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by gmac 6y ago
A Postgres library for TypeScript, without the abstractions of an ORM: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
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Zero-Abstraction Postgres for TypeScript: Zapatos library(jawj.github.io)
4 points by gmac 6y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 6y ago
Salt: cheapest own-brand. Shampoo: read the labels for something without too many nasties. Car: check lots of reviews, test drive some candidate models. More broadly, the question isn’t whether advertising works, but whether it has positive
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by gmac 6y ago
If you need it, mills are selling it directly. I bought a 16kg bag of strong white and another of strong wholemeal for delivery from Marriages (flour.co.uk) this morning — after a few hours of running a simple Bash script to poll occasional
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by gmac 7y ago
Oh, that’s interesting. I’ve recently had to switch to using the HDMI instead of the Mini DisplayPort to connect a 4K monitor to my mid-2014 MBP, since it wasn’t being recognised (which also means dropping from 60fps to 30). Wasn’t sure if
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by gmac 7y ago
Textile got this right: https://movabletype.org/documentation/author/textile-2-synta...
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by gmac 7y ago
I wrote a Zotero extension many years ago when doing my PhD[1]. Unfortunately, recent changes have broken it, I can't figure out what's wrong (XUL is not exactly well-documented these days), and the developers aren't responsi
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by gmac 7y ago
It's XUL. It used to be a Firefox extension, before Firefox changed how those work.
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by gmac 7y ago
I agree that too much abstraction from your SQL database is a world of frustration. I feel that ‘query builders’ themselves can end up feeling like too much abstraction, albeit of a slightly different kind. I’ve written about an alternative
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by gmac 7y ago
Indeed. Another example: https://twitter.com/jawj/status/1199026735980990465
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by gmac 7y ago
I was pointed to it by my brother-in-law who is an MD, smart, and not prone to overplay things.
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FAA engineers objected to removal of 787 lightning protection measures (2019)(seattletimes.com)
78 points by gmac 7y ago|9 comments
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by gmac 7y ago
I guess the standard discounting approach means that people who care a lot about low prices can get even lower prices, because to they are to an extent cross-subsidised by people that don't care. In the always-low-prices model, no cros
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by gmac 7y ago
Amongst other things, and in my experience, ease and speed of development.
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by gmac 7y ago
In the UK, new cars typically get a 3- or 4-year finance deal, with an additional lump sum payable at the end if you want to keep the car. This arrangement is clearly designed to encourage you to get a new car every 3 or 4 years. I bought a
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by gmac 7y ago
Well, it wouldn't do a lot of good otherwise, since I'm pretty sure most data breaches aren't committed deliberately. The point is you should have measures in place that prevent those sorts of mistakes.
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by gmac 7y ago
Chicken and egg. I (in British English) say the second of February.
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by gmac 7y ago
1. Existing iPhone users already have a bunch of Lightning cables (I probably have a dozen) but would have to buy a bunch of USB-C cables. That would be annoying, expensive, and wasteful. 2. Lightning is not a standard like USB-C, but is (s
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by gmac 7y ago
Or even quicker (no need to deal with Ansible) for IKEv2 IPSec only, my Bash script: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
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by gmac 7y ago
Agreed — moving the cursor and selecting text has become almost unusable for me on iOS 13 [1]. It's a shame, because I always used to be impressed at how easy and natural it felt. I really hope they figure this out and reinstate the ol
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by gmac 7y ago
You're effectively claiming that university teaches nothing, but good degrees teach independence, critical thinking (analysis, synthesis), research skills, writing, teamworking, presentation skills, and much more. Added to that, your f
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by gmac 7y ago
I'm confident I'm a safer driver than at least 50% of the people on the roads So is almost everybody else. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority#Driving_a...
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by gmac 7y ago
“We’ve literally had passengers with tickets in their hands looking out the window of the gate at us as we were boxing up our equipment to leave” I do hope this is only after minor repairs, and that after taking apart and reassembling an
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by gmac 7y ago
I describe something very similar here: https://github.com/jawj/web-scraping-for-researchers
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by gmac 7y ago
in domains that don't even remotely relate to what your employer's industries is hard when your employer is as big and wide-ranging as Google.
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by gmac 7y ago
As famously pointed out by Larry Wall: http://threevirtues.com/
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by gmac 7y ago
I think the problem is those meanings can plausibly be reversed, so it's hard to remember which way round it goes. A better way to do it that I've seen is to represent air flow with wavy lines or similar on the 'open' sy
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by gmac 7y ago
Hmm. The Atari ST did display bombs when it crashed. The number of bombs was a hint about the cause. It always felt very alarming and had me scrambling for the 'off' switch, though. http://www.atari-forum.com/viewt
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by gmac 7y ago
Yes, the kitchen and the car are the places I have found Alexa and Siri (respectively) useful. Amazon had the Echo Dot on offer for £9 GBP last week, and I’ve been surprised how much more often Alexa does the right thing than Siri does (YMM
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by gmac 7y ago
I believe it will be difficult to generate all the energy we need with renewables alone (source: https://www.withouthotair.com/ ), and even if that’s possible, a massive surplus of energy would presumably allow us to start s

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