Readit Newssteve918 commented on Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds podcast.play.date/episode... · Posted by u/textadventure
The thing that surprised me the most about it is that FedEx didn't just pay them the 400k for lost shipment. They had all the proof that it was lost, all that Fedex had was a signature of someone who doesn't even work at their fulfilment centre. Even after their "higher ups" got involved all that FedEx could do was "huh, sucks to be you I guess?" Does freight shipment not have insurance? What's going on here?
This isn't surprising at all if you have every had an interaction with Fedex.
worse than javascript?
Python's packaging system is worse, but Javascripts packages / standard libraries are far worse than Python.
In python managing packages is a pain and there are too many package manager options, but for the most part there are good libraries, and chances are you don't even need one because the standard libraries are so good and mature.
In Javascript NPM is really all you need (even if yarn is a bit nicer), but you're gonna need to install 50 packages just to get a basic boiler plate app going and the quality of said packages is not always great.
MariaDB Server is GPL and must always remain GPL, as it's a fork of MySQL which was also GPL.
Also the MariaDB Foundation is separate from the commercial/enterprise entity MariaDB plc. This article is about the latter being taken private.
This code base has been sold like 3x now and is still around.
steve918 commented on Algorithms we develop software by grantslatton.com/software... · Posted by u/xal
I like the "gun to the head" heuristic but I would probably rephrase it to be something like "If you only had 24hrs to solve this or the world would come to an end".
steve918 commented on Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
The thing is the production was already artificially limited by the government. So as the article says one way to increase production is just to allow for additional production.
steve918 commented on Punk is dead and so are we bananapeel.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/pickledish
No, it's mainstream pop culture. As the author alludes it's trendy even for straight people to emulate gay culture.
steve918 commented on AWS is estimated to make $400M to $1B with the new IPv4 charge border0.com/blogs/ipv4-su... · Posted by u/atyvr
Jeez. Eventually someone is going to break down and invent a new IP solution that doubles the number of addresses that we have now.
I mean if I were doing it, I'd probably make it more like 1,028 times bigger but maybe it would present as hubris. Addresses would be so plentiful they'd basically be free.
And since I am using magic to do all of this, I'd invent it over 20 years ago, so that it'd have been decades since we were still talking about it.
So what's taking you so long?!
steve918 commented on When did Postgres become cool? crunchydata.com/blog/when... · Posted by u/fforflo
Nobody seems to have mentioned the MySQL licensing kerfuffle that got it pulled from most main stream Linux distros. For some of us this was the nail in MySQL coffin at a time when Postgres was becomming easier to manage.