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C++: ClickHouse. It is very readable and easy to navigate. Call stacks that you pick up in logs are very descriptive, and you can easily tell what went wrong.


As a non-native English speaker, calling places is absolutely soul crushing. People cannot understand my name, cannot understand me spelling it, and half of the time I cannot understand them back. Why have me call and tell you my name for you to be typing it when I could enter it in the computer myself?


I've also lived in countries where I'm not a native speaker, so I know how hard it is calling (much more so than speaking in person). But honestly this is a little irrelevant. The split between those who are fine calling and those who really want an app has basically nothing to do with language. Young people in the US often hate the idea of calling even if they are native speakers. That is what I don't understand. As a native speaker of English, calling places is just so easy. I don’t understand the need to replace it with some new process.

So yeah while I understand your issues, they simply don't explain this phenomenon when it comes to native speakers of English in the US.


But it does say “Natural Aroma” which the post claims is code for “fake truffle smell”. The list mentions “truffles” but they may very well be the type of truffles that has no flavor — with all the flavor coming from the “natural aroma”.

I think you’re making the author’s point.


Because their lives depend on it? Why do people keep paying ransoms? Does it mean that ransoming them is a good thing?


But the point was that they're doing things that either are unneeded or not effective.

If either of those are true, their lives do not depend on those procedures.


Exact same thing as Marketing spend. You cannot split the good from the bad.

I really cannot understand how you can even think about doing healthcare system for profit. Posting this from a Single-pay country, Germany.


Is Germany single provider too?

In my armchair politics I do wonder if single payer, market provider might work. You get the competition of the market, but the tax payer purse. I think technically this is how medicare works but there are a bunch of nuances that make medicare not work (such as negotiation of prices).


I'm not sure if it's matches "single payer". It has mandatory insurance. And you cannot choose most of the things that what you can get covered or not.

I got a "government insurance", which is the most expensive, but also the one with the best cover. There is "private insurances" with cheaper premiums and less cover that are attractive to young people, but it's kind of hard to later in life switch back to the government one.

Most countries in EU have kind of this mixed healthcare, with private, and public ones with the only goal to make sure the private offer competitive enough services... Same thing with hospitals, there is public hospitals, so private ones don't jack up the prices to crazy values...


I see, the American strategy seems to be increase competition to ensure prices are fair. A big problem being the corruption in the government through lobbying having a positive EROI such that companies are blocking good anti-trust policies (such as requiring transparency on prices) .

A lot of people are negative about how America does things, but as far as I can tell most of the issues stem from corruption via money in politics. Capitalism and Market Economies seem to work well, but Crony Capitalism and Citizens United seem to just be friendly names for corruption.


This definitely hits a nerve. Google does that nowadays and I cannot count how many times I have clicked by mistake on these suggested links that show up after all results have already loaded.


It's hilarious to me how much Google is hammering on content layout shift as a web vital for ranking websites when they're one of the most annoying offenders. I can't tell you how often I have accidentally clicked that "People also search for" box that sometimes loads in beneath the first result, when I am actually trying to click the second result.

It's infuriating, and makes me wonder if anyone at Google actually uses their own product.


There's an extension [1] and a ublock filter [2] for this

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-people-also...

[2] google.*##[id^="eob_"]


I feel like this is a symptom of google etc not having enough real competition. If google and twitter were scared for their survival they wouldn't allow slack like janky sites and disrespecting the free speech of their users as much as twitter does.


Twitter IS scared for its survival though, they just have truly incompetent product leads (+ all the damage from Dopesey's leadership).

Google is only playing deaf while revenue keeps coming.

I don't know which one is worse.


It happens when you click on a result, then hit the back button and want to click the next link. Then, just before you click, the suggested links appear.

Maybe they measured clicks and thought this must be a really useful feature.


It's not an accident at all. I'm sure some sites are moving content around to make it likely you'll click on an ad. Other forms of click fraud are rife:

This site has ads that cover the content

https://tonyortega.org/

and when you try to close them you will frequently click on the ad instead of the tiny close button. Back in the day the Scientologists would have reported him for click fraud but today they are a shadow of the terror they once were.


