It depends on what you mean by production! I am using Supabase in a hobby-level project that's "in production" (aka live on the internet). Supabase uses Deno to deploy functions. I am currently using Supabase functions (which are Deno Deploy functions) for both an API (interfacing with data not in a Supabase database) as well as some web-hook listener fuctions that keep Supabase accounts in sync with Stripe user IDs.
Overall, no issues or complaints. It's always a bit odd coming from npm/node into something like Deno, but the differences are really trivial. I believe Deno has become much more compatible with Node since I really had to update the project, so the differences are probably even smaller now.
Technologists have a hard time accepting an established standard. Email is a perfect corollary to this conversation. There is a graveyard of companies that have attempted to "Solve email", yet it is still ubiquitous and attempts to 'improve' it continue to fizzle out. I'm not saying that progress, or an attempt at progress, is pointless, but to argue that writing vanilla SQL is somehow antiquated or archaic is false and OP makes several valid points highlighting why it is a perfectly valid approach.
Pornography, social media, 24/7 news... will all be looked back on in history as having profound negative mental health effects, akin to how we today view smoking in the 1950s. There is a mountain of growing evidence that this is verifiably true. The exact means that Utah is using to provide ID check may be for debate, but the concept there should be an age restriction, liable to the ISP or the content provider, should not be in dispute.
What alternative means do you see as having the potential to be effective? Is there a version that does not require unmasking everyone just to identify the children?
The origin story is paramount to preventing future outbreaks and to the loss of, and disruption to, our way of life. The US took the same position on combating terrorism when it rooted out Al-Qaeda. To stop future loss of life, the root cause needs to be identified and dealt with. I vehemently disagree with the assessment that the origin is not instrumental to the defense of future outbreaks.
No it is not, because it is undisputed that viruses can evolve to infect humans.
If we had 100% solid proof SARS-COV-2 originated in a lab, it would not change our approach to detecting or mitigating future outbreaks. We always have to prepare for either.
It’s not like it never occurred to anyone before that dangerous infectious agents could escape a lab. It was a well-known possibility and was incorporated into U.S. federal pandemic preparedness planning since at least the George W Bush administration.
An accidental leak from a lab must still be detected, and once detected, public health measures initiated. The procedures are the same as for a natural origin.
The fundamental lesson from COVID-19 is that we cannot let our guard down. The Trump administration did in many ways, and so were not able to detect or respond fast enough.
So what you’re saying is we should be more concerned with defense and accept that viruses will be engineered. I don’t disagree with this line of thinking but I also believe we must be on the offensive too. We can’t just accept that labs will build viruses.
Rubbish. The response would not be to increase surveillance near labs. It would be to float a moratorium on GoF research and to increase biosafety at labs. Much of the work being done at the WIV was carried out at BSL-2, which is absolutely shocking.
It seems like you are using the US War on Terror as a good example? It didn’t stop the loss of life, it just changed the arena. Orders of magnitudes more people died as a result of that than from the attack that spawned it.
A lot of the reviews amount to "well at least it's cheap" which is not really a ringing endorsement. When you build living spaces that are terrible to live in, they become inexpensive relative to the horror that is the current rental market.
But that seems like a bad solution to rent inflation.
Well, if they are better considering the cost, then they are better considering the cost...
Maybe someone else can design a building that has similarly good/better reviews and gives students windows. But to just assume that there are unproven better cost/benefit options at the needed scale... Well, does not seem justifiable either
I admire the motivation here to offer a boilerplate to the community using these tools, but it feels like a lot of this has been solved by the Baas providers like AWS Amplify, Azure Static Web Apps, Firebase, etc.
These services all support your choice of front-end and back-end programming language. All these providers also allow hooks into features like security, database, apis, ci/cd, and so on. You would be in a serverless architecture also which provides scalability and keeps costs low up front. Not trying to discredit the author here, which is admirable in the intent, but feels like it's trying to solve for something that several other solutions exist for unless I'm missing something critical.
Serverless type things are totally fine if you’re into that. But it can be nice to just have a simple backend running on a server. No different services to think about, just simple code. For me Django is the way to go because I’ve been using it for years, for others it might be some other language/framework. You should most definitely continue to do you, but for me that’s what works.
