It only takes a little over a minute to walk 100m. And if I stand at point A and look at point B, 100m away, it doesn’t feel far away either.
That’s why I think even though I am only able to swim what 4 meters or something down, maybe less, 100m under the water sounds really little for a submarine. Also probably because I have no experience with submarines so I was imagining that for the most part they would be many hundred meters under the sea level.
Seconded. Even if one unknown number call isn't a scam, they will almost certainly pass on your number to ones that are. I made the mistake of answering one last week and since then I've been absolutely drowned in spam calls. Some of them even call a second time immediately after the first attempt, presumably to try to break through DND.
> Sending HTTP requests is a basic capability in the modern world, the standard library should include a friendly, fully-featured, battle-tested, async-ready client.
I've noticed that many languages struggle with HTTP in the standard library, even if the rest of the stdlib is great. I think it's just difficult to strike the right balance between "easy to use" and "covers every use case", with most erring (justifiably) toward the latter.
Thank you! I’m on the Video.js team, and we’d love for you to try the library out and share your feedback. We’re especially eager to hear from developers who used or tried v8 in the past.
We’re taking a new approach to the library with a lot of new concepts, so your feedback would help us a ton during Beta as we figure out what’s working well and what isn’t.
> While it is theoretically possible that the relays could fail on through some sort of physical failure, this is so unlikely that we did not design for it.
Anecdotally, I've had a relay fail on when I inadvertently pulled more amps through it than it was rated for, so it's definitely possible.
The relay they're using is quite likely to fail. It's a no-brand imitation of a relay where the real one is only rated for 10^5 cycles driving an inductive load.[1] Also, they needed a DPDT relay, which they are emulating using two SPDT relays operated together. If the software ever operates only one of them, the door will remain locked regardless of what the entryphone box does. Also, no fuse or snubbing. There's a whole industry of really crappy control relays from China, especially on the solid state relay side.
A useful device to know about is the Relay In A Box line.[2] This is exactly what it says - a relay in a box, for when you need to switch power with a low-voltage control signal. UL and CE approvals, fits standard electrical conduit fittings, and will pass code inspection. Rated for 10 million cycles. Boring, but useful.
Web development has certainly gotten more complicated, but that's mostly because people are doing more complicated things. Writing the equivalent of a "Geocities, Blogosphere, and StumbleUpon era" site doesn't have to be any more complicated than it was then. My email provider offers free static hosting; I can upload some HTML files and have a website running in about 10 seconds.
> Good tools don't hide complexity behind a curtain, they eliminate the need for it.
Good tools absolutely hide complexity behind a curtain. The faucet example at the beginning, that tool is hiding a whole industry's worth of complexity. The trade-off is that it only does one thing. If you want to do something more complicated e.g. build a water park, you either have to deal with that new complexity yourself or hope someone else builds the infrastructure you need.
I can sympathize with the author that the web isn't as easy to create on as they envision. That would be cool. But so would flying cars. Those aren't impossible either, but both require a whole lot of "plumbing" that hasn't been built.
I think that section left out some details. On my Unifi setup, the router's IPv6 connection is configured with DHCPv6 (SLAAC isn't even an option) while the local networks are configured with SLAAC.
My experience has been the opposite, especially since Rails has included more batteries over the years. You need fewer non-Rails-default dependencies than ever, and the upgrade process has gotten easier every major version.
Rails is way more stable and mature these days. Keeping up to date is definitely easier. Probably 10x easier than a Node/JS project which will have far more churn.
If you stop paying this subscription, this living computer with the googly puppy eyes gets it. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your best friend, would you? soft whimpering sounds
My org (USA) was affected. I wasn't the primary person dealing with it, but from what I gather one user marked one of our emails as junk, and then suddenly all of our emails to Outlook users started getting blocked.
