If it goes off track I put a rule in there. It’s like a junior developer that I have to keep constraining it to project goals, coding styles and other aspects.
I have different files in there to help with being able to reuse rules for different projects.
It’s short sighted to say Europe should spend more on defence. Europe is now going to move away from US weapons and develop its own systems.
That’s a net loss for American defence companies and jobs in the USA. For the US military, costs per unit will go up, because they aren’t mass producing these systems at the same scale.
Trump didn’t just step back from an alliance that existed for 80 years, he also burnt the bridge by destroying trust.
For Europe, it’s probably a good thing to kickstart a new economic recovery, e.g. German automakers can switch to tanks and IFVs.
In England we call them "Indicators" as opposed to turn signals. My driving instructor said, they are call that because they are only indicating they might go that way. Never assume they will. It was some defensive driving advice.
I can understand that it's annoying that inconsistent use of turn signals is an annoyance, it isn't as bad a people that don't use them at all, but my understand is that the American road system doesn't have roundabouts like we do, which kind of require good indicator use for smooth driving.
I've driven in England and New Zealand, and they really had them everywhere.
Yes, we have them in the US, but we don't have enough of them that you can expect that all drivers know what to do with them. It's entirely too common for approaching drivers to be unaware that they must yield to vehicles already in the circle.
This isn't a criticism but feedback from someone that is looking for a 3rd party auth service.
I am starting up my own business, I have spent some time evaluating AuthKit and I can't justify investing time on it. Specifically, I want to target small to medium sized companies that want SSO built into my services.
The fact that the auth would be at an *.authkit.app domain is disconcerting, users would think they have been click-jacked because they have left the domain they were expecting. Your comment about custom domains costing because of Cloudflare is strange given how much CF charge verses the $99 per month cost you charge, there seems to be a big order of magnitude difference, since under the Pro plan they charge 10c per additional domain. Perhaps you have additional services behind that, but it seems strange:
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/
The "Powered By x" would actually be preferable, many people are used to seeing thing like that on payment screens.
Also, the SSO connectors being $125 per month per connection, rules out my target market. That is a lot in my market and it doesn't ease off as I grow, it's a fixed base cost. As I grow to 20-30 customers I'd be better off hiring a developer to implement the same features.
I get it that I am not the target market; that big businesses wouldn't bat an eyelid at that kind of costs. But for my purposes, I can't justify your costs. Good luck to you.
There are several open source options out there (several linked above) that could be a good fit for your business economics. I know lots of folks talk about Supabase and Auth.js on X.
If you have the time and patience, you can also certainly build it yourself. There's no miracles here, just complex engineering and solving a thousand edge cases.
If you decide to use open source, make sure you quickly update dependencies so you're always running latest. Ruby-SAML had a major vulnerability disclosed last month and thousands of apps were affected: https://workos.com/blog/ruby-saml-cve-2024-45409
Not to diminish your point, but to add to the discussion.
I would point out that landmines are also indiscriminate and allowed within warfare. If anything mines are slightly more indiscriminate due to you not needing to have accepted a device.
Although I think morally people are against the use of mines, we've seen widespread use of them in Ukraine. It would be good to see a global ban on these type of methods.
> landmines are also indiscriminate and allowed within warfare
That is an interesting angle.
I do see that there is a clear distinction that makes the pager/radio explosives worse ethically. Landmines are generally laid to prevent people from encroaching on a guarded area. Minefields can be labeled, which suggests that the idea of the presence of a mine actually helps them be effective in preventing encroachment.
In the pager/radio case, the explosives were distributed to individuals (both devices are usually worn on the body) with zero indication that there was danger. There is no 'protection' being done here, just murder, and loosely targeted. When the attacker is ready, they detonate 4000 devices without knowledge of the environment around it, meaning they are willing to deal with innocent people being killed.
As an attack on a huge terrorist cell this attack is as targeted as one can possibly be at this scale. Normal course of action for pretty much any other country in the world would be carpet bombing the areas with little to no regard of civilian casualties, it is only when Israel does it suddenly UN becomes concerned.
This is not indiscriminate explosion of thousands of random pagers that entered Lebanese circulation, it is explosion that is triggered on specific Hezbollah channel, you can't target any more directly than that.
I think you nailed the analogy with mines and the distinction between legal and moral.
Putting morality aside and focusing only on language and semantica:
I agree that this action may be better described as military action with an associated risk of harm to civilians (like many military actions do) rather than a pure action against civilians with the purpose of terrorizing your enemy civilian population.
I don't think it's common to use the word "terrorism" to indicate acts whose purpose is to induce fear in your military opponent.
Perhaps "psychological warfare" or "intimidation tactics".
That doesn't forbid you from qualifying that act of aggression as exacting an unnecessarily high toll on innocent bystanders. You don't have to invoke the word "terrorism" if all you want to say is that an act is immoral.
I know people that invested in property and they either didn’t consider the risks they are taking (not servicing boilers) or the time managing tenants. If you end up with a court case, you are going to shorten your life through stress.
I get it that mortgage money is cheap leverage, but I think the good times on that have run out.
Yeah it has good times and bad times depending on the property market and the government laws of the day and also on the individual. Still over the long term there tends to be a transfer of wealth from the young and hard working to property owners as a class.
> Fix problems the way they're normally fixed
I think that's the problem. Putting your car into a garage to get it looked at and fixed is expensive to the manufacturer and the loss of time to me.
As opposed to my car getting an OTA update overnight and the only thing I notice is the reversing beep is now a slightly different tone.
If it goes off track I put a rule in there. It’s like a junior developer that I have to keep constraining it to project goals, coding styles and other aspects.
I have different files in there to help with being able to reuse rules for different projects.
Overtime it’s getting better at staying on track.
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