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by jstrong 3y ago
do you have to type the sql keywords (e.g. "SELECT") in all caps? I couldn't tell from the docs.
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by jstrong 3y ago
riding the bus is already such a nice experience, I bet this will make it even better!
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by jstrong 3y ago
> But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. I mean, they earned their reputation, and then some.
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by jstrong 4y ago
if it's too hot in socal, that's what the beach is for
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by jstrong 4y ago
of all the places to be homeless in California, I'm not sure SF is winning the "mild weather" category.
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by jstrong 4y ago
businesses fail, government programs are forever.
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by jstrong 4y ago
> for years prior to covid? last few years have not been representative about how well the supply chain works over the past 50 years.
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by jstrong 4y ago
> It seems like a step backward in terms of secure package management what is an example of a language package manager that does this well, in your view? I think the idea is something similar to how apt-get/deb/rpm work at the
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by jstrong 4y ago
I don't understand - if it didn't know what version until after download/install - which version would it download/install?
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by jstrong 4y ago
Cargo does semantic versioning-based dependency resolution, similar to Poetry, it's just a lot faster because it's written in a Rust. I don't think there's a big difference in the work that happens.
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by jstrong 4y ago
I have a server rack in my basement, with a few different machines. One is a storage server with a zfs array. Another is a 1u with lots of cores. > What are you doing with your home server? So much stuff. But the reason I have a servers
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by jstrong 4y ago
I have experimented with a different query model from sql for time series data. A query took the form of a Rhai script. (Rhai is a scripting language that has great interop with rust, so it was similar to how lua would be used to script par
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by jstrong 4y ago
you wouldn't let a three-year-old walk across a busy street by himself. the reason why is, he's not capable of handling that yet. same for lots of other things, too.
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by jstrong 4y ago
the trend of having every aspect of life scrutinized for its worthiness by environmentalists is getting pretty tedious. octoberfest causes emissions, too. so do birthday parties, and weddings. are we sure those should make the cut?
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by jstrong 4y ago
"yeah, what did wasps ever do to you?" attack the shit out of me for no good reason!
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by jstrong 4y ago
sounds more like a repugnant fact to me
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by jstrong 4y ago
I love stories about smiting wasps
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by jstrong 4y ago
in my judgement, the quality of this information (methodology, population size, etc.) is not even close to good enough to rely on when making decisions about the well-being of my children. 250 kids, 5 years, study ends when they were 11-15
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by jstrong 4y ago
> No amount of money would make FTX a good asset whatever your opinion of crypto, exchanges have generally been great businesses. lots of small fees add up to significant revenue. Binance generated $20 billion revenue in 2021.
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by jstrong 4y ago
the "crypto recovery fund" is not a govt bailout, it's binance investing private money into firms that are struggling to survive in the short-term: https://news.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies-rally-binance-ceo-an.
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by jstrong 4y ago
In that sense, I guess a 100cm2 apartment is "pretty spacious" compared to a 25cm2 one. My point was that a family of four living in a 100m2 apartment is going to feel cramped.
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by jstrong 4y ago
> A family with two young kids living in 100m^2 is pretty spacious. depends on your perspective, I guess! that sounds horribly cramped to me.
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by jstrong 4y ago
what do you get for $250 a month on ec2? is it 24c/48t dual xeon with 96gb ram, 2x 960gb nvme, with bare metal performance? https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/infra/infra-4-le/
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by jstrong 4y ago
I dunno. There's nice CLI interfaces and there's one's that make things annoyingly hard to do. I haven't used firebase ever but I have had that problem before.
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by jstrong 4y ago
> There have been a few times that I have ripped out my own code in favor of a popular library when I discovered it. I'm much more likely to rip out the one function I need out of a framework or library and put it in my code, with a
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by jstrong 4y ago
why do people care about binary size? I have never understood this. Disk space isn't free but the size of the binaries on my machine doesn't seem like a big problem to me in that regard.
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by jstrong 4y ago
100% agree, do not understand the resistance to adding a flag or other way to temporarily disable that.
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by jstrong 4y ago
in that vein: status is pretty useful, seems like a good solution is using two separate non-200 status codes to differentiate between employee not found vs typical 404 no such endpoint/url/path.
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by jstrong 4y ago
I am ambivalent about 200 for employee not found, but that is clearly a different category of error compared to an api version not existing. for employee not found, the error is purely in data: there is no responsive data, but the request i
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by jstrong 4y ago
you have any recs for lower-end bare metal providers?

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