jpalawaga

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by jpalawaga 8mo ago
to be fair, git is one of the most easily replaced pieces of tech. just add a new git remote and push. less so for issues and and pulls, but at least your dev team/ci doesn't end up blocked.
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by jpalawaga 8mo ago
You're right! Let's just quickly promote your only read replica to the new primar---oops!
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by jpalawaga 8mo ago
Is there something about LLMs that suddenly make grammar and style irrelevant? Is your take, no human is going to read this ever again, so why bother making it pretty and consistent/readable?
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by jpalawaga 9mo ago
This podcast episode might be of interest. https://www.searchengine.show/a-perfectly-average-anomaly/
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by jpalawaga 9mo ago
providing healthcare and education are costs easily overlooked by most americans. But the reality is, these are costs borne by americans as well. and likely at a higher rate: americans pay more per capitia on both of those versus most other
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by jpalawaga 9mo ago
Hang-dry your tees. It's a slight annoyance vs just bombing everything into the dryer, but it's very worth it to not have sleeves that are too short. I usually hang mine on the shower's curtain rod to dry. And frankly, this s
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by jpalawaga 10mo ago
anti-cheat far precedes the casinoification of modern games. nobody wants to play games that are full of bots. cheaters will destroy your game and value proposition. anti-cheat is essentially existential for studios/publishers that rel
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by jpalawaga 10mo ago
absolutely ridiculous. $10 for a single pass. I'd pay 99c for this app, and no more. Oh well, $0 it is.
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by jpalawaga 10mo ago
except your argument as to why "build moar" isn't an option is basically "we acknowledge the population is booming, however, the vibes are more important than providing housing." Sure, everyone wants their particula
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by jpalawaga 10mo ago
Nobody knows what Doublespeed is, everyone knows what a16z is. Doesn't putting the part that's pertinent to people in the headline oblige readers-to-be? I'd say that the change is editorializing more than the original was &qu
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by jpalawaga 10mo ago
The quality is not suspect. It is one of the world’s few 24/7 systems, and there are many capital improvements happening constantly. For example, making more stations accessible and improving switching equipment to improve reliability
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
One of the great powers of federalism is not having to duplicate efforts for every state. It also reduces cost by allowing 'one-size-fits-all' and economies of scale, rather than each state having its own bespoke whatever. Many co
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
I will give you an upvote to offset the negative expressions. I've heard of at least one instance at a very well known Bay Area university in such a class. From what was described to me, and I trust this person to not misrepresent thei
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
through all of this, it really feels like rebble didn't know what they want (as they say). the future collaboration with eric also sounds like they don't know what they want. they want a third party mediator for... something. Eric
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
This is a strange take. Should we never ever change UI because grandpa can’t learn the updates?
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
Is there a penalty to discussing the secret projects? Like if your manager/director/vp knew you were talking specifics without some authorized, what would happen? It sounds like there is no penalty to the nuclear labs except, if y
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
Weird. My windows PC updates like your Linux machine. How often do update vs your parents? Maybe they had some larger “half” releases pending (I.e. closer to a major macOS release, which also take time)
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
My experience with Mac is iterm prevents Mac from shutting down so instead some days I wake up and everything on my machine has been closed and the update hasn’t been performed. Lovely.
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
I don’t know who that is but it doesn’t matter since you removed the second part of my comment. Do you think Paul Krugman would approve of that edit?
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by jpalawaga 11mo ago
I think it’s easy, too easy, to say something like “all mainstream media is biased and untrustworthy.” The problem is, who do you trust instead? Twitter? Like that’s not biased. Actually I think it’s much worse. Not only is the editor of Tw
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
The million dollar question is how this will interface with the locking down of software from outside the Play Store (I.e. side loading). Will Google still gatekeep all binaries running on Android?
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
It’s not a technical issue, it’s a business one. Those status pages are often linked to contractual SLAs and updating the page tangibly means money lost. So there’s an incentive to only up it when the issue is severe and not quickly remedia
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
For me factorio is a one playthrough kinda thing. I don’t get off on endless optimization and making it bigger for the sake of bigger, feels like work. That said, I was more than happy to build the base back from scratch in space age, and I
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
there are studies that show that flossing with the wrong technique doesn't do much. and it's meh on cavity prevention. what it does do is prevent gingival inflammation, which can be good for gum health, especially if you're p
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
One thing I do not understand about HN and other online tech communities is how much they hype up linux as some paragon of usability and ease of use, when it's just obviously not the case. "You don't need windows for gaming,
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
So you'd advocate for github to remove any install script that users wget + curl, and any documentation references that instruct users to wget + curl? That's much worse than a handful of limited commands in which you're modif
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Depends. They found one of these in New York but it’s very easy for 10s of thousands onto gather in a relatively small area. For example, New Year’s Eve, sports/concert at msg, regular foot traffic at Times Square, etc. so I think barr
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
that is pretty common with uuid. for example in many cases you'll still want a plain uuid4 instead of e.g.uuid 5. maybe you want 5. it's usecase dependent. for a specification such as uuid, there is not much to improve upon--just
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Mac also can't get sleep right. Have you tried to make a macbook consistently be 'awake' when the lid is closed? You can't, really. Almost everyone resorts to buying an HDMI dongle to fake a display. Apple solved the pro
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
You end up with a weird phenomenon. Games written for the PlayStation exclusively get to take advantage of everything, but there is nothing to compare the release to. Alternatively, if a game is release cross-platform, there’s little incent

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