES because when sending an e-mail the SDK returns the unique message ID of the e-mail. This allowed us to have a special process for handling bounces in our software by using an SNS HTTP endpoint. So the SDK makes sense for use cases where the SMTP protocol doesn't provide enough information.
The region is known for its semiconductor industry, at least in Germany. Quote from Wikipedia about Dresden:
> Silicon Saxony Saxony's semiconductor industry was built up in 1969. Major enterprises today include AMD's semiconductor fabrication spin-off GlobalFoundries, Infineon Technologies, ZMDI and Toppan Photomasks. Their factories attract many suppliers of material and cleanroom technology enterprises to Dresden.
So it just makes sense to build fabs in Dresden because there is already a lot of know-how there.
Another excellent and also OpenSource book, which I used a couple of years ago to refresh my knowledge about modern JavaScript is Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke. Highly recommended. https://eloquentjavascript.net/
Advanced Data Protection now for the rest of the world. Any experience how well it works? I'm currently in the process of updating all my devices and activating it as soon as possible.
I've never met anyone who say's "I like YAML, it is great"... most people that worked with it say something like "YAML is annoying, I don't like it"...
While introducing Kubernetes at our company in the last two years, we are currently in a process going more and more away from YAML with internal Helm charts to a much simpler process by just using HCL and Terraform, and defining Kuberentes resources as Terraform resources.
As a software developer HCL just makes so much more sense than this YAML + Helm + Go templates hell, which feels like C preprocessor hell all over again. Other solutions like kustomize are neat, but I don't see how all of these YAML workarounds should be better than something like HCL with Terraform. HCL feels like a real declarative programming language (with real conditions, variables, a module system and useful built-in functions). YAML feels like another more complex JSON and other tools like Helm or Kustomize try to work around the weaknesses of YAML with some kind of templating system.
YAML looks nice to read in simple demos and in small files, but is just not adequate in the real world (in my personal opinion - I know that YAML is used by a lot of people in production as of today).