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1. go:embed supports "all:2. go allows setting some global vars at the build cli (think build version/tag etc). In the code, one can define a default, and then the value provided (if any) on the cli can override it at build time. Tinygo fails to override the value at build-time, silently, if a default value is provided for the var in code. This PR I have not submitted yet, as its more intrusive.

I hope it picks up steam again soon. I love using go for embedded and CF worker use and tinygo makes both of these use cases much more viable than regular go. Honestly, I hope tinygo can be rolled over into the main go toolchain as "target arch".

I hope they next blog about that.

Immediately at launch, we started having a huge amount of (image) pron being uploaded into the pages. We put in some rate limits etc, but did not want to put any major restrictions of user signups etc as that would hurt signup figures (important to the ceo!).

We already had some content review people thru a temp agency on site, so we checked with them and they were fine doing this manual filtering of these images for us. All young (early 20s) women. While my team built a quick "dashboard" for them to be able to do this image filtering quickly and conveniently, I had a detailed conversation with them as I was very concerned about having them review this kinda stuff for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Truly nasty stuff.

They were _perfectly_ clear that they had no issues with it, and they told me in so many words to not give it a second thought and to let them get back to work.

It was a surprise, but it was a point of realization: there are much worse things they could be doing. And looking a porn has shock value only the first time. I was under-estimating these women and assuming they were some "snowflakes" who could not deal with something this silly and non-threatening.

Just my own person anec-data.

The session was an hour long, and I was done with my return by the end of the hour. I dropped it off in the mail on my way back from the library and that was the end of it. From the subsequent year onwards, a pre-printed form arrived in the mail with like 90% of the stuff prefilled, and it took like 5 minutes to fill out the rest and drop it in the post box.

I honestly didn't think it could have been any easier - of course, not having taxes withheld from a far-below-minimum wage salary would have been nicer.

The image embeddings, as I currently understand, are just pixel values of a block of pixels.

What am I missing?

Sort of at the level of word2vec, where the representation of "flies" in "fruit flies like a banana" vs "time flies like an arrow" would be the same.

I am not quite sure why an action with such a clear established precedent be considered foreign interference? or was it the case that there WAS a suitable candidate with a possible majority but they were NOT invited by the govgen to try and win a trust vote in parliament?

I have stuff on R2, I don't personally use Jio, and the office has multiple ISPs but not Jio. Customers had randomly complained that some of the icons were broken/some files could not accessed, but never followed up our request for browser console/network snapshots, and our testing always showed everything working fine (we were very small with a handful of customers, at the time).

Finally, purely by chance, office network was having issues, so one of my QA people switched to their mobile hotspot, and they were on Jio. And then they could see all the broken stuff, but weren't sure why. Stuff escalated to me, and it finally clicked!

Easy to work-around by using a custom domain, though painful if you want to do access control/signed urls/etc as CF still only supports them on the r2.cloudflare urls. Had to put a worker in front.

He was born to poor parents, and the eldest of 7 children. His father could never have paid for his education, but he has brilliant from the very start, and they lived in a village town, where the school had been built by a kind, local rich man, and my father studied his entire life on scholarship. He was the first person from his district to earn a masters degree (in electronics), and in his era, his bachelors and masters were each earned from the very top university of the country. Again, all on scholarship. Started a job as a professor, but quickly switched, first to a premier research labs, working on the very first satellites/payloads built in my country, and then later to being a technocrat in the state government: his qualification and ability were so high that he joined as the ranking technocrat of the state, and remained that till his retirement. Right around his job change, he got married and had three children - me and my two sisters.

During all this, he also earned an executive MBA.

After retirement, he didn't feel like sitting idle, and started a new career as the head of department (for two departments: computer engineering and electrical engineering) at a good, well regarded engineering college/university. He did this for 12 years, when he had a brain stroke, and then I asked him to not work anymore.

He recovered from the brain stroke, but more strokes/falls happened at a steady pace. He passed away at 79. The end was pretty painful, and I wish he had not had to go thru all that.

He lived a simple, harsh life - He never cared for comforts, or money, or luxuries. But he was genuinely content. In the end, all he really asked for was to "lets go home" (from the hospital). Fortunately, we did manage to get him discharged and his final few days were at home.

be at peace, pop. I love you.

Unfortunately, in the place we live, there is no legal framework for choosing this anyway. So he is unable to chose, and I am unable to chose for him either. I absolutely hate to have him be in this state - such a brilliant man, reduced to this.

He had a (brain)stroke, and my grandfather on the mothers side also died of a stroke. So genetically speaking, my chances look (relatively) bleak. I know for a fact I won't want to go-on if I ever reach anywhere as bad as his current condition. But there's no option available to me either. I will have to suffer similarly, and the people I end up being dependent on will have to suffer similarly and watch me suffer similarly.

I think being able to decide when you want to "go" is and should be a fundamental right - a natural right - every person should have. And we would, if it weren't for this false religious crap being foisted upon the world.

Credit cards are also required to be "tokenized" when stored at a merchant or payment aggregator - the user authorizes the bank to allow the merchant or the aggregator to "store" the card details for use later, and the bank then issues a card token, tied to the specific merchant/aggregator. They are not allowed to store the original card info at all - just this token. This makes the token not worth stealing, as it can be only used by that merchant, and is trivial to de-auth if needed, with or without merchant cooperation.

But I disagree: I think what AWS does is a LOT better: credits last two years, which is a lot more practical (if i migrate to AWS for the credits, I have two years during which I don't have to consider migrating again), plus with the upfront payment plans, I can even stretch the credits to a third year. I like that a LOT better.

Tail call elimination, if it exists in a language, allows coding certain (even infinite) loops as recursion - making loop data flow explicit, easier to analyze, and at least in theory, easier to vectorize/parallelize, etc

But if a language/runtime doesn't do tail call elimination, then you CAN'T code up loops as recursion, as you would be destroying you stack. So the WAY you code, structure it, must be different.

Its NOT an optimization.

I have no idea who even came up with that expression.