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Cheap bidet attachments only spray water, fancier models spray water and soap, and blow-dry your butt.

Though, I guess the issue here is comparing bidet to no-bidet.

The bidet is so much better than TP only, it is not even close. Instead of feeling gross, you feel glorious, is what it is.

Bidet attachments usually have a self-cleaning mode, ie you push a button and then it sprays water over the sprinkler.

I bought mine off Amazon for like $40 and it does that.

BTW I do clean mine now and then, and there is like, almost nothing to clean. Compared to e.g. my humidifier, that needs almost-daily cleaning.

They do mention (but apparently do not recommend) that you can roll your own SSO.

This is really about having SSO, not about Octa or Google.

Sounds great in theory.

What we see in reality is that append-only database is unusable without making additional "projections" or whatever you call them, databases that are ready to be queried/updated, with maybe specific denormalizations, indexes and so on.

And oh, btw, those later databases are not "imutable".

I have a startup, we have a nice new product -- and obviously, there are some product specifics ,so we have our own support team, that we train to learn the product, and be able to answer customer questions, and so on.

If I hire Assembled to help with support, what can they provide?

Obviously, they will have zero knowledge of the product. What can Assembled help with here?

Is this about fending the first-line questions, like "please reboot your computer"?

BTW there is like thousands of companies that do that. Not clear what is special here.

So, how does immutability matter if we deal with the database -- which is what holds the state, and is obviously mutable.

>> It's an old open source project that isn't really actively developed.

Is it actively used?

>> There may be a valid reason to sign such an agreement without actually meaning it

Hmmm, I thought that if you sign an agreement... it does not matter whether you "mean it" or not. You signed it, so it has to have some meaning.

Or, can you back out of a signed agreement by saying "Oh, I did not mean it"?

Not an expert, but seems dubious/shady.

That's what minifiers/uglifiers do? Perhaps OP did not want to use them.

>> NULL doesn't really mean unknown; it means that instead of having a pointer to a result-set, you have no such pointer.

NULL in SQL has nothing to do with pointers.

It means that the value is missing or otherwise unknown.

Consider the column that is tracing the reading of a meter of some kind. And let's say that we could not get a reading -- due to some fault. So we did a reading, and we want to record that. What "value" should we record? 0 is no good - may make you think that we recorded a reading of 0 - which is not true.

NULL is the solution - it specifically tells you that the reading is missing or inapplicable.

Obviously, this complicates things, but incidentally translates well to other languages that have a (completely unrelated) concept of a null pointer.

"SELECT NULL IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NULL" ?column? ---------- t

That bothers me. It is like saying that "infinity" (+inf) equals other infinity. Which is just wrong.

Some other SQL dialects will return "UNKNOWN" rather than "t" (true), which imho makes way more sense.

>> Our platform uses dozens of hosts

>> We're currently at 1/10th of Amazon.

Curious, where is the "1/10th of Amazon" coming from?

Sure but you will still be paying property taxes, utilities bills, food and so on. It is not clear just how one would just "stop spending". Unless you want to spend your retirement foraging for food, sleeping under the bridge etc.

>> They load Google Tag Manager, Google Retargeting Pixel, Segment, Facebook Connect, and SmartLook (which looks like some kind of analytics package). >> This should not be controversial

This is tricky, as handling a person asking for a medical advice is a rather special thing, compared to a person asking to buy a vacuum cleaner.

The thing is, all of your medical info will go to all of the above trackers, and surely they will sell it to whoever wants to pay for that. Insurance companies included.

What are you going to do about it? a) just use parenthesis like everyone else, or b) turn the time back to 50 years ago and change that?

Seriously, the article was just a rant. Yeah, people 50 years ago did something wrong. So what.