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I built a website to organise my images and videos from a recent trip to Egypt. https://deepspaceplace.com/egypt/ It's a must visit destination if you get the chance.

I don't use containers. I just use systemd / systemctl to run the go apps. I manually update Debian on a schedule I keep. For logs I just ship them to my own app I developed that send messages to a discord server - but I might switch that over to something better one day but it's okay for now. I pay a little extra for Linode backups and have had to use it once, any anything important I backup to S3 and/or locally. I also forgot to say I also use SQLC - so I never have any issues with SQL being wrong or out of sync with the data model.

This is interesting. I just fixed a Github issue where the code did not handle Em-Dash correctly. Ran some queries to check the stats there. No surprises: https://deepspaceplace.com/emdash

This is similar to what I do. Linode, Debian, Go, HTMX, SQLite (with modernc.org/SQLite so I have no CGO dependency) and Caddy. If I have apps that need a lot of storage, I just add an S3 bucket.

It might not be as easy as you think if the system has somehow survived without an upgrade for decades. Who knows, maybe it's that ancient?

Back in the day I worked on CODASYL style databases (IDMS) that was EBCDIC. This is before relational databases were a thing. We had no PCs: all of the companies’ data was is in the Mainframe in EBCDIC. No ASCII anywhere, let alone UTF-8.

I remember back in the day when Ingress was the cool kid (running on HP-UX at our shop I think). Almost overnight there was a fork in the road and everyone went to either Orcale or SQL Server. Now I would touch anything other then Postgres. The more I use and learn about it the more I appreciate all the work that has gone into it over the years.

Probably should update the title to say the article was written by Steve Wozniak.

Congrats - this is awesome. I'm enjoying lots of new songs that got recommended.

It's permissionless, as in no reporting transactions over $10k to the government, no ID checks to create an account, no names and addresses in the "global transaction log" etc.

That sounds a lot like freedom to me.

As a counterpoint to this I hate it when data is treated like code. Need to create a new cost center? Raise a change request. Get an IP addressed added to a list in a firewall? CR. Bureaucracies thrive on this stuff.

Even worse when master data is hardcoded into applications. It still happens especially when a vendor can make an ongoing revenue stream from it.

This is the best explanation I have seen :

https://youtu.be/uX7VpTqXJhY

Via an in-game purchase perhaps?

I can't tell from your tone if you are joking or not. I hope you are? Your utopia sounds a lot like Brave New World to me.

Police roadblocks to test for drugs and alcohol (aka booze bus) also show up as red on google maps.

That deal was signed by Annastacia Palaszczuk, the State Labour premier, not the federal government.

87% with no false positives. In my view many of these are not what I consider English ‘words’ - plant names, trade marks and archaic words. Still fun though.

Any mention of Delphi always brings back fond memories of my first job. We were doing amazing things with Clipper at the time, with a bit of Turbo Pascal on the side. Then windows took root and the world opened up with promises from Visual Objects and Dephi - but VB ended up the winner and that was the end of that.

We would play with Delphi and SmallTalk just for fun and there was always a Dephi fanboi around.

Despite these 'primitive' tools we were so much more productive back then - it's quite sad where we have ended up. We would pump out wonderful apps even in the days before we could get our hands on a relational database. dBase files, VSAM files and even trusty CODASYL did the job without any fuss.

I just used Google Maps to get to work this morning using Apple Car Play - it's awesome. There were a few annoying errors in Apple maps on my daily route that I won't have to deal with ever again.

It's not only Apple that is regressing. calc.exe crashes at startup my Win 10 machine 50% of the time. It needs a remote procedure call to work now.

Activation of application Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App failed with error: The remote procedure call failed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.

Unless you get divorced and lose half. Divorce twice? Now you 're in really big trouble.

What if you die before retirement? You have made the mandatory payments, but got nothing for it.

What if the stock market crashes the day you retire?

The Australian system is not perfect - it's a compromise.

That's a totally valid use case. Bitcoin can be many things simultaneously.

This is very cool. I'm told you can see Mt Fuji from Tokyo on a clear day, but I never managed to see it. I did manage to see Mont Blanc from my Kitchen in Lausanne, Switzerland a few times - such a beautiful sight.

What a great story - and now I know about Lubbock, TX.

Google street view has confirmed the authors' opinion.

Wow!

Don't read it

and listen to you instead? Wrong.

always start with using a good framework.

Wrong.

It will do everything for you

Extra wrong.

Apparently a maintenance worker infected them with a USB stick.

A very weak article - is it really surprising that someone who had access to the back end was able to buy enough to drive the price up?

There is a better version of the story here: https://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-repor...

Engineers can create amazing applications in any a language. I worked on General Ledger:Millennium (GL:M) as a youngster and I quickly came to appreciated it for what it was : an engineering marvel.

You listed a lot of bad experiences, but none of them related to security.

This brings back very fond memories of high school. I think we have about 4 of these for a school of several hundred students. We would make a booking and stay back after school to write our programs in BASIC and assembly. Thank you to the developers, you made my day.

The model before this (was it the version II?) had a terrible keybounce problem - it was almost usable.

Later we were lucky enough to get a Compucolor II. I still have the manual from 1979 here on my bookshelf.

If you pause it at 0:54 it clearly made a mistake. The foot of the left person is outside the green box, the car thought the person was further forward and to the left of where they really were. Good progress but not ready for prime time.