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by ttfkam 3y ago
There are a lot of vacant properties where the buildings are literally being used as investments rather than living spaces. There are a LOT of housing that isn't being used due to greed and speculation. But yes, NIMBY definitely has it
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I wish I could take credit. https://youtu.be/VlK-neOypDM?si=ZE3BJ0_E1pPEvDkp
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by ttfkam 3y ago
The issue isn't that folks need to earn $50/hr to live in much of California (though they do). The big issue is that with housing so ridiculously overpriced, most folks can never buy; home prices exceed most folks' ability to
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by ttfkam 3y ago
That's nothing. Even though the hardware has supported it for at least 15 years , MacOS still doesn't have support for MST (DisplayPort daisy-chaining). Instead of just plugging one cable in and having two externals connected to
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Literacy and conversation are two very different skills with Duolingo being better at the former. There is little doubt that all that Duolingo repetition over three years aided your ability to jump start your conversational ability. Very fe
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I was there too. Actually ever since Mozilla M1 or M2 I think. Things were pretty rough back then (so much blue!). Then the browser-only Phoenix followed by the rename. I (and presumably others) hated the notion of a Microsoft/Windows-
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Thanks! I had used 6.0. I was totally unaware this was an option at the time. For what it was worth, Postgres was dog slow back then.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
So pre-PostgreSQL then.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
And maybe peaked at 3% marketshare between 2000 and 2003 during Apple's early resurgence. Remember that Apple almost died in the late 90s. It wasn't the juggernaut it is today by a long shot. Mac IE became its own albatross for we
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Citation needed? There have been one-off, incomplete iterations in extensions, but core and contrib have never had this.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Good write up. As I've written my own temporal table library for Postgres that also runs on managed databases like AWS Aurora, here are my observations: If you main table inherits from a history table, you can see a complete history of
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I came to hate IE with every fiber of my being, but let's call a spade a spade here: IE basically invented modern CSS. Netscape 3/4 and IE 3/4 had very different views on how web pages should be dynamic and how they should be
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Making steel without emitting CO2(science.org)
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by ttfkam 3y ago
For a $3,500 piece of tech, I'm okay with this. Makes theft far less likely/lucrative.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Ha! plpgsql's seemingly sole purpose is to inject imperative code into a set-based environment. Probably does it more smoothly than most pl languages, but that's at the cost of imperative clarity. But you're right. Postgres d
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by ttfkam 3y ago
uuid_generate_v1mc() from the uuid-ossp extension uses a randomly generated mac, so no leakage and entropy is increased. The timestamp portion is a feature IMO, not a bug. It prevents index and page thrashing in Postgres. (Also doubles as a
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I love LATERALs, but this still fits within set theory and a bulk application rather than an iterative for-loop. It may even be implemented as a for-loop within the engine, but SQL being declarative abstracts that away from the query interf
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> How many games run on xbox, playstation, pc, windows, mac, etc. that include an entire UI library with native font rendering, events, buttons, windows, etc. And each required a non-trivial amount of engineering effort AND are not commo
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by ttfkam 3y ago
uuid_generate_v1mc() from the uuid-ossp extension uses a randomly generated mac, so no leakage. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/uuid-ossp.html#UUID-...
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Wish they had included UUIDv1. Likely better than UUIDv4, but I'm curious how close it gets to UUIDv7 since it's already available.
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> Let's be clear: highly performant, reliable, cross platform, native feature-ful software was always an option; and often a relatively easy one to exercise. Okay. Got it. You have no idea what you're talking about. I challenge
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by ttfkam 3y ago
> What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? That's easy. Just like living in Narnia, Middle Earth, or Warhammer 40K. The Tower of Babel was a story created by Bronze Age sheep herders to explai
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by ttfkam 3y ago
I don't recall adults in 1980s considering the advent of arcade games to be "definitely better" or "orders of magnitude simpler." Every generation establishes a new baseline for "normal". Older generations
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Gatekeeping. The barriers to entry have dropped to the point of disappearing. It's why the industry is so vibrant. "The odds are good, but the goods are odd." The core group of CS & CE graduates are as good or better than
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Linus wrote the first draft of the Linux kernel as a college student in late 1991. 19-NINETY-1 Linux is 100% a product of the 90s and after, and is one of the biggest software quality success stories of all time. It has only improved since
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Or they could go the route of Aptera-style vehicles as long as they stay within 65km/day. The only infrastructure you'd need is roads. Prices will only go down from here. https://youtu.be/0PU4DQoQAWY?si=pxvFKe67jAw
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by ttfkam 3y ago
TIL about Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Given one of the lowest per capita number of motor vehicles, it likely also lacks petroleum infrastructure as well. You don't make a huge number of gas stations when there aren't many cars. If given the choice of building up a tra
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by ttfkam 3y ago
45 years absolutely includes the 1980s. Entirely includes the 1980s. And it's not like the 70s had universally phenomenal assembly or BASIC being written. Computing wasn't better when processors were doing 1,000 operations per sec
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by ttfkam 3y ago
Such a long-winded way of saying, "Get off my lawn! …kids these days." Having been in the industry for 30 years and alive long enough to run programs for 45, I can point to innumerable examples of badly written shareware games. He

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