As far as I know the US one is heavily inspired by the UK one.

The UK kind of pioneered doing digital services in government well with GDS, 10+ years ago.

Some of the people who were central to the effort have gone to consult other governments on how to do the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service

Devise has made it easy to add auth to rails apps for many years now. More recently there is also the built in auth generator.

Right, so Devise seems like for rails it's what NextAuth is for Next? Though I don't know if there's anything equivalent to rails' code generation yet.

I'm a happy customer. I wrote a ruby client for your API and have been parsing thousands of different types of PDFs through it with great results. I tested almost everything out there at the time and I couldn't find anything that came close to being as good as llamaparse.

Indeed, this is also my experience. I have tried a lot of things and where quality is more important than quantity, I doubt there are many tools that can come close to Llamaparse.

I did not use the term in this context. I've never even heard of this until people pointing this out today. I just meant it as in bloated software. I don't live in America and English is not my first language.

Soy as in "soyftware". I've changed this to bloated as apparently some people think I'm some radicalised alt-right 4chan user for using this term.

> Soy as in "soyftware"

And that's supposed to mean what?

Bloated or over-complicated software, that's how it's used in my friend group anyway.

I've never heard this term at all.

Pegasus is what the Saudis used to capture Khashoggi. While it’s very impressive software, it’s incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands.

> in the wrong hands

In any hands, I should think. Some things just shouldn’t exist.

It’s a fairly common thing in archaeology sadly. Sometimes when it’s unclear what something is, it’s chucked down as “for ritual purposes”.

Maybe modern web is the real problem here?

The fact you need a large team of paid engineers just to keep up with whatever features big-tech is adding to their spyware browsers is probably not a great situation to be in.

If I was a cynic then I would say that Google is very happy with adding more features to keep the circle of viable browser engines as small as possible, while simultaneously "accidentally" adding more and more ways to track users.

Of course the modern web is the real problem. It’s one of the worst application platforms ever invented, despite also being the single most popular.

It's also one of the best. I'm working on a little game in my spare time. It's built on this platform that you consider to be one of the worst ever invented. If I want people to try it out, I just give them a link and they're in the game in seconds.

There's no other application platform that comes even remotely close to that.

I was already doing that with Flash 15 years ago.

> I was already doing that with Flash 15 years ago.

In a web browser, yes.

Some tube lines in London have been closed lately due to unavailability of staff. Not sure if it’s drivers specifically but could be a reason to consider this.

The CCP didn't do it right from the beginning. It took them almost two months to even acknowledge the virus was spreading between humans and was dangerous.

All they did was try to downplay it and cover it up, until it had spread not only throughout China, but the rest of the world. That's despite having systems in place for exactly the purpose of catching viruses like covid-19 early and quickly.

It's a great example of why ineffective bureaucracy, combined with a bad system of governance and a culture where saving face is hugely important, is harmful to humanity.

Yeah, and the US took it almost 2 more month to do the same, so no difference here...

Which western doctors were arrested for raising awareness about covid?