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by bjt 9y ago
I get a lot of mileage out of using real columns for the data with fixed structure, and Postgres JSONB columns for the parts of the data whose structure varies.
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by bjt 9y ago
Change happens at the margins. For reasons that you and parent comments mentioned, we're not going to go to 100% electric anytime soon. But I think we will see a lot more city dwellers willing to go car-less, and a lot more suburban&
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by bjt 9y ago
This conclusion seemed particularly insightful: "Where men need to prove they are good and caring people who aren't merely using you, I need to prove this is a formal, public sphere relationship, not a private and personal one. &q
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by bjt 9y ago
The linked post talks about concurrency not being a focus until Swift 6 at the earliest. Personally, I don't want to make a commitment to server-side Swift until after that dust has settled.
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by bjt 9y ago
> we can't really do experiments on humans because of laws and ethical reasons. Ethics and laws constrain but do not forbid experimenting on humans. We do experiments on humans all the time , including experiments on how people le
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by bjt 9y ago
The question is whether there's a power imbalance. Investor/founder: not OK. Manager/rank and file employee: not OK. Two peers at the same level of the organization: fine by me if it's mutual, but problems arise if it
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by bjt 9y ago
His proposed solution actually looks a lot like one early flavor of LXC implementations, where instead of unzipping a big tarball with your own environment, you'd just bind-mount system folders into the container. I suspect LXC devs a
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by bjt 9y ago
What's an ERG? Google isn't showing me any meanings that would make sense in this context.
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by bjt 9y ago
I was surprised to see the author describe Rust-in-the-browser as "low level". I always took that term to mean "closer to the metal", and not statically typed with manual memory management. Rust in this context doesn&#
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by bjt 9y ago
I like that he followed a process of gathering suggestions from real users and then testing his solutions with them. It's a big step above the typical "I redesigned X!" posts that look really pretty but probably aren't
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by bjt 9y ago
But you don't customize the job post to each applicant, right? So "the same" would be a developer spending a few hours writing a cover letter and resume that are sent to a bunch of potential employers without customization.
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by bjt 9y ago
Assuming they have something that already works for them, lack of motivation.
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by bjt 9y ago
I mixed up uuid versions above. v1 are the timestamp ones, and v4 purely random.
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by bjt 9y ago
> In what context would a primary key change, even when sharding? The only time I've seen that happen is when a DBA evangelized for just using 'natural' keys, which in this case were slugs based on the item name. The prob
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by bjt 9y ago
Not just visually. Increased computing power and richer game frameworks will make for more compelling AIs. There are advances in procedural content generation that are getting past the saminess of endless variations on "kill ten rats
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by bjt 9y ago
My niece underwent a similar treatment the past few years, but just using trace amounts of actual peanuts and then building up to larger quantities. As far as I know, there was no commercially-produced patch or capsule involved. My sister
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by bjt 9y ago
Do you think your experience is different from the norm?
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by bjt 9y ago
Aggregate push down to foreign servers seems to overlap with Citus. It's not as transparent, but you could have a dataset sharded across several PG instances, mount them all into a master with foreign data wrappers, and UNION them (fo
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by bjt 9y ago
What is racist about wondering whether a marginal distribution network is being as closely regulated as the dominant/mainstream one? It's a natural thing to wonder regardless of anyone's race.
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by bjt 9y ago
This feels like the proverbial dollar left on the street that economists say should not exist, so I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what's stopping chains from replicating this. I wonder whether this alternate network is
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by bjt 9y ago
Clojure seems to be thriving, as far as I can tell.
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by bjt 9y ago
Consideration doesn't have to be denominated in dollars.
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by bjt 10y ago
"It compiles to a binary..." That's one of the things I love best about Go. Compile for your platform, then copy the binary somewhere else and run it. Awesome. I really want this to be true for Haskell too, but there'
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by bjt 10y ago
If they're in people who are past reproductive age, they may serve no purpose at all. Or maybe their purpose is to make old people stop consuming the tribe's food so that there's more for kids and people who can still have ki
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by bjt 10y ago
"The researchers, whose work is featured in the March 15 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, conducted four separate studies to measure the trait and learn more about how it functions."
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by bjt 10y ago
An actually-useful alternative: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
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by bjt 10y ago
But it's not like he wrote RethinkDB and then wrote Postgres with the benefit of hindsight. When he says that the big change was the database and not his own code, I believe him.
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by bjt 10y ago
Personally, I wouldn't trust today's sqlite files to be readable in 30 years. +1 to text-based formats. For long text I'd choose markdown. For anything with a more nested structure, yaml. Yaml can do references between obj
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by bjt 10y ago
And if you do, you no longer get text-to-email or voice-message-to-email features.
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by bjt 10y ago
Except that Fi leaves the really killer Voice features behind. You don't get texts or voice transcriptions emailed to you in Fi.

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