> Making watch logic for that sometimes is too complicated or changes the outcome (race conditions especially).

Sounds good to me. Let's require regular re-testing while we're at it.

The Alcubierre drive is only a thought experiment that requires "exotic matter" (aka fairy dust) to work.

Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?

> Many many people use travel planning software as escapism

Heh yeah I caught that too. My wife plans many, many trips per year - but we certainly don't go on all of them, hah. The planning is a hobby in itself.

Which is still a good outcome, because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to the point that it can't handle anything that isn't COVID.

That was the whole point of the early-pandemic "flatten the curve" campaigns.

This was changed in 3.0. String literals are now frozen/immutable by default.

I haven't seen it in this thread either, but it's been a very common [false] talking point in the conspiracy/anti-vax circles.

I'm in my 30s and in good health. I've not been particularly concerned about dying myself from covid[0]. But I do have a mom and grandparents. I do have immunocompromised friends and family. How could I live with myself if I got one of them sick and hadn't taken even that simple step of a shot in the arm?

[0] though long-covid is another story, or even short-term "being sick for days/weeks" doesn't sound like a particularly good time.

You might be interested in "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch. McCulloch is a linguist, but it's a light/layperson's book. I really enjoyed it.

https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/

Even this is becoming less and less necessary as more of the commonly-used syntactic sugar gets pulled into Ruby core.

Actually this is kind of the whole point of #present? - it's not just a truthiness check.

The only falsey values in Ruby are `false` and `nil`, but in the context of a Rails app you might want to treat things like "" and [] as "not present" (e.g., a user leaves a text field blank).

You're completely correct here. The only other real option in this space is CCBill - and they:

a) only do payments - not hosting and everything that OF does

b) still take a ~18-20% cut, in addition to annual flat fees

c) are really fucking unbelievably terrible

That's...what OnlyFans is?

It absolutely is, because you still need to get paid, and unfortunately 18-20% fees are completely normal for adult-content payment processing. And OF clearly does a lot more than just payment processing.

Off the top of my head: gambling, medication, gift cards...stuff that's legal but more-likely-than-average to chargeback or default.