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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
Join tables are a bit more difficult if you pluralize tables. For example at work we have table names like: customers customer_attributes customers_labels On one side you want to be consistent with the "customers"
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
Having table names plural e.g. "customers" and object names in your programming language e.g. "customer" is one extra piece of complexity that's not necessary. For example we have a table "customer_data" a
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
> Meanwhile I really want my email, messenger, or banking apps to be exactly the same every time I use them. I know that's not the point you're making, but I agree with you, alas that's already not the case today, e.g. ran
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
I feel the implication in the article is that Clegg believes it's impossible to be a wealthy man and also a victim? I mean yeah these people probably aren't victims. But simply saying they're wealthy is insufficient to prove
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
You go into your pom.xml file (bunch of <dependency>) using a text editor and change the order.
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
1) "it will just compile and run programs with incompatible version dependencies and then they crash at some point" 2) "Now a package 5 layers deep is unmaintained and is on an ancient dependency version, other stuff needs a
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
If you use two dependencies, and one requires Foo 1.2.3 and the other Foo 1.2.4 then 99% of the time including either version of Foo will work fine. (I was a Java developer and used Maven for about 10 years.) For those times where that&#x27
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
I'm not sure if that's an answer to your question, but there are at least companies today that do no allow their programmers to use GenAI e.g. OpenAI, including tools running locally. You could (for now) work for such a company. T
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Go and Throw(github.com)
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
It’s also possible for things to just be too complex. Just because something’s complex doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be that complex.
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
Then again in the keynote today Apple proudly said Vision Pro was used by "thousands" of companies. So it sounds like it isn't such a success (yet?) in the enterprise either.
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
I liked it too with Windows 95, Windows 98 etc. Not sure why Microsoft dropped it tbh!
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
> One of the main goals of this is to not have the russian gauge available in case russians attack This doesn't seem like it can be a goal given > maybe in 2032 we can start construction I mean unless the plan is to assume Russia
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
Parallels calls that "Coherence mode": https://kb.parallels.com/4670
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
I think if you have (tenant, uuid) or (user, uuid) or whatever as your primary key, that's fine. If that tenant or user or whatever generates rubbish keys, that's their problem.
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
That may be what it means but I don't believe that's what it says? > But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ My only interpret
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
It's better now, the support page opens in a new tab, so you can close the tab and go back and click on the (right place of the) video thumbnail. It used to open that page in the same tab you were in. So you press the browser's ba
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
Steve Jobs famously said something like "every day I wake up in the morning, and if I don't like what I want to do today, for a certain number of days, then I stop doing it". In this case it sounds like even if you thought yo
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
ThreadLocal in Java understands the new lightweight "virtual" threads. If you write into a ThreadLocal, when you read it out on the same virtual thread (even if it's scheduled to a different platform thread) you'll get t
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
> The majority of these so-called symptoms are what I'd classify as "normal boyhood" I mean I know what he means and I think there is merit in the argument, but on the other hand sitting down, paying attention, understandi
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by adrianmsmith 1y ago
I've only ever left one bad review on Amazon. Chopsticks, they came bound together with some sticky tape. Sticky tape left a very sticky area just where your hands go that I was unable to get off despite a lot of effort scrubbing, wash
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
> you also will be sued into oblivion by Disney if you paint a picture of Mickey Mouse advertising your soap, so why should it be any different if an AI painted this for you? If the AI prompt was "produce a picture of Micky Mouse&qu
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
>> where the manager verbally assured me I'd be invited back for the next round > In a large organization, most managers lack full hiring discretion…usually they lack full discretion on everything personnel related. That’s how
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
> Using a real mouse + virtual keyboard is so much faster than ANY remote I've ever used, and if you're not into clicking, you can type with a "real" wireless keyboard[0] I've had a good experience with Logitech
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
> The principal always told me "just walk away" I think the root of this problem is the principal-agent problem. It literally doesn't matter to teachers (a) if you get bulled at school (they are not being bullied themselve
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
Banks do have obligations under AML and KYC laws to get information from their customers. I mean I know a single phone call sounds extreme, but I could believe it. My bank (in the EU) wrote to me a while back (post, no copy to email, no sms
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
There was a comment on Hacker News, which alas I can no longer locate, where a guy said he'd been called by his bank and the bank wanted him to answer various security questions. He said he was happy to do so, but firstly needed the ba
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
Arguably Google Docs has done the best. It hasn't changed much, whereas all the other things you mentioned have got significantly worse.
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
It's interesting that this law is the exact opposite of the Robustness Principle / Postel's Law. > be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept If you are liberal in what you accept, you'd better un
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by adrianmsmith 2y ago
last.fm is still there and you can still use it to discover new music!

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