Maybe a good time to consider alternatives https://www.redpanda.com/compare/redpanda-vs-kafka
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That will be why the doc tells you it's too expensive, because over the counter is cheap. It's not that they can't afford it, but in the UK there is a standard prescription price. It's under £10 per prescription for any drug that prescribed, but it's a flat fee. So if they prescribe something that costs less than the prescription charge it makes no sense for the patient.
There's a standard perscription price in England, not the UK. in Scotland and Wales there's 0 charges to the patient
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TrueCrypt. free multi-platform open source disk encryption that suddenly disappeared in mysterious circumstances
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Why do Europeans buy American cars?
I never could figure that one out either…
American brands like Ford typically sold models that were both designed and manufactured in Europe such as the popular Ford Escort and Ford Transit. They are completely different to what is sold in the US.
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We’ve been told for years that complex passwords full of symbols are required to be secure, but in reality, length beats complexity almost every time.
The coolest thing about this is apparently it’s written by Jack Dorsey, billionaire founder of Twitter/Square. https://x.com/jack/status/1941989435962212728
Cool to see he still gets his hands dirty in code.
It's not though, it's written by someone called nothankyou1 https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat/graphs/contributors
Is this streaming server-side audio or is the TTS running locally on device ? Can it work offline ?
Couchbase mobile has been doing this for over a decade and early versions of membase 15 years ago were using a sqlite backend as a noSQL JSON datastore