I was doing some Exercism tasks the other day and then saw this so if only felt right that I make a donation.
Looking at some of the comments there seems to be a number of people who have also just made a donation.
Given the state of every service becoming subscription based, I can definitely see a lot of subscription fatigue.
Maybe an alternative route you could try is the annual wikipedia "We want to keep this free. Please help us buy donating".
I think a lot of people appreciate the service but a lot of the times it's easy to forget that running a service like exercism can get expensive, and would be willing to donate, given a compelling enough reminder of this.
Personally I find notifications on a watch to be exceptionally annoying so I almost always have my watch set to sleep mode. The only thing I use the watch for is to tell the time, track my sleep, heart rate, and steps. I'm not sure if sleep mode affects the accuracy of the tracking but it does make my battery life last for a good 2-3 days.
Same. Additionally, it would be far more lethal if an explosion where to happen at the security gates rather than on an actual plan. The bottle necks caused by these security checks means there are potentially 1000s of people penned into a tiny room. On paper the checks make sense, but in reality their implementation creates a much greater potentially danger zone for passengers.
This 100ml restriction makes absolutely no sense at all. If someone wanted to carry out a suicide attack, it would stand to reason that their goal would be to maximise the damage they cause. If that assumption is correct, then it would make little to no sense to detonating it on a plane with a max capacity of 200-500, when the alternative would be to detonate it in the security hall. The delays caused by these 100ml checks create a bottle neck in airports which leads to potentially 1000s of people penned up in a small room waiting to have their deodorant taken away from them. Surly an explosion happening at the security gates would lead to far greater tragedy than the one they are trying to guard against. Absolutely absurd.
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but if it came out the handful of companies that always seem to populate the duty-free area where lobbying to keep security checks in place, I can't say I would be surprised as I'd imagine it being a rather lucrative location to sell deodorant's shampoos, and other basic hygiene essentials.
From the 2022 data I could find about Facebook's financials, it seems pulling out of the EU would cost Facebook 25% of it's revenue... Good luck to anyone attempting to justify that decision to shareholders.
Your concerns about the potential pitfalls of establishing a censorship regime are 100% warranted. However the paradox of tolerance, as described by Karl Popper, is quite relevant here. Popper posited that for a society to remain tolerant, it must have the right to be intolerant of intolerance. This seems contradictory, but the essence is that unchecked tolerance can eventually be exploited by the intolerant, jeopardising the very foundation of a tolerant society. Popper emphasised that the intolerance which shouldn't be tolerated is that which refuses to engage in "rational argument". It's crucial to strike a balance to ensure the preservation of free speech while preventing its misuse.
Sorry if this is a silly question: The article states that if the companies fail to comply then they can be issued with fines worth 6% of the company’s annual revenue. What would happen in the even where one of the companies just said "Nope. We're not paying it."?
In that case I assume the offending company would be dragged into lengthy and expensive legal battles against the EU. But is it likely that the EU could or would also block access to the services offered by these companies?
Given that you're the sole backend developer with a focused vision for the app, the Server-Informed UI approach described in the article could work well for you. It simplifies the backend architecture and makes it easier to coordinate with your frontend team.
However, for long-term scalability, you might run into issues with this approach. If so, take a look at "Bounded Contexts," a technique in Domain-Driven Design that helps break down your application into manageable, scalable units.
This approach would also be a nightmare if you ever decided to refactor the frontend. You'd be forced to do double the work since failing to update your backend would probably result in nonsensical legacy naming... I'd also dread to think what would happen if you also used the backend to serve a mobile app. You'd end up spending 40% of your time trying to figure out what to name fields before eventually going full circle and reverting back to logical generic names :|
I recently came across https://imglarger.com/ which is an AI image enlarger. I haven't used it yet so can't give a review, but they there is a free plan you can try and even their paid tiers seem reasonably priced.
Metaplex's Candy Machine) is the most widely used Solana Program for minting Solana NFTs [Note: Smart Contracts are called "Programs" in the Solana ecosystem].
Metaplex released Candy Machine V2, but Sugar seems to be a brand new rewrite of the program and the successor of CMv2 - However it seems it's still in beta.
The CLI just lets you interact with the Solana BlockChain to register NFTs (Setup Mint Authority etc.)
The reason it's written in Rust is because Solana uses Rust. Similar to how Etherium Smart Contracts need to be written in Solidity, Solana Programs need to be written in Rust.
I know it's not the best explanation but I hope it helps clarify things at least a little.
Again, this might just be in my head, but the basic concept is that users create "capsules collections" that are a collection of clothes based on an occasion, where any item in the capsule could be swapped to create a new outfit, in the knowledge that each combination will match (to varying degrees). Then other users can like a combination, and it becomes clear which is the best outfit according to the community... I wanted to extend this later to allow users to search for capsules or outfits that contained items they have added to their wardrobe.