Are you telling that to someone on a .ml instance?

Huh. :P

(This is of course a joke)

Preflight it? If you ask external API every 6 hours about known range of host IDs with a date, then 1h before you need that information call the external API and check if it works or returns garbage? That way you can get some extra time to maybe react earlier to an incident? It honestly depends on the nature of your job and the qualities of your traffic, but generally speaking the problem you have is unfixable and the best you can hope for is early detection (if that matters for you).

If however you're a pass-through API to the external one, eg. a different service calls your API with a hostID and the hostIDs are not a known finite pool, then you can forget about preflighting.

The bigger the sample the less likely survivorship bias of the respondents.

Took me forever to find the last study, for those interested, link:

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/142/4/e20174218/76767/Transgender-Adolescent-Suicide-Behavior

As you can see it's rather lackluster in presenting it's findings.

no less unhealthy

Yeah, given the history of capitalism, that will not happen. Look, they even made real meat unhealthy just to increase the profit (meat "yield" from animal), with lab-grown meat they would cut corners even further.

Chickens we are given today weight at least 5 times more than chicken 50 years ago (or "heritage breed") and reach that weight in 6 weeks vs a year. To even buy a heritage breed chicken you need to have time, money and know-how, and you're still likely to get just a 100 days old chicken.

I can't even predict how they will enshittify lab-grown meat if it's ever perfected.

Disclaimer: Am not an USian but an European.

https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2007-5-page-101?lang=en

This is a French journal about fear in women and how it affects their mobility. Whenever someone says

the risk of a fragile, shallow, unhinged, emotionally unstable man going berserk and MURDERING her.

it pops in my mind. The data they gathered suggests that women fear of violence is unrelated to actual rates of said violence happening, but is correlated to past smaller transgressions ("anticipated violence"). Long story short, if you were ever catcalled, or given a [clumsy] compliment, you're likely to imagine ("anticipate") out-of-proportion violence in multiple contexts.

The actual crime rate and crime gender proportion (in the US) - https://counciloncj.org/womens-justice-by-the-numbers/ - violence victims rate is 60-70% down since 1984 and since 2009 men and women are as likely to be the victim [before that men were most likely]; and the number of women perpetrators grown up. Oh, and the homicide rate by spouse is also closing the gap (although some studies suggest that the increase in women killing their husbands should be attributed to them not being dismissed as potential perpetrators by the police force)

I'm not dismissing your feelings OP, and your strategy seems very prudent, but I want to add to this discussion that it's much much safer than you or the social media will try to paint, despite the fear you feel.

And that you're not more likely to be a victim of a violent crime than a man (https://counciloncj.org/womens-justice-by-the-numbers/).

Ever heard of Churchill and what he (and other British people) did in India? He starved millions to death. Look up Bengali famine.

As a person living next to Russia, I tend to follow it's situation. I know that the exports from Russia to India has been declining for years, following India moving (not all yet) production of weaponry home. Only oil remains strong.

Also India - I think - seems to be projecting more and more "Western" image. Not sure why. Maybe my perception is skewed here, because the CEOs of biggest corporations sound more and more indian every year. Maybe it's Modi skipping Shanghai Cooperation Agreement summit - and generally avoiding public places where Putin is - since Russian invasion of Ukraine.

So while Russia and India will remain trade partners and probable allies, I think they are currently trying to figure out how to increase their trade ties (and India might be wanting to be hush hush about it for Western publicity). There might be other challenges there - if I remember correctly, the current trade flow is that India buys significantly more from Russia than it sells there, so they might want to increase their exports - but this is totally my opinion.

I know there were plans for more ports and trade corridors before the Ukraine invasion, but I don't know their status now.

India Russia hate each other to the bone

I don't think so. Russia supported India during Cold War, didn't it? It also stood with India during India-Pakistani War. That counts for a lot, especially with older folks - and politicians tend to be older folks.

let ret = someCondition ? expensiveOperation() : otherOperation() 

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Man, I wish LLMs were more useful to me than line completion tool we already had in normal languages in normal IDEs.

So far everything I've seen it do even with agentic approaches, is just not covering my use cases.

At best I can have it generate some correct-ish terraform boilerplate. Or writing mediocre code in languages I have to use once in blue moon, that I still then have to correct. Cursorrules are meh.

Me: fintech, 15y of exp.

On the other hand I can imagine it creating some bullshit boilerplate in companies that require bullshit boilerplate.

Btw I don't think code throughput is what distinguished Junior from Dev. I rather think it's realizing the steep decline in "Doner-Kebab" effect :)

Sure, let me rectify that and give you an argument.

Driving on a road is about discipline and predictability. Discipline is following the rules, like speed limit, using specific side of the road, using blinkers, stopping on red, etc. That is all necessary, for the driver's behaviour to be predictable to the other road users, both drivers and pedestrians. I'll assume that I don't need to argue that predictability of behaviour in 1 ton caskets going 150km/h is desired?

Given that, refusing to follow belt enforcement rule is a good indicator that the driver decided they can pick and choose which of the rules they want to follow, which makes them undisciplined and suggest to other road users they might be unpredictable.

The law enforcement of that rule intrinsic value lies not in life saving, or monies, or whatever, but in reminding the driver that they need to follow all the rules and behave in a predictable manner.

I complain about popularity of fantasy romance vis a vis non-fantasy romance, and that now most published (or advertised) fantasy books are fantasy romance.

That genre is typically written for women, with female lead and is heavy in certain tropes.

That genre isn't for me.

Am I a person that you're ranting about OP? If not, could you point me to an article or opinion piece that you're talking about, so I can read it and come back here?

Let’s say that I (cis, hetero) said something that can be understood as bigotry. It would be only sensible if Blahaj banned me on the spot - better safe than sorry, right?

No.

Are you familiar with the siege syndrome? Then there's this American notion of inequality 'cism', that only members of certain groups can be critical of them. That's bullshit. Your gender or sexual orientation doesn't invalidate your opinion (nor validate it).