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by gmac 2y ago
Well, maybe the purpose of higher education is to learn how to learn _for yourself_. That is: to find sources, read them, evaluate them, and synthesize them into a conclusion.
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by gmac 2y ago
> Tesla is done in Europe for political/cultural reasons Yes, and those political/cultural reasons are: let's not subsidise people who repeatedly and in public make unambiguous Nazi salutes. TBH it would be nice if those s
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by gmac 2y ago
> if you tell people that politicians lie If you do it as a blanket statement — i.e. all politicians lie all the time — then yes, I will be pretty irritated. Some politicians spout dangerous nonsense most of the time. Other politicians c
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by gmac 2y ago
It sounds good, but I think [citation needed]!
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by gmac 2y ago
bot acrimony!
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by gmac 2y ago
The page is hosted on GitHub Pages and all compute is in your browser, so no bills! It will happily evaluate many billions of possibilities if you give it a few hours. Anagrams are already sorted primarily by decreasing commonness of the le
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by gmac 2y ago
I made this for my own use (mostly solving and setting cryptic crosswords, and amusing my kids), and thought I'd share. I had some fun with JavaScript generators on the way. Similar sites tend to lack the ability to sort result words f
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Show HN: Find anagrams, words matching patterns(manipulexity.com)
4 points by gmac 2y ago|6 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
You would certainly hope that selling 3kW heaters was an indication of that, and that's what I used to think, but what I've read about EV charging makes me think that it isn't.
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by gmac 2y ago
I think Renault in general are doing well right now. I'm very happy with the new Scenic EV.
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by gmac 2y ago
Yes — in fact this is a problem with the high-power setting on our induction hob (which I think is something like 5kW). Liquids bubble vigorously before they're even warm.
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by gmac 2y ago
In the UK, where almost everyone has an electric kettle, almost all are 3kW. Our electric circuits aren't rated for 13A continuous draw (e.g. plug-in EV chargers should be set to 8A or 10A), but they are fine at 13A for the few minutes
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Build an end-to-end RAG pipeline in psql using pgrag and DeepSeek(neon.tech)
4 points by gmac 2y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
I agree, but I believe Postgres is just following the SQL standard here? What's even crazier is that writing plain TIMESTAMP gets you TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE, as is also mandated by the standard (the Postgres docs call this one out
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by gmac 2y ago
Well, for Haagen-Dazs, perhaps yes. It’s decent stuff because it’s mostly cream and eggs. Also, smaller packs are not just about COGS: you’ll probably buy more or buy again sooner.
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by gmac 2y ago
I made this. It got some attention last time I posted it (May 2023) when it only did an HTTPS GET: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884437
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See this page query Postgres, byte by byte, over TLS(bytebybyte.dev)
1 points by gmac 2y ago|1 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
Dev here. An earlier, HTTPS-only version of this got a fair bit of attention about 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884437 .
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A live Postgres query with TLS channel binding, byte by byte(bytebybyte.dev)
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by gmac 2y ago
Right. You can just search for /\b(\w+) \1\b/ and see what comes up. There are usually false positives of one kind or another.
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by gmac 2y ago
Can confirm the value of checking for repeated words such as ‘the the’. This is the final example I give my Econ PhD students in a session on RegExps: https://users.sussex.ac.uk/~gm268/iphd/regexps/regexps.pdf
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by gmac 2y ago
Not remotely a useful alternative for many uses, since it doesn’t call ordinary phone numbers (does it?).
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by gmac 2y ago
With similar goals (but Postgres-only): https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
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by gmac 2y ago
https://thethreevirtues.com/
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by gmac 2y ago
Firefox 133b7 and Safari Tech Preview both have a new Uint8Array.toHex() method, but otherwise browsers don't yet have a native way to turn binary data into hex strings. I put this tiny package together to fill this gap using a signifi
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Faster-than-native toHex() for JavaScript Uint8Arrays(github.com)
1 points by gmac 2y ago|1 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
I've been working on this, which allows you to build a full RAG pipeline in Postgres: https://github.com/neondatabase-labs/pgrag . You can compile it yourself, or it's available on Neon (including the free pla
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by gmac 2y ago
Apart from a brief issue with a specific macOS version a year or two ago, I’ve found my CalDigit TS3+ to “just work” with both an Intel and an M3 Pro Mac.
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Zapatos: A non-ORM Postgres library for TypeScript(jawj.github.io)
2 points by gmac 2y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
I strongly disagree, as long as you frame the topic more reasonably as 'Want growth (that doesn't only benefit a small group of kleptocrats)?'.

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