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by dxdm 2y ago
Proper article linked to in the tweet: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...
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by dxdm 2y ago
Or, you know, _only_ seeing the butterfly and then being dismissive about other interpretations, maybe people who do that also have things revealed about them. ;)
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by dxdm 2y ago
Yes, I'd keep a uniqueness constraint, because it prevents bugs from inserting the same value more than once. From concurrency issues to broken id generation, I've seen it happen before. So unless there are other considerations, h
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by dxdm 3y ago
IMO the author did himself no favors publishing this email thread.
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by dxdm 3y ago
Willing _and_ able.
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by dxdm 3y ago
> Unicorns are merely an engineering problem tho (specifically, genetic engineering). So is world peace, while we're saying things that contain the word "merely". :)
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by dxdm 3y ago
How did this go, do you have that written up somewhere? Sounds interesting, but from the way you write here, also mildly toxic. I'd be happy to learn some details and that my impression was just wild prejudice based on reading too few
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by dxdm 3y ago
Firefox on Android has a button to activate Reader Mode right in the URL bar.
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by dxdm 3y ago
> computation is just one of them I always thought that, apart from moving bits around, computation (in the sense of performing calculations, like the people that used to be called "computers" before) is the only thing a comput
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by dxdm 3y ago
You're probably aware of other cases where people wear helmets, for example on construction sites and while riding motorbikes or indeed bicycles. A lot of people riding cars wear seatbelts. I don't understand what's supposed
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by dxdm 3y ago
Living a comfortable life on much less income than a million a year, in another western country with way higher taxes and social insurance payments, it feels grotesque to read about these complaints. Comes across as supremely out of touch.
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by dxdm 3y ago
> I've no idea what downvotes you're referring to, I'm well into the black on that post. As you should be, it's a great contribution. I was referring to the downvotes mentioned in a comment further up. I agree that wh
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by dxdm 3y ago
The point of the criticism is that defining the version and what constitutes a breaking change like this will still leave people with unexpected breakage in the real world. What you've said so far has not really addressed that point st
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by dxdm 3y ago
I'm assuming this is why you say it's not a silver bullet, but to make it more explicit: the Django ORM will happily generate migrations that will lock crucial tables for long amounts of time and bring down your production applica
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by dxdm 3y ago
By that reasoning, you want to force businesses to do something with their own property that they decide is against their interests?
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by dxdm 3y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but please consider that not everyone is enjoying social situations the same way and to the same extent. For some people, being thrown into a surprise party as its main attraction is quite uncomfo
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by dxdm 3y ago
Which trio blog post? I can't seem to find an "official" blog by the trio maintainers, but from what you wrote I'm interested in reading one.
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by dxdm 3y ago
How was it?
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by dxdm 3y ago
Could you elaborate on what they are doing?
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by dxdm 3y ago
Maybe other people do not use the same setup as you do.
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by dxdm 3y ago
That's not what we were talking about, but alright. Not sure how it works in the US, but from what I read you can't be forced to join a union there. But I think I get what you mean: once you work in a given place, there's usu
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by dxdm 3y ago
> have also perpetuated racism, sexism, xenophobia, organized crime, government corruption, The same is true for political parties, religious organizations, and all sorts of other organizations that are made of people, including privatel
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by dxdm 3y ago
Good times. I remember finding these videos after installing Win95 on my very first self-built PC. Thanks for the nostalgia hit.
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by dxdm 3y ago
I haven't really looked into wasm yet, and am wondering what constraints one might run up against for interesting practical applications like yours. You satisfied my curiosity at the perfect level of detail, thank you very much for tak
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by dxdm 3y ago
You need to have their desktop app installed to use the built-in, and AFAIK there is no Linux version of it. https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Screen-Share The solution in TFA seems to work on Linux, if you
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by dxdm 3y ago
> My initial approach was to compile the client into WASM. This seemed promising as it would let me leverage my expertise in Go development. However, I encountered several limitations that would have necessitated substantial modification
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by dxdm 3y ago
I'm sorry, but it doesn't matter that you're paying for other services, or your taxes, or for your groceries. If you're using that particular service for free in a manner that's not intended, and you justify it by s
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by dxdm 3y ago
I didn't downvote, but your original comment is (to me at least) an unreadable, massive wall of links and quotes, that's hard to scan visually for a hint of its content, taking up unusually many screen-fuls on my mobile client. Th
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by dxdm 3y ago
Awesome idea, but it's too hard for me. In normal mode, I'm already clicking like a maniac in the first 20 seconds of the game, and red processes accumulate, even though I'm cycling out the blocked ones. I had one process kil
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by dxdm 3y ago
Not sure if it's true, but what you're writing makes it sound like you feel entitled to use their product for free. Not a compelling argument.

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