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- bennylope parentI noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications using CloudFront however.
- This is the same path we're on. Migrated to Crunchy a month ago or so to remove the major migration risk and are using Render to host an auxiliary service while our core application remains on Heroku. Haven't yet done any non-toy deployments on Fly.io or Railway but I very much like Render's Blueprints and environment groups.
- If you like this there's a meaty seven part blog series by historian Bret Devereaux about the mythology surrounding Sparta. It offers an account of what Sparta and the Spartan military was really like as well as how the Spartan mythos evolved.
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
- > As others have said, I don't really get the fascination with LaTeX.
I have gone down this path with other types of documents (reports, proposals) not because I love LaTeX but because I hate composing and editing in Word, etc. Especially for long lived or repeated documents. Some of those tech clients might just prefer working with plain text for editing, source control, and/or version branching.
- It would be convenient to have links included, however they seem to be discoverable by replacing the domain with "github.com" and then removing extraneous paths.
https://github.com/nealcaren/workshop_2014/ https://github.com/dibgerge/ml-coursera-python-assignments/
- > Many places require you to deprecate assets such as computers over many years, so the deductions are not all taken out of your profit the year you buy them
It's likely that in some accounting regimes you have to to this, but in my own experience with a small business in the US, multiple accountants have simply depreciated assets like our computers immediately. When I originally questioned this our CPA said we could depreciate it over several years but it wasn't necessary in our case (small enough [asset] value and lifetime) and not worth it.
As it stands I imagine if someone is spending $1,000 per year on "servers" these are non-depreciable cloud service expenses.
- simonw published a searchable copy of this via Datasette: https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com
You can filter by state, city, zipcode, bank, business type, and search by employer name, e.g. https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus/fo...
- My first real experience with sleep deprivation was when I was 12 1/2. My friends and I stayed up all night and sometime the next afternoon decided to go for a short hike. I made it down the street and then realized I was tired and said I was going back to the house. Next I knew I was sitting at the kitchen table with a Dr. Pepper in front of me, surrounded by my friend's parents and the rest of my buddies. Apparently I had been walking around the house talking to myself, and I still have vague recollections of being pursued by my 7th grade journalism teacher demanding that I name the world's oceans.
I try not to stay awake that long anymore.
- Yeah, I think I've mixed something up.
I was [lightly] researching this a few weeks back and am pretty sure I found that the net effect of the final ruling was that for the purpose of enforcing regulations [any] city could mark tires, and that because it the outside of the vehicle on public property it was not trespass...
- The court later issued a clarification basically upholding the logic of their ruling but stating that because the chalking was part of valid [regulatory] activities (below) the chalking is okay[0].
> Rather, we hold, based on the pleading stage of this litigation, that two exceptions to the warrant requirement—the “community caretaking” exception and the motor-vehicle exception—do not apply here. Our holding extends no further than this.
From the court's order[1]:
> Because we chalk this practice up to a regulatory exercise, rather than a community-caretaking function, we REVERSE.
[0] https://www.sixthcircuitappellateblog.com/recent-cases/sixth... [1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/17...
- Khashoggi [resided in the US and has two US citizen children] (edit - was not a permanent resident).
He had developed standing in the US, including journalistic circles (he was a journalist, after all).
His murder and subsequent coverup attempts were ludicrously brazen.
It [almost certainly] involved the Saudi crown prince who has been courted by the president's children/advisors.
- I rather doubt any of this harms the contractor here in any way whatsoever.
Keep in mind with federal contracts that 'disadvantaged' is a designation, not an assessment. One of the main roles of these smaller contractors is landing prime contracts and subbing to larger contractors so agencies can meet their contracting requirements.
Here's the contractor's reported FY2019 payments: https://www.usaspending.gov/#/search/8a0d6c8caefafefa8e9268b...
- I noticed this when I was [briefly] in Seoul. It was a combination of individual and presumably municipally employed workers cleaning up trash throughout the city and private employed workers cleaning around larger commercial buildings. Outside of banks, too, I remember people hosing down and washing the sidewalks. That's something I haven't seen in the US (not with such regularity, at the very least).
- I do this with Fastmail, including specialized subdomains to help me segment the addresses and then distinct email names for each sign up as necessary.
You can also do something similar with Gmail (and probably other providers) using "+" in your username, e.g. "myname+hackernews@gmail.com". This creates a unique email address that delivers to your Gmail account as if the "+<whatever>" were absent. This is more easily defeated if you're a moderately motivated spammer.
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I'm a developer and consultant with a focus on Python-based B2B SaaS web apps. Past clients/projects range from designing and building a Django-based multi-tenant ATS for a client's multi-national bank and retail customers to remediating performance issues in a Flask application resulting in a 50% reduction in hosting costs. Typically work directly with business owners and/or tech leads. Unavailable to fill hourly quotes but happy to chat if you have a specific problem or goal that needs solving.
Tech includes Python, Django, Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Vue, etc.
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