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by gmac 5y ago
It’s essentially a subjective question, but FWIW I disagree. I’ve written quite a bit of JS and quite a bit of TS, and I find TS so much better. I’m more productive, generate fewer bugs, and have more fun when writing it.
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by gmac 5y ago
Only 5 years too late to prevent us leaving them for AWS RDS and Elastic Beanstalk, where we paid half as much and got a DB with basic security features: no public IP and an SSL cert.
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PostgreSQL Public Certificates Beta(devcenter.heroku.com)
1 points by gmac 5y ago|1 comments
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by gmac 5y ago
> ultimately you have to respect the vote to an extent Disagree here. A 52% majority is no basis for far-reaching, long-term constitutional change (even if the 52% _hadn't_ been systematically lied to, and the change in question _di
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by gmac 5y ago
Don’t forget the nullish coalescing operator, ??, which is probably nicer than using || here. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...
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by gmac 5y ago
I do! Since I got a 1080p projector, DVDs of recent releases are often noticeable fuzzy, while the Blu-Rays look great. Plus a Blu-Ray off eBay or CeX is usually half the price of 'buying' a film to stream, can be lent to friends
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by gmac 5y ago
It only does IKEv2, but this script (mine) cuts out Ansible and is intended to be even easier: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
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by gmac 5y ago
Ha ha. But clothes dry themselves. Clothes do not wash themselves.
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5 months on, Apple has yet to fix iOS bug that sends devices into a crash spiral(arstechnica.com)
21 points by gmac 5y ago|1 comments
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by gmac 5y ago
Seconded (I’m in academia, my wife is in government).
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by gmac 5y ago
> People like that don't have a habit of changing their opinions, that's who I'm talking about. I think this is a pithy description of human beings. :) Of course, it's a habit we'd all do well to do out best to d
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by gmac 5y ago
There’s certainly some deeply unscientific thinking out there … but I don’t think your examples are good ones. It’s reasonable to dislike GMOs (or some subset of them) because of who’s selling them and why, unrelated to the science. It’s re
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by gmac 5y ago
Fellow Brit, strongly disagree. The Europlug feels to me barely less flimsy than the US type. Ours and the Schuko are about the only ones I feel fully safe using.
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by gmac 5y ago
First: have you used Postgres, and at what scale? Because that hasn't been my experience of it. Second: do you know something that's comparable but better?
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by gmac 5y ago
On this first point — 'Get the Number of Updated and Inserted Rows in an Upsert' — unfortunately this `xmax` method is not always reliable and there does not seem to be any reliable alternative. I posted to pgsql-hackers about thi
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by gmac 5y ago
It looks to me as if the Republican party is broadly still Trump's: he has a powerful voice and as far as I am aware very few Republican politicians have disavowed him. Can you tell me what important nuance I am lacking here? Perhaps y
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by gmac 5y ago
Not-an-American here. Seems to me there's arguably an important difference between (a) being conservative/right leaning and (b) being Republican. People can, of course, legitimately be found in all sorts of positions on the libera
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by gmac 5y ago
I think maybe a Roku Streaming Stick 4K will do everything there except the USB? (I don't have one but have been considering one; I have a 5-year-old LG Blu-Ray player that covers USB and DLNA pretty well).
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by gmac 5y ago
Wouldn’t that be optimising for a very small group of coders and unusually-frequent travellers at the expense of everyone else?
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by gmac 5y ago
I think some of this might be cultural. For example, I think self-deprecation may be in general more widely appreciated in the UK than the US (though perhaps this is gradually changing). I’m reminded of Arthur Dent (British) in the Hitchhik
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by gmac 5y ago
Well, it's: * cheaper * maybe healthier (lower saturated fat) * lower climate impact (no dairy farming required) That last point is why I've recently switched to spreadable butter, which is roughly half butter, half rapeseed oil,
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by gmac 5y ago
I'd love to use Apple maps for driving directions, but I just can't get used to its mostly-overhead navigation view. I regularly take wrong turnings when following Apple Maps, which almost never happens with Google Maps or TomTom.
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by gmac 5y ago
I was using JSON before it was 'invented', as was basically anyone sending data to the browser in JS format. Holding specific people responsible is pretty absurd.
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by gmac 5y ago
Every petrol station I’ve driven past in the last week has had giant queues or (more commonly) been shut for lack of fuel. SE England.
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by gmac 5y ago
My 2018 SEAT (VW group tech) has twice saved me from an expensive mistake by slamming on the brakes rather than reverse into an obstacle. The first time I'd only had the car a couple of days and had accidentally engaged reverse when I
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by gmac 5y ago
Gneezy & Rustichini 2000, ' A fine is a price' https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine... (I teach this one on my behavioural econ course).
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by gmac 5y ago
100% agree. Ketchup in a bacon sandwich is pure evil, and I've never been sure why bacon is even sold unsmoked.
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by gmac 5y ago
Audi seems to be the brand for people who want a VW, but want to pay extra for it. It’s like the mirror image of Skoda or SEAT (VAG’s more ‘budget’ brands).
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by gmac 5y ago
Yes, if you calculate the depreciation based on getting a pretty good deal rather than paying the list price, the fabled thousands you lose as soon as you drive off the forecourt mostly vanish.
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by gmac 5y ago
What's nice about that is that if you're not sucked in by the lifestyle branding you can get what's basically a VW — VW, SEAT and Skoda share engines, gearboxes, even most of the knobs and UI — for quite a lot cheaper. SEAT a

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