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by elchief 3y ago
i create my html responses on the server using Jinja, which escapes everything by default this is a silly argument
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by elchief 3y ago
bad model you should use sql table inheritance to represent an individual scientist or a group of scientists as the same (abstract) thing then you can point a foreign key at an individual scientist or a group and if you use single table inh
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by elchief 3y ago
The internet is a safer but sadder place Read Ghost in the Wire as a young man and it inspired me to get into computers Rest in Peace, brother
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by elchief 3y ago
"slashes" prices to only $10,000 more than when it was introduced...gee
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by elchief 3y ago
That argument worked great at Nuremberg
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by elchief 3y ago
Ya we didn't have food before oil...
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by elchief 3y ago
the paycheck calculator site he uses reports semi-monthly amount, so it should be double
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by elchief 3y ago
> humongous 14kb > It also forces you to return HTML fragments via AJAX. not true, you can return anything. support client-side templating for JSON etc
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by elchief 3y ago
"kenny" was the name of our login system in a PHP web app I built a long time ago
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by elchief 3y ago
Google has decades of context on me
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by elchief 3y ago
Despite deep learning, Google still suggested "pies park" when I asked for "pyspark". To be fair, there is a Pies Park in Cincinnati. I don't live in Cincinnati though
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by elchief 3y ago
Or use plural table names hehe
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by elchief 3y ago
Can you make a table called `references`? No, you cannot
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by elchief 3y ago
99% of PostgreSQL reserved keywords are singular (except `references`), so if you use plural table names, you're more likely to avoid using a reserved keyword (such as `user`) 97% of SQL-92 reserved keywords are also singular (exceptio
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by elchief 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakbulk_cargo is still a thing
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by elchief 4y ago
I'm a ruminator These have worked for me 1. I have thoughts and I can choose to accept them or not. My thoughts are not my mind 2. Overwhelm myself with positive true thoughts in the same area as negative thoughts so I gorget about the
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by elchief 4y ago
Europe didn't have potatoes until the Spanish started importing them from South America, which was in the 1500s
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by elchief 4y ago
I add a teaspoon of potato starch to my smoothies, and I find it makes it a bit more filling, and doesn't taste like anything. Potato Starch is a Type II Resistant Starch, which is a nice pre-biotic to feed your gut microbiome https:&
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by elchief 4y ago
and after ~1590 of course, when the potato was introduced to the British Isles
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by elchief 4y ago
Joe Celko covers graphs in chapters 12-14 of Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties as well as chapter 27 of SQL for Smarties, 5th isn't ISO working on an graph extension to regular SQL? Can't seem to google it correctly
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by elchief 4y ago
I suppose because they spent 6-8 years of their early adult lives focusing exclusively on biology and not computer science
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by elchief 4y ago
HN commiserating kids killing themselves due to social media last week HN complaining about a state doing something about it this week
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by elchief 4y ago
Rate of learning depends on quality of teaching, and I found most textbooks, professors, and especially TAs to be laughably bad, despite going to a top Canadian university. Thank goodness for online ratings of books and courses to weed out
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by elchief 4y ago
Cool, stop. Third fucking time this year. We get it
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by elchief 4y ago
Still is if you live in Saskatchewan
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by elchief 4y ago
98% of people are deficient in potassium. Does the extra potassium help or just being at the healthy level help?
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by elchief 4y ago
The Singer spec https://www.singer.io/#what-it-is , for data ingestion and loading 1. open source 2. hundreds of pre-built taps and targets (for apis and databases) 3. supports incremental and full refresh 4. don't need
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by elchief 4y ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Igon_Value_Problem
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by elchief 4y ago
understood :) thanks for the reply
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by elchief 4y ago
Seems like strange choices for "CloudQuery vs Others". Why not compare against FiveTran, Airbyte, Meltano or other EL tools? Also, It'd be nice to know what the transfer protocol is like. What format is used to transfer betwe

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