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by gfody 4y ago
https://github.com/isemenkov/libpascurl
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by gfody 4y ago
afaik postgres still doesn't have a merge command (just tested on 14.2)?
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by gfody 4y ago
there it is, if I had a nickel for every time that link has been thrown at me.. twice in this thread alone ;) we are now in agree-to-disagree territory because my experience has been different and I don't like to leave performance on t
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by gfody 4y ago
I'm in an agree-to-disagree state with various sql server consultants on this matter. I disagree that merge is harmful and should be avoided. Using merge w/hints for upserts has a decent performance advantage over the alternatives
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by gfody 4y ago
to be fair sql server's holdlock is pretty specific to sql server, there's this note on pg's merge project page ( https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SQL_MERGE ) > PostgreSQL doesn't have a good way t
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by gfody 4y ago
the docs also say "every statement is atomic" and the ambiguity around whether merge is one statement or two (or three) ought to be settled by explicitly stating our atomicity expectations with a transaction. anyway my experience
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by gfody 4y ago
> ignore_row_on_dupkey_index I was thinking of the hints you used to have to use with a merge statement in order to get an atomic upsert - holdlock in sql server and lock table in oracle. My recollection of the terribly old newsgroup thr
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by gfody 4y ago
seems to be a matter of principle with the (some?) core devs position that it adds complexity and shouldn't be necessary. I remember the big debate long ago that resulted in postgres rejecting the standard sql merge command in favor of
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by gfody 4y ago
mactype uses easyhook and has problems hooking uwp and some system stuff that might clear up by switching to this minhook
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by gfody 4y ago
I'm assuming that practically nobody actually cancels their Netflix whenever there's nothing to watch and resubscribes when there is and so they probably consider existing subscribers money-in-the-bank and mostly try to acquire ne
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by gfody 4y ago
I wonder if Netflix would consider not charging you when you don't use their service. Then there would be no reason to cancel and your subscription payments could just resume whenever Netflix has content you're interested in. Netf
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by gfody 5y ago
NTLite (www.ntlite.com) should be mentioned itt - it's a nice tool for stripping functionality from the Windows installation media and can be used to produce a stripped down ISO like this.
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by gfody 5y ago
that's roughly the idea for gan-based image compression, check out: https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/aeirikur/extremecompression
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by gfody 5y ago
could the M1 itself be using it for branch prediction?
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by gfody 5y ago
> The .NET desktop strategy has sucked since Build 2011 only if you need cross platform. WPF is pretty good and WinForms still ain't broken. oh you said strategy .. I think the strategy is wait for something to get popular, maybe so
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by gfody 5y ago
if you press it from a PR you'll get the vscode PR viewer which is way nicer than Github's (IMO, especially for larger PRs) the only thing missing is the ability to switch between changes from last commit, last review, etc.
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by gfody 5y ago
I keep this video bookmarked and share it with new SDETs - it's downright inspirational how far he takes his testing, legend!
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by gfody 5y ago
it'd be interesting to see how well a crowd of humans using tools like this could replace the encoder. I wonder how much smaller jpegs could get with human-level psychovisual optimization
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by gfody 5y ago
in my 20's I went through a numerology phase and began taking the digital roots of everything, it became a habit and now I can't not do it. I developed a really similar sort of visual mechanical sense for the digits 0-9 where the
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by gfody 5y ago
this is fascinating stuff, the software experiments made me wonder if lightfield cameras will do better or at least enable smarter perspective algorithms
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by gfody 5y ago
appreciate calling out middle brow dismissals which is a uniquely hn problem and probably too subjective to write a policy against
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by gfody 5y ago
this could be a writing prompt template. finding a way to hold two seemingly contradictory beliefs simultaneously is a solid exercise in creative thinking.
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by gfody 5y ago
impressive work at 15 nice job! you know with recordrtc.js you could specify 'type: video' and 'mimeType: video/webm' and serve a .gifv - or are you explicitly trying to support very old devices?
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by gfody 5y ago
the cookie popup here has no options for opting out of tracking, just a link to install an extension that opts you out of tracking, that's a first for me and seems completely bonkers
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by gfody 5y ago
can you really compare cows to octopuses? are there even wild cows?
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by gfody 5y ago
people won't change but if the gif library were updated then maybe browsers could support a modern rev with unambiguously defined behavior and compression improvements, maintain compatibility for older gif87a and gif89a files, and then
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by gfody 5y ago
we have better formats but gifs are still everywhere, maybe there should be a gif222 to fix this stuff and maybe improve compression a bit too
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by gfody 5y ago
I've been off and on with coffee for about 30 years, with a tendency to ramp until I'm drinking way too much of it and then have to take a t-break and suffer withdrawals. it's an effective focus enhancer but only if I ramp t
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by gfody 5y ago
this would be a good variant for Grant Sanderson to point his information theoretical solver at as a way to educate us on how/why sha256 leaks information that might be leveraged to crack a password, why to salt our hashes, etc.
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by gfody 5y ago
btw I think you meant to say "worth noting" instead if "worth nothing" ;)

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