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by rand_r 2y ago
Creating a profitable car company is a crazy high bar though. Hasn’t been done for over a hundred years in the USA, and that too, with a new kind of engine and single-handedly making EVs viable through its supercharger network (all other op
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by rand_r 2y ago
Amen, brother. Fact is, all critical limitations with IPv4 were hacked around by necessity, so the average user doesn’t care. The main failure case is that it’s a painful or possibly impossible to setup your own public internet server from
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by rand_r 2y ago
How would an index mess up another query? AFAIK indexes would only hurt write performance marginally per index, but most slow queries are read-only. I’ve tended to just add indexes as I go without thinking about it and haven’t run into issu
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by rand_r 3y ago
Information overload. There’s tons of info on our Slack, but the vast majority is noise. If you saved transcripts from all Zoom meetings it would be mostly noise too. The benefit of meetings is that they be chaotic. Creating something succi
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by rand_r 3y ago
Good point, that’s a better approach. I guess for a multi-repo situation at work, you would need to create a base project like “postgres-lock-ids” so you can synchronize the lock across everything.
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by rand_r 3y ago
That is the way, but the UX is pretty ass because the lock ID is a 64 bit number instead of a string. How the heck are you supposed to keep track of what lock ID you should be checking in a given situation across multiple client apps?
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by rand_r 3y ago
I use “breakpoint()” a lot for debugging. It’s by far my #1 tool for figuring out why something isn’t working. Recommend you learn how to use it.
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by rand_r 3y ago
Depending on your perception, x.get is either error recovery (good) or a silent failure (bad). One is not necessarily better than the other; it depends on what you want. In my experience, x[] is usually the better choice because failing fas
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by rand_r 3y ago
Did you manage to get MyPy + Django to work together usefully? I tried the plugin you mentioned but it still seemed stymied by the dynamic nature of Django (reverse relations, etc), so I gave up on it. If it’s actually possible to live in t
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by rand_r 3y ago
Based on what? Discounting credit as motivation is a bit naive and motivation is the only way shit gets done.
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by rand_r 3y ago
Receiving credit is important to the vast majority of people, and giving credit where it’s due is a leadership quality and ethical standard today. The rules of the game are established and not following them should be frowned upon.
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by rand_r 3y ago
https://www.dsouzaman.net Only a few posts; never really had the time after the initial batch. Would like to update it at some point.
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by rand_r 3y ago
The original motivation was to reduce the number of network requests made on cellular network-connected mobile devices, both to save on power consumption and reduce latency for the user. It off-loads a lot of complexity and computation from
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by rand_r 3y ago
Yes, this is the biggest problem with GraphQL that I haven't addressed anywhere. The architectural beauty of GraphQL is that you can write isolated, functional nodes that only have to know about their object type. For example, the User
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by rand_r 3y ago
I take your point, but to a large extent the value of the subreddit is in the name since it makes it easy for people to organically find the right space for the content they want. Domain names are the same. For example, for content local to
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by rand_r 4y ago
Unfortunately, it causes acute liver failure so getting “high” from it isn’t something you even want to think about doing. I wish the danger of it was better known though.
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by rand_r 4y ago
A pain medication that didn’t cause organ damage wouldn’t be legal due to the legacy of the War on Drugs. Drug policy isn’t the most logical. Cannabis still isn’t legal in most of the world. Even if GPs wanted to prescribe a safer painkil
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by rand_r 4y ago
We started employing this pattern in our code at work recently. Using the Facade pattern to create a simpler interface around a couple of things: - Feature Flag service, wrapping LaunchDarkly - Remote Storage service, wrapping S3 The applic
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by rand_r 5y ago
Withdrawal from opioids is overrated. It’s unpleasant, but that’s it. Unlike alcohol or benzodiazepine withdrawal, which can literally kill you, opioid withdrawal is like a bad cold. So, yes there’s adaptations, but it’s way overrated compa
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by rand_r 5y ago
The idea that opioids are addictive is a myth. People taking them are treating “pain” that isn’t diagnosed in the medical system. For example, joblessness. It’s an easy scapegoat for politicians to let them avoid dealing with harder structu
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by rand_r 5y ago
That does look pretty nice for this example. I think the problem with it is that introduces too much new syntax that you have to memorize. The beauty of a for loop is that you can do _anything_ with it. And it all works with the same syntax
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by rand_r 5y ago
This seems perfectly clear. for item in array: item.foo = bar
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by rand_r 5y ago
Which ones?
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by rand_r 5y ago
Two words: Gallery view. Like what in the actual fuck. How are they unable to do a simple grid properly? It’s just rectangles. The UI is there to copy from Zoom even.
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by rand_r 5y ago
I'm sorry, but Hangouts is terrible. It sucks on every level. The UI is so bad it's hard to believe. I wish I could sit down with their product team to get an explanation for how badly Hangouts is designed. Takes about 10s to see
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by rand_r 5y ago
assert add(2, 3) == 5 Seems simple enough :)
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by rand_r 5y ago
You might well be right! Would be fun to see them go head-to-head over the title.
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by rand_r 5y ago
The web as a platform is the most elaborate and epic showcase at not breaking backwards compatibility in the entire history of computing. In the face of disasters like Python 2->3 and Apple M1 macs no longer being able to play Starcraft
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by rand_r 5y ago
Basically, they assume you’re using a retina quality (aka HiDPI) display where each virtual or abstract pixel maps to four physical pixels in the display. For example, you have a 27” 4K display, but set the resolution to 1920x1080 in System
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by rand_r 5y ago
Apple’s unique ethos is technology as a means for creative expression. That’s why they’ve excelled in font rendering, colour accuracy, sound fidelity, and input-lag. I think this value came from Steve Jobs, and I hope they never lose it bec

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