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by jddj 3y ago
> It's a DSL in HTML attributes which covers almost all of what I need to build a dynamic web application. Not quite though right? There's a very tightly coupled (and fairly useless for anything else) sibling endpoint for each
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by jddj 3y ago
Yeah this would be nice
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by jddj 3y ago
Uncomplicated image conversion / thumbnailing / pdf report generation / whatever that you don't want to keep a whole container or separate long running task around for. That's all. The rest goes in VMs.
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by jddj 3y ago
> It seems simple enough That depends where in Europe
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by jddj 3y ago
I thought revolut used wise under the hood for Forex?
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by jddj 3y ago
Fair enough. It wasn't my intention, perhaps just being careless. I think these conversations usually boil down to some kind of pragmatism versus idealism, so let me be frank about that. If everything could be done as close to the data
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by jddj 3y ago
It's possible and even relatively straightforward to eliminate that network hop without moving all of the application logic into the database.
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by jddj 3y ago
Elastic maybe?
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by jddj 3y ago
Yikes. I've had nothing but good experiences, but this has been enough for me to reconsider our exposure.
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by jddj 3y ago
I found swimming laps to be the same. Extremely repetitive in terms of scenery, breath, everything. The first few laps get into the rhythm and later ones are just you and your thoughts. Or, if you're lucky, just you.
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by jddj 3y ago
Both great links, thanks. You're right, of course. We want both. As it turns out, AsOf in SQL is a problem I ran into just yesterday when ensuring that serialized report snapshots point to the correct historical versions of their resou
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by jddj 3y ago
Nice, thanks. It seems like sometimes what we want is the state at a point in time (eg. for rolling back the database of a managed networked embedded device). Other times what we really want in these systems is state as of a point in time b
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by jddj 3y ago
The thing that I truly find awkward is no nice touch equivalent to hover. It's such a useful piece of the UX to have thrown away in the move to mobile first. Other than that I probably fall in the "it's not that hard" ca
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by jddj 3y ago
A large number of Irish and Irish descendants have a character in their surname that software developers tend to associate with various injection attacks. There's almost no chance of getting an apostrophe into a lot of these forms
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by jddj 3y ago
Or browse HN for 5 minutes and see the term appear over and over and over.
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by jddj 3y ago
Does the asciidoc to pdf workflow involve an intermediate html / headless chromium step?
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by jddj 3y ago
Porn won't be left behind. The encumbents could be.
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by jddj 3y ago
I'd heard similar stories as well. We both suspected that he had been unlucky to come across whoever it was. This was 2016 or thereabouts.
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by jddj 3y ago
Random related anecdote. I met a guy in Colombia who was cycling from Canada to Patagonia. He'd made it all the way to the border according to his maps but was stopped by armed military/paramilitary troops and sent back to Panama
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by jddj 3y ago
Datacenter exhaust fans and chillers
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by jddj 3y ago
That's not really true. Source generation is used at some level to implement expressivity at minimal runtime cost. It's just operating at a different level of abstraction to make different tradeoffs. Whether you do Foo.Serialize()
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by jddj 3y ago
> The thing is, Elon Musk could buy everyone in the world a Tesla if he wanted to. I don't think this checks out, carexpert.com.au
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by jddj 3y ago
Ah. The great recoupling. Soon someone will find a way to keep it in the same process.
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by jddj 3y ago
Hearing himself talk
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by jddj 3y ago
I tend to upvote what I agree with but I think I manage to only downvote low effort / uncharitable takes / spam
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by jddj 3y ago
I read most of The Greatest Show on Earth and it felt weak but moreso because it felt obvious. It might have been more interesting in a time/culture bubble where evolution wasn't taken for granted or the belief in God wasn'
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by jddj 3y ago
Many industries would greatly benefit from poor people becoming less poor. Poor people really don't consume that much. Political power is another matter.
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by jddj 3y ago
I read the scare quotes around free will is an illusion to be saying that these individuals obviously have the capacity to change their circumstances if they only had the personal mettle, or whatever. This response is more nuanced though an
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by jddj 3y ago
> Many people are actually vehemently against this reality. They wish to think of morality is a higher plane of thinking with internal logical consistency. They are wrong. Morality is an arbitrary set of inconsistent rules that directs h
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by jddj 3y ago
Absolutely. Also the law of large numbers. And despite the downvotes I don't want to take that away from OP, definitely what they did was difficult, commendable etc. Edit: removing a further unnecessary elaboration here because it feel

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