This is awesome. Does anyone know if there is a library for the amazing optical codes that apple uses in its device transfer? I know they have a custom patent for it so I don't know if its something anyone has tried to recreated...
Agree, in fact this wonderful book calls this out, stating:
As DuckDB is an analytics database, it has only minimal support for transactions and parallel write access. You therefore couldn’t use it in applications and APIs that process and store input data arriving arbitrarily. Similarly when multiple concurrent processes read from a writeable database.
This really is great to see, but it’s clear from their careful wording that the google takedown of the recent widevine l3 repository won’t be reversed:
> And our reinstatement, based on new information that showed the project was not circumventing a technical protection measure (TPM)
Slightly off topic, are fines even the right approach to get better behavior? What incentive structure does they encourage?
I fear it encourages you to hide or down play an incident, if possible, when issues do happen. Instead you’d rather want to encourage transparency and some way to prove you’re following good practices and have a good track record. Maybe some incentives like car insurance companies claim to follow: better driving record, reduced insurance costs. (Not that I think car insurance is a successful/good example.)
Failure cases (like data breaches and ransomware attacks) are certainly easier to measure though, so maybe this is the best we can hope for...
I’ve used Zola and love the build speed and power that it has. My only real complaint is common mark as the markdown engine.
I prefer the tera/jinja2-esque template syntax over ramhorn/mustache-esque that’s used here.
I’ll have to try and port a theme to blades to give it a fair assessment.
Any chance this change was related to the recent scraping decision from the Supreme Court (I think) against linked in? Maybe this is to prevent people scraping content front public pages.
That and as others have mentioned I’m sure they’d love everyone to always be logged in for ad tracking purposes...
Does their brain consciously drive the control of their cell pigment/color ability, or is it something more subconscious/reactive/instinctive?
Seems like the brain has to be involved to coordinate...
I wonder what the closest thing like that would be for humans? Would it be akin to me thinking “i want to be more tan” and somehow my cells get the signal to be more tan?
Obviously we will likely never know, but there is some leap here I wish we understood better. (Or do we and I’m just unaware?)
Edit: thinking about it more... i don’t know what happens when i think to “make a fist” and yet it happens, so maybe it is something more at that level...
My understanding is that we're not totally certain if all black holes form from stellar mass black holes.
There is a theory that black holes can form from direct collapse. In this case, as I understand it, it can skip the star phase and just collapse straight into a black hole.... but I really am not an expert.
And I HIGHLY recommend the PBS NOVA episode "Black Hole Apocalypse" (Jan 10, 2018, Season 45 Episode 1). It was on Netflix for a while (and may still be.)
Absolutely painless. The “worst” part is having to drink enough water (with laxative and electrolytes) to clean your system for a clear view. I just had mine done and I was way more more anxious then I needed to be. Now I feel silly for being so worried about it.