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by jonstaab 6y ago
I'd love to join the discord and contribute my two cents, looks like the invite is expired though. Also, I hadn't seen Mint, that also looks like an awesome project.
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Very cool project! I love stuff like this. I actually started a very similar fun project last week[0]. It's very much just a thought experiment, but the most interesting thing about it (I think) is the use of dynamic rather than lexica
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by jonstaab 6y ago
I could see it taking that long if she was using a full movie database with millions of rows in it.
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Thanks, corrected
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by jonstaab 6y ago
> On my laptop, PostgreSQL takes about a minute to get denormalized data for 12,000 episodes, while retrieval of the equivalent document by ID in MongoDB takes a fraction of a second. What? Her database can't possibly be indexed pro
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Why prayer is the only way to secure a truly free and open internet(jstaab.substack.com)
5 points by jonstaab 6y ago|0 comments
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Maybe this would work for simple websites. But for web apps, it's a hard pass for me. For context, I write a web-based POS application, and waiting for a network request on every micro interaction is a no-go. There are lots of other pr
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Well, over the same time period, but gold has been mined for thousands of years, and for a long time much less efficiently. And bitcoin mining will decelerate as halving occurs, until the last coin is mined in a bit over 100 years' tim
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by jonstaab 6y ago
I used to worry about this question too. But how much energy has mining gold cost? Was it worth it? Will bitcoin have a similar impact? I imagine the answer is more, yes, and yes.
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by jonstaab 6y ago
I built a PWA for disc golf speedruns: https://www.anhyzer.io/ I'm really quite pleased with it and I use it often, but there's only one course listed (the one I play on), and there's no feature for letting u
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by jonstaab 6y ago
My question for all you smart data-oriented people is: why are we not considering the pandemic all but over? Particularly since the only study on asymptomatic cases has failed to prove transmissibility [0]? I know the results are "not
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Excess deaths in England during the pandemic(twitter.com)
2 points by jonstaab 6y ago|1 comments
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by jonstaab 6y ago
I don't know anything, but I've read that ADE can take 1-3 years to surface.
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by jonstaab 6y ago
The analysis was riveting as always. I'm not sure his position that Biden is a true moderate holds up though. Biden acts like a moderate, but Harris is the most radically left Senator we currently have [0], and kowtow's to BLM&#x2
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Is it just me, or has "federated" come to mean just mean multi-tenant SaaS (maybe with some features that cross boundaries) that's also open source?
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Show HN: A Markdown Time Capsule(bury-it.herokuapp.com)
4 points by jonstaab 6y ago|0 comments
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Great little takeaways. The early bits remind me of my own job history — I also worked on a fish processing barge, using a forklift and being constantly stymied by the elevator bottleneck. The next job I did, I also got myself fired to prot
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by jonstaab 6y ago
I love Steinbeck, but I had never heard of The Winter of Our Discontent, thanks!
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by jonstaab 6y ago
I thought this was going to be a typical HN "build things instead" thing, but I actually love their take. Looking at the world around us lately I've been realizing more and more that "it's all in Plato"; his Re
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by jonstaab 6y ago
There's some truth to this, but this therapeutic reduction does a disservice to the traditional (and fuller) practice of forgiveness: > In the new therapeutic dispensation, however, forgiveness is all about the forgiver, and his or
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by jonstaab 6y ago
The problem I see with that is that if a huge number of people take that route and happily (let's assume) live their lives without working, they lose access to the ability to participate in a meaningful way in the economy by producing
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Is this another edition of "falsehoods programmers believe about quinoa"?
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by jonstaab 6y ago
I wrote a tiny multimethod library for Janet: https://github.com/staab/janet-multimethod The stack traces have so far been really clean and helpful.
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by jonstaab 6y ago
Janet's purported focus is that it's easy to embed in a larger C program. I haven't really seen that in practice, but I have used the C api to write some language extensions, and it is a joy. In comparison with Clojure, I muc
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Show HN: A spoken language inspired by Tom Bombadil(github.com)
8 points by jonstaab 6y ago|0 comments
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by jonstaab 7y ago
Technically correct, but irresponsible
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by jonstaab 7y ago
Interesting, but over-sensationalized. To quote the article, "Even before the new report, some scholars believed that most to all of the post-2002 fragments were modern fakes." The headline uses the word "all", but is ta
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by jonstaab 7y ago
It's not proselytization, it's a restatement of the central doctrine of Christianity, undergirded by the doctrine of the Trinity which is pretty germane to relationality, and most commonly argued for from John, especially chapter
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by jonstaab 7y ago
They got Idaho wrong. Hell's Canyon is cool and all, and has some really unique geological attributes, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Sawtooths.
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by jonstaab 7y ago
That's the whole problem of quantam physics, isn't it

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