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by neilk 2y ago
Knex isn’t an ORM, it’s a query builder. (Though the closely related library Bookshelf.js is an ORM). I know your pain of translating SQL back to the ORM language, but what similar difficulty do you have for Knex? You have a query, and it’s
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by neilk 2y ago
(Caveat: I am not a car guy at all, never owned one) In the US, most trucks sold do very little hauling, towing, or off-reading or anything else that might justify the giant form factor. https://www.thedrive.com/news/26
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Fly.io: We did something "weird" with our CLI(youtube.com)
4 points by neilk 2y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 2y ago
That’s what 1Password means, right? If your credentials to 1Password leaks all you have to do is change that one password. Problem solved! /s
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Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
337 points by neilk 2y ago|127 comments
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by neilk 2y ago
As with all stories about powerful people, you need to read this as “Mark Zuckerberg wanted a major news outlet to say he was being neutral in the US election”. In a definition of “neutral” that only a Silicon Valley CEO could embrace, this
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by neilk 2y ago
jwz’s decision to leave tech and sell beer looks better and better.
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by neilk 2y ago
The author is a Catholic conservative and considers classic science fiction as failed attempts to replace transcendent, divine purpose with mere scientific progress. And yes, I agree with a lot of that. Authors like Arthur C. Clarke, are ob
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by neilk 2y ago
Why “Hamming”? As in Richard Hamming, ex-Bell Labs, “You and Your Research”?
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by neilk 2y ago
Not really. Wittgenstein wasn’t making the radical claim that words just float around in utterances, with no connection to ideas in a human mind. He saying that language doesn’t reduce down to simple “atomic” forms, as he had previously tho
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by neilk 2y ago
You’re getting downvoted perhaps because people think you’re saying something political, but I think you mean “a stronger voice for people with physical issues producing speech”. I have a friend who has a faint, scratchy voice because his t
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by neilk 2y ago
Right. I thought of that too, but it doesn’t mask accents, at least not yet I suppose if you could make agents all sound the same they would be interchangeable, and companies always love that. It’s Anjali or Ligaya or Dolores but now they a
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by neilk 2y ago
“Dwarf” was my word, not hers. Even so, if you click through she has another page that lists hybrid PACs. I have no idea if even that is the full picture; US politics are complicated. The project is open source so perhaps you can submit a P
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Follow the Crypto(followthecrypto.org)
114 points by neilk 2y ago|113 comments
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by neilk 2y ago
Molly White’s latest project, tracking political contributions of the cryptocurrency industry. White’s data shows these PACs dwarf even much larger industries in this political cycle.
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by neilk 2y ago
What are the anticipated use cases? I know of one: transgender people often would like to alter the timbre of their voice and spend a lot of time training their voice. At least for online scenarios, this can just do it. But other than that
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by neilk 2y ago
Sure. Thanks for the color, but let me add some shape. Perhaps you saw some confirmation of "ruthless meritocracy" in my post. You could not be more wrong. Most people in the organization I am describing would have been rejected a
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by neilk 2y ago
All of this is true but... at what cost? I have worked for a company where the ethos among the workers was very high, but management was exceptionally incompetent at managing. Zero people skills, and deeply skeptical that people skills were
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by neilk 2y ago
Rachofsunshine: for what it's worth, I appreciate that there are people who insist on trying to change the market, rather than doing what the market wants. I did some early interviews with TripleByte and appreciated they were trying so
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by neilk 2y ago
The nail salon thing is a stereotype in North America, but maybe not relevant in other countries.
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by neilk 2y ago
I read a book called A People's History of Computing in the United States, which wildly oversells itself, it's just a history of Dartmouth Basic and the culture surrounding it. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books&#x2
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by neilk 2y ago
It's literally just ChatGPT told to sound like n-gate. The prompt begins: > Create a humorous and mocking summary in the style of n-gate.com. https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/1d759133857916
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by neilk 2y ago
According to your comment history you’re a leftist who, among other things, supports Kyle Rittenhouse. I would say this is a rare configuration of positions. The point you’re making about Collins suffers because you only labelled him an “ex
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by neilk 2y ago
I went looking for more Padget Powell; in particular I wanted to hear his voice. This one is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cvhp6h2cc In the interview he also uses "made-up people doing made-up things&q
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by neilk 2y ago
looks like we both updated our answers as we looked up the docs :)
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by neilk 2y ago
In my experience `$` does reliably mean end of string for regular expressions, unless you specifically ask for "multiline" mode. Ruby seems to be in multiline mode all the time? $ python -c 'import re; print "yes&q
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by neilk 2y ago
Yes, that is perfectly safe. And obviously so. It may be upsetting, or disruptive to work, or a firing offense, but per your description nobody was in danger.
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by neilk 2y ago
Using "before:2023" in your Google query helps. For now. A few months ago, Lispi314 made a very interesting suggestion: an index of the ad-free internet. If you can filter ads and affiliate links then spam is harder to monetize.
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by neilk 2y ago
Many young men are no longer trying to succeed within capitalism. They are trying to exit it. Faith in this system is dwindling, and whatever your political inclinations, that is dangerous. Fewer people believe that putting in a solid eight
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by neilk 2y ago
Out of curiosity I once went into a very small-time casino. I ended up at a blackjack table with various characters, one of whom was a single mom. She said she was playing to get money to buy the kids Easter chocolate. She was quite experie

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