Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
Symbiote
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
20 ms
·
481.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
I was in a car accident age 12. Both doors on the driver's side were blocked by another vehicle, which was on fire, so my dad had to climb awkwardly through the passenger side. My door in the back was blocked, but my brother wasn'
482.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
BigQuery data is stored (I assume) in column oriented files with indices, so a typical query reads only a tiny fraction of the stored data.
483.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
It's the letter of the law, it's a temporary business visa. The USA calls it B-1. https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary... (I have no comment on the relevance of this to the article.)
484.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Maybe ask if he has ever exceeded the speed limit, or run a red light, or failed to signal a turn. All things that could be monitored by a smartphone and reported to the police automatically.
485.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
The touch buttons on my stove are easy to clean, but I think that's the only advantage.
486.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
From the list of deprecated zones, we could have been using "GB", "Poland", "Portugal", "CET", but that's about it. "Netherlands" didn't exist. Given the old names were deprecated
487.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
For general user interfaces, it's for the user interface to show "US Pacific" or "UK" rather than America/Los_Angeles and Europe/London. The timezone selector in KDE shows "Los Angeles | America/
488.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
> When was the last time you rebuilt your company's postgres config from scratch? Last year, when we upgrade to version 17. I looked at the example/template configuration, diffed it with our configuration from PG15, and for eve
489.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
There was very little paid buying in Denmark, as there were very few selfish people like you buying a years worth of food. The government announced that there was plenty of stock, but panic buying would mean it couldn't be brought onto
490.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Denmark's kingdom includes Greenland. It's the 12th largest sovereign country.
491.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
From next year, national post will be handled by a different company than currently does the job.
492.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
The top floor of Copenhagen Contemporary gallery is primarily for children. The current exhibition is "where visitors are invited into the artist’s imaginative world and encouraged to participate in a process of transformation — quite
493.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Are children forced to read 'boring' books in the quiet reading time at school? I thought the point of that time was to read your own book (chosen from home, the public library, or the school library). As far as I know, school li
494.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Once I noticed all my non-white colleagues had selected the closest skin tone, I selected the white one. If I click a black or brown thumbs up in Slack to add my own, a white one is added. We're a very small team and three of the skin
495.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
I hope there's progress being made to close the import loophole: https://www.ecf.com/en/news/eu-commission-acknowledges-regul... Meanwhile, there's a group (mostly in Britain) that sometimes lets the air
496.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
It will be for ordinary administration, employees, students, finance etc. The academic work (including the supercomputer) will run Linux and open source systems for job scheduling etc.
497.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
How does a collection of stuff with "essentially zero market value" become a $25k tax deduction?
498.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
> It hasn't happened because no President has been stupid enough to deport them en-masse. Britain enters the room... Short-term farm labourers like fruit pickers weren't deported as such after Brexit (I think), and they were
499.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Read the article rather than making something up.
500.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
I'd assume comma, like en_DK. I'd like an en_EU definition to be added, except I went to find an official definition[1], and found the EU uses both. Elsewhere [2] it says the use of a comma is due to "technical limitations&qu
501.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Twice? I wonder what alarm clock apps decide for this. GNU date defaults to EDT, but adding the local time zone name can give the other time: date --utc --date='TZ="America/New_York" 2025-11-02 01:30:00' Sun 0
502.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Google Maps is misleading, as two of those are not approved in Europe, and two others are synonyms.
503.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
The small packages available in the UK are entirely to reduce the chance of suicide.
504.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
There's also the convenience of having the car more appropriate for day-to-day use. E.g. a family with two cars, where the smaller car is preferred because it's easier to park in the limited space available in a European city.
505.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
I'm surprised you consider a 300km trip long, or 3-4 trips in a year excessive. That's only Berlin to Bielefeld. What do you do with your holiday? The EU minimum is 20 days annual leave per year.
506.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
In Europe, lorry drivers are required to take a 45 minute break after 4.5 hours of driving.
507.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Three-phase power is ubiquitous in Europe, my oven and stove are connected to it yet this is a small apartment. The slightly larger plug (to fit the extra pins) and extra cables are worthwhile for the higher power and balanced consumption.
508.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
It's widely reported in newspapers. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza
509.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
That's how it works in the UK, following too many thefts of copper cables for railways which are at least one, maybe two orders of magnitude more expensive to repair than highway barriers. You must show identification when selling scra
510.
▲
by
Symbiote
1y ago
Sometimes they insist on being incorrect. The Guardian refuses to write the degree symbol for temperatures, for example, and have even put this error into their style guide. https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-style-guide-c
More ›