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aliyfarah
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aliyfarah
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Nigeria will be the big loser if they ban Meta’s free and widely used services. No tech company could function if every banana republic levies hundreds of millions of fines when they don't even generate that much revenue in those markets.
aliyfarah
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They likely won't pay as Meta does not pay any tax close to 200mm in Nigeria.
aliyfarah
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Don’t be daft, he’s assuming the father thinks the business is legitimate. No salary would be worth it if you know it was an illegal business as you creditors will come knocking.
aliyfarah
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Go has also been my go to choice for backend for many years, but these days I feel it’s almost like malpractice not to use Typescript. The advantages in productivity & code robustness were just too great. With libraries like zod & trpc, Nextjs api routes/RSC, I don’t see how Go can compete for simple CRUD apps or quick prototyping.
aliyfarah
·3 anni fa·discuss
Expect an even bigger flood gate soon as it just got rescheduled at the federal level.
aliyfarah
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Yeah not sure about that, plus most sources have Denmark as having less than 6 million in total population.
aliyfarah
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I’m getting second hand embarrassment watching you try win an argument you lost decisively 3 replies ago.

Your comment: “Huawei hardware cannot be legally distributed or sold by US companies.”

You were dead wrong. Just admit it, it’s not personal.

“Does the fact that I bought it from an US website, mean that Sony is effectively selling this gadget in the US? Of course not, that's ridiculous.”

You can’t be this naive. This is 2023 not 2001. Sanctioned companies selling through distributors has been around since sanctions. US laws have explicit rules around this and companies facilitating are themselves subject to sanctions.
aliyfarah
·3 anni fa·discuss
The effects of the stuxnet virus is highly overrated. Within a few months they were replaced with a new generation of centrifuges.
aliyfarah
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I'm not even sure how to make sense of what you wrote. How did you conclude everyone on the globe will get a Chinese social credit score if China becomes #1 economy in the world? Most people outside the West don't necessarily clamour for Chinese hegemony, but want to live in a multipolar world. Why should trade between non aligned countries have to be restricted when US decides to weaponize its currency?
aliyfarah
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> That gear, vastly superior to old Soviet equipment, is now being used by Russia against Ukraine.

> Swimmer delivery vehicles, and rebreathers.

How exactly are these underwater gear being used by Russians in their invasion?

Are you saying these were used to blow up their own pipelines?
aliyfarah
·3 anni fa·discuss
They did provide machine guns. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2020/06/11/image-shows...
aliyfarah
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I think it's telling you don't mention what exact 'special forces gear' were provided. As far as I can tell all that was provided were some machine guns and helmets, and don't see any mention of anything useful like night vision goggles, radios etc. Even if these forces were fully specced, SF equipment for a few hundred soldiers would make zero impact on a conflict like Ukraine.

It's interesting to see lately how people use their pet random social/political issue and try draw some parallel with the Russia/Ukraine war.
aliyfarah
·3 anni fa·discuss
The US justice system routinely hands out life sentences especially in drug cases with zero physical evidence all thanks to "conspiracy laws".
aliyfarah
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Why do you say that? I found it extremely readable and is how I learnt Go in the first place. Curious to know your reasons though.
aliyfarah
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I recommend the Mattermost server:

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server

And I disagree with those that say stdlib is the best way of looking at the best Go code for two reasons:

1. A lot of times stdlib code is restricted to use only backward compatible code with old API contracts, some parts are neat but others are unwieldy. It's a hit or miss.

2. Library code is different to application code. You can't get as much variety in style, abstractions, design patterns in stdlib as you can in a real world application.

I reckon it's important to read to get a whiff of succinct Go code, very good at learning protocols (like OAuth, Http etc) if you're interested, but won't be hugely helpful in building a CRUD app.