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by alde 2y ago
How would you compare two infinities? E.g. speed of light inside a moving train vs speed of light outside of it.
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by alde 3y ago
Running a self-hosted Mongo cluster is tedious and complicated task by itself. Mongo Inc isn’t incentivized to make it easy and user friendly because they have a cloud offering for you. In addition to that Kubernetes isn’t really tailored t
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by alde 3y ago
Ukraine might economically collapse under the weight of the war machine of one the biggest military powers in the world. You could do better than spinning classic Russian propaganda tropes of "Ukraine is the most corrupt country on Ear
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by alde 3y ago
I stopped clicking on any Medium links a while ago. Why even sponsor this walled garden?
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by alde 3y ago
Glad you are liking pgTyped. Transactions are supported as pgTyped is just a thin wrapper around node-postgres: https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped/discussions/448
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by alde 3y ago
From what I read, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant can’t be restarted unless the dam is rebuilt.
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by alde 3y ago
Thank you
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by alde 4y ago
This. As a Ukrainian with relatives near Kherson, it is too early to judge. Russians have been changing their uniform to civil clothes and spreading through the city after semi-forcibly “evacuating” locals from their homes.
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by alde 4y ago
It is fun to think if it as if this is what data structures would look like if they were physical objects. A hash table taking a whole building.
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by alde 4y ago
Maybe consider moving to Europe and learning a local language? Pay may not be as great, but life does flow slower here, and people come off as less materialistic and career focused.
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by alde 4y ago
This is becoming even more the case given that Asahi Linux is maturing and you can already run Linux (somewhat stable) on an ARM MBP.
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by alde 5y ago
The article assumes there is an infinite linear pool of ideas that we can take from. This is not the case. All-encompassing models like general relativity, the standard model and quantum mechanics can only be discovered once, same goes for
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by alde 5y ago
Latvia and Estonia are already in NATO and they border Russia.
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by alde 5y ago
It is interesting that "real" observations of relativistic objects are quite different from what you expect them to be. For example, a cube passing by at relativistic speed would appear as if it is rotating towards you. This allow
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by alde 5y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but category theory isn't very useful at low levels of abstraction. It is an elegant mental framework/model that can be used to generalize many concepts, but in my experience such generalization
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by alde 5y ago
S3 bucket creation is failing across all regions for us, so this isn't an us-east-1 only issue.
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by alde 5y ago
TS !== crazy OOP. For some reason, there are people who just want to use Java style OOP in TS. Nest.js is one library heavily promoting that. I can't digest such codebases, they are the definition of over-engineering to me. Fortunately
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by alde 5y ago
The C in IaC stands for Code, and code is best written in proper programming languages. Both CF and Terraform are greatly limited by their use of yaml and hcl. Tools like AWS CDK and Pulumi, especially when used with a typed language like T
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by alde 5y ago
Photon - photon scattering in vacuum is a known process, they can interact through virtual particles. The problem is that the probability of such an event is very low and requires very high photon energies.
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by alde 5y ago
404
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by alde 6y ago
Yes, odd. Data point: me and most of my SE friends/coworkers pay for JetBrains IDEs (I was pretty deep into emacs and vim for many years prior to switching).
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by alde 6y ago
Stephane Maareks courses on Udemy helped me a lot. Go for AWS certs after you feel confident. It may sound like the certs are fluff, but they really helped me systematize all of my AWS knowledge.
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by alde 6y ago
I am sure that if you took the other path you would likely regret it just the same. Grass is always greener on the other side.
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by alde 6y ago
Most sport/smart watches like Garmin and Suunto have had a blood oxygen measurement function for a couple years now. Not sure what the "breakthrough" is here, I guess it is the Fitness+ app.
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by alde 6y ago
Good question. Does someone know how sortition helped fix the oligarchy problem in Ancient Greece? I can't find an immediate answer on wiki, even though it claims that.
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by alde 6y ago
This is not true. There was a whole institute doing industrial design: the Soviet Scientific Research Institute of Industrial Aesthetics [1]. That institute was also publishing a monthly "Technical Aesthetics" magazine from 1964 t
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by alde 6y ago
You might find io-ts [1] interesting. It allows to write composable parsers that do both runtime checks and have correct result types. Opt-in runtime checks for SQL queries are also on the roadmap for PgTyped. You are welcome to open an iss
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by alde 6y ago
Looks like Zapatos still requires the user to manually specify param/result types for custom SQL queries?
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by alde 6y ago
ORMs like Diesel are definitely very useful. The problem I have with them is that their ORM abstraction often leaks. Fixing these abstraction leaks is a hard problem [1]. Ofc, there has been attempts to reconcile relational DBs with OOP lik
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by alde 6y ago
Thanks! Not really, just basic vector shapes and an isometric projection grid to make sure perspective is right.

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