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You could consider running an A/B experiment, and track which treatment users engage with most.

If the system is already using SQS, DynamoDB has this locking library which is lighter weight for this use case

https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-dynamodb-lock-client

The AmazonDynamoDBLockClient is a general purpose distributed locking library built on top of DynamoDB. It supports both coarse-grained and fine-grained locking.

Vacuum

Kagi and Proton here

Hi Tom, I just tried to donate on https://weathergraph.app/garmin, but was met with an error in your paypal integration. I've sent you a support email.

There’s the Ineos Grenadier[1]

The Grenadier was designed to be a modern replacement of the original Land Rover Defender, with boxy bodywork, a steel ladder chassis, beam axles with long-travel progressive-rate coil spring suspension (front and rear), and powered by a BMW B58 inline six turbocharged engine.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineos_Grenadier

Indeed Swedish, but the master shipbuilder running the shipyard was Dutch [1]. Perhaps that’s the source of the mention?

Funnily enough, I was at the Vasa museum yesterday in Stockholm! I enjoyed it very much, would recommend to anyone visiting Stockholm. Incredible salvage achievement.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Hybertsson

Can you use https://jam.dev/ to file the bug report?

Joking aside, this looks really cool!

There’s nothing wrong with you. It’s okay to sit with these feelings.

Just 23¢ to $1.15 is the typical hourly pay [1], work is not always voluntary, and not up to the same employee protection/safety standards as true employment [2].

Labour (and profit) sourced from the incarcerated creates problematic incentives, so needs proper oversight and regulation.

[1] https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/unicor_about.js...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2022...

Suggest adding a disclaimer that you are the founder

Perhaps cynical, but in big corp tech, this is exactly how building dashboards can feel sometimes.

Have you considered using multiple of the current displays together in a single product, presenting them as a single view to the user? Does that help with the pricing?

Great video from Louis Rossmann on this situation: https://youtu.be/7xGBB-717AI

I am one of those people that cannot memorise times tables.

That hasn’t stopped me getting a degree in computer science, and working for a FANG since I graduated nearly 10 years ago as a software engineer. I have provided value.

I can do just fine in the real world without having memorised the times tables.

Different people have their heads wired differently. I was lucky enough to be in a state school that had a great learning support program, and some teachers that saw potential in me despite struggling with some conventionally trivial aspects of education.

The solution after diagnosis[1]? Just give me a calculator (I was allowed to use one in the normally “non calculator” exams). And in a pinch, I can still do it by hand but slowly. I often don’t just “know” the result, and that’s something I’m fine with not being “fixed” about me.

[1] https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyscalculia/how-can-i-identif...

The cash out is selling the shares and realising the capital gain?

For these types of business, there’s always someone next in line to buy, hoping for the same performance.

Great to see!

Has anyone tried one of the controllers with a Nintendo switch?

Just for completeness, the US has its own flavor of issues here in its prison system.

Just 23¢ to $1.15 is the typical hourly pay [1], and work is not always voluntary and up to the same employee protection/safety standards as true employment [2].

Labour sourced from the incarcerated creates problematic incentives in law enforcement.

[1] https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/unicor_about.js...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2022...

I think the concern is less about other Google businesses having access to maps data as you suggest.

It’s more about the fact that using non map Google services on google.com will not prompt asking for location service permissions, if they’ve been granted when prompted on google.com/maps already.

Users may not want location to be collected for searches, but are okay with the privacy tradeoff for it being collected when using maps.

They only seem to have made .moi, .bot, and 5 Japanese gTLDs generally available.

There are many more they’ve been sitting on for a few years now. .bot was the most recent to launch and that was a good few years ago now [1].

Of course, there’s also the saga with Brazil over .amazon

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-bot-gtld-from-amazon/

I think the vast majority of well architected software applications will have the property that no component alone is too large to be deployed as a “personal” deployment.

The ability to point deployed personal stacks at a pre-production environment (this is often the default) instead of another personal deployment is a means of breaking the chain of needing to deploy personal instances of every dependency needed to function.

This gives the developer choice. If they are only working within one part of the system, only a single personal deployment may be needed. If the change is more cross cutting, multiple personal deployments could be used (or maybe, the change should be made more incrementally).

I think the suggestions of docker are overly specific.

The industry gold standard for any given software application that will be deployed to the cloud is:

- Define infrastructure as code (terraform, AWS CDK, etc.)

- Have automated mechanisms in place to deploy self contained pre-production and production environments of the above infrastructure

- Allow developers to create a “personal” deployment of the above, similar to a pre-production environment but with any changes the developer wishes to make as part of development. This should be as simple as running a few commands.

Some harnessing that allows for completely local development of portions (or all of, depending on the software application) of the above can also be desirable, to speed up development.

Some banks even disable the mag strip by default [1], in the UK at least, allowing you to turn it back on temporarily if you need to.

[1] https://monzo.com/help/monzo-card-pin/what-is-magstripe

What you say is true and necessary today with the limited deployment of automation in the world.

However, it needn’t be that way forever: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Automated_Luxury_Commu...

However, I don't know anyone at T-Mobile or similar, so I've been carrying the idea around for a long time.

You could always try and get a job at one of these business for a year, with the primary goal of building connections.

“Boomerang” most likely

Hotel California?

Reminds me of https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_...