cacheyourdreams

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   by cacheyourdreams 4mo ago

   I don't really understand why you're being so pedantic about language here. What they said make perfect sense. One can hope to achieve a life well-lived. They didn't say anything about admiring it in retrospect. I don'
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   by cacheyourdreams 3y ago

   Aren't life expectancy at birth figures heavily skewed by infant mortality rates. I think this is quite a commonly misunderstood statistic for this reason. So while it's true that in the past a new born baby's chances of beco
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   by cacheyourdreams 3y ago

   Yes, I tend to like this philosophy in database design, of internal sequential ids which are used for joins between tables etc. and an exposed "external reference". But I typically would use a UUID for my external reference rather
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   by cacheyourdreams 3y ago

   If you're going to do that then you might as well just use UUID, since you effectively reintroduce the negative aspects of that (infinitesimally miniscule chance of collisions, computation involved in the calculation, etc.)