They did support it from the mobile app, but in a way that always outraged me. They would only allow you to use Smile on mobile if you agreed to turn on all notifications and let them spam you with ads. Turning off notifications -- either through their app or through iOS settings -- resulted in their disabling Smile for you.
> This doesn't allow for YoY inflation. $1M today won't be the same tomorrow. The license should expect to issue new versions frequently to keep up with the economic landscape.
That's addressed at the bottom of the definition of a small business:
> Adjust these dollar figures for inflation according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index for all urban consumers, United States city average, for all items, not seasonally adjusted, with 1982–1984=100 reference base.
> The BusKill team publishes cryptographically signed warrant canaries on a biannual basis.
The canary-002 says:
Status: All good
Release: 2021-06-13
Period: 2021-06-01 to 2021-12-31
Expiry: 2022-01-31
EDIT: Oh, the issue is just that they failed to update the wording of: "We plan to publish the next of these canary statements in the month of June 2021." Looks like a copy from canary-001.
Look at that, there's an entire section on internals. Honestly, I didn't even consider looking there, I just assumed it would be all about syntax and never bothered to check. Thanks!
The Postgres docs are great because of that. They are kept on top of pretty regularly compared to most open source projects, and document things in an understandable way.
Narratives about racism in America are about the systemic, structural ways in which our country disadvantages black people, not about individual people's feelings or even actions. It's possible for individuals to have different experiences without negating the fundamental truth that the deck is stacked against black Americans. As just one example, white wealth is tied to homeownership, which was denied to blacks for decades.
None of this is to deny the pain of the author's experiences, which is very real. My point is that this isn't the sort of thing we're talking about when we talk about racism in America; it's about the system as a whole.
In a structural context, I think you could argue than anyone who participates in existing institutions which propagate these differences in opportunity/resources is “racist”. Of course, this definition makes it extremely hard to avoid being racist- even by accident. This is how I (perhaps generously) interpret “white people are inherently racist”.
Because many people are born into these institutions, judging someone’s character based on this version of racism is misguided imo. Instead, we must all try to be aware of the effects of our institutions and how our participation affects them.
I am very sensitive to the plight of the white American working class. I'm aware of how the American oligarchs used us to become rich, and then shipped our jobs to third-world countries. There are countless communities of white people that have just flat out died due to this economic betrayal. Many of these areas which have been stripped of industry suffer social blights like heroin use, etc. There are entire areas in America where white people are just killing themselves with drugs because they are completely hopeless. Chris Hedges has written several great books about this. Also, you can look up plenty of documentaries on this subject on YouTube if you are not familiar with this subject.
Do some white people have an unfair advantage in this system? Absolutely. Do all white people have an unfair advantage in this system? Given what has happened to the white working class, I would say that the evidence proves that they don't.
I believe all people are inherently racist. I don't think race is the biggest issue in our nation. I believe class is the central issue, and I can't help but believe that race conflict is a diversion used to avoid class conflict.
All white people in America have an unfair advantage. That’s what white privilege is. If you actually care about this, research Peggy McIntosh and the concept of the invisible knapsack. Two very simple examples:
1. In the majority of industries in the US, a white person can rise to the upper echelons of that industry without meaningfully interacting with majority groups that don’t look like them.
2. White names have a better response rate with equivalent resumes than ethnic names.
There are dozens if not hundreds more tangible advantages that being white has. Does this mean that it’s not hard to be poor and white? No. But no matter what your class is in the US, it is advantageous to be white if you want to move up.
> All white people in America have an unfair advantage.
Statistical advantage you mean, but that does not translate to good outcomes for many people.
I'll agree with you that in a historically white country, white people, in general, have an advantage. But saying this completely disregards the marginalized white working class which has been under siege, like minorities, by a predatory ruling class.
For me, implementing PARA in Notion has helped with that. I have one big database just called "Content", and then links to Projects/Areas/Resources. So if I'm not sure where something goes, I just put link it to all of them.
I actually loved Windows Phone. I got one because it was the cheapest possible option after my "real" phone broke, and I was surprised at how polished it was. It was such an interesting, opinionated take on a phone interface; I wish it had had a chance to succeed.
I learned this technique the first time I actually worked with a real DBA many years ago and have used it ever since: one thing I like about it is that is mitigates the ‘fear factor’ of production changes, as (topically) ‘fear is the mind killer’ and makes mistakes more likely. Then there’s mitigating ‘complacency’ - “I do this all the time” - which can also lead to mistakes.
And yes, before that I had run an UPDATE without a WHERE in production..
I don’t even do this, it’s too easy to sidestep. For example using any GUI client where the current selection or statement is executed by default. (Yes this is very useful, no I am not interested in being convinced not to use these tools thank you.)
Instead I do my dry run queries with a read only user and I select the affected data, often using CTEs (or temp tables where performance is an issue) to model any intermediate state. I don’t ever run any writes of this kind without review, backups, and automation.
Man I hate this. I sort of get wanting to support robust file sharing for teams, but let's be honest: 99% of file uploads on teams are going to be silly gifs.
It is also SO SLOW. It's so slow. Uploading images takes full seconds before they can be sent because Teams has to put them onto Sharepoint first (which itself is slow).
For those still on Teams, my condolences, here's a workaround: copy the image onto your clipboard and paste it into the textbox. It skips the uploading to Sharepoint, prevents the issue I described, and is sendable in milliseconds. Downsides: a. they're randomly ephemeral and sometimes just permanently disappear, b. no animated images - it'll just send the first frame of a GIF/APNG/etc.
And for those on macOS, that means you can get screenshots sent quickly. Ctrl-Cmd-Shift-3, Cmd-V into the text field. Send.
