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All-wheel drive doesn't help you at all where it is most important, and that is in braking. Having all-wheel drive only helps you get up to a dangerous speed faster when the grip is low


Yes, big companies can copy your product. But at what cost, especially when including opportunity cost and the levels of bureaucracy in larger companies? I have heard your question many times during the last 20 years, and still there are more software startups.

In many cases it would cost them less to buy your company than to create it from scratch. Which is why so many small companies are acquired instead of copied. The question should be more what do you want to do and are you able to follow up on creating a startup? Writing the code is a small part of creating a successful startup


Try to use any Google site while traveling. I have two languages in my Accept-Language header, but Google always give me language based on location if I'm not logged in. There are also many other sites that does the same, often without any option to change language


Nice looking demos, I hope to some day manage to get results close to what you have.

I started playing around with GLSL recently and the closest I have come to describing working with it is that it is like creating poetry using math. Getting started was much easier than I expected, getting good results is so far as hard as expected


Thank you for the kind words, and you're on point with "poetry using math".

I started 2-3 months ago or so doing this stuff, so don't be too intimidated to start. Especially with the two articles (Red Alp and this one), it should make it more accessible, hopefully :)


Not only that. When your self-host goes down your customers complain that you are down. When AWS goes down your customers complain that internet is down


It would be great if there was accurate tests for allergies. Blood tests shows what you absolute should stay away from, you maybe should be careful with, and what to do more testing with. Then there are different tests to learn more, but in the end they end of with learn to read your body's reaction and stay away from things you react badly to.

And yes, this have made me a picky eater, not because I don't want to try new things but because the setting with trying new things is in most cases not the settings where you want to get the bad reactions


AFAIK skin prick tests are the best for contact allergies, blood tests unlikely to find anything but severe allergies.

and I'm not sure how to find mild food allergies directly, seems to be all food diaries and correlation which feels mostly useless..

There also seems to be a hair test that AFAI can tell is an outright scam.


The problem with blood tests in my experience is all the false positives, skin prick tests are often used based on result from blood tests. But when having many allergies it is normal to only check for the most severe using skin prick tests.

Food diaries are probably good for those that are more experimental in what they eat, the difficult part come when it is a combination of things that give a reaction. The most important is to learn to listen to your body and not buy into peer pressure when someone urge you to try something new that you are not sure about


We should also stop calling it ID theft. The identity is not stolen, the owner do still have it. Calling it ID theft is moving the responsibility from the one that a fraud is against (often banks or other large entities) to an innocent 3rd party


Yes tricking a bank into thinking you are one of their customers is not the same as assuming someone else’s identity.


As always, Mitchell and Webb hit the nail precisely on the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E


> Calling it ID theft is moving the responsibility from the one that a fraud is against (often banks or other large entities)

The victim of ID theft is the person whose ID was stolen. The damage to banks or other large entities pales in comparison to the damage to those people.


I did probably not formulate myself good enough. By calling it ID theft you are blaming the person the ID belongs to and that person have to prove they are innocent. By calling it by the correct words, bank fraud, the bank have to prove that the person the ID belongs to did it. No ID was stolen, it was only used by someone else to commit fraud. The banks don't have enough security to stop it because they have gotten away with calling it ID theft and putting the blame on the person the ID belongs to


While I agree that bank fraud is a more accurate and just labeling, I observe that people are required to prove their innocence regularly.


Is your screen 60Hz? Game loops are normally using requestAnimationFrame [0], which is capped at refresh rate of your display

[0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/requ...


That brings back memories. I remember using that article when creating a simple racing game for a school project in 2005. Using that game I found that the car I was using for a starter series in rallycross at the same time had higher top speed in 4th gear than 5th because of a lack of power


>> lets you bookmark every page

In today's world with all the SPAs that don't push to history or don't manage to open the correct page based on history, this seems like a valid requirement


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