Mostly no. ssh/rsync is compiled C code, so might be slightly faster than a Python-based `wormhole`, if you have a really fast connection to take advantage of. And rsync provides that lovely continue-from-interrupted-transfer feature that magic-wormhole currently lacks.
But wormhole has turned out to be more usable in some cases. I've had days where I'm sshed into a bastion host, then sshed from there into a server, then cd'd into a deep directory with lots of spaces and quotes and shell metacharacters in the path, and then found a file that I wanted to copy out. To do that with ssh, I have to first configure ProxyJump to let me reach the internal machine with a single ssh command, and then figure out how to escape the pathname correctly (which somehow never works for me). With `wormhole send` I get to skip all of that, at the cost of having to do it once per file.
Isn't Amazon Music included for free with Prime? It must be the biggest reason for its growth. I personally don't know anyone who pays for Amazon Music without Prime.
You'd be incorrect. Amazon Music is not as valuable as people think, compounded by the fact that it helps foot the bill for Alexa. It's only right though, seeing as Music helped completely break Alexa internally. Repeatedly.
I only have Amazon Music because I’ve got some Alexa speakers, so not sure which way the causation is presented, but end result is I am Amazon’s MRR, however small that is.
…that said, the Amazon Music app doesn’t have an option to cast to Alexa and that’s beyond dumb.
I have a theory that the enthusiasm of teachers teaching the material is a far bigger factor in the effectiveness of learning than the methods. So much so that any advantage from better methods gets quickly nullified without teacher buy in
Every single teacher I remember as being influential on me in any significant was was hugely enthusiastic for their subject and the material. No matter how hard or easy the class was, that enthusiasm was definitely the biggest contributing factor to how much of an impact they had on me. One of the only classes I ever really struggled with was a government / civics class. The teacher assigned difficult work and graded hard. But they were enthusiastic, firmly convinced that the key to understanding US government and politics was understanding the sides and arguments in the major landmark Supreme Court cases. So convinced of this were they, that many classes were spent with them enthusiastically recreating oral arguments for various cases. Presenting both halves of them as if they were the lawyers, and leaving us to ask questions about the positions and the arguments.
To this day, that enthusiasm for those cases, for understanding both how each side of these cases is both convinced they’re in the right and how often the cases pivot on very narrow aspects of the law has carried over for me decades later. Those lessons and the insights have shaped not only my passing interests in law and politics, but how I approach day to day conflict and debate.
If they had been unenthusiastic and dry, like so many other teachers I’d had, theirs would have been just another boring US history class with a jerk of a “difficult” teacher.
I have an anecdotal theory that most people who came prepared to a STEM programme in the States last century did so despite, not due to, the modal 7-12 teaching. (if true, I hope it no longer is?)
Most teachers in the states did poorly in math, and never loved it. They in turn can't pass a love of math on. They are good enough at math to pass the tests, but that isn't why they are teaching.
That's why the US can get stuck in such educational ruts. There are too many teachers who don't have the in-depth understanding to alter their teaching methods to approaches other than the one they memorized in education college.
I think the intelligence part is to think of any potential logistical obstacles and figure out ways to deal with them with minimal disruption except when necessary because of potential conflicts with other goals.
"Exception" has a meaning. Exceptions are supposed to be used for just that, unexpected situations. Not being able to parse something is not an exception. It's a normal thing. RegEx doesn't throw an exception when there's no match. Array.indexOf doesn't throw an exception when it doesn't find a something.
It's really nice to able to go into the debugger and say "stop on all exceptions" and not be spammed with the wrong use of exceptions
An invalid URL in a config file is exceptional. An invalid URL typed in by a user or from an external source (eg the body of an API request or inside of some HTML) is Tuesday.
Null checking can be fine if a failure mode is unambiguous. However, if an operation can fail for many reasons, it can be helpful to carry that information around in an object. For example with URL parsing, it might be nice to be able to know why parsing failed. Was it the lack of protocol? Bad path format? Bad domain format? Bad query format? Bad anchor format? This information could theoretically be passed back using an exception object, but this information is eliminated if null is returned.
The bigger impact than the fine is I don't see people using baby powder any more. I lean toward the probably not side of the talc-cancer link, but I didn't use baby powder for my kids because it's purely a nice-to-have convenience product.
Nice-to-have convenience products are very easy to drop at the slightest potential health risk, and that's what I've seen with baby powder (I'm not seeing much uptake on the alternatives because the talc-cancer link gives a vague maybe-need-to-be-cautious taint to the product category as a whole).
I would be interested to hear if someone thinks that usage of baby powder is still popular and my anecdote-based sense of things is wrong.
