mulmen

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by mulmen 4mo ago
Specifically you need the TZDATA history of the local Postgres instance. Is the TZDATA version persisted at Postgres start time? Is it possible to query this information without recording it in the schema manually?
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by mulmen 4mo ago
Why would queries on TIMESTAMP not produce human readable strings? Postgres has defaulted to a human readable mask for timestamp presentation for at least 25 years. See Current: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current&
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by mulmen 4mo ago
Yeah that's exactly what I am thinking. It could be a wrapper. But I think it would be better to take the (UTC) timestamp of the time of insertion instead of the TZDATA version itself. Then the Postgres instance can handle what vers
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by mulmen 4mo ago
What happens if I booked an appointment before the rules changed and TZDATA could be updated and deployed?
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by mulmen 4mo ago
> What format should you use? Human readable strings for longterm storage, because when things go wonky, it’s easier to debug. You can just use a TIMESTAMP with no TZ data. It's functionally the same as using the string but simpler
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by mulmen 4mo ago
The issue here seems to be that the behavior of tzdata (correctly) changes over time. Can all this complexity be avoided by storing the tzdata version in the timestamp itself so it can decoded with the same rules?
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by mulmen 4mo ago
You're right that for the most part this is avoided by convention and scheduling time changes at quiet times of day. A bit contrived but consider you are a maintenance worker in a facility that uses isolated timekeeping devices. &qu
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by mulmen 4mo ago
> now that we have a new tech that's literally solving unsolved math problems, we're suddenly doomers. Why? Because it’s easy. It’s free to post internet comments. The doomers have the lowest effort take so they’re very promi
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by mulmen 4mo ago
> Is it the YouTube algorithm's fault? Or viewer preferences? I didn’t read the rest of your comment but it’s the fault of the algorithm because that tail wags the dog. It’s physically impossible to watch all videos so we are all a
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by mulmen 4mo ago
I’m not sure what I am looking at. I see a number going up but the methodology is missing and analysis is lacking. Has Japan ever closed a railway station? Are the 1872 stations the first ever in Japan? Is this a plot of all stations ever
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by mulmen 4mo ago
Care to share your secret?
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Then write down a different reason? There are no consequences for being dishonest.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
It’s possible for law enforcement to misbehave in more than one way. In fact while they were manufacturing these cases they were also conducting dragnet surveillance. It’s not a competition, or a choice. Manufacturing cases doesn’t mean u
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Is it? I have been driving for 25 years and never encountered one. Waymo seems to accept they can’t predict everything so they built a system that’s safe enough to operate in the real world and learn from experience.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
I think what gets lost in these conversations is that the government is using very lazy methods to catch low hanging fruit. Instead of extrajudicial spying they should be creating undercover identities and infiltrating criminal organizatio
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by mulmen 5mo ago
The role of an activist is to improve the status quo. They will, by definition, never be satisfied with what Starbucks is doing. On the other hand Starbucks now offers discounts if you bring your own cup, which I don’t believe was always
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Neat! What do you do with it? I spent my summers in college driving C60 grain trucks. They were real workhorses! The 1979 with a 5 speed, split axle, and 427 was the best of the bunch but the 82 with a 366 did great work too. Sometimes
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by mulmen 5mo ago
If I am being extremely generous I think the key word there is prioritizing . It's a moving goalpost. Could mean "allow you to bring your own cup" or "advertise you can bring your own cup" or "offer a discou
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Does your municipality offer composting? That's where a lot of my waste paper ends up.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Starbucks HQ city Seattle, WA accepts all plastic numbers in the curbside bin.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
No. They can’t be used to verify election results. There’s too many confounding factors.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
> I'm sure you could still get one, but who would when you could get something better on the lot for the same money. It was almost certainly cheaper to get the small block and if that's all you need why spend more to burn more
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by mulmen 5mo ago
> Catalytic converters were required You claimed they were required by law, but they weren’t. Now you claim they had them anyway, but I can find no evidence of that either. Do you have some evidence that 1988 GMC 6000 trucks had a cata
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by mulmen 5mo ago
I don't think that's right. I believe this is the relevant EPA regulation: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2004-title40-vol17/p... . This mentions emission limits but does not require a cat
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by mulmen 5mo ago
There's a lot of missing information here. I'm no fan of Tesla and I wouldn't be surprised if they are doing something inappropriate but there's a lot of unanswered questions here. Why wasn't the sample taken at th
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Obviously. You didn’t read correctly. Try again.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
If you could actually prove that you wouldn’t be posting it on HN, you’d be shopping for a mega yacht.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
It’s not operated for profit. People can just solve (some of) their problems by talking to computers.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Sounds like the testing stage is sticky? It could exist without the tooling to reset it to a known baseline and/or create multiple environments which would enable safe demos.
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by mulmen 5mo ago
Does this mean there is no testing environment?

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