Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
no-s
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
18 ms
·
151.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
interestingly you can also mill a flat or indexes to mate tubes together. I’ve also contemplated making one-piece saddles to mate extrusions, filling the gaps with zero-expansion epoxy. Tubes and extrusions you buy cheap rarely have dimensi
152.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
I can’t deny bounded rationality is interesting for a hacker to contemplate. And thus I applaud your approach to karma accumulation as completely within the spirit and letter of HN rules…
153.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
You certainly have made some good arguments against regulation, suggesting a near certainty of regulatory capture screwing up whatever good intentions the original premise of regulation promised. Was that your intention? I can’t dismiss yo
154.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
You had the opportunity to take the high road...I mean, is that all you got? Seriously?
155.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
Regulatory capture blurs the line between government and industry. There’s no fantasy about it. The power is suborned, not eliminated. However I was pointing out the phenomenon as a precursor to enabling petty corporate bureaucracy empowere
156.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
what’s really awesome is how Google refuses to believe “unhork” could be a real word or even slang. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. This truly is representative of the emergent horkage of bureaucratic oligarchy founded on algorithms. The su
157.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
<I>PGE is considered directly responsible for >$40B in fire damage in California.</I> <p>That (officially sanctioned) conclusion was in complete disregard of the state and federal gov’t contribution. But I would ag
158.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
> 20x 1 year of experience That person has 20 years of experience in gaining short experiences. Something the 25 year old prodigy can’t have. Skippercat was just stating a fact. I feel the way you expressed your opinion reflects some int
159.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
AKA always carry a wrecking bar and a 5 pound sledgehammer in the data center quick reaction kit.
160.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
The first rule of systems administration is don’t do anything you can’t back out of. This is just a derivative rule that happens when risk management goes wrong, eg if nobody noticed, it didn’t happen. Sort of a weak invariant principle…
161.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
> Tucson resident here. I see acre after acre of alfalfa being grown, with most of that water then being exported to Saudi Arabia for cattle consumption. (also Tucsonian) Whats really sad is we still have to search far and wide for decen
162.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
> an entire branch of political ideology is built around the notion that the state cannot ever be possibly useful, This of course is used to reject the reality that too much of the any sort of government can be very dangerous thing and i
163.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
haha having had to deal with developer glazeover from DST implications before I suspect we’re not alone. One may accept the inevitable failures that are implicit with the naive date time representation and possibly get a MVP going, but it’s
164.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
The bill of rights doesn’t actually give you rights. The premise of the bill of rights is people have rights superior to the government and the government is explicitly required to respect certain rights as listed as well as respect other r
165.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
this is one of those beautiful yet terrifying aspects of SQLite. After all, you could stick another whole SQLite database into an attribute. Purposefully or by accident.
166.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
> But only once I found myself in a job I loved surrounded by people who encouraged learning, were curious, and loved to teach me. You gotta find your tribe. Don't let your brain rot. I have a corollary: badly managed companies make
167.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
Anyone have reliable stats on the availability of unfiltered internet access to the people’s distant from 1st world urban concentrations?
168.
▲
SpaceX and Starlink: involved in latest breakthrough in Bible translation
(christianpost.com)
1 points
by
no-s
5y ago
|
1 comments
169.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
I distinguish that practice as “Abnormalization” (HaHaOnlySerious).
170.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
This audit can be constructed in many RDBMS. In SQL Server tracing there is warning for missing foreign key indexes needed for query plans, and stats are also kept for indexes so you can tell if the indexes are needed/used. I have a sm
171.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
While I agree it’s a PITA, most SQL-interfaced RDBMS support views, which is a way to abstract the Platinum customer issue you pose into something composable, albeit in SQL terms, not in the dotted property chaining style you propose. In th
172.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
> If you're storing future datetimes that semantically represent wall clock time, you need to store the locale time plus the full time zone (such as America/New_York) so that your program does the right thing in response to any
173.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
> Your database will not fix your bad data when that happens. Because it’s not bad data, HaHaOnlySerious. I tell developers that if the database attribute accepts a value it must be in the domain of allowable values. Often people refuse
174.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
Living arrangements with restricted access to water (e.g. relying on RV or boat tanks or off-grid) may utilize a dishwasher to save water, and also save on energy to make hot water.
175.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
Whoa! Reduceron is cool! Your point about virtual “C-Machines” getting in the way of the hardware is quite relevant with today’s architectures... > Are there any HW implementations of APLs? This has been discussed on Y-Combinator in the
176.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
> but without all the squiggly characters I so liked the APL squiggly characters (mostly Greek letter based glyphs). Made for very succinct code. Combined with right-to-left precedence resulted in very low overhead to write and read code
177.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
>> What I do care when I ask you coding question is that you can think logically, ask right questions, work with me to find a solution to the problem and also that you can use the tools that are at your disposal. Well, I can’t fault y
178.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
Often the “leetcode” interview gets tedious. Im not a demon coder, I just seek local minima and reuse things. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Then I imagine what Aphyr would do and start giggling. It’s often downhill from there. "
179.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
“ Angela Lansbury had me brainwashed decades ago ” Why would you mention that? It’s very suspicious!
180.
▲
by
no-s
5y ago
“ I can understand that but I was responding to someone who claimed ''You mean corporate lobbyists wanting federal enforcement of contract terms and corporate interest.'' ” You left off the "had nothing to do with i
More ›