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100%.

Even just loading files off the old spinning disks took ages. Loading screens for a game could take 5-10 minutes.

Even just booting into my Linux box took 3-5 minutes and optimizing the boot time was a whole thing you spent a lot of time on.

I remember the day I received my first SSD and installed it in my computer, it was like Christmas morning. Things are way faster now.

I think this is a major (the only?) reason these internet companies are even successful. Because they just ignore all these costs that don’t scale well that ordinary companies should have.

In my experience for medium sized services it’s still better to have everything talk to the same authentication database.

Postgres has insanely good read performance. Most companies and services are never going to reach the scale where any of this matters, and developer time is usually the more precious resource.

My advice is always, don’t get your dev team bogged down supporting all this complicated JWT stuff (token revocation, blacklisting, refresh, etc) when you are not Facebook scale / don’t have concrete data showing your service really truly needs it.

They need to. Honestly we need a way to completely segregate Chinese and Russian networks off, as well as anyone who peers with them. They are using our open networks to brazenly attack us in broad daylight… it’s time to fight back.

This is my take. Consciousness is overrated and probably just an emergent phenomena of the brain processing external stimuli into memory, moving memories around, etc etc, in a continuous and never ending flow. Free will is just an illusion of our deterministic but fundamentally random reality.

There isn’t even an agreed upon definition for what consciousness is from a scientific perspective.

I feel like this announcement could use a more clear summary of the key point at the top.

It sounds like Remix will be discontinued and anyone using it will need to upgrade to React Router? Is that not going to be super super confusing?

They do. My wife lost her 10-year-old Instagram account to a well crafted phishing attack against an email she had published…

Instagram/Meta’s customer support is absolutely atrocious and disgraceful on this front. They basically treat my wife like she’s also a spammer and there’s no way to recover the account or undo any of the changes the spammers made.

It’s hilarious how they ask you to “appeal” a ban by clicking a single button without giving any chance to rectify what the spammers did to her account. Of course their automated bots just reject your appeal almost instantly. Shameful.

> They managed to secure continuous income streams of free money by talking to people on their phones. It’s extra money and surely they planned on doing more scams. That’s the motivation.

Doesn’t this pretty much describe a sales job? Except the product they are selling doesn’t exist.

Really? When I first saw it I understood it must have to do with changing languages.

A funny argument to make when the “contract” is entirely automated, without negotiation or consideration.

Such agreements should not be enforceable in the first place.

I don’t think anyone is trying to pass an exam here, but just give an understandable overview to a general audience.

I’m betting they’ve turned on some AI “features” for detecting fraud and it’s not working out as well as promised.

“Officially” is meaningless here. The blocking exists, and it is at the direction or under the control of their government.

They are yet same thing. You know, if it looks like a duck.

This is standard operating procedure for the communist party. They rarely say any kind of topics or activities are banned outright. It’s just that if you say the wrong things in the wrong place, a bunch of plainclothes police will come to your home in the middle of the night.

I found the interviewer comes across as incredibly pretentious. I can’t stand this style of writing, he is trying way too hard.

Not only that, but reinvented it way worse… now it depends on GitHub (aka Microsoft).