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Comment · 8 days ago
Many may think that EDIFACT is easy to parse, which may be the case. But it is NOT easy to interpret.

There are hundreds of "substandards" per industry. For example for clothes or medicine, most vendors have custom fields outside of the standard which MUST be interpreted/sent or everything falls apart

Comment · 1 month ago
Reminds me of sprinkling DoEvents all over my VBA code to keep it "snappy" when I started to get into programming
Comment · 3 months ago
Acid (oxalic acid, formic acid) treatments can be used multiple times in a row, but are harder on the bees
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes, they remove the mites if they detect them. Asian honey bee colonies usually do not collapse from varroa mites.

But since European honey bees produce much more honey, the are the prefered species and used worldwide

Comment · 3 months ago
I have bees myself. Beekeepers and scientists all over the world are trying to breed better bees with improved VSH. While it may work in a laboratory, it does not seem to work consistently in practice. You cannot just buy a "VSH colony/queen" and no longer treat Varroa mites. Even with careful breeding, the VSH behavior often vanishes (or is greatly reduced) after 1-2 generations.

Of course having only colonies with a strong VSH would be the end goal so we no longer need to treat our bees. But until then, better treatments are needed.

Comment · 4 months ago
Cloudflare really likes to publish new projects, but improving them in the future is not really their style. Some examples:

- They launched Cloudflare Web Analytics in 2020, but it still does not support basic things such as UTM parameters or custom events

- With wrangler (their CLI), you still cannot undeploy a Cloudflare Page

Comment · 4 months ago
GraphQL implementations could switch to this
Comment · 4 months ago
Proxies are allowed to drop bodies of HTTP GET requests.

RFC 9110 states:

> [..] content received in a GET request has no generally defined semantics, cannot alter the meaning or target of the request [..]

> A client SHOULD NOT generate content in a GET request [..]

Comment · 5 months ago
He was arrested in New York, so he was in the US
Comment · 7 months ago
Why would they be out of date? The ecosystems themselves (for example .NET) receives regular updates.

Yes, they cannot include everything, but enough that you do not _need_ third party packages.

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