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by beachy 4y ago
We have a similar expression in New Zealand: "she'll be right". Expresses the belief that "whatever is wrong will right itself with time", which is considered to be either an optimistic or apathetic outlook.
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by beachy 4y ago
So you're saying the rest of the world should be obliged to study SCOTUS reversing roe vs Wade when making their own abortion legislation?
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by beachy 4y ago
> The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.
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by beachy 4y ago
Perhaps it was explained to him that he better go down quietly or his loved ones might get bonesawed.
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by beachy 4y ago
Winston Churchill once said that: “HN comments are the worst form of online dialog – except for all the others that have been tried.”
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by beachy 4y ago
Another area for consolidation is auth. Use one giant keycloak, with individual realms for every one of the individual apps you are running. Your keycloak is back ended by your one giant database.
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by beachy 4y ago
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. John Betjeman
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by beachy 4y ago
Oracle has had the ability to do this for decades ("virtual private database"), so whatever is keeping them alive, it's nothing to do with this particular nifty Postgres feature.
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by beachy 4y ago
Does nuclear (or could it) make financial sense for cargo transport though? For the military, where victory is far more important than margins, sure. But can it compete with fossil fuel when there is a profit motive?
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by beachy 4y ago
This comment inadvertantly encapsulates nearly all that is wrong with the world today, and from which much evil flows. "Pro-science" is not a position, and being anti-science means being anti-humanity.
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by beachy 4y ago
Sounds like hilarious passive aggressive behavior from java developers forced to interact with that devil's language JavaScript against their will.
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by beachy 4y ago
It's amazing how brutally honest McNamara was about his own failings in bringing an MBA type approach to a foreign war.
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by beachy 4y ago
From memory JFK was the prime mover in decisions on the number of Americans on the ground, their roles and even their uniforms.
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by beachy 4y ago
The Vietnam war (or the American war as I was corrected in a bar in Hanoi) was the epitome of unintended escalation. One of the early escalators was JFK, who was simultaneously extremely wary of escalation, and is not someone who most peopl
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by beachy 4y ago
It's fascinating how the economics play out. Thanks to this deal, it no longer makes sense for us to go solar or to have a house battery. So the power company has us as a loyal customer (at least, while they keep offering this deal).
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by beachy 4y ago
Your edit is on the money. We switched to a new power company purely based on rates. They offer free power for a 3 hour slot between 9pm and midnight. We spent $2k on hardware to take advantage - a 7kw fast charger for the EV and a clockwor
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by beachy 4y ago
That does sound ideal all right. Another feature of that pub I remember was a setup where patrons could dress up in Velcro vests, then jump onto a big trampoline and hurl themselves up as high as possible onto a Velcro wall where they stuck
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by beachy 4y ago
This reminds me of a pub we used to go to occasionally in Berkshire. When one of the crusty old locals went to the bar, they were always served first, even if other customers had already been waiting a while. Great for them, but made for an
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by beachy 4y ago
It should be easy for you to link to examples substantiating this?
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by beachy 4y ago
You may be interested in this story https://www.wabe.org/radium-girls-the-true-story-of-poisoned... which does involve people literally eating radium. > The factory manufactured glow-in-the-dark watch dials that used rad
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by beachy 4y ago
Would not want to be responsible for a database where some AI was vigorously creating and dropping indexes behind the scenes, just as I was trying to debug performance issues.
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by beachy 4y ago
It's so weird to me how hard it is to find this sort of reference information. I experienced the same thing when looking for a definitive list of voice commands for Android auto. In the old days we carried around pocket sized cards wit
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by beachy 4y ago
Oracle (and likely others) have had this since well into the last century. As you might expect since it can save a huge amount of money on a large database, it's part of an (expensive) add on.
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by beachy 4y ago
Ha ha, correct, tool names as PII.
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by beachy 4y ago
I'm far from a full stack developer, but really how much code would actually be common across the front and and back end? I would have thought maybe some validation code, not sure how much else?
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by beachy 4y ago
TIL that adjustable wrenches (or crescent spanners as they are known here) are directional, so that the load is handled by the fixed jaw.
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by beachy 4y ago
I have never had a Robertson (square hole) screw strip out or have any problem, and it's impossible to use the wrong size screwdriver, which is not the case for philips head or posidrive. Since Robertson is better yet so much simpler,
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by beachy 4y ago
I don't know - it would only take one nutter with a sniper rifle and an incendiary bullet to cause the next Hindenberg.
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by beachy 4y ago
I think this is just a subset of the larger guide, don't brag about subjectives. Don't say your product is the best, the greatest, the simplest, the most powerful. That's marketing BS, noise. It's ok to say things that c
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by beachy 4y ago
If ever there was a glove perfectly fitted for the invisible hand of the market, it's saving our planet by taxing carbon. Yet here we remain, whining about why it can never work.

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