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by dqv 3y ago
Just looked at LINQ and it looks like Ecto [0] used a lot of its ideas for inspiration! I haven't used LINQ, but in Ecto, there are so many useful constructs for composing queries. If you get a stinker of a query, you have multiple esc
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by dqv 3y ago
Love the Fox40s - although I did notice that some people have a little trouble getting the hang of whistling with them. There were a few people I knew who had to use the pea whistles because they didn't want to/couldn't learn
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by dqv 3y ago
>In general, you can't be paid for the commute unless it's to an "unusual" location more than a certain distance from your assigned workplace. There's nothing barring an employer from paying employees a "com
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by dqv 3y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's a semantic expansion. It happens all the time in language. That's not a meme! That's just an image with a caption on it! CAPTCHA is widely known as a thing that is implemented to prevent spam [0]. This i
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by dqv 3y ago
>It creates a totally hidden function. Are you talking about child_spec/1? `use GenServer` honestly provides some pretty good QoL enhancements over `@behaviour GenServer`. I don't know when or if there was a change to recommend
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by dqv 3y ago
>My huge beef with plug is that it creates an implicit conn variable in all of the plug bodies. What do you mean? That only happens if you use Plug.Router; otherwise, you have to define a call function that takes the conn as the first ar
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by dqv 3y ago
>My take away is a bit different: if a user lands on your site/app, they don't want to talk to a chatbot. But part of that is Siri, Google Assistant, et al. often just say "here's a website" when you ask a questi
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by dqv 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense and tracks with the way I wish voice assistants would work. Specifically there is structured data that I want to search (e.g. what move type does 4x damage to pokemon of type1, type2?) using the voice assistant. Ch
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by dqv 3y ago
Right, it's not mentioned what that is in the article. On first search, something you do with your horse. I don't have a horse. This site says >Combination Training is an integrated form of training that combines lower body, up
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by dqv 3y ago
>stunned Maybe. I would say it's more dismay. The unfortunate truth is that a wide-reaching and long-lasting catastrophe is probably the only thing that will activate enough people's collectivist instinct to demand change. Sr
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by dqv 3y ago
You posted this when the parent comment wasn't even 3 minutes old yet. Give it a few more seconds...
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by dqv 3y ago
>We completely underestimated the effort of keeping the two datastores in sync and are actually contemplating to get rid of elasticsearch. Can you expand on this? Is it that it's tedious to write code that updates both? I've be
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by dqv 3y ago
That lack of validation is frustrating in the case of an automated scanner you can't control. "Your nginx version is exposed! Add `server_tokens off` to your config" Oh yeah, what version am I running then?
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by dqv 3y ago
How would such a service handle time? I’m talking about flooble.com in 2005 being entirely different from flooble.com in 2020
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by dqv 3y ago
>That premise is completely contradicted by a study found two links down in the relevant links No, it's not. >In other words, wild animals living in a natural savanna ecosystems emit an equivalent amount of greenhouse gasses to d
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by dqv 3y ago
Maybe for some of them, but I think a lot of people eat worse and drink more on holidays/weekends. A lot of people with dangerously high blood sugar around holidays and a lot of older folks get/report UTIs.
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by dqv 3y ago
I think people are even indifferent to single-family homes. Many people would be happy living in a duplex or any of the various structures of the missing middle. You can raise a family under those conditions. What difference does it mak
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by dqv 3y ago
I want to blog, but I feel like some topics are too controversial/personal/revealing to attach to my real name. I've considered blogging from an alias but haven't thought up a good name to use. Is anyone here blogging be
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by dqv 3y ago
It's one of the reasons I heavily use the HTML (hypertext markup language ;) <abbr> abbreviation tag [0]. I think it's useful for reminding the reader what the acronym/abbreviation/initialism means so they don&#x27
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by dqv 3y ago
Well one label says "HOME OK compost" and then another one says "commercially compostable only" so idk?
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by dqv 3y ago
https://i.ibb.co/Lpxzz2V/%20.gif It takes up a lot of vertical screen space and the scrolling behavior is really annoying. I know, I know, pagination is old and crusty and no one uses it or whatever, but I do and it he
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by dqv 4y ago
It's different because it's way more nebulous: >(G) No person may fail or refuse to comply with any reporting or recordkeeping requirement of this Act, or any regulation, order, direction, mitigation measure, prohibition, or ot
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by dqv 4y ago
AND >No person may cause or aid, abet, counsel, command, induce, procure, permit, or approve the doing of any act prohibited by, or the omission of any act required by any regulation, order, direction, mitigation measure, prohibition, or
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by dqv 4y ago
>This is a common misconception, especially on HN. For the average tax payer this might be truthy, but only insofar as the IRS is aware of certain tax events. If you had a kid, the IRS might be able to correlate that you and someone had
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by dqv 4y ago
"Write simply" is given as advice because, well, it's good advice. Too many writers try to ball before they crawl. A memorable critique, from an English professor, of my writing: "stop trying to sound smart". He mea
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by dqv 4y ago
So the reasonable compromise here is to just have both prices on the labels. The pre-tax and post-tax price. I wouldn't be opposed to knowing how much taxes increase the individual price of the item, but I do want to know the final pri
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by dqv 4y ago
It would be nice to have bundle reform that requires all prices to be listed as taxes-and-fees-inclusive here in the US. Ok, it’s not going to happen federally, but I’d at least like it where I live. Changing prices is already regular maint
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by dqv 4y ago
> You can't just replace ingredients. Huh? Yes you can. Replacing ingredients, adding ingredients, removing ingredients is the basis for all food culture. Recipes get passed down through generations and those variances over time are
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by dqv 4y ago
Cowboy from Nine Nines has been going strong for years. With an anime mascot. An app you’re using right now could be using a project with an inappropriate anime mascot! I mean I get it’s not exactly the same, but I can’t think of a time any
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by dqv 4y ago
So the greatgrandparent can at best say they have never had symptomatic flu. They cannot confidently say they have never gotten the flu. It is flawed reasoning to use no symptoms of flu = not gotten the flu = not getting vaccine.

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