Merad

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by Merad 2y ago
Sandcastle Helper File Builder has been around forever and started as an internal MS project IIRC, but for some reason few libraries use it. https://github.com/EWSoftware/SHFB
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by Merad 2y ago
I have a 6-7 year old Omron brand device that doesn't do this. I can always tell right away when my BP is running high because I can feel the machine squeezing harder than normal to get the reading.
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by Merad 2y ago
I mostly live in the windows world, and since at least Win 7 its sleep and hibernate have been reliable enough that I use them regularly. When I'm deep into a project for work I can easily have a dozen apps open. Having to reopen them
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by Merad 2y ago
Your birth is an event that happened at an instant in time, but very few systems concern themselves with that detail. The vast majority need to store birth _date_ and have no interest in the time or location.
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by Merad 2y ago
ICE aren't going to go away any time soon. Battery tech has a long way to go before it can compete with the energy density of liquid dinosaurs, and if it did there are plenty of cases where ICE has major advantages over battery power.
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by Merad 2y ago
I don't know the exact answer but when I worked there while in college 20 years ago the package cars were never connected to chargers overnight, nor did they receive any other special attention. I would imagine that they use heavy duty
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by Merad 2y ago
To "cross the line" means that you went too far, in this context meaning that someone revealed secrets or otherwise talked about things that they shouldn't reveal. So to walk up to the line means that the person was willing t
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by Merad 2y ago
Yes, I think this has been a huge missed opportunity. Making hybrids the standard car is a big win for fuel efficiency. Then shifting towards plugin hybrids with a 40-50 mile EV range has the opportunity to radically reduce emissions withou
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by Merad 2y ago
Where are you getting 1500 Soyuz flights? As far as I can find the number is more like 150. It also experienced failure and loss of crew on two missions (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11).
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by Merad 2y ago
Databases have pretty robust access controls to limit (a sql user's) access to tables, schemas, etc. Basic controls like being able to read but not write, and more advanced situations like being able to access data through a view or st
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by Merad 2y ago
Pledging allegiance to the flag is a product of late 19th century sentiments that tie back to the US Civil War. This article has some backstory: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jack-david-eller-pledg...
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by Merad 2y ago
I used to work in internal IT at a Fortune 500 working with different departments in the company to turn Excel spreadsheets and Access97 tools into web apps with real databases. The problem is that the companies/departments where this
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by Merad 2y ago
Many people store UUID's as text in the database. Needles to say, this is bad. TFA starts by proposing that it's bad, then does some tests to show why. I'm not quite sure what all the links have to do with the topic at hand.
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by Merad 2y ago
Best practice in Postgres is to use always use the text data type and combine it with check constraints when you need an exact length or max length. See: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_This#Text_storage
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by Merad 2y ago
An int PK does not give you 4 billion rows. For example, in Postgres every time an insert transaction has to rollback, the id's that would have been used by that insert are discarded and gone forever. Likewise people often don't r
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by Merad 2y ago
The game actually does a pretty masterful job of tricking players and convincing them to go way, way overboard in their preparations. The submarine/mobile base and the robotic mining suit aren't even necessary to finish the game.
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by Merad 2y ago
For anyone who might not be aware, this is true for most companies. Any changes to your plan will usually require the removal of any grandfathered features, regardless of what the tier 1 CSR tells you.
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by Merad 2y ago
It seems like GitHub is rejecting requests from affected IDE versions. We discovered this yesterday because PR integration was not working even though the GitHub login/token was correct. Issue resolved by upgrading the IDE to the lates
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by Merad 2y ago
I'd recommend using Crockford base 32 [0] to encode the bytes. It makes the text more human friendly by eliminating case sensitivity, removing similar/ambiguous letters, and preventing accidental profanity. And in most cases I th
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by Merad 2y ago
Walmart. Walmart is totally the winner in this category. It has all of the grocery store things you mentioned plus mountains of clothing, household goods, mind blowing technology, medicines... Show them all of these wonders - then tell them
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by Merad 2y ago
Many of the migration tools I've worked with include the concept of scripts that are run every time migrations are applied, in addition to your standard migration files. So things like views, functions, SPs can go in these "every
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by Merad 2y ago
> Canned food: if hermetic seal is intact, it's edible. Definitely not a universal truth. Canned food can develop botulism, you do not want to mess with it. Any cans that are bulged or show signs of swelling should be discarded - do
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by Merad 2y ago
Yep, you're walking in one of the voids that is largely ignored by modern front end web dev. Frameworks like React and Vue advertise that your can easily add them to any page and that's technically true... but when you have a real
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by Merad 2y ago
Around 2017-2018 I remember reading a really interesting article about how the Obama White House handled letters to the president. The vast majority of letters (hundreds per day, IIRC) were answered by staffers, but each day they would sel
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by Merad 2y ago
I think the biggest hurdle to heat pump adoption (at least in North America) is likely to be that it provides an experience that simply isn't as good as a gas furnace. On a chilly morning the air coming out of the vents just isn'
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by Merad 3y ago
They definitely exist for small RC aircraft, but they're very expensive.
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by Merad 3y ago
It's not just great grandparents, but the family calculus on grandparents changes significantly as well. If my parents were 35 when I was born, and I don't have children until 35, my parents are 70. With a life expectancy of 80,
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by Merad 3y ago
In the past year I've gone to the ER with my late 70s dad almost once a month including multiple waits in the 6-12 hour range. * Any time a senior (I guess anyone, really) falls and hits their head doctors want a head CT. Only place to
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by Merad 3y ago
A lot of these ships carry upwards of 150000 tons of cargo. Not sure if an extra 60-70 tons (assuming a 20 day trip) of cargo would be very meaningful. A quick google suggests that would only be 2 or 3 additional shipping containers.
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by Merad 3y ago
I've been in the industry for 10 years now. If memory serves I've applied to about 20 companies, had 8 interviews, and 5 offers resulting in 3 jobs. I don't doubt your experience, but it's not a universal truth of how th

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