this was the only thing I could think while reading the article, if you're not /a white guy/ a lot of this advice is not useful at best or dangerous at worst
Huh? Being white puts a target on your back in a lot of areas of the world, because you'll be assumed to be a naive tourist with money, and possibly drunk. I'm positive a Filipino person can move around Hanoi more easily than a white person from the perspective of random harassment.
Yes, sometimes being white is a boon, and people will treat you nicer or more respectfully than they would a brown person. I'm not trying to say being white is a negative, I'm saying it is really dependent on where you are traveling to.
I'd assume it's not so much the peaks that are a challenge - most of these 10k tweets/second aren't critical to serve to anyone fast, and that scales horizontally- it's the hot spots, that one tweet thread in the spotlight right now that everybody wants to read and jump on - that doesn't scale by just adding more servers
A motivation seems to be performance (avoiding useless multiplications followed by divisions by the same factor). I'm not sure that you really "pay" for these multiplications, with code optimization?
I strongly suspect that in most cases, yes, you do. The only time you wouldn't pay this cost is if the multiplication outside of the sin() call and the multiplication inside of it can be constant folded together. That requires the call to sin() to have its code inlined at the callsite. Given how large most sin() implementations are, I would be fairly surprised if it does get inlined.
The only way to answer this is to profile it and see.
It's also really not the outcome wanted by regulators. Everyone losing access to their email and information, YouTube, etc would create absolute chaos. Antitrust's job is to rein in profit, not destroy markets.
Exactly. Storytelling format follows the dollars which follows consumer habits. Right now all the dollar is in content made-for-Netflix and franchise movies because most people just want to watch online stuff at home nowadays.
I don't think OP is framing it in terms of quality. Just a different style of filmmaking. A change. Whether the change is for the better - different story!
> Most people are capable of riding a bike - especially an e-bike - to get to where they're going.
Citation needed? If I think of my own family, the ones without kids in their teens, 20s, 30s, 40s are ok, but the ones older than that, and the ones with young kids, I would not put on an ebike.
[EDIT] Not sure why the downvotes. I'm cycling a lot myself and am a big proponent of cycling. But am no longer able to make this my only means of transportation now that I have kids that are both too old to fit on a baby seat and too young to be going around town on their own. Family members that have respiratory and cardiovascular health problems cannot do sustained even moderate exercise. Populations are aging worldwide. Thus I don't really know that the statement is true and would like to learn more from actual data.
In my city (Boulder), e-bikes are essentially banned on bike-friendly trails. A bunch of 70+ year olds are mounting a campaign to get that overturned, because they want to be out there on ebikes and access the trails like everyone else, even if their physical capabilities are a little bit lower than younger people.
Also, you can put "car seats" on many cargo bikes. You can tote around a kid safely on an ebike starting from about 1 year of age.
How many people do you suspect aren't capable of riding an e-bike? Clearly there will always be some people it doesn't work for, but that is pretty much the case for any kind of accomodation.
You could use a golf-cart sized vehicle, max speed ~20mph, and fit right in with the flow of bike traffic. So much safer for everyone involved than a car.
Would be nice if more cities optimized for golf carts alongside bikes.
There are lots of tandem like addons that work great for medium sized children - I remember using one extensively with my mother when I was around that age. People with cardiovascular issues could probably still ride a low speed ebike or electric scooter.
This sounds like a content acquisition strategy. YouTube's embedded player isn't very good for the average branded website, as it shows a bunch of "related videos" and links that usually take the user to other content. This leads content creators away from using YouTube as a video CDN for their websites, because I guess YouTube would rather not be a freebie CDN. Except I guess for some strategic content like education, they seem to be OK serving as a CDN for the partner's website ("distraction free" I guess means YouTube's eating up the video distribution cost on those websites without making money), and this gives YouTube more video content into their library, that they can turn around and recommend in their apps
Not only difficult, but prone to being sliced when using a paper opener. Paper folded in four should be placed in the envelope with the fold at the bottom so that it doesn't get cut when slicing the paper at the top of the envelope.
