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Rails 7.2 introduced a new rate limit feature that uses the Rails cache for preventing abuse of routes in your applications. https://gorails.com/episodes/rate-limit-requests-rails-7-2
When I was young I said to my father that I didn’t see a lot of racism. He, a child of the Great Depression, replied, “wait till times are bad.” The “other”, the immigrant, is always an easy target. The actual villains are the UK’s ruling class and if violence is the method then the…
The Chinese have executed the low-end disruption playbook to perfection… cars is just *one* of the markets. This story is going to play out again and again. Driving China’s ascendancy is a massive and abrupt shift to electric vehicles. The EV share of total car sales will jump to almost 50% this year, up from…
In the short run, enforced dominance can offer rewards, both financial and related to ego, mostly to senior management. But the short run is fairly short, and the resilience, productivity and utility that come from agility and serving customers and employees more effectively is worth the transition. The very thing that enabled these companies to…
hurdy gurdys, lutes, gregorian chants, thundering drums and punishing percussive foley fx. the ep-1320 is the first of its kind:featuring a large library of phrases, play ready instruments and one-shot samples from an age where darkness reigned supreme,the instrumentalis electronicum is the ultimate,and only, medieval beat machine. https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320 Teenage Engineering is the most exciting tech…
Chile is phasing out coal faster than any other developing nation thanks in part to regulations that bolstered environmental standards and gave investors the right signals, says former environment minister Marcelo Mena-Carrasco. In the first half of 2024, coal accounted for just 17.5% of Chile’s electricity output, data collated by research group Ember shows. That’s…
Every time the rich are criticised they run to the usual defence of “it’s the politics of envy”… … there is no such thing. It’s the politics of power. The rich have taken too much power and the working and middle class want it back.
The addition to the hangar, which is situated near Bosten Lake in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, can be seen in new satellite imagery that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs. Construction of the original 1,150-foot-long and 450-foot-wide hangar, which is also extremely tall, started in 2013 and looks to have wrapped up in 2015. To give…
I have a pathological aversion to personal debt. It has meant that I have remained a free agent for my 30 year career. I haven’t had fancy things, but I’ve alway had the freedom to walk. Turns out that scales to a country level too.. https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/06/debt-is-political-why-wealth-flows-from-poor-to-rich Debt and lack of taxes on the wealthy makes…
In a world of BS talking points… it’s heartening to see this one die. Michael Liebreich, chief executive officer of Liebreich Associates and managing partner of EcoPragma Capital, is more blunt. “There are no longer any so-called hard-to-abate sectors,” he wrote for BloombergNEF earlier this year. “There are only some sectors in which clean solutions…
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