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by spopejoy 4y ago
RDBMS constraints are oversold usually. For instance it is usually the case that things like foreign-key constraints are avoided in production because they cause performance and maintenance nightmares. Widely-used constraints like UNIQUE ar
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Even there you'll see the same: micros in SQLite vs millis for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is simply not the right choice if you want in-process speeds.
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by spopejoy 4y ago
That's ignoring the specific use case of TFA though, which is not "I'm setting out to build something for my bigcorp to scale infinitely" but "I built a little tool that ended up handling more than I thought it woul
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by spopejoy 4y ago
TIL Evolution is still a thing. I switched from Evolution to Thunderbird in 2005 and never went back ...
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by spopejoy 4y ago
How is 3 seconds slow? Gmail web client takes more than three seconds these days. Thunderbird performance has never been an issue for me, except for one issue where it occasionally starts chewing CPU when syncing my monster inbox. This issu
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Perhaps they were born of necessity but now they are a strictly better solution for computing on members than any other solution or language feature. Record dot syntax is very unappealing. Would way prefer automatic lenses, or just some pri
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by spopejoy 4y ago
We actually have this rule in our company style guide. We do allow '.=' and '.%' (MonadState ops) because they fit elegantly into 'do' contexts.
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Stalin found reasons to kill everybody over time, including Bolsheviks. Bolsheviks were "socialist" because at the time socialism and communism were largely interchangeable terms; you might be thinking of the various factions with
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Hmm mac os does this too (and tbh explaining to noobs that files are in the "Finder" gets perplexed stares, same with "Preview" for viewing pdfs?!?) "Explorer" isn't much better ... However I can at least
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Thanks to both you and KMail team. This merger makes tons of sense as both clients made it through some dark years and have both come out on top with amazing improvements. I'm really excited to see what the combined team delivers!
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Agree. TIL that there was this "revolt" against KMail's UI change. It actually made KMail usable with e.g. 5000 mail entries in a folder, whereas before 500 could cause it to lag on scrolling and be unusable at 1000.
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by spopejoy 4y ago
That's really strange. I think the UX improvements were fantastic. Given that KMail is really the only true open-source non-janky Android email client it's incredible to me that people can be so uncharitable. With the UX changes c
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Calling any hedge fund "high performing" is pretty meaningless, as once they've figured out their core trade their main job is to 1) keep the core trade secret, 2) try to find some other bet, 3) try to trade bigger/faste
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Vote here for Haskell, which receives great hate on HN because it allows essentially unlimited abstraction. Meanwhile it has one of the fastest concurrent+GC runtimes, obliterating Ocaml in this regard, and competing handily with JVM or CLR
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Wasn't there going to be an original score and then Kubrick decided that he liked his mockups better?
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<cough>Kraftwerk<cough>
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by spopejoy 4y ago
there's also deckard's dream: https://black-corporation.com/product/deckards-dream-mk2/
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Right, but that's like saying "people don't care about how a company treats workers", "people don't care about privacy" -- speculators/shareholders occupy the most craven beliefs in all markets genera
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Markets are not a magical oracle of true value though, especially in our current, deeply distorted economy which has the rich gobbling up assets and increasing prices well beyond any livable standard, which is the point of TFA. Isolating pr
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by spopejoy 4y ago
Plenty of photographers have admitted that phone cameras often are "the camera you have" when the great shot arises unexpectedly, at which point the unreasonable quality they offer given their constraints comes in handy. They are
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by spopejoy 4y ago
> You could run a super high valued company on just a handful of people, and society is just not ready for that. My version of this is that those handful of people become critical to the organization, which must be avoided at all costs.
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by spopejoy 4y ago
If you interpret vi as the root (my preference for songs in a minor key) then that ii is a minor IV.
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by spopejoy 5y ago
> it is preferrable to the centralized variety that traditional finance uses Citation needed :) . Seriously, crypto needs to do better than just assert that ownerless decentralization is instantly better. Traditional dark pools work just
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Even if this is true, it is still just a dark pool, which is trivial to game. One ping is all you need. I think the race to put order books on blockchain is misguided. Constant-product DEXes can offer way less gameable best-execution by sim
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by spopejoy 5y ago
> Your employer is probably just paying a lot for your coverage. Yes but they get to deduct this, unlike an individual for whom no such deduction exists. Repeat after me: "a tax deduction is a subsidy." That is, welfare. An ext
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Israel's government and it's supporters in the US and elsewhere ceaselessly push this equivalence between Judaism and Israel, with the clear intent to equate criticism of Israel with anti-semitism.
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by spopejoy 5y ago
> Israel was not built by its founders to be a melting pot, it was built as a home for displaced Jewish people. By forcibly displacing 100,000s of other people.
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by spopejoy 5y ago
It's oversimplifying a lot to say Russia "dumped START II" given the dishonesty surrounding US nukes in Europe at the time. NATO's "nuclear sharing" makes a mockery of NPT. There's the USs historic support
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Non-proliferation is possible if democracies like the US weren't determined to sabotage them. I say democracies because in theory they do what their population wants, and NPTs faced no opposition in the 90s (except from defense contrac
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by spopejoy 5y ago
Non-proliferation treaties were a thing until the US decided not to play ball in the 90s. It is entirely feasible to conceive of nuclear containment via treaties, and indeed the world was headed in this direction after the cold war. It does

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