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by brightball 2mo ago
Whenever my wife wants to visit antique stores, I always look for old books. I have found several 100+ year old gems.
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by brightball 2mo ago
If anybody wants to give a talk on this at the 2027 Carolina Code Conference, our call for speakers will be open from January to March. Love featuring languages like this.
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by brightball 2mo ago
I think one of the reasons that a lot of successful founders are in their mid-40s is because they combine 20ish years of experience with an empty nest after kids are out on their own. Nothing to back it up, but it makes sense to me.
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by brightball 2mo ago
I use PG without PG Bouncer for non trivial traffic levels using the same type of application level connection pooling I’ve used for years with every other database. Bouncer is a nice option, but definitely not required.
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by brightball 2mo ago
Snowflake/Crunchydata comes close to doing that with the pglake extension. There’s not a mirror function like what Snowflake offers directly but you can come close with a pgcron to upsert changes to the iceberg tables every so often. Y
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by brightball 2mo ago
That's an interesting view though. If Walmart employees somebody who's part time and is on Medicaid are they on Medicaid because of Walmart or because they couldn't commit to enough hours to go full time? 9% of 1.6 million em
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by brightball 2mo ago
That's true to a certain degree, but there's a labor supply factor involved too. If companies are rewarded for employing more people it lowers the available supply of labor forcing companies to create a more enticing environment t
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by brightball 2mo ago
I always like to approach this conversation with a question: Should business that actually do create jobs in practice get bigger tax breaks? For example, if I by some miracle create a 1 man company that makes $100 million / year profit
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by brightball 2mo ago
This is basically my experience. I switched to Mac with the Intel change around...2006 maybe? Converted my entire family. I personally switched to various flavors of linux around 2016-2017 because I wanted more hardware options. Eventually,
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by brightball 2mo ago
The only reason most of my blog posts have an image at all is because social media seems to want some type of thumbnail image to go with the post. If I don't have something, many of them seem to just grab my logo instead which seems...
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by brightball 2mo ago
That is good to know. I thought it was maintained by Valimail?
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by brightball 2mo ago
This is a highly accurate and unappreciated take. There’s the system you are building…and the system that builds the system or the SDLC. Both are critical. Solid read.
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by brightball 2mo ago
That’s a heck of a thing for somebody to go through. I’m sorry man.
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by brightball 2mo ago
> Dave and Busters and other similar arcade/mixed entertainment centers are also way more common now One thing that I've realized as I have gotten older, arcades have changed a lot. Dave and Busters and other arcades are design
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by brightball 2mo ago
Yea, agreed completely here. I spent so many hours at our local mall with my friends growing up. It had an arcade, a movie theater, book store, game store, place to eat. Our parents could just drop us there for hours. Skating rinks and bowl
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by brightball 2mo ago
I talk about this all the time. The experience of going with your friends to Blockbuster or similar, walking around, browsing everything, deciding what you were renting then grabbing pizza made for some pretty memorable weekends. Just havin
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by brightball 2mo ago
Agreed completely. I also leverage sun shirts quite a bit.
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by brightball 2mo ago
30 years ago I was a lifeguard and got to experiment with this some. I can't tell you the biology specifically, but I have always tanned quickly. The less tan I am, the more easily I burn. Always been that way for me at least.
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by brightball 2mo ago
Correction - The less you need it to avoid a burn.
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by brightball 2mo ago
Sun shirts are a great option for me at least.
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by brightball 2mo ago
I typically do the same thing. I only wear sunscreen if I am planning on being in direct sun for an extended period of time where I can't easily get back in the shade. The more you're able to build up a base tan the less you need
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by brightball 2mo ago
That’s pretty slick. These folks need to come to the Carolina Code Conference in a couple of weeks…
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by brightball 2mo ago
> DuckDB's columnar engine That is workload specific. Title should be "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite for Analytics" IMHO
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by brightball 2mo ago
> using evidence of technical competence achieves nothing Evidence of technical competence wasn't what I was talking about. I meant that it creates a trail of evidence for police to actually pursue them, particularly in the case of
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by brightball 2mo ago
If you want a free ticket to come down this year, shoot me a note! We typically bring a bunch of folks from Concord. I came to speak at a meetup over at Flywheel Concord a couple of years ago to promote the conference.
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by brightball 2mo ago
I started using it to run a conference 4 years ago with the intent that it was supposed to be a temporary solution until we built a "real" site. The experience was so good that we haven't moved off. Even if we did build a mor
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by brightball 2mo ago
Yes! IMHO every registrar should be turning this on by default. Every DNS should do this by default until the owner explicitly turns on email sending. It would solve a lot of issues globally.
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by brightball 2mo ago
> virtually all the spam coming in had valid SPF / DKIM / DMARC, as do most of the phishing attacks. This should create a means to go after the domain owners via registrar and trail of ownership, even so far as blocking email
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by brightball 3mo ago
Are there any instances of the US sending a tourist to jail in another country?
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by brightball 3mo ago
> Also, what is there to study? I am sincerely asking. The text in the book is, if I may use a tautology, the text in the book. Quite a bit and it's much more interesting than I imagined! The amount of interconnection and reference

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