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by jamie_ca 1y ago
Either joins for a fat query, or aggregate the subqueries. For the latter, it's along the lines of `select * from posts where ...` and `select * from authors where id in {posts.map(author_id)}`. And then once it's in memory you ma
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
Lots of tech was developed and commercialized as a byproduct of the space program. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-would...
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
If you're running linters for formatting etc, just get the agent to run them on autocorrect and it doesn't need to know the status as urgently.
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
A _great_ spin on this is Tunic, which has an in-game manual that you find pages of as you play, and is written in an in-game language so you kinda sorta need to work things out based on the diagrams and other notation. At a base level, it
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix Their green energy line _is_ on the increase, but it's effectively flat compared to the growth lines on coal and oil.
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
Alberta has been struggling with this lately, the province on the whole keeps voting in 90% or more Conservative MPs, but Canada on the whole puts the Liberal party in charge. And so Albertans get frustrated that they don't feel like t
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
Direct link is https://htdp.org/2024-11-6/Book/index.html which says "Released on Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 7:36:10pm" I think this is the 2024 digital release of the 2014/2018 physical publicat
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
Baldur's Gate 3 nailed execution out of the park, but I don't know what I'd point to as innovation that puts it meaningfully beyond what Neverwinter Nights expansions coming out in 2004-2005 were doing.
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by jamie_ca 1y ago
Note also that Whisky is no longer maintained, author suggests using CrossOver. https://docs.getwhisky.app/maintenance-notice
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Nope, that's a quote from early in the book.
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Interesting idea, but for clarity the cells need to be smoothed to ensure each cell edge has a minimum length. eg. In the example image the top-left cluster has a given 9, where the orange line marking the run goes out to the right at what
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
If Mozilla can make up a significant portion of funding by selling default search engine placement, I'm sure an independent Chrome could get 10x that (based on userbase/usage) and be reasonably self-sufficient for continued browse
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
I'm in the 45-49 age bracket this year. In BC (Canada), a 95th percentile income for that age is $126,000 (2021 Census). Before any deductions (specifically retirement investments that reduce taxable income) I'd be looking at a 26
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Test Double is a consultancy that's now employee-owned https://testdouble.com/news-and-awards/software-consultancy-... But yeah that was a situation of a privately held company opting to make that transition, I&#x
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
If your HTTP referer is HN, it redirects to https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
They tried some years back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer) but it didn't really hit big. That said recent updates to SteamOS and agreements around logo/branding use hint that we're
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Looks neat. The CtC community is pretty prolific, and if your colors could match theirs that'd be much easier to parse. https://youtu.be/mkomrpQG388?t=212 has most of them all at once, I think palindrome is the only on
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
As an RSS user, I would love an RSS of the main page content, one entry per story over 5.5 is a perfectly reasonable baseline. Also: It'd be great if you had a feed tag in your HTML head, so RSS readers could pick it up straight out of
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Offtopic to politics, but browsers these days support arbitrary text anchors. docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Te... your link: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.c
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
I did something with JSON back before there was reasonable native support - it's certainly not robust, but it handled a few syntax variants for a use case where we had an extra attribute column that serialized JSON, and wanted to surfa
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Also: When served from a CDN like your link above, popular CSS like Bootstrap had a decent chance of _already_ being in your browser's cache, so despite downloading more initially you'd come across sites using the same version tha
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
FYI the youtube embed on https://docs.codestory.ai/features is broken (both Firefox and Chrome, MacOS). https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/132.0.1/Darwin/en-US/x...
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
I was comparing notes with a new coworker the other week - I've got an M1 pro, he's got an M3. Running an individual test for a feature we were working on (in Rails) lines up with the 25-30% numbers quoted up thread a bit, but tha
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Costco (in Canada at least) doesn't work with Visa. It's cash, bank debit cards, or Mastercard. (No AmEx/Discover either.) It can be done, at scale, but definitely a business risk.
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Maybe, "the time when expected value is the lowest"? The BC 6/49 lottery (6 balls 1-49, one bonus ball) for example has 53% of the common "prize pool" split amongst all 4-ball matchers, so if you're not hitting
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Yeah, they've got an SOS button on the back that'll (silently) make your friends' devices blink to say "come find me." Not sure how noticeable it would be on the dance floor without a noise or vibrate, though.
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
I do stacked PRs for complex changes, and Github has been updating branch bases to support this workflow for at least two years now.
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
The worst was King's Quest V, which you could play for 3-4 hours and soft lock yourself by deciding to go east into the mountains before you had done _everything_ possible in town and west in the desert. It didn't warn you you cou
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
Here's the meme https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/gpdlp4/the_more_i_l... It's not so much that it does things others can't, it's that it does all the things, running in the sam
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by jamie_ca 2y ago
That looks just like a regression to the trend line - connecting the two endpoints on the graph correlates on par with the growth from 2015-2020. The recent hiring boom was an overcompensation from the 2020 covid dip, and now we're bac

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