Merad

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by Merad 3y ago
> Also the point about external IDs and internal IDs - why can't the database/ORM do this more automatically? It has pretty big implications for how your application code interacts with the database. Queries that involve id&#x
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by Merad 3y ago
> The point about the storage size of UUID columns is unconvincing. 128 bits vs. 64 bits doesn't matter much when the table has five other columns. But it's not just the size of that one column, it's also the size of all t
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by Merad 3y ago
With a single timestamp how would you write a queries such as "what was the state of the record at this specific moment in time" or "what changes were made to the record between start_time and end_time"? TFA is also usi
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by Merad 3y ago
Yes, you can use v7 today with uuid columns, you just need to add a custom function (or the more performant pg_uuidv7 extension) to generate them.
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by Merad 3y ago
I imagine the goal here is to optimize MS' compute and hosting costs. The core pieces of O365 probably handle many billions of requests per day. At that scale even small optimizations can be worth millions a year in cost savings.
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by Merad 3y ago
No, they're looking at migrating some core Office 365 services to Rust. This is the job posting: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1633482/Pri... At the scale of O365 it totally make
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by Merad 3y ago
About 75% of states only require one party to consent to a recording, so you can consent to the recording any conversation that you take part in.
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by Merad 3y ago
I don't think that argument really holds up. IME people who are highly interested in fasting, cleanses, or "resting their organs" claim to feel like they're being overwhelmed by "toxins" and need to do those t
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by Merad 3y ago
> Give organs a break that would otherwise never have a break. Many benefits to speak of.. Meaning no offense but this seems like such a silly claim to make. I'm sure it's appealing to feel like you've found a way to hack
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by Merad 3y ago
It's a neat idea but I think you're really underestimating how large the battery would need to be to provide any useful range. I have a Toyota RAV4 hybrid whose battery only provides < 1 mile range and its battery is basically
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by Merad 3y ago
Doesn't seem like grandma is a luddite, TFA says she has a cell phone while he refuses. I just wonder what kind of job he's going to have? These days even guys in the trades are usually carrying a cell and a tablet and using the
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by Merad 3y ago
Brace yourself, but the classic rock station around here plays tons of stuff from the 90s and even early 2000s.
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by Merad 3y ago
Just bear in mind the kind of enterprise customers that tend to want on prem software _do not_ want to spend a lot of time deploying or maintaining it but the _do_ want you to support the old version that they're running (meaning secur
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by Merad 3y ago
I suspect that you're drastically underestimating the breadth of the technology that NASA deals with. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
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by Merad 3y ago
The Apollo program is estimated to have generated a ROI of $7-8 for every dollar spent by NASA. Today NASA has a budget of around $20 billion but they generate $70 billion in economic output. 0: https://nss.org/settlement&#
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by Merad 3y ago
We got _incredibly_ lucky. A Soviet submarine trying to get through the blockade believed that war had broken out and wanted to attack the US fleet with nuclear torpedoes [0]. Normally only two men aboard the sub had to approve the nuclea
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by Merad 3y ago
Median TC for SWE in the US is $170k according to levels.fyi.
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by Merad 3y ago
The search algorithm does seem to be a bit wonky. Searching for "aloe", for example, returns about 20 results most of which don't seem to have any relation at all to aloe, e.g. calamondin orange or rock moss.
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by Merad 3y ago
> With anti-lock brakes, you're protected if you've never learned anything and you just try to put the brake pedal to the floor. That sounds nice on paper, but in reality you need training in order to overcome the instinct to s
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by Merad 3y ago
> I would have assumed that by that time the average person were sufficiently internet savvy to recognize that the clock was not remotely generated somehow. IME the average person really has no intuition for how the internet and websites
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by Merad 3y ago
Which is great job security for the engineering team a few years down the road, when there's no one left who understands how the AI generated app works but it's become a mission critical part of some department's workflow. K
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by Merad 3y ago
Well, RMS tirelessly advocates for his beliefs, but sometimes his beliefs are regressive and outdated. In particular I remember a debate perhaps 8-10 years ago when the gcc team wanted to expose more info from the compiler back end to enab
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by Merad 3y ago
Lots of aerial refueling. 10 hours in the air, yes, but not on a single tank of fuel.
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by Merad 3y ago
We're only talking about the discs, right? Maybe they've changed in the last 10 years but IIRC the envelopes were all paper. One disc probably contains less plastic than the average Chinese takeout order, and surely even at Netf
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by Merad 3y ago
See my other comment WRT to ownership: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602718
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by Merad 3y ago
The road is pretty steep on either side of the bridge and it's a small one lane (IIRC) bridge. At night I definitely think it could be difficult to see that the bridge was out until it was too late. Edit: According to articles linked
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by Merad 3y ago
The bridge in question is about a mile from my house. I'm pretty sure the road it's on is not publicly maintained, as it's just a street within a neighborhood. And that's a neighborhood that doesn't have a HOA, so
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by Merad 3y ago
> I would just do the billing in thousandths of a cent, rather than make "leap cents" appear every couple of bills Again, that was not something we could control.
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by Merad 3y ago
> Oh, the business teams found the approach puzzling---but what do they know, right? If they were smart, they would be software engineers. Well in this case the business teams selected the 3rd party payments gateway that the company woul
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by Merad 3y ago
> Why was it listed separately at all? Because the bill included a detailed breakdown of all the fees by type and transaction. Typically our clients were charged a fixed monthly fee, a fixed authorization fee charged every time a paymen

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