source: I used to work at Akamai (it was a while ago). The myriad things they do with their edge servers is pretty amazing, but for simple CDN stuff, most of the time clients aren't shipping hardware to isps. That being said, if Netflix can convince an isp to pay its electricity and hardware maintenance costs for a popular isp's customers that's going to pay for itself very quickly. So, i can see why Netflix offers this. It's just not normal AFAIK.

I agree the ads are obnoxious, but hosting YouTube is incredibly expensive, and online ads are incredibly cheap so... Even if they _weren't_ being greedy there would need to be A LOT of ads to compensate for the hosting & engineering costs.

Like... If you hate the ads THAT MUCH, but want to continue using the service, why not just pay for the service?

(side note: you also get streaming music (YouTube Music) when you pay for YouTube which is a nice bonus.)

it's a good api client, and it's free for individual use and they have some sort of nifty marketplace integration catalog...thing with remote API servers that makes it easy to find and try API services that offer data / functionality you want to connect to.

US dev salaries have been completely skewed by stupid levels of VC money. European ones not so much.

All those scaling problems Mastodon admins complain about? 99% of wouldn't exist if they were using one of the Phoenix based fediverse apps instead of the Rails based one (mastodon). Sure, some of the larger instances would still have issues but most folks would get plenty of throughput on one average machine.

Erlang's a great language. Once you wrap your head around the fact that = is a "match" operator and not an assignment operator... ;)

My day job is as a back-end rails dev, but I was introduced to Phoenix by a couple of the most prominent folks in that community. It is my belief that Elixir and Phoenix are unquestionably a better choice than Rails for new work. The only reasons to use Rails instead are that ruby has a bigger ecosystem of libraries, and none of your staff knows Elixir. Alternately that you're a ruby dev who's just whipping out something quick and performance doesn't, and won't, matter.

Because if that's a crime we're screwed because then it's illegal to read, or listen.

> "It’s true that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to find mutton"

This is false. It is difficult, if not impossible, to find something LABELED as mutton. However, US labeling allows "lamb" to actually be mostly mutton.

> With respect to the Code of Federal Regulations published Standard of Identity, USDA-FSIS does not have a specific definition for lamb, nor explicitly identify boundaries for age of animal in product labeling originating from ovine species. The only age-specific labeling claim includes the term “spring lamb” or “genuine spring lamb,” applicable only to carcasses of new-crop lambs slaughtered during the period of March and the first week of October. - https://www.sheepusa.org/blog/newsmedia-sheepindustrynews-pa...

and unsurprisingly it's more cost effective to let the animal get bigger before slaughtering it.

There appears to be zero documentation on what it needs as input.

Please, for sake of the people you want to hear your words. DO NOT USE A SANS SERIF MONOSPACED FONT FOR ANYTHING BUT CODE.

I get it. We stare at text (code) formatted in this kind of font all day long, and many of us find fonts that we truly enjoy. But, most of our monospace sans-serif fonts are designed to make sure individual characters aren't misread. We don't read prose the same way we read code. There is far more pattern recognition going on than actual parsing of individual letters, and monospaced fonts break that. We can debate the aesthetics of serifs but they actually do help provide context clues to the pattern recognition systems in our brain.

Convincing you all to start using serif fonts on prose is not a battle i'm likely to win, but maybe I can convince you to only use monospaced fonts for your terminal, and your code.

Please.

the fact that the corporations are doing that, and chasing the Marls is the foundational premise of the article. He's not blaming it on the Marls. He's blaming it on the companies chasing them.

young students... and random volunteers... who aren't getting paid...

do you _really_ think that an expectation of "professionalism" is one that lines up well with the reality of the project?

They are about to have no income, and no health insurance, in a fucking difficult job market where it can take extremely well qualified people months to find positions.

"I am deeply sorry to those people who were expecting to join our company..." does not begin to address the level of absolute upheaval he's just caused in 75 people's lives.

(this was so predictable)

https://github.com/bugbakery/audapolis