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by pradn 4y ago
moving deleted objects to their own table* (not column)
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by pradn 4y ago
The author agrees with you in principle. All the author is arguing against is the use of "deleted" bool column to indicate deletion. His solution of moving deleted objects to their own column gives you the ability to un-delete, ju
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by pradn 4y ago
Soft deletion is just one way to achieve undeletion. The author's proposed solution of moving the resource to another table works just as well. You can move it back to the non-deleted table to perform the undeletion. You can keep aroun
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by pradn 4y ago
The great thing about systems like LOGO are that you can even implement them without a computer! A really easy way to get kids excited about programming is having them give LOGO-like instructions to "robots", their classmates, par
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by pradn 4y ago
This seems like one of those ideas that is in the air and keeps floating around without solid evidence. Is there any? Surveys or such? Maybe a bigger issues are simply audiences getting used to only seeing a certain kind of movie outside th
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by pradn 4y ago
I don't think Sparta's victory in the Peloponnesian War proves they were better at war. The war was a stalemate on land between Sparta and Athens. Athens ruled the waves but couldn't parlay that into victory. Athens committed
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by pradn 4y ago
Dan's famous article on this subject has benchmarks: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
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by pradn 4y ago
Absolutely, with oft-cited examples being the incredible pixel art of Chrono Trigger and the cel-shaded style of Okami.
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by pradn 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagot A persecuted minority in France.
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by pradn 4y ago
Oops I'm thinking of Sadrith Mora! Aldruhn has the giant crab shell building.
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by pradn 4y ago
FWIW, the modern graphics mods improve every texture, the draw distance, and atmospheric effects. Some of the game play like how a sword can look like it hit, but did not, are more of an obstacle I think.
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by pradn 4y ago
These sorta broken systems were a bit part of the charm of the game :)
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by pradn 4y ago
There's a recurring joke in the Morrowind community that the best way to play it is by hurting yourself enough to get amnesia and then playing it. I know by now my favorite play style (Dark Elf, long sword, heavy armor, destruction mag
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by pradn 4y ago
You can read journalism without reading news. I prefer reading longer articles with more depth now, vs news - which is atomized, random, negative, and stultifying. You can only replace casual news / feed consumption with longer article
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by pradn 4y ago
I’m curious: why do you set the max battery percentage?
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by pradn 4y ago
It looks like he just prioritizes and is satisfied by different things than you.
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by pradn 4y ago
His main point is that he feels like he's making more progress and being more productive at ReplIt than at Google, which leads to higher satisfaction. He considers satisfaction more important than just pure hours / compensation. I
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by pradn 4y ago
Yes, exactly. The father also died of a plague before they came to the son, if I recall.
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by pradn 4y ago
It's an unforgettable 40 minutes. So lucky to have seen it on the big screen the first time I saw the film.
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by pradn 4y ago
Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev has an extended sequence where a bellmaker's young son agrees to pour a bell for a local lord. You see the entire process of making the mould and pouring the metal. It has a town-fair atmosphere. But at t
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by pradn 4y ago
In high school, we used to play Monopoly with player contracts, usually insurance and no-rent deals. Of course, the friendships that existed outside the game ended up refracting into the contract structure of the game.
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by pradn 4y ago
At the level of single process, on one machine, I've found a mix of debug logs, trace points, conditional breakpoints, and the ability to execute arbitrary code when at a breakpoint to be super helpful in debugging complex code with ma
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by pradn 4y ago
I'd like to learn more as well!
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by pradn 4y ago
Thanks for your detailed analysis. Do the numbers change when using PPP GDP instead?
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by pradn 4y ago
A country with a declining population can keep a growing economy or low immigration, but not both. Some countries (the Anglophone countries, France, and Germany) are magnets for labor given their relatively high wages, standard of living, a
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by pradn 4y ago
Heat waves are terrifying. The 2003 European heat wave killed 70,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
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by pradn 4y ago
Not big enough.
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by pradn 4y ago
Cows do come back home if left on their own :)
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by pradn 4y ago
Milk cattle are important sources of income in rural India. Milk is taken twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. It's used in the household and any excess is deposited in the village's "milk center"/"
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by pradn 5y ago
Going from "unknown if alien civs with megastructures" to "proof of alien civs with megastructures" is new information that would change the trajectory of humanity.

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