Edit: made a chart with this data, but adding in a bitcoin transaction[2]

[0]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[1]: https://rollen.io/blog/crypto-climate/

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/ggAGylW

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If you say "Alexa, stop by the way", it'll get the device to stop responding with follow-ups for ~24h. I ended up creating a routine that runs every night at 4am to lower the volume to zero, automatically say "stop by the way" to the device, and then raise the volume a minute later, and Alexa has stopped with the follow ups

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Which is fine, they don’t propose to filter “bad” words in other languages, but kind of funny when that’s one of the highlighted examples, right next to the goal of filtering words. Goes to show how hard it is to filter profanity generally for international audiences

E-Tags would probably not help here, because the client won't have a tag to send along with its request until after the original response returns. But the thing we're trying to prevent in the first place is multiple concurrent requests being processed.

The Idempotency-Key header[1] is probably a better fit, but that relies on the server implementing the spec, including properly dealing with multiple in-flight requests with the same header. I found this blog post[2] pretty good for exploring some of the implementation challenges.

[1]: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpapi-idempoten....

[2]: http://live.julik.nl/2021/12/actually-creating-a-gem-for-ide...

1. An immutable set of standard terms, with variable references.

2. A collection of cover page variables, that modify the standard terms by reference.

3. A structured negotiation workflow, where users "propose changes" to the cover page variables with automatic "diff-ing" (redlining).

It's not a product targeted to software engineers, but has always appealed to me as a way to sneak in some engineering best-practices into the world of lawyering :)

Full disclosure: I'm an employee

[1]: https://commonpaper.com/product/

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/simon-peyton-jone...

http://www.thierry-roncalli.com/download/smart-beta-minimum-...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211951

[1]: https://www.betterment.com/cash-reserve

    Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth

    Score: 1712.2 point crash
    Speed: 15226.2mph
    Angle: 174.3°
    Time: 5963 seconds
    Flips: 0
    Max speed: 15226.2mph
    Max height: 1993862ft
    Engine used: 21 times
    Boosters used: 14 times
    https://ehmorris.com/lander/

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It's a privacy-focused dynamic QR code application. Just got my first paying customer this past week, which I'm pretty stoked about!

The costs of running it are very low (~$15 / month), and it's not something I'm planning on ever turning into my main gig, but the fact that someone is willing to pay for an app I built on my own feels really fun

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