mmerlin

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by mmerlin 4y ago
My perspective is DB level triggers are the absolute very best place to put cascading update/delete logic so it only ever needs to be written once and is consistent regardless of any future frontend clients that might be written in a d
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by mmerlin 4y ago
F-Droid then DNS66
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by mmerlin 4y ago
One possible method is build a Matrix Bridge https://matrix.org/bridges/
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Yep as an Aussie, can confirm our various leadership's regressive slide into greed, corruption and loathing these past 10 years. I've had several European co-workers express disbelief at the gross levels of corruption evident at a
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by mmerlin 4y ago
The emperor has no clothes, and most crypto seems to be either a scam at worst or delusionally impractical at best. Bullshit turns to dust in the harsh light of the sun, and i reckon a massive dust storm is what will remain of most tokens t
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by mmerlin 4y ago
It's inefficient after a decade or more of AltTabbing in Windows becomes a muscle memory that is thought-flow breaking when having to un-train that automatic keyboard reflex.
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by mmerlin 4y ago
Win11 feels much like Win10 but a bit smoother, and the advertising/info feeds are less in-your-face intrusive, with the Start menu and notifications alerts feeling kind of more like an understated Xbox. Still a bit noisy though, you
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by mmerlin 5y ago
CitusDB shards PostgreSQL nicely for both data ingestion bandwidth and load balancing + HA
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by mmerlin 5y ago
The overly loud eating you hear might have been overdubbed in post-production by foley artists (sound effects technicians). Read the closing credits at the end of each show and you may find a foley artist was part of the production (and the
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Maybe consider Planetscale / Vitess
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by mmerlin 5y ago
How about anything with a membership fee? The token is the mag-key-card that opens the doors to your local gymnasium. Or a database entry that gets checked when you show your personal ID to get into the flight club lounge you bought lifetim
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Yes I reckon they overcooked the algorithm since about 3-4 weeks ago I noticed a very large jump in legit email being false-flagged as spam by gmail. Even many emails from GitHub issues tracker were shoved into Spam erroneously. The "n
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Then once you've finished juggling 4 jobs you have lucrative guru royalties for years if you write a book about it... Maybe call it the "144 Hour Work-week"
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by mmerlin 5y ago
David Allen - Getting things done Steven Pressfield - The War of Art + Turning Pro Tony Robbins - Awaken the giant within (maybe he's released a better book than that now, but it was impactful personally back in the 90s)
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by mmerlin 5y ago
I used to hate that screeching noise so much I cut the wire to the internal speaker of my first modem (1200 baud) For subsequent modems (speed upgrades) I had learned the about Hayes AT command set and init script would mute the internal sp
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Yes you can swap your mouse to your non-dominant hand if you are patient and persist for a few months until it feels totally normal. I am right handed but changed to mouse with my left. I am not naturally ambidextrous in the slightest e.g.
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by mmerlin 5y ago
The only Hong Kongers who will remain prosperous in 20 years are the sycophants who embrace this new fear-based system imposed upon them by a genocidal regime. They can never speak out against their unwanted political overlords or end up li
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Add the large numbers of Left and Right politicians (both Labour and Liberal) happy to sell their soul and lawmaking abilities for corrupt bags of dirty money from Chinese Communist Party / Mining / Gambling / Property Develo
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by mmerlin 5y ago
It's legal to scrape public websites. And if you can read Python you have nothing to fear Read the source before you blindly run anything! the /scrapers/ folder in particular e.g. https://github.com/aapatre&#x
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Roam (Research) is an Obsidian alternative. Foam (Bubble) is an open source VScode plugin inspired by Roam. Foam in VScode is what I use daily as my second brain: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ https://n
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by mmerlin 5y ago
InvoiceNet https://github.com/naiveHobo/InvoiceNet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24118466
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Google should implement date stamp validation as part of the vetting process for "who came first" with the entire-app name and logo cloners sucking the life out of the Play store. Yet another reason to write web apps instead of na
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by mmerlin 5y ago
https://www.seek.com.au
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by mmerlin 5y ago
The "small population" who benefit most are the corrupted politicians and mining magnates. and their hangers-on. Average Australians (including heavy manufacturers) often pay approximately double for our own gas, than Japan and
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by mmerlin 5y ago
Perth has the highest per capita percentage migration from the UK, compared with the eastern states of Australia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#Ancestry_and_immigrati...
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by mmerlin 5y ago
To be fair, AUKUS is more of a reaction towards China invading other countries territorial waters, creating military bases there, and bullying any other boats (who are simply just working within their own countries waters, or just crossing
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by mmerlin 5y ago
No that particular bad experience was eBay. Nowadays I rarely buy from eBay unless it is niche/unique/local. Never buy from Scamazon any more. Used to love them now it's just a gamble hoping you get exactly what you paid for
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by mmerlin 5y ago
I bought 32GB microSD cards that were actually only 2GB. Close inspection reveals the number 3 was added later (misaligned font and lighter white). Each was also somehow doctored to report back as showing up as 32GB in windows explorer bu
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by mmerlin 5y ago
This is the perfect response. Thanks for the excellent suggestion! They deleted my last one star review too for a fraudulent fake product that wasted my time and money. Scamazon no longer deserves the SEO juice of previously entered legiti
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by mmerlin 5y ago
When you look deeper, the true entire purpose of this deal was not to build subs. It was to "create 3000 jobs" and save one politician (Christopher Pyne) who did win the next vote, then "retired" shortly thereafter and

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