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Ex-Meta Staffer Says 99% of Teens Shunned Early Safety Tool

A former data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc. testified that less than 1% of teenagers were early adopters of a feature designed to get them to take a break from scrolling on Instagram. George Volichenko — who worked on the …

Ex-Meta Staffer Says 99% of Teens Shunned Early Safety Tool

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Deploying Go Applications: The Smallest Docker Images You’ll Ever Ship

Go compiles to a single static binary, perfect for containers. Build 10 MB images and deploy them to your VPS with zero-downtime rollouts.

  • Go applications compile to single static binary, ideal for container deployment
  • Docker images under 15 MB using -ldflags=-s -w flag to strip debug symbols
  • Graceful shutdown and health checks implemented in Go binary for zero-downtime deployments

A Shapefile Is Four Files, and the Important One Is Optional

A user clicks "upload" and picks a file. In most systems that sentence is the whole story. In a geospatial system, the thing they picked is one of four files that only mean something together, the one…

  • A shapefile comprises four files: .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj
  • The .shp file holds geometry, .shx is an index, and .dbf contains attributes
  • The .prj file defining coordinate system is optional but often missing

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