"Suggested searches" are not ads. I'm pretty sure Google does not financially benefit from a user mis-clicking on suggested searches.


How do they do it? Do they cheat and have a video for every minute of the half-day? Or is it actually a CGI rendering of the watch ?


The one with the time and running chronograph has drop shadows on the subdial hands and some reflections of the chrono seconds register off the dial, but no reflection of the chrono seconds off the hour and minute hands.


The first watch on the landing page is video used as background with autoplay.

The second watch is Canvas on top picture. Once picture and canvas loaded, it animates time change on canvas.

Not all watches have precise time.


This system resigns app with your developer signature, and to work around the expiration leaves a server running on your computer that periodically resigns apps and updates them over the air on your iPhone.

I think this is simple yet genius. I wonder if it works on AppleTV as well?


Doesn’t the user also need their own Apple Developer account?


https://altstore.io/faq/

Why do you need my Apple ID?

Apple allows anyone with an Apple ID to install apps they’ve built themselves onto their devices for testing. AltStore uses your Apple ID to communicate with Apple's servers on your behalf and perform the necessary steps to prepare your account for installing apps onto your device.

Why does it say my apps will expire in 7 days?

Unfortunately, apps that have been installed using non-developer Apple IDs (in other words, Apple IDs not tied to a $99/year Apple developer account) are only valid for 7 days, at which point they will no longer open. To compensate for this, AltStore will periodically attempt to refresh your apps in the background, and you can always manually refresh your apps from within AltStore.


Interesting. I have no idea this free account rule existed. I have been under the impression you NEED the $99 account to do this.


Yeah, in fact, if you have the $99 account you don't even really need AltStore, you can just download the IPA files you want and sign them manually (with Xcode or if you want a less clunkly solution, iOSAppSigner or AltDeploy or a tool like that) and they will last for a year, which is certainly not too much of a hassle to have to resign.



That was the case until a few years ago, so fair mistake!


Do you have any insight into how AltStore copies apps in the background over WiFi? Anything you could point me at would be most helpful


There is a program AltServer running on your desktop computer that is acting like Xcode and occasionally doing this work.


Thanks do you have any idea how it accomplishes it. I wanted to do something similar for a build process



I can imagine this will lead to having your dev account blocked as likely it will violate the T&C and if it doesn't, then Apple could easily update it.


No, you don't need a paid account for this kind of certificate. You do need one if you want to get rid of the 7-day limit.


Pretty cool. I like it. Seems one more step toward simplicity than Click for instance.


I can also recommend Typer https://typer.tiangolo.com/ It's similar and awesome


And based on Click for maximum interoperability with existing modules!



Thanks for sharing, didn't knew about this one. It seems quite similar indeed.


I'd say the difference with click is that it exposes a nice Python API which makes it easier to meta program CLIs, nice for lazy people.


Why is that downvoted? Genuine question. It feels just as relevant as the other comments. Sure it's a specific case of someone having a newborn, but that's hardly uncommon and could apply to a lot of people here (if not now maybe later in life).


I’ve heard that toptal (https://www.toptal.com/) is a good place to start, because you can get paid decently and you get in touch with serious employers.

I don’t have experience with them nor am I affiliated to them, so to take with a grain of salt.


I've heard the opposite, that the pay was low and the expectations were high, as in that they don't respect your off time and expect you to be on-call.


Don’t you set your own rates and timings at Toptal? From what I can see it functions more as a talent agency than as an employer.


I'll ask my friend next time we chat, but if its anything like other online agencies, you can set your rates, but such agencies draw clients who want cheap labor.


I'd steer clear of toptal and other big names (upwork, gigster etc.) and focus on niche platforms that focus more on the user experience, client quality and are not flooded with people willing to work for really low rates. I've heard ok things about gun.io and povioremote.com.


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