> Where possible avoid simply using id as the primary identifier for the table.

I've found the opposite true in my limited experience, at least when doing any sort of ORM, then having id implicitly as the primary key makes life so much easier.

Old school SQL gurus will tell you the ORM is wrong and just to override it. It breaks USING

Exactly, USING shines when IDs are employee_id or task_id in every table.

Wouldn't say so.

An iterative model which has been up-front loaded with a firm architecture, feature elaboration, a rough development and testing plan, resources allocated and some basic milestones to hit so that upper mgmt. can get an idea when useful stuff might land.

The development _process_ can be as agile-y as you like, so long as the development of features moves incrementally with each iteration towards the desired end-goal.

But you have to be strict about scope.

I'm not sure that follows. If most programming is thinking, then it makes sense to minimise the amount of thinking that is wasted when circumstances later change.

How do you deal with people who don't pay back in time or ever? What's your favourite tool for dealing with such situations?

Mentioned in a sibling reply, but the money I loan is to either close friends or family members or in-laws. I know them well enough to know that "not paying me back" really isn't on the table.

In regards to "not paying on time", these are friends and family, so it's not like I'm going to go break their kneecaps or anything; if they're a bit short on the payment date we just push it back.

Tiktok is a platform for kids and teenagers (right?), but teens don't have money. So how's their business model even supposed to work?

My 1940’s grandma spends more time on tt than yt, like whole evenings. And her brother’s ex too. They don’t spend money on it either and tbh I don’t know what their interaction with it looks like. But “for teens” is a common misconception. I’ve had a few 25..40-ish coworkers who were scrolling it as well.

There are sponsored posts dispersed through your feed.

Writing this, I've realized that TikTok hasn't made the terms for it's posts/feed obvious. Twitter has Tweets/Timeline, Facebook has Feed, I don't know what I would say to describe a post from TikTok outside of calling the video itself a 'TikTok'

Shhh... don't tell the advertisers.

hot bloodedness ~= num dependencies

Just a few weeks ago, you could buy a brand new Model 3 in the US for ~$30k with incentives. I don’t consider that to be particularly expensive for a new vehicle.

> can just buy another

There is already commenter here claiming that all 4 Teslas they owned were reliable.

That's stupid in more ways than one. These breakdowns sometimes cause accidents.

Perhaps used to be true. Other car prices have caught up with Tesla.

What's the false positive rate i.e the percentage of legit user getting stuck in the loop?

THANK you.

IMO Stadia was born dead because of the lag built into its design. Most googlers I talked to when it was announced did not think about it at all, it was all about how cool the stack behind it was, but from a gamer's perspective I was just terrified about the idea.

Thanks for sharing this. I just spent last 10 hours reading it, but I need to stop to get some sleep now.

EU has already solved this problem 10+ years ago using electronic ID cards. You can transfer money, sign contracts etc with these. You have your private key on chip + PINs for 2nd factor auth. Why not build a block-chain on that tech?

What use-case do you have in mind? Because your current suggestion sounds like "$existingThing, but with a blockchain!". What would this blockchain do?