To counter this, as someone who lives in Chicago, there are some additional drawbacks beyond the weather:
- Taxes are extremely high here, with no sign of slowing down
- Political corruption is rampant in the state
- Crime is mostly relegated to south side of city, but it's still an issue
- Public works are decaying: train stations, airport, and everything else look like they need work
- Schools are undesirable and a magnet/charter school has very high competition.
My wife and I have lived here our whole lives and are considering joining several friends who have recently moved to the Nashville area to alleviate the above mentioned items. There is no state income tax in TN, public schools in suburbs are good w/ only a 20 minute drive into the city. There are some drawbacks but we're comfortable with the trade-off.
I hear taxes brought up a lot, but they're actually on par with major metro areas. Let's compare Chicago to SF:
1. Effective property tax rate: SF ~1.2%, Chicago ~1.7% *
2. State income tax: SF 9.3%+, Chicago 4.95%
3. Combined state, county + city sales tax: SF 8.5%, Chicago 10.25%
(* But property taxes do get much higher in the suburban townships!)
Altogether, the lower state income tax more than offsets the slightly higher property tax.
But taxes is a favorite bugbear in local political campaigns, because they're an easy item for politicians to harp on (who doesn't want lower taxes after all?). The other day I saw a political ad where the actor proclaimed, "I'm moving out of Illinois because taxes are too high! Support XYZ for governor." But let's be honest, uprooting one's family just to optimize a few percentage points on the tax return is a terrible idea. And as long as there are good jobs available, taxes are just one living expense among many.
As for the other items, I can't agree with them either. Chicago Public Schools are totally fine - they're very much focused on educating working-class and/or immigrant kids, so they're not like rich suburban schools with all the bells and whistles, but they do their job very well. And the magnet schools are top notch. Public works are a patchwork, but for example CTA is very well funded and runs much better than either MTA or MUNI. As for corruption - ok, I'll give you that one. ;)
If you're thinking about long term, 10 to 20+ years into the future, you need to look at the state's debt, namely unfunded defined benefit pension obligations. IL is the worst, and that's using rosy assumptions:
Combined with the fact that the rest of IL isn't burgeoning, and that Chicago is the main source of income, it would be prudent to expect ever increasing taxes and reduced services. Other states also have problems, but there are a few states whose problems are in another league.
Personally, I would need a big discount to consider Chicago, as being outdoors is a big part of my life.
Yeah, if the pension plan had no assets, the state would be in deep trouble, as would most others. But in terms of pension cashflow as a fraction of total assets, IL is actually doing really well, better than the vast majority of states:
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...
Which is what allowed politicians to kick the can down the road for so long. So yes, there is a hole and it needs to be plugged. But this is a big state, plan assets are considerable, and there's a lot of new contributions coming in all the time as well. This won't trigger "ever increasing taxes" as some doomsaying politicians put it, there can be a correction once there is political will to do so.
The deficit is including any returns on existing plan assets. And each year, the share of the tax receipts that go towards paying debt (including pensions) keeps increasing. Obviously, something will have to be cut to make up for this.
Most families (who likely pay the most in property tax) live in the surrounding suburbs, which as you have noted are indeed much higher in terms of property tax. Similar suburbs around Nashville are averaging 50-70% lower property tax rates, which is significant enough to move oneself out of the state. This is only going to increase the tax burden for the remainder of residents of the state. The city proper only comprises 2.7m residents per the 2010 census, while the metro area is 9.5m residents.
My evidence on the other items is anecdotal, but that is my opinion and I'm understanding of the fact others may disagree.
Regarding taxes, are you talking about Chicago proper or the surrounding suburbs? I rented in North Chicago for a couple years and I don't recall any taxes other than local and state sales tax, and state income tax. Granted that's pretty far north. Are the taxes higher as you get closer to the metropolis center?
Welcome to Nashville! We love the growth and all the culture that comes with it. Hit me up if you have any questions, been here for 14 years after trying NY, Cali and Florida.
This comparison isn't useful IMO because alcohol had actually been legal prior to prohibition introduced by puritanism. If anything I'd say prohibition gave people pause since alcoholism and heavy drinking was quite common prior to it being introduced. (Note: I'm not against marijuana legalization/decriminalization - just making an observation).
To be fair, marijuana was criminalized at the same time as booze, and by the same people, but yeah, we've now had multi-generational prohibition instead of a decade.
- Eroded public trust in (all) social media
- Increased regulatory scrutiny today vs 2009
- More competition today (i.e. TikTok)
- Changing demands from advertisers