yen223

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   by yen223 2y ago

   While writing up this article, I only just noticed that the Typescript playground [1] (that I referred to in the post) straight up does not work with Gboard in Firefox, because the keyboard never shows up. I do not know why. [1] https:&#x2
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   by yen223 2y ago

   That's an interesting way to describe the English language.
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   by yen223 2y ago

   Join classes for something you are personally interested in doing.
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   by yen223 2y ago

   Because I lack the ability to focus on any one programming domain. I find them all too interesting to ignore.
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   by yen223 2y ago

   I've always found it funny that SQL was designed the way it is to be as close to natural English as possible, but then they went ahead and made everything all-caps
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   by yen223 2y ago

   Within the first 15 recommended posts or so there was - a post about how Canada is overrun by Indians - a post about how Melbourne is overrun by n-worders (they replaced the Gs with £s) - a post about how a trans person is ugly - 2 "nu
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   by yen223 2y ago

   > They say X/Twitter is full of people spreading hate speech. I've recently created a brand new account on X for a project. Looking at what was being recommended to the brand-new account with no interactions or likes or anythin
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   by yen223 2y ago

   There are two reasons to use a jsonb column: 1. To store JSON. There's a pattern where when your webserver calls into some third-party API, you store the raw API response in a JSONB column, and then process the response from there. Thi
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   by yen223 2y ago

   Given that other mainstream RDBMSes lets you configure how case handling should happen, Postgres is arguably the closest to the standard. Usual caveat of how nobody sticks to the ANSI standard anyway applies.
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    by yen223 2y ago

    This is Jetbrain's "language injection" feature if you want to look it up. It works with any languages that the IDE supports, and like a sibling comment mentioned it does more than syntax highlighting. https://www.
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    by yen223 2y ago

    "normalise til it hurts, denormalise til it works"
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    by yen223 2y ago

    My <TagComponent /> to render tags can kill a person
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    A micro-optimization you will never need(romainguy.dev)

    3 points by yen223 2y ago|1 comments
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    by yen223 2y ago

    The concern I have for commercialising this product is that there's a very high chance Apple will roll this out as a feature in macOS 17 or 18. It seems like a natural evolution of Apple Intelligence. Edit: Just noticed that Apple Note
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    by yen223 2y ago

    Goodhart's law will really bite the company in the butt if they did this
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    An unusual Google Keyboard bug(weiyen.net)

    2 points by yen223 2y ago|0 comments
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    by yen223 2y ago

    Say you have a SQL database on one side, and a Python/Ruby/Java/Golang webserver on the other. If you wrote raw SQL, you'd have to also write the ORM (the object-relational mapper ) yourself as well to map database re
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    by yen223 2y ago

    I like using LLMs for building non-critical tools that make me more productive. Things like shell scripts, Github actions, or one-off tools for visualising some problem space. The kind of thing where code quality doesn't really matter,
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    by yen223 2y ago

    Well at least the calculations are easier It takes about 3s to say 10 "one"s There are 136,279,841 ones in the binary mersenne prime That works out to about 41 million seconds worth of footage, or about 473 days Given there was a
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    An unusual Google Keyboard bug(weiyen.net)

    111 points by yen223 2y ago|29 comments
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    by yen223 2y ago

    Google material icons: https://fonts.google.com/icons Heroicons: https://heroicons.com/ Fontawesome: https://fontawesome.com/
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    by yen223 2y ago

    Which brand welder did you go for?
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    by yen223 2y ago

    While you are at Ikea, load up on a stack of $0.80 bowls. Those are great when cooking, for some mise-en-place action.
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    by yen223 2y ago

    My partner got me a $35 pullup bar, and that has significantly improved my fitness.
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    by yen223 2y ago

    I'm not against non-stick pans for their chemical composition. But I find stainless steel pans much easier to clean because you don't need to be gentle with them. You can take a steel wool to stainless steel pans just fine. My sta
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    by yen223 2y ago

    Electric toothbrushes clean a lot better than hand-cranked toothbrushes
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    by yen223 2y ago

    > The discovery was the result of almost exactly one year of work and about $2 million of Durant’s own money 9 years ago I asked how much a Mersenne prime is worth to us. I guess we have an answer now. https://news.ycombinator
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    by yen223 2y ago

    Largest repo I used with Cursor was about 600,000 lines long
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    by yen223 2y ago

    > Moving to a monorepo didn't change much, and what minor changes it made have been positive. It's pretty refreshing to see an experience report whose conclusion is "not much has changed", even though in practice that
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    by yen223 2y ago

    I probably would switch to Cursor for Swift projects too if it weren't for the fact that I will still need Xcode to compile the app. I also agree with the non-AI parts of JetBrains stuff being much better than the non-AI parts of Curso