No it doesn't. The fact that the article had to say "Maybe Redis for caching" because Postgres can't handle caching at scale shows that Postgres is not a perfect solution. Choosing an alternative database that can do everything you need means simplifying your architecture in the spirit of the article (not to say that MariaDB specifically is the right choice here, I'm not familiar enough with it to comment on that).
Which is the exact point the article is making. You don't have scale. You don't need to optimize for scale. Just use Postgres on its own, and it'll handle the scale you need fine.
The thing that always makes FP concepts click for me is seeing them explained in a language that isn't Haskell or similar.
I don't know why people are so obsessed with using Haskell for tutorials. Its syntax is a nightmare for newcomers and you can do FP in so many other languages.
Haskell have some syntactic sugar which makes monads nice to use, which is why monads are popular in Haskell.
Explaining monads in JavaScript or C# might show the mechanics but will not show why anyone would actually want to use them, since it just result in overly convoluted code.
I strongly disagree. Monads are used all the time in non-FP languages. Parser combinators are one common example. It's just a programming pattern which gives the benefits of global variables without the downsides. They work perfectly fine without dedicated syntax.
I was very confused about what they were until I saw an article similar to the one I linked, and then I realized that I had actually been using monads all along, I just didn't know they were called that. I think a lot of developers are in the same boat.
It is more than sufficient. The law doesn’t care about “Mississippi IPs”, the spirit of the law is if a person is accessing your website from Mississippi, you must verify their age, regardless of what path they are taking to reach it. Can’t verify where they are from? Then you just verify them anyway, you don’t get to just be lazy because you don’t know your user. If you don’t, there is a case that you are being negligent.
It's not about cookies specifically, they're just one of the many ways you can be tracked.
You can't realistically block fingerprinting without serious effort, and you can't block your IP without using a VPN (which causes a bunch of other problems with sites not serving you).
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