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by foreigner 1y ago
Might want to look up the history of sidewalks a bit. TL;DR: it can be argued that the existence of sidewalks is a concession that roads are only for cars, where previously they were for everyone, including pedestrians.
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by foreigner 1y ago
I see lots of ads for "Senior Engineer" that want 3 years of experience.
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by foreigner 1y ago
Location: Winchester, United Kingdom Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Expert in NodeJS, experienced with AWS, Typescript, Javascript, SQL, web technologies, and many more Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com&
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by foreigner 1y ago
We get half of our genes from each of our parents. So unless this person has the extremely unlikely misfortune of partnering with someone else with the same rare mutation, their offspring would only have a 50/50 chance of inheriting th
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by foreigner 1y ago
Hews 2 on Android. I have a Pixel 6. Generally I'm satisfied with Hews 2, it just rendered this particular title in a funny way.
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by foreigner 1y ago
My HN reader displays this topic as "Universe expected to decay in 10 years, much sooner than previously thought". And it's not wrong, that _is_ much sooner than previously thought!
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by foreigner 1y ago
This is also true for our DNA, because of companies like 23AndMe!
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by foreigner 1y ago
LOL that is an amazing analogy, thank you.
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by foreigner 1y ago
Fry it up with bog butter!
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by foreigner 2y ago
This assumes that services are handling your password responsibly and not e.g. storing it in clear text in a public S3 bucket, which in practice happens all the time .
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by foreigner 2y ago
The problem is with our payments infrastructure there isn't a practical way to make a "machine" on the internet that accepts two quarters. OP's machine charges $5. The Stripe minimum charge is $0.50, and their fees on th
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by foreigner 2y ago
Same on Android. Cute idea tho.
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by foreigner 2y ago
OMG please please please! Regarding the author's specific questions, I would suggest not letting perfect be the enemy of good.
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by foreigner 2y ago
ROFL thank you for that
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by foreigner 2y ago
I love this idea! Can anybody else with experience with this chime in? Does it actually work?
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by foreigner 2y ago
TIL that PostgreSQL has SECURITY LABEL! It seems like this could be useful for storing all sorts of metadata about database objects, not just security stuff. E.g. like the COMMENT but not global. From reading the docs it looks like you need
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by foreigner 2y ago
Way too expensive for me.
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by foreigner 2y ago
I didn't realize srcset could select for "pixel density", thanks for the tip!
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by foreigner 2y ago
I need a way to detect the screen DPI from the user agent, so I can return higher resolution images only to devices that can use them. I realize detecting that based on user agent may not always be accurate, but surely it could work the vas
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by foreigner 2y ago
Configure Prisma with https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/overview/databases/postgresql... Then you can pass `statement_timeout` when you create the `pg.Pool`
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by foreigner 2y ago
The key is two ints, not one. I use the first int for namespacing.
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by foreigner 2y ago
Store the state in the URL
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by foreigner 2y ago
It's possible now with the built-in "db adapter" plugin. I also have lots of misgivings about the Prisma ORM, but this particular thing is possible now.
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by foreigner 2y ago
So the Cursor AI can make edits to the .cursorrules file that's meant to control it? Hmm...
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by foreigner 2y ago
Children's ice cream, Mandrake?
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by foreigner 2y ago
I know it's absurd but somehow I've always intuitively felt that this sort of gardening philosophy (and especially bonsai) is cruel to the plants. It's like we're forcing the plant to grow in an unnatural way by abusing
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by foreigner 2y ago
This is great but even more impressive than the code is all the documentation and explanation of how it works. Well done!
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by foreigner 2y ago
Wow that would be very cool.
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by foreigner 2y ago
This is the plot of "The Freshman", which is an excellent movie. Starring Matthew Broderick, and featuring Marlon Brando parodying himself in The Godfather!
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by foreigner 2y ago
Sorry, I'm showing my age. When I was a boy it was common to play "slug bug". Sighting a Volkswagen Beetle was an excuse to punch your friend/sibling in the shoulder without retribution.

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