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901.
by dpark 11mo ago
I don’t know where you live but around me I see people carry trees on top of their cars all the time at Christmas. It’s not complex. You put the tree on the car. You open the doors and tie the tree. You get in and close the doors. You don’t
902.
by dpark 11mo ago
> Americans want to put down $50k for 80 months for a MANLY man truck for MANLY MAN things Most people buying F-150s are spending way more than $50k. But the hate big trucks get isn’t because they are expensive. I don’t care if someone s
903.
by dpark 11mo ago
I wish my minivan was 2 inches higher and all wheel drive. I’m not sure how much I’d want to adventure in my front wheel drive low clearance van. It’s a great vehicle for most practical cases, though it is not very fuel efficient.
904.
by dpark 11mo ago
> smoking is not an appropriate analogy at least insofar Missing the forest for the trees. The point isn’t that neglecting to mask is exactly the same as smoking. Obviously these are different. The point is that in both cases the person
905.
by dpark 11mo ago
People also mistake the appearance of effortlessness with the reality. I used to play the trumpet and there was always this drumbeat of “don’t press the mouthpiece into your mouth so hard”. I think every instructor I ever had told me some v
906.
by dpark 11mo ago
> I'm not sure why you are drawing a parallel to a good doctor that smokes. Presumably because it is very analogous. You are essentially saying Dr. Mike shouldn’t be trusted because he made a bad decision. That is extremely similar
907.
by dpark 11mo ago
I hate that this is what modern discourse has become. “This person once did something stupid so you clearly shouldn’t trust them.” Meanwhile habitual frauds and incompetents get a pass because at least their stupidity is consistent .
908.
by dpark 11mo ago
The anti truck sentiment is directed largely at the ever-growing full size trucks. SUVs get less hate because the market for the absurdly huge SUVs is much smaller than the market for reasonably sized (by American standards) SUVs. I don’t t
909.
by dpark 11mo ago
So you agree, then?
910.
by dpark 11mo ago
Christmas tree? Real ones are usually tied to the top of the car for transport. Artificial ones absolutely fit inside a car with the back seats folded, and possibly just across the back seat. I bought and transported my current artificial t
911.
by dpark 11mo ago
Thank you. That's interesting. The infographic calls them cheaper which I assumed (incorrectly?) meant worse. 10% does seem gimmicky, though I am seeing claims on a number of sites that NMC is around 50% better per unit of weight (but
912.
by dpark 11mo ago
Sounds like the batteries are worse in China. How does that affect the range?
913.
by dpark 11mo ago
It’s a real concern in the sense that a lot of them care about the capability. Objectively a Ford F-150 is the wrong vehicle for what 90% of its buyers need. But it’s an aspirational purchase. It can go off-road. It can haul a boat. It
914.
by dpark 11mo ago
> externally visible surrogate keys are problematic because they are detached from real world information they are supposed to identify and hence don't really identify anything (see my example about GDPR). All IDs are detached from
915.
by dpark 11mo ago
I misunderstood then. I interpreted your comment to say that you eschew generalization (e.g. uuids) in favor of concrete data (e.g. names, email addresses) for ids in your designs.
916.
by dpark 11mo ago
> So in your example there is no "person" identified by "phone number" but rather "at timestamp X we captured information about a person at the time named Y and using phone number Z". Once you start thinking
917.
by dpark 11mo ago
How is URI not an idempotency identifier for PUT?
918.
by dpark 11mo ago
So what you meant is not to expose the primary key? That’s a more reasonable statement but I still don’t agree. This feels like one of those “best practices” that people apply without thinking and create pointless complexity. Don’t expose
919.
by dpark 11mo ago
But UUIDv7 doesn’t change that at all. It doesn’t matter what flavor of UUID you choose. The ID is always “like” an index to a block in that you traverse the tree to find the node. What UUIDv7 does is improve some performance characteristic
920.
by dpark 11mo ago
> the prefix is an index to its disk block location What? This is definitely not the case and can’t be because B-tree nodes change while UUIDs do not.
921.
by dpark 11mo ago
That is absolutely not the purpose. The specific purpose of uuidv7 is to optimize for B-Tree characteristics, not so you can craft queries based on the IDs being sequential. This assumption that you can query across IDs is exactly what is b
922.
by dpark 11mo ago
This came up in the last two threads I read about uuidv7. This is simply not a meaningful statement. Any ID you expose externally is also an internal ID. Any ID you do not expose is internal-only. If you expose data in a repeatable way,
923.
by dpark 11mo ago
In my experience, virtually every time I bake concrete data into identifiers I end up regretting it. This isn’t a case of trying to predict all possible future changes. It’s a case of trying to not repeat the exact same mistake again.
924.
by dpark 11mo ago
The weight of something that is typically mounted to a wall seems very relevant. Most TV mounts are not rated to hold the weight of a plasma TV. A poorly installed or insufficient mount could definitely fail. Plasma TVs not mounted to the w
925.
by dpark 11mo ago
Power hungry and heavy as hell. I had a 55” plasma that weighed about 150lb with the base.
926.
by dpark 11mo ago
You agree that we should own our digital content but it sounds like you don’t want this particular capability because… fuck Amazon. I can totally understand that sentiment but I don’t think giving up end user capabilities to spite Amazon is
927.
by dpark 11mo ago
> where's the room for objection? I suspect most of the people arguing this way would be in favor of more end user rights if we were talking about anything except the right to use AI. “Rights good, AI bad” somehow leads to the i
928.
by dpark 11mo ago
How likely do you think it is that Amazon doesn’t have a pre-existing contract with these publishers to host these books on Amazon servers?
929.
by dpark 11mo ago
I am so confused by some of the comments in this thread. All these weird mental gymnastics to argue that users should have less rights. “Oh, you think you should be able to use an LLM with a book you paid for? Well you don’t own and boo
930.
by dpark 11mo ago
Are they dying? IBM’s stock is up 160% over the past 5 years.

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