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Have they pulled many other “stunts” like the COVID library? It was a pretty crazy time, I think we shouldn’t judge things done then too harshly.
I don't think they have. I also hated that stunt. It undermined their mission, damaged all their goodwill and caused legal hassle. And all the while all these books were readily available to anyone who wanted them via Anna's etc. They should have stayed on the right side of that line.
2:1 by who? That is not written. These types of schemes ring very poorly in my head for charity. If someone has the ability to give 2$ for every 1$ I give, why are they only giving on contingence? Just give the money!
Normal People get to think they are helping 3$'s worth, and Rich people get to think they are helping 3$'s worth... Both side get to feel like they got more out of the initial investment. 1:3 2:3 Everyone wins inside their heads and its nice to live life where everyone wins... Also easier to justify charity when you think you are winning.. I feel like it's pretty good for what it is.
I like the theory of the IA enough that I have a reoccurring donation, but I've thought a few times about e-mailing them to cancel (they have to halt your monthly donation charges manually). There's plenty of things I can overlook, like having to compete with scrapers to get a single page to load, or a myriad of longstanding technical issues (my favorite being that the collection upload system silently and irrevocabl…
> I'm all for ending copyright I don't understand this sadly, common sentiment on HN. How will authors and artists that produce copyrightable artefacts earn income via royalties without strong copyright laws? Are there any highly developed nations that have abandoned copyright? Or any that have weak/non-existent copyright laws and thriving arts and letters? I doubt it.
I like the theory of the IA enough that I have a reoccurring donation, but I've thought a few times about e-mailing them to cancel (they have to halt your monthly donation charges manually). There's plenty of things I can overlook, like having to compete with scrapers to get a single page to load, or a myriad of longstanding technical issues (my favorite being that the collection upload system silently and irrevocabl…
> I'm all for ending copyright I don't understand this sadly, common sentiment on HN. How will authors and artists that produce copyrightable artefacts earn income via royalties without strong copyright laws? Are there any highly developed nations that have abandoned copyright? Or any that have weak/non-existent copyright laws and thriving arts and letters? I doubt it.
downloading or streaming works for private use is permitted even when the source is illegal.
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Not another language because the performance issues are limited to the code being sync. Anyway, a gradual migration was a must as well. This is the first I hear of Litestar and I think it does seem very values aligned. I fastapi was picked simply because it was already known by the team and had a very thriving ecosystem. That being said, the hard part is getting off the old sync web.py stuff. Once everything is in as…
I was one of the initial developers of Open Library and wrote most of it's backend code. I doubt any of the performance issues could be because of code being sync. Open Library is IO bound and it is most likely spending time waiting for db to respond. Was there any performance analysis done that indicated that the "code being sync" the main bottleneck? Happy to help.
When traffic spikes, slow network calls to archive.org (for availability) and Solr tie up all available sync workers. The queue backs up, and suddenly every page becomes slow because there are no free workers left to handle requests.
This was handled from both sides: handling high-concurrency waiting better, while simultaneously optimizing Solr and removing archive.org from the critical path where possible.
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How many BTUs or kJs is that?
I have a combined 2800BTUs of Monero heating capability, which is equivalent to a standard US "spaceheater" running on medium heat. Localized beneath my main office computer desk, this allows me to further reduce heating of my entire domicile.
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My beef with IA is that none of the books as listed for borrowing are borrowable anymore. Why list it then!
AA is what I use.
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Not another language because the performance issues are limited to the code being sync. Anyway, a gradual migration was a must as well. This is the first I hear of Litestar and I think it does seem very values aligned. I fastapi was picked simply because it was already known by the team and had a very thriving ecosystem. That being said, the hard part is getting off the old sync web.py stuff. Once everything is in as…
I’ve been using litestar for loads of projects recently and have been loving it. The ability to have full request/response typing (and openapi spec autogeneration) with your favorite dataclass framework is quite nice (I use attrs). I didn’t want to be forced to use pydantic like some other frameworks do.
I like the theory of the IA enough that I have a reoccurring donation, but I've thought a few times about e-mailing them to cancel (they have to halt your monthly donation charges manually). There's plenty of things I can overlook, like having to compete with scrapers to get a single page to load, or a myriad of longstanding technical issues (my favorite being that the collection upload system silently and irrevocabl…
> I'm all for ending copyright I don't understand this sadly, common sentiment on HN. How will authors and artists that produce copyrightable artefacts earn income via royalties without strong copyright laws? Are there any highly developed nations that have abandoned copyright? Or any that have weak/non-existent copyright laws and thriving arts and letters? I doubt it.