Merad

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by Merad 3y ago
A shocking number of people who work with software that handles money are just winging it. I worked on a project once that handled payment processing functionality for other products at the company (it was a B2B SaaS where clients could ta
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by Merad 3y ago
Heh, the last company I worked for had a (very popular, very successful) 20 year old desktop app that worked by downloading the client's entire database on login, then doing regular syncs with the back end and sending batch updates as
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by Merad 3y ago
I find it curious that we always see these opinions expressed about front end frameworks, but no one seems to have much problem with all of the complexity in back end frameworks like node, Python, Java, .Net... I have a sneaking suspicion
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by Merad 3y ago
My Toyota RAV4 Hybrid provides a distance to empty number that "learns" based on your driving habits (probably just averaging your MPG over the last 3-4 tanks, or something like that) and IME at least it's usually extremely a
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by Merad 3y ago
The last time I was in the hospital (2022) the portions weren't terrible, the main problem was that the food was so damned bland. The first few days it doesn't seem like it's that bad, but by the time you've been eating
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by Merad 3y ago
I was in the hospital for about two weeks at the beginning of 2022. It was awful. The nurse would come in for evening meds and checks around 10-11 PM. When I was lucky enough to have neighbors who weren't trying to die all night it
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by Merad 3y ago
I think a real consideration is how fragile those early airplanes were. Machine guns are heavy, their ammo is heavy, and you need heavy mounts to absorb the recoil of firing them. The wings of WW1 fighters are basically made out of toothpic
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by Merad 3y ago
> Is it possible to launch a little cheap rocket with a transmitter just to correct Voyager's position? Possible, maybe. Little or cheap, definitely not. Both Voyager probes relied on a unique alignment of the planets in the outer
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by Merad 3y ago
> Why even own a lawnmower at this point-- just pay someone to mow your grass for you. I don’t disagree with you about waste, but I’m assuming you haven’t priced lawn services lately. Even with a small yard and fairly cheap service you’l
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by Merad 3y ago
There's no reason why Tesla can't calculate the accurate range in both places, is there? My 2022 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid has a "distance to empty" number that "learns" based on your driving habits and typical milea
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by Merad 3y ago
That's hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.
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by Merad 3y ago
I don't know if the author intentionally omits it or failed to think about it, but sabermetrics (moneyball) is possible because literally everything a baseball player does is tracked. I can't say how players actually feel about th
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by Merad 3y ago
They've become increasingly hostile about ads in general. I sometimes watch youtube on my TV via Roku, which sadly doesn't have ad blockers, and there's been a noticeable rise in long ads that can't be skipped. It&#x27
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by Merad 3y ago
I don't know go, but in C# I'd probably do something like the code below. The object really only needs to carry the uuid/guid, let the language type system worry about the difference between a user and post id. We just need
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by Merad 3y ago
> I think it's insane(?) to give developers top-of-the-line hardware, because such hardware is not representative of the user population But a developer's needs are radically different from the user's needs. In typical w
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by Merad 3y ago
> We have the exact same machines, yet mine somehow basically never has its fan on running Linux and compiling Rust, whereas theirs is often audible while running Windows with a couple of chrome tabs open and outlook. I think some of thi
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by Merad 3y ago
Linq is really just a high level abstraction for querying any data that can be queried. EF adds some more abstractions mostly related to mapping C# objects to database tables. Then it adds database specific query providers (implementations
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by Merad 3y ago
The pressure at that depth is something like 5000 psi. You're literally dead before your brain has time to comprehend what's happening.
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by Merad 3y ago
Your code is destructuring two properties and discarding one of them. It doesn't work with a single property: https://sharplab.io/#v2:C4LgTgrgdgNAJiA1AHwAICYAMBYAUBgRj2Nw... I think that records don't generate a d
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by Merad 3y ago
C# doesn't allow you to destructure a single property and as far as I can tell based on a quick test it doesn't allow you to combine a using declaration with destructuring. I agree that this is surprising syntax... as a C# dev my
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by Merad 3y ago
Even if Condé Nast has any influence over the situation, do you really think the "adults" there know anything about the situation beyond the status reports they're getting from Reddit leadership?
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by Merad 3y ago
IANAL but it seems like this potentially exposes MS to enormous liability. For example, doctors routinely use web based tools. When they look at images related to a patient's care and MS uploads them to the mothership, has MS violate
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by Merad 3y ago
Eastern US here. I will get those errors a few times a week but I'd say 80% of the time it works on a refresh and most of the rest of the time it's back within 30s.
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by Merad 3y ago
I thought I recognized the site. This the same author who wrote very detailed analysis of the Siege of Gondor and the Battle of Helms Deep from LOTR as well as articles about military and political topics from Game of Thrones, and many rea
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by Merad 3y ago
"100 queries per minute per OAuth client id". An app like Apollo uses a single client id, AFAIK.
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by Merad 3y ago
The CEO is doing an AMA about it tomorrow. Edit: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
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by Merad 3y ago
Really? IME most devs are incredibly bad to underestimate the complexity of apps and problem domains where they don't have any experience. I'd say an app like Reddit is especially prone to this because most decent devs probably c
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by Merad 3y ago
I totally get that it's possible, but it's completely unnecessary complexity for both deployed apps and local dev. If the react team tells us that we have to jump through these extra hoops to use react*, my response will probably
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by Merad 3y ago
I tend to agree with the article. I've felt pretty frustrated with the direction of react in the last few years. Most of the companies I've worked for that used react did so because they wanted a SPA, in most cases making a consci
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by Merad 3y ago
> how else could you implement a string class I'm not claiming that it's good C++ code (or good code by any measure) but I imagine those "C with classes" devs would do something like: my_string* s = new my_string(

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