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brylie
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We have a lot of data stored in Postgres JSON fields at my work. Around three months ago, we were trying to optimize some queries by adding sub-key indexing to the JSON field. We tried multiple times, but Postgres seemed to keep using seque
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For what it's worth, Zulip is one of a few projects to support federated chat. From the linked document: "Zulip now has an IRC bridge powered by matrix.org"
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OpenStreetMap shows street names by default: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ Also, Mapbox has a powerful map styling UI that lets you choose exactly what map elements to display at a given zoom level: https://www.
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FWIW, Netflix uses Jupyter notebooks in production, using nteract UI: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591e... https://nteract.io/ This approach seems promising, particularly as
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It is also the responsibility of developers to apply some ethical guidelines. As it stands, media and games are being designed with addictive rewards to hook in adults and children alike, in the name of monetization.
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8y ago
Remember attribution.
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For what it's worth, your grandparent comment didn't ask any questions, particularly about potential downsides of migrating to TypeScript. Perhaps there is a different comment where you asjed such questions? In any case, happy cod
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As we have become adults, we learn time and time again about personal responsibilities. Some of these lessons take many years, and some are emerging. We are awakening to the fact that the Earth's climate, like bills and taxes, is both
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While I appreciate your optimism, it comes at the risk of failing to take personal action. The general sentiment is that people are uninterested in, or incapable of, making meaningful lifestyle changes , and that some future technological d
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We keep trying to shift accountability from ourselves to technology. It is our responsibility to change our lifestyles now. Not in a generation when some hypothetical technical savior may emerge and deliver us from danger.
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Align with, improve, and build upon, Web Components specifications, as well as other ongoing W3C standardization efforts. I.e. be stewards of the Web Platform ecosystem. Promote harmony, cross-compatibility, and longevity in the web develop
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It would be really cool if Minecraft, Minetest [0], and Terasology [1] development communities could somehow join together to create a cross-compatibility between their games. There are a lot of open-source developers in those communities w
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Cool! Are you working on IDE plygins, e.g. for Atom?
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8y ago
MaaS Global is hiring: - Global Marketing Manager - Android Developer - Serverless JavaScript Developer https://careers.barona.fi/#/?branch=all&search=MaaS%20Global...
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Which part(s) of Google? Search? Docs? Drive? Analytics? There are at least a fee open-source alternatives already under development, such as Nextcloud (Docs/Drive) and Piwik (Analytics). In order for open-source projects to be success
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Just want to point out IRC3 aims to have "standardised account registration and verification, allowing clients to provide better interfaces for end users." This is really important, as registering an account on an IRC network can
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Really cool idea! Would you consider making a Minetest version?
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Are there any active Fossil instances available for free/open source projects? I found Chisel, but am not sure whether many of the projects are active. Also, the design of Fossil and Chisel is s bit difficult to read on mobile.
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I may misunderstand your comment. That said, where I work (MaaS Global) we have a production PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS Relational Database Service (RDS): https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/ We connect t
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Disclosure: I work at MaaS Global. While you could use the Whim app and a Total Freedom subscription to get 30 days of private care usage, we encourage people to use multiple modes of transport that are best suited for varying needs. Mobili
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You might be interested in a UX talk given by Apaar Tuli, lead designer of Whim, called The MaaSive Future of Transport: https://interaction18.ixda.org/program/talk-the-maasive-futu... Disclosure: I work at MaaS Global
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Pexels is another place to upload CC photos: https://www.pexels.com/ The Internet Archive also allows you to upload photos, and has a slideshow display for multiple photo collections https://archive.org
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Well, good question. The file format for Jupyter is not ideal for 'code craftsmanship', as pointed out by another comment. There are utilities to strip out some of the metadata from the Jupyter files, such as rendered output and r
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I would argue that it is unethical and becoming illegal to a certain extent in various jurisdictions (such as EU). It is taking a similar process to the use of unsolicited email mass-marketing we now consider SPAM. In the early days, it was
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For anyone interested, please consider contributing (time) to an early effort to build an open-source contraption game, using the Godot engine: https://github.com/GodotGarden/contraption-game Here are the upcoming task
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Divesting from the military industrial complex is patriotic. Waging peace is patriotic. Not pursuing militaristic and inhumane technology development is patriotic. It is a confused idea for patriotism to be conflated with militarism, isolat
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Any plans to support scikit?
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Anecdotally, we considered using the hosted versions of Jupyter and Apache Zeppelin that are part of AWS SageMaker and EMR. We couldn't figure out a simple/familiar workflow for keeping the notebooks under version control. So, we
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Are there plans to publish Anvil as open source?
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Perhaps not as 'major', but Aurelia is intentionally aligned with web components and other standards: https://aurelia.io/
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