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Parsing JSON from Postgres in JavaScript? Don’t get the wrong number(neon.tech)
4 points by gmac 3y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
Huh, tuzin is interestingly close to dozen .
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by gmac 3y ago
I think this is overstated. My driving instructor was (rightly) very hot on the principle that you must always be able to stop within the distance you can see. Speed limits are not set with this in mind. In the UK, for example, that means t
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Ask HN: Recommendation for water filter/reverse osmosis system in UK?
1 points by gmac 3y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
A 3D-printed Gravitrax marble-run piece ‘for my kids’ during COVID lockdown. A rather similar official piece has recently been released. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cvpz8UAoZfb/
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by gmac 3y ago
I found XSLT kind of mind-bending, but also extremely satisfying and quite productive. Like SQL, it’s declarative, so you have to get into the mindset of telling the computer what you want, not what to do.
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by gmac 3y ago
Well, the data is absolutely not ephemeral: it's safely tucked away in S3. But to crib from https://neon.tech , you might choose Neon because it's scalable, cost-effective, and easy to deploy and manage. Or you might ch
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by gmac 3y ago
No, this is in a serverless environment running on V8 isolates (specifically, Vercel Edge Functions).
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by gmac 3y ago
Fair point! We'll fix this. In the meantime, the graphs show latency distributions, so the X axis is time (in milliseconds) and the Y axis is a simple count.
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by gmac 3y ago
Right. If TCP is available, any common-or-garden Postgres driver will do (for Neon or any other Postgres DB). But not all serverless compute environments support TCP connections.
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by gmac 3y ago
> So you can do a TLS/postgres connection instead of adding additional layers. Sure, sometimes you can. But a key use-case for a serverless database is connecting from a serverless compute environment, and not all serverless compute
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by gmac 3y ago
Yes, we're currently on HTTP/1.1, but I'm sure we'll be looking at later versions. Unfortunately the Rust web server library we're using doesn't currently support HTTP/3, but we could potentially e.g. put
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by gmac 3y ago
This sounds cool (but it's not something we've built at Neon). In case it's useful, I can clarify: * Every Neon database is accessible over an ordinary TCP Postgres connection (as well as WebSockets and http). * Our JavaScrip
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by gmac 3y ago
Every connection to a Neon database (traditional TCP, WebSockets, https) now goes via the same custom (open-source) proxy server that's close to the database compute node. So there's technically an additional hop irrespective of t
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by gmac 3y ago
Reminds me of Pigeon Sim, using a Kinect and the Google Earth browser plugin (which is sadly now discontinued). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ye9dfeu7c https://github.com/jawj/pigeonsim
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by gmac 3y ago
Yes, the middle ground is great. In TypeScript there’s Kysely or Zapatos (mine), for example.
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by gmac 3y ago
I work in this area and I really dislike it when happiness is plotted against income only on a log scale, as is done here. The log scale effectively conceals the flattening-out of the relationship, which is the thing that shows you how prog
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by gmac 3y ago
Do you have a better idea? (Happiness is a fully subjective thing, so subjective measures only, please).
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by gmac 3y ago
Not really. The point is that all these VAG brands share technology and key parts. A Dacia is an old Renault, built cheaply. A VW Golf, a Skoda Octavia, a SEAT Leon and an Audi A3 are mostly the same car.
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by gmac 3y ago
> “might as well buy the one that sells for more used Not sure I follow this logic. Seems unlikely the higher resale value is going to fully cover the higher price you buy it for (whether you buy new or used)?
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by gmac 3y ago
Yes, this particular example I always find really stark. Large numbers of people look at a VW and think to themselves: "this is a nice car, but what I really want is to pay a whole lot more for it". (I have a SEAT, which is for pe
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by gmac 3y ago
They matched the iMac case's stripes. See: https://www.theregister.com/2010/11/29/bondi_blue_imac/
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by gmac 3y ago
I was working on BBC News Online shortly before it launched in 1997. That was WebObjects-based, and it seemed really powerful and really nicely designed.
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by gmac 3y ago
Reminds me of this, where they similarly inappropriately went for ‘ticked’ instead of ‘checked’: https://twitter.com/jawj/status/1547894728447778818
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by gmac 3y ago
Not a lot of research, but a few Google queries turned up nothing. I guess maybe the issue is this is a UK-only box, so a relatively smaller population of tinkerers has had at it.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to run Linux on an old Virgin Media TiVo?
5 points by gmac 3y ago|3 comments
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by gmac 3y ago
Big claim. Support for that?
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by gmac 3y ago
Having been the norm for decades in that research area doesn't make the term significantly less misleading for everyday usage, though, right?
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by gmac 3y ago
The point of the linked tweet (admittedly not obvious from the title here) is that AI is the misleading term.
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by gmac 3y ago
Agreed: it’s like they’re insisting on playing on hard mode (or is that cheap mode?).

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