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by cpursley 2y ago
Russia has quite large tech companies (compared to EU, which is dominated by US tech). For software think Yandex, VK, Playrix, Kaspersky, etc in addition to lots of software talent. With hardware, don't nuclear reactors, rockets, airc
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by cpursley 2y ago
I'm piggybacking on the OpenAPI spec as well to generate a SQL-like query syntax along with generated types which makes working with any 3rd party API feel the same. What if you could query any ole' API like this?: Apipe.new(G
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by cpursley 2y ago
Russia is a massive grain producer and exporter. One of their biggest health issues right now is obesity (from those cheap grains) with 60% of the adult population overweight, and growing. Furthermore, obesity has actually been an issue for
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by cpursley 2y ago
Not according to the World Bank: https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/d5f32ef28464d01f195827b... Furthermore, they became #4 GDP PPP last year and and were reclassified as a high income country. https:/&#x2F
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by cpursley 2y ago
Trump has never been a big drug warrior (against drug users). His social views are basically late 80's 1990s Democrat and not out of line with Clinton, etc.
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by cpursley 2y ago
How is having your biological sex on an Id card a violation of your rights? Shouldn't they be accurate as possible? There's no laws in America about how one dresses and presents themselves as long as its not a false identity. Anyw
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by cpursley 2y ago
That was my literal point to parent.
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by cpursley 2y ago
So was getting a man to the moon. Do you want to lose the AI race to the Chinese?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Coastalists
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by cpursley 2y ago
What do you think the Greenland and Canada thing is all about? Sort things out with Venezuela and this issue resolves itself (for a little while, at least).
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by cpursley 2y ago
You'd rather not have it?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Sure, tl;dr: Coastals are in a cultural bubble and Orange Man Bad™ is not literally Hitler/Mussolini/{insert-favorite-despot}.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Which constitutional rights have Americans lost over the past eight years?
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by cpursley 2y ago
You’ve watched too many Hollywood movies. Yes, Lend-Lease was very helpful - but only about 5% of Soviet GDP. For example, the Soviets produced more tanks than all other allies combined, and that was while under massive active attack and in
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by cpursley 2y ago
My comments just went right over your head. Didn't comprehend a word I wrote. It honestly makes me sad. Everything will be okay, nobody is losing their rights. Try getting out of California/NYC some time.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Those aren't free countries (as in bill of rights levels of personal guarantees).
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by cpursley 2y ago
I'm guessing that you live on one of the coasts and mostly associate with certain classes of people? In the real world, people are not at each others throats. They're mostly interested in talking about their kids, the price of mil
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by cpursley 2y ago
We should return the favor then and shut down the psyops divisions like this (and these are just the public ones): https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/specialty-careers/sp...
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by cpursley 2y ago
You're getting downvoted by gatekeepers but LLMs are amazing with SQL and this is a great use-case.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Don't get me started on Rails and all the anti-patterns that Active Record introduces...
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by cpursley 2y ago
Turning on replication in neon.tech is literally just a switch. And it plays well with a CDC library of mine: https://github.com/cpursley/walex
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by cpursley 2y ago
If you think those are nice, check out neon.tech - set up was faster than any of the big cloud providers.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Turns out Postgres Is Enough: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f... (Gist contains a bunch of Postgres ecosystems things, if anything is missing, please let me know)
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by cpursley 2y ago
While it’s definitely becoming a global problem, US takes the top spot in terms of obesity rates and actually has decreasing life expectancy. A big part of that is related to what we put into our bodies.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Real Mexican cuisine (which is delicious by the way) has a lot lot more carbohydrates and fried stuff, especially the further you go down a families food budget. And yeah, they also eat and drink a lot of sugar on top of that and often brin
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by cpursley 2y ago
What does corn syrup cost vs real sugar cost? Does that change the equation?
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by cpursley 2y ago
You don't need a double-blind test, you need an open your eyes test. Americans are not healthy and corn syrup is a big factor, thanks to the corn lobby, who pushes this at both ends via your tax dollar (subsides to grow it and SNAP jun
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by cpursley 2y ago
I joke about once per month here that half of hn is basically "not invented here syndrome". And generally poor reimplementations of existing erlang features ;)
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by cpursley 2y ago
Yeah, you wanna use Claude for code. That's the problem. Try Cursor or Bolt.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Don’t forget Jeep Grand Cherokees! They loved those things (Brat 1). Worse piece of shit I’ve owned but also my favorite of all time.

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