sgbeal

17 ms·

241.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> Fully porting Window Maker to GNUstep would be a Win-Win situation We see what you did there!
242.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> So I got a phishing email ... It landed right in my primary inbox. FWIW, i've been using gmail since 2006 or 7 and i get maybe (MAYBE) one such mail in my mailbox every 3-4 months. Until spam inexplicably dropped by 90%+ practical
243.
by sgbeal 2y ago
How could i have gone 50+ years without having heard of such transmitter use by stores? i could ask Google when that practice was (thankfully) eliminated but i prefer the mystery of it.
244.
by sgbeal 2y ago
Noting that the first line of the article links back to < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41328133 >
245.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> ... writing is hurting people's collective ability to think There's a tremendous difference between writing and having someone else write for you.
246.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> That's an opinion not a fact backed by any data. It's a well-demonstrated fact that, for the overwhelmingly large majority of people (mainly those without eidetic memory), copying someone else's answers, rather than comi
247.
by sgbeal 2y ago
Too soon :`(! Ah, those were the days! TP v4, v5, v6... i'd graduated to C by the time 7 came out. > That almost nobody has the skills these days to implement something like TP is something we could eventually come to regret – or, r
248.
by sgbeal 2y ago
IMHO, anyone who doesn't say "momento mori" to themselves, and reflect upon what it means, at least once a day is missing out on life. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori >
249.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> there is no need to cling to SQL. It is merely an implementation detail. It is, in fact, also the interface. To use your example of SQLite bytecode: once your tool generates it, there is no way to feed that into SQLite. The bytecode is
250.
by sgbeal 2y ago
To clarify a distinction which DHH doesn't explicitly make in that post: we collectively suck at project-level estimates, but most developers eventually become fairly reliable at feature-level estimates, provided they're familiar
251.
by sgbeal 2y ago
Summary: a 150-page graduate essay on the state of board game rulebooks, from the perspective of a board game hobbyist/technical writer. (Edit: the first 100-ish pages are the paper and the final 50-ish are a prototype rulebook for Sta
252.
Every Board Game Rulebook Is Awful [pdf](drive.google.com)
1 points by sgbeal 2y ago|1 comments
253.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> So many data breaches, information disclosures, they are in the news almost daily. #YesterdayILearned the highly-appropriate phrase "breach fatigue."
254.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> Book is not yet published but in early access since a couple of years According to the top post's link, it was released in July 2024.
255.
by sgbeal 2y ago
Tyler's point is that most companies don't have anywhere near the computing scale and workforce size which Amazon and Google have. Most companies don't have any option other than to take services offline during certain types
256.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> It's designed to help manage multiple accounts without getting flagged, which seems quite useful for my Amazon accounts ... The tool's premise seems to be that having multiple accounts on any given service is universally cons
257.
by sgbeal 2y ago
FWIW, i already regret my above comment. In common, everyday English there is an undeniably strong correlation between IQ and intelligence, to the point that the two are often used as synonyms. The article's author certainly knows that
258.
by sgbeal 2y ago
FWIW, i already regret my above comment. In common, everyday English there is an undeniably strong correlation between IQ and intelligence, to the point that the two are often used as synonyms. The article's author certainly knows that
259.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> Yours and Roys work on ... ( blush ) But to be 100% clear: the AHP-based VFS in the SQLite project is a direct port of Roy's, so all of the credit for that one truly goes to him!
260.
by sgbeal 2y ago
To keep the next person from having to look (or ask without looking): it supports browser-side persistence via IndexedDB and OPFS: < https://pglite.dev/docs/filesystems >
261.
by sgbeal 2y ago
Noting that: > LiteCluster is not currently available to public, and the source code is not available.
262.
by sgbeal 2y ago
It's always frustrating when a headline says exactly the opposite of what the article itself does: Headline: > American IQs Are Dropping Article: > Dworak stressed that the decline in scores doesn't necessarily mean American
263.
by sgbeal 2y ago
It's always frustrating when a headline says exactly the opposite of what the article itself does: Headline: > American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped Article: > Dworak, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University a
264.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> This is long and kind of dry and is just meant for people who want more information on what it's about. Which argues strongly for making it a text post instead of a video :/.
265.
by sgbeal 2y ago
> Does anyone have successfully worked with Non-English text with FTS5 in Sqlite? I could not find any reference for German, e.g. We use it in the Fossil SCM project and users have reported success with Chinese and Russian, so it presuma
266.
Comet caught zigzagging its way through space(mashable.com)
5 points by sgbeal 2y ago|0 comments
267.
by sgbeal 2y ago
This is a non-problem. If you believe it's a genuine problem, please show us some data which demonstrates that. i never once had a teacher in K-12 tell their students "you should study for a job in Field X." i had a handful o
268.
by sgbeal 2y ago
i don't pretend to understand the nuances of modern sexuality :shrug:.
269.
by sgbeal 2y ago
Granted, the article is sarcastic in nature, but... > We may be waiting a long time for the Emacs of web browsers. Nevermind that emacs literally has a browser built in since the 1990s.
270.
by sgbeal 2y ago
Which certainly made the answer to the question a resounding "duh!"

More ›