sam_goody

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by sam_goody 10mo ago
Humans range across such spectrum that actually match all 3. We range from being blind to having exceptional eyesight, so we are all on a continuum. But there are various subsets, such as color or light sensitivity, far/nearsighted, be
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by sam_goody 11mo ago
I split my time between Europe and the US, and I am totally not convinced that metric is better. Some things are ridiculously better in the imperial system - like temperature: In Fahrenheit, 0 is roughly the coldest mean day in densely inha
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by sam_goody 11mo ago
I still view PHP as the best tool for the job for modern sites that do not need fancy javascript. Faster and more secure than Python, impossibly easier to use for web than Go, Perl or Rust [even among those that know how], much more secure,
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by sam_goody 11mo ago
1. Deaths by overdose, especially of Fentanyl is through the roof (it has surpassed road accidents, heart attacks, etc.) 2. We have got to do something 3. This is something 4. The president has something to offer as a solution. For everythi
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by sam_goody 1y ago
1. There are tools designed specifically for backing up database data, such as percona-xtrabackup for MySql and PgBackRest for Postgres. 2. If you use mysqldump, it may make sense to export the data as CSV, and backup the db structure and d
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by sam_goody 1y ago
Kohler once made a gold plated toilet seat as a display item for their show rooms. The Kohler rep near me was pretty surprised when someone walked in and offered ridiculous cash for the seat on display. The buyer explained... "There is
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by sam_goody 1y ago
The error messages were truly epic, got quite a chuckle. But boy am I glad that this is just in the play stage. If someone was in a self driving car that had 19% battery left and it started making comments like those, they would definitely
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by sam_goody 1y ago
Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the United States. It is also one of the major hubs of the west, being in a good location (midway north), having good weather for planes, and having America West headquartered there. I would think there
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by sam_goody 1y ago
As a website owner who uses Cloudflare after having being DDOS'd, I agree whole heartedly. Cloudflare succeeded to do what Google tried and failed with AMP, and we are all the worse off for it. [Though at least it is not Google, that
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by sam_goody 1y ago
We can always count on the Guardian to give a fact-free anger-inducing skewed story based on its Anti-Israel worldview. In fact, that's why I bother reading the Guardian. But what is it doing on HN?
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by sam_goody 1y ago
I have been using pnpm as my daily driver for several years, and am still waiting for npm to add a symlink option. (Bun does support symlinks). In the interim, I am very glad we haven't waited. Also, we switched to Postgres early, when
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by sam_goody 1y ago
Tailwind uses it. Considering how many people rely on a tailwind watcher to be running on all of their CSS updates, you may find that bun is used daily by millions. We use Bun for one of our servers. We are small, but we are not goofing aro
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by sam_goody 1y ago
In the news, everything is polarized and negative. On the streets, in my anecdotal experience of 1, everyone is happy, friendly, and things are good. There is disagreement but tolerance about politics, and in most cases a assumption of &quo
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by sam_goody 1y ago
The real issue is that we allow patents at all. Given the lopsided cost that courts bring to the table, patents only help the big players- since only they canafford to play. I invented something I ttruly think could change the world. Went t
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by sam_goody 1y ago
In my anectodotal experience, PHP is much, much more performant, even before I moved to Frankenphp - which is so much better than Express, it isn't even a joke. And PHP is much easier to read and handle when the project gets larger. An
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by sam_goody 1y ago
TLDR: Instead of an assembly line where items are constructed piece by piece, robotics could work together ["swarm robots"] simultaneously to build the product in one go, faster and and better. AI will make this much more practica
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by sam_goody 1y ago
Anthropic has plans such as $150/user and $150/5-users-but-less-hours-per-user. I could not work out what 2 users or heavy-usage-5-users are intended to do. There are people that will always try to steal, but there may also be tho
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by sam_goody 1y ago
Th solution would be services that use encrypted S3 as a backend. If services like immich, nextcloud, etc. were designed to have the bulk of the files on a 3rd party S3 compatible encrypted server (eg - only thumbnails and pointers to the e
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by sam_goody 1y ago
JJ needs a GUI. I tried twice to switch for a project, both times came back to git. But then, I am still not fully grokking the "why bother", and suspect that if I had a UI it would be both less friction, and more understanding.
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by sam_goody 1y ago
Yes, but only after this post in science and on HN. As has been mentioned above, one of the links it offers is this very post. So, AI will look online and synthesize the latest relevant blog posts. In Gemini's case, it will use trends
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by sam_goody 1y ago
There was an interview with some U.S. army rep. that was pretty famous a few years back. He said that even if hackers broke in to the U.S. systems they wouldn't achieve anything due to how old, convoluted and buggy the systems were - e
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by sam_goody 1y ago
I assume that they have naming rights. ShipGoo001 is somewhat playful, but even better would be something like "ICan'tBelieveIt'sNotTar!", [and once I am daydreaming, Let's have the leading I as a roman numeral - CI
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by sam_goody 1y ago
The only time I purchased on Temu, there were unauthorized purchases on my card shortly after (and cancelling and reissuing my card cost both in cash and aggravation). I mentioned it to a friend, who complained about the same thing happenin
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by sam_goody 1y ago
No really related, but I'm surprised that jj has no good GUI. With so much VC money chasing so many established niches (eg bun -> node), and so much potential growth for jj - especially considering it has so much dev interest, and h
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by sam_goody 1y ago
Didn't VMWare make their products free? I am not trying to be difficult - I know that I can now download VMware for both Windows and Mac, and two years ago I could not. And yet the article refers to ridiculous licensing fees and licens
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by sam_goody 1y ago
I for one am all for a world where the AI is very dry and factual (the temperature is 0). For coding, I would rather it stop talking and just give code, and the more accurate the better. And that is a real use, not just tea leaves.
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by sam_goody 1y ago
ValKey and Redis, MariaDB and MySQL, Freenginx and Nginx etc. It is very hard to take the crown from a well used platform, and the originals generally manage to maintain at least parity, but the forks tend to shoulder along for a really lon
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by sam_goody 1y ago
I have seen this comment a lot and don't understand it. From the U.S.'s point of view there are two goals: increase manufacturing in the States, and reduce manufacturing in China. Even if they don't choose the States, and eve
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by sam_goody 1y ago
I didn't say he is rational or even comprehensible - I said that he believes everyone is out to get him, and that explains the rushing way he acts.
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by sam_goody 1y ago
I know nothing of economics, and am not trying to defend Trump's moves. But, it is possible that his policy of "do everything at once, without taking the time to do it right" is more reflective of his belief that whatever he

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