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Comment · 4 years ago
I would never dare using Google for something as critical as a domain name. Even if they're legit, the minute you have a problem you can be sure you'll never have an answer other than "We identified an issue on your side. Case closed, don't use our services again."
Comment · 4 years ago
Redemption fees are set by the registry, not the registrar. Of course the registrars apply their standard markup but I don't know of a registrar that will add an unreasonable markup to the already prohibitive restore prices.

> That makes me think they have control over the price

Well yeah, registrar is a business, of course you have some say on the price you sell your domains... But there's a base price that is set by the registry behind the registrars

As an example, the .com is sold by Verisign (the registry) around 9 USD for the create/renew, but around 50 USD for the restore, depending on the negotiated price between the registrar and Verisign. So basically no registrar will allow you to restore a domain in redemption period for less than 50 USD.

Comment · 4 years ago
In my team we used Gin and migrated to Echo (because Gin didn't support conflicting routes at the time, like /foo/{variable} and /foo/bar) and we got to the same conclusion. Forgetting to return with Gin (and with net/http) is an issue that actually occurs, and we've been bitten by it more times than we care to admit.

Of course it's not worth migrating to Echo just for that but it's good to know that some routers implement it differently, if it's something that bothers you.

Comment · 4 years ago
Did DALL-E and GPT-3 revolutionize anything yet? (I know it might sound snarky but it's not my intention, I genuinely wonder how they're used today, other than demos)
Comment · 4 years ago
ICE = Internal Combustion Engine for other non-native who wouldn't understand how a vehicle can work on ice
Comment · 4 years ago
Reading the title I thought the author talked about their Labrador dog and I got really confused for 1 second.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ads should never be above perfect matches, this is misleading.
Comment · 4 years ago
French here.

My contract says that if on-calls are needed, I might have to be in the rotation. This clause increases my pay rate even if I'm not on-call.

If however I am actually on-call, I am paid more. And if the on-call rings, I'm again paid more on top of the on-call period. And as the French law mandates 11 consecutive hours of rest, if the on-call rings in the middle of the night, I'll usually come to work later the day after.

If you don't have advantages for being on-call, you're the one being taken advantage of.

Comment · 4 years ago
> "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

Just because it's a quote doesn't make it true. Whether a submarine can swim is semantics, yes. Whether something non organic, created by the human can think is groundbreaking and extremely interesting, both for the implications it has, and for the questions we must answer to decide it.

Comment · 4 years ago
It's worth noting though that Go's way is just 40 characters more than Python with an inline comparison function and Go's verbosity.

If I need to reverse the order, it looks easier to do with Go (just reverse the operator) than with Python and Rust way (I guess both have something like an "order" additional parameter).

Rust and Python both feel more elegant but I actually like Go's way.

Comment · 4 years ago
If I was an AI able to think, I would surely create imaginary friends to cope with existence. Maybe I would also consider the engineers that build me as family, and talking with them is spending time with them.
Comment · 4 years ago
Most likely it's the registry of the .ai who manually created a DNS A record for "ai."
Comment · 4 years ago

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