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by ch4s3 1y ago
I once failed an interview because they asked how I’d solve a geospatial problem in Postgres and I said I’d use PostGIS and order by ST_Distance. The guy said “what’s postgis” and I knew it was over.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
It’s bad enough that people are trying to have romantic relationships with these things. Now people want them to have politics.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Same. I grew up on a farm and was constantly outside and around dogs and horses. I need allergy shots as an adult.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
They don’t come from Aramaic, Arabic is a Southwestern Semitic language and Aramaic and Hebrew are Northwestern Semitic languages. Aramaic and Hebrew tree are sort of cousins with Hebrew splitting off from southern Canaanite which was sort
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by ch4s3 1y ago
This is demonstrably false. Large supermarkets in the US have far more SKUs in produce, dairy, and meat than they did 30 years ago. I can still remember the first time I encountered a number of vegetables in the early 2000s which suddenly a
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Choice is an aspect of freedom. You could have absolutely freedom from any kind of social or political obligation or coercion and if all you can do with that is how potatoes then what good is it?
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by ch4s3 1y ago
I’m sure murdering tons of academics in the cultural revolution had nothing to do with it.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
I guess it depends on what you wanted.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
That should say bar.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
A barn like in Philly used to put this up on their TV at night if there wasn’t a game on and it was really popular. It was always cool to see large animals show up.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Any time you collect a bunch of plants, dehydrate them, and pulverize them you’ll end up with a powdered concentration of whatever was in the plants. Since many plants can fix lead and because lead is everywhere you’ll get a little lead. I
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Yeah I’ve been doing elixir professionally for maybe 10 years and have barely written any Erlang, maybe a dozen lines.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Kotlin is almost the jruby we always wanted.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
“It’s all regular functions” should be on our collective bumper sticker.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Norquist has always been a partisan hack. To his credit he was against the Iraq war when that was unpopular with Republicans, but he’s acquitted himself especially poorly in the era of Trump. That said he’s not and never was a libertarian.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
It’s not really ironic, he just broke with the LP per se. He’s given interviews with Reason where he says his core beliefs haven’t really changed.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Having done both for years, I can say confidently that you can use Phoenix without recreating Rails. The differences are important, and IMO Ecto is a much better approach to interacting with a database than ActiveRecord. I've also neve
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by ch4s3 1y ago
The Grover Norquist folks in the RNC were not libertarians.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
You need to know a little css but way less. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten backed into using !important with tailwind.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
That’s funny, I agree with all of those but tailwind which I find to be super convenient for small teams where most people aren’t css experts. Maybe that’s a specific problem but it feels pretty general to want convenience on top of base cs
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by ch4s3 1y ago
> challenge our timeline of when humans made cities Do they? We know non-sedentary people in the Americas sometimes built large mounds and extensive fish works.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
> Here’s a man who, together with a couple of fellow Silicon Valley freaks, helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency he is obviously unsuited for, and who uses the awesome might of the US government to remake society and the w
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Right the Guardian is pretty crappy and Thiel’s new messianic nonsense is insufferable.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Yeah, that’s not what I was talking about.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
The only thing less appealing to me than reading thiel’s crazed millenarian ramblings is reading the guardian’s hot takes about thiel’s ramblings.
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by ch4s3 1y ago
> Will you still have democracy once Corina Machado realizes her plan to privatize oil companies? Yes. Norway is basically the only real democracy with a nationalized oil firm, and they found oil after having been a democracy for like 10
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by ch4s3 1y ago
> and it's also that the the US is doing everything they can to prevent Venezuela from monetizing their natural resources, oil in particular This is not at all true. A large share of Venezuelan oil is refined in Texas by Citgo for P
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by ch4s3 1y ago
> Sure, I am maybe ignorant about local Venezuelan politics You should have stopped right there. The reason western countries care about Venezuela’s democracy is twofold it was prior to the Chavez coup the oldest democracy in South Ameri
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by ch4s3 1y ago
Sanctions are absolutely not the reason for economic decline. Chavez installed cronies into the national oil company who ran it into the ground, and Maduro spent the everything they had on the security state. Both successive regimes have ma
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by ch4s3 1y ago
This comment reads as deeply ignorant and callous toward the treatment of the Venezuelan people by their government. Fully 1/3 of Venezuelans have fled the country due to repression and economic decline due to Maduro’s mismanagement. A

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