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Those sort of flaky or non-deterministic steps are written as activities, not as part of the deterministic workflow. The orchestrator will retry the non-deterministic activity until it gets a usable output (expected error, success), and record the activity output. If the workflow replays (i.e. worker crash), that recorded output of the activity will be returned instead of executing the activity again.

Brave has a subscription tier that offers storage rights. But it's ~9x the cost of their normal Pro subscription. I have a hard time imagining that the cost works out in their favor (discounting the possibility of a special arrangement) with how long the query stream tail is in web search.


Try a short story collection. Ten page chunks are easy to consume and you get to tell yourself you’re reading literature. It’s a good way to get back into reading on paper if you’ve been away and want to start small.


What is “safe app”? Too generic to be googleable.



On this same topic, I just launched an app that lets you use your offline videos in an interface that is easy to use for kids.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaiserapps...

I stuck to a one-off payment, rather than the garbage subscription models all the other parenting apps use.


What we find essential about safe vision is that the kid can search like normal but it's limited to the approved channels. With about 30 (highly curated) channels the kid can find a lot of safe content.

It also generates an updated dashboard page from new stuff from all the creators, also essential.

The offline thing has never come up for us. They do a yearly sub $29.99, happy to pay. Just an FYI.


I'm quite curious how they go about licensing the content, maybe they just pay the creators a cut of the subscription fees. Or is it really just scraping youtube in some form?

As for the search you mentioned, that might come into it for an older range, for my little ones they still can't read or spell yet, they just want to click on the thumbnail that looks the most engaging at any random time.


Because if you send marketing emails through SMTP, your delivery rate will be approximately 0.00%, or if you're leveraging a third party SMTP, they will ban you.


> or if you're leveraging a third party SMTP, they will ban you.

Not if you are paying them for the service.

There are ommercial email services that aren't google/microsoft/aws. My former company used to use one (can't remember the name) that provided you with smtp servers and a set of dedicated IPs per customers that were preused by them to build a good reputation beforehand.

I think the point is not necessary that you have to selfhost email (although it can be done, some people do), but depending on a single vendor through a proprietary service/API.


Very good point.Thats the most painful point in selfhosting email .


"No 'default search deals'" doesn't sound like projecting, it sounds like a direct shot.


I was replying from the context of the grand-parent quote about "singular focus". :)


Fastmail lets you use custom domains for email and offers DNS and simple hosting.

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000280141-Ho...

Not affiliated, just a longtime customer and fastmail enjoyer.


Every carpenter I’ve met uses sixteenths of an inch, and every metal worker uses thousandths.


Neither of those jobs require serious tolerances


Sounds to me like what you meant to say is that your criteria for determining whether someone's profession is "serious" is whether they use metric or not.


Sounds to me like you're not commenting in good faith. Begone, nerd.


Is there a list anywhere of trustworthy sites for product reviews? The article mentioned Tech Gear Lab, and though I haven't heard of House Fresh, that seems reasonable? Consumer Reports of course, but are there others?


I don't think so. It depends on the product, ie. Digital Trends are good for stuff like TVs, Serious Eats have great kitchen-related stuff reviews, etc...


On the other hand, vanilla PHP effectively "hides" HTTP from the programmer. I taught myself PHP in middle school and high school as my first programming experience, and had no concept of a thing called "HTTP" for a very very long time. I knew the pieces of it that PHP gave me. I knew what $_POST, $_GET, $_SERVER, $_HEADER, set/getcookie(), were and how to manipulate them, and I knew the rules (setting a header after "echo" made it complain), but I didn't understand how that all hung together as a thing outside PHP called HTTP.

When I did learn about HTTP, it was very easy, since I already knew it without knowing I knew it, so maybe that's in favor of your point, but there's much to be said for the actual understanding that I didn't have at first. When I started interviewing people for PHP entry-level jobs, asking about HTTP was one of the ways I gauged how well applicants understood their work at a conceptual level.


This mirrors my experience exactly - it took me an embarrassingly long time to learn about http and what it means to be stateless.

It also took learning other languages to understand how PHP is so unique in how tied to HTTP it is (rebuilding its entire universe every request).

(these learnings happened when moving beyond the PHP-based CMS style of development - agency style work on my case - to make more custom software).


I imagine it took you awhile to understand what “stateless“ meant, because you weren’t exposed to the default state-fullness of most other languages, so didn’t realize stateless wasn’t the default.


Yeah, that's for sure true.


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