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by nja 2y ago
I just built a library on jReleaser! https://github.com/NJAldwin/maven-central-test I wanted to release a jvm lib on Maven Central -- which no longer requires opening a jira ticket for a new package! Instead, simple D
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by nja 2y ago
As well as presciently introducing the "almost letters" text that is now commonly seen in AI-generated image content... One wonders what kind of excellent discworld books we would have gotten had Sir Terry still been around in the
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by nja 2y ago
Wow, this is a project I've been kicking around for years! I have an old red rotary phone (a bit newer than yours) held aside just for it. Definitely bookmarking your post
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by nja 2y ago
> I can really enjoy the winter break from work What line of work are you in that you can take a winter break, and furthermore, that you can actually not work during that break? I'm envious... I've always wanted to do AoC but
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by nja 2y ago
Cool! > No CAD was used in the design This is amusing -- while I understand they mean "CAD tools" like 3d modeling software, the entire engine was literally "computer-aided design", no?
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by nja 2y ago
This is good to see! I have been testing with some of the Pimoroni NVMe bases, but a major issue with those is that the unshielded cable completely blocks 2.4GHz WiFi signals. Hopefully that's an artifact of the base sitting under th
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by nja 4y ago
How did you find your psychiatrist? As someone in a similar situation who has decided several times to get a consultation, it seems like the whole system is set up to be as difficult as possible! Just finding someone taking new patients i
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Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday
326 points by nja 4y ago|119 comments
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by nja 4y ago
I've found myself sharing this article on pg column order quite frequently: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/on-rocks-and-sand/
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by nja 5y ago
It has a base setting for something like "1-3 players" that's pretty quick, and there are some advanced settings with which you can make things "cheaper" -- both in time and in resources -- via some coefficients. I
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by nja 5y ago
They've recently revamped it so you can adjust various levels (skill increase, cap, multipliers, etc) and make it possible to play with fewer. I've actually run a couple of single-player games, completely vanilla. Fun in a diffe
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by nja 5y ago
I love this! Wonder if it would be possible to make something similar for other consoles (I'm thinking Game Boy?)
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by nja 5y ago
> The Port Authority bus was traveling eastbound at the time of collapse. The bus was equipped with seven cameras: one forward-facing camera, one right side aft facing camera, and five interior cameras. Video data from these cameras have
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by nja 5y ago
Interestingly, the routes in that video are in one of the few parts of Boston with a street grid (Southie: https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1488555262655045637 ) -- so I wonder how much _worse_ it is on the c
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by nja 5y ago
I was just watching this video of a Tesla trying and miserably failing to drive itself through the streets of Boston: https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1488555256162172928 A number of these near-crashes seem t
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by nja 5y ago
> until the end of the day, where I have some time set aside to chopping up the information into the appropriate pages Your way of working sounds wonderful, but I find that I would probably struggle with this part. How are you able to d
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by nja 5y ago
I used to think this, until I happened across FullStory. With that tool you can replay a website visitor's exact session as if it was recorded live on video -- everything they typed (even if it was cleared and never sent in a request)
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by nja 5y ago
Debezium is a useful tool, but requires a lot of babysitting. If the DB connection blips or DNS changes (say, if you just rebuilt your prod db), or in some other cases, it'll die and present this exact problem. Fortunately, it's
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by nja 5y ago
Most of the responses here seem to be focused around "your social fulfillment should be _completely_ separate from work". I've found this attitude to be very limiting. I don't know any of my current coworkers well at a
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by nja 5y ago
Living in my 350sqft studio during the pandemic, I personally have tried a lot of these "tips," but haven't found much success. It turns out the brain is pretty good at building contextual clues related to its surroundings.
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by nja 5y ago
As someone who's lived in a _studio_ apartment in a high-rent city for a decade, you have good points, but a lot of this is easier said than done. > move to a larger and cheaper apartment since you don't have to live directly n
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by nja 5y ago
Hah, tell me about it. We were unable to give them more money (buy more seats), and our urgent support request was open for a week. Turns out (from a moment's console snooping) it was a straightforward REST call that was missing a bo
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by nja 5y ago
I love Backblaze for their drive stats posts, but has anyone else run into multiple annoyances with their main services? FWIW I am a mostly-happy customer for multiple years, and I always seem to be able to find files that I am looking for
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by nja 5y ago
Anyone else get a login request email from Instagram before it went down? I got one, immediately logged in separately and changed my password, logged back in, then shortly after everything went down...
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by nja 6y ago
Boston is certainly in a better position than a lot of the country. However, even in Boston, being able to be car-free is not always feasible for lower-income folks, especially as development relentlessly moves forward. As an example: the
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by nja 6y ago
> In Austin, Tex., a large subprime lender used a device to track down and repossess the car of a woman who had fled to a shelter to escape her abusive husband [ ... ] The move to the shelter violated a clause in her auto loan contract t
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by nja 6y ago
Fascinating, seems kind of like a water-bound analogue to the omni-directional wheels used on forklifts and such ( e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DBXuZv38l8 )
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by nja 6y ago
> give your kids "control". Instead of telling them to do this or that, provide them choices and let them decide for themselves. And let them feel confident and not worry about failing. This is great, but the _last part_ is so
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by nja 6y ago
> I expect this web site is similarly, deliberately, incomplete. Perhaps less incomplete than you think (and certainly more complete than the standard tracking websites, which outside of hiding planes also must honor a 5-minute data dela
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by nja 6y ago
I don't know about OP, but I know in my city (Boston), there was a 5 month waiting period for access to a therapist -- and that was _before_ COVID hit. Lots of us would love to speak with a mental health professional, especially in th

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