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by zachmu 3y ago
Unless the rat is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, which makes them attracted to the smell of cat urine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Rodents
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by zachmu 3y ago
Different book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138841.The_Art_of_the_St...
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by zachmu 3y ago
It's a pretty good default stance, yeah. We have been trying to convince people to use our new database [1] for several years and it's an uphill battle, because Postgres really is the best choice for most people. They really have
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by zachmu 3y ago
I would have sworn I read it in the linked article, but it's sure not there when I read it again. And it's not in the oldest archive.org copy either. I can only conclude I hallucinated it, which makes me uncomfortable.
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by zachmu 3y ago
It's kind of funny how willing everyone was to believe an admitted conman. The book I read of his was "The Art of the Steal", and it wasn't really about his personal history, more about his work as an anti-fraud consulta
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by zachmu 3y ago
PostgreSQL really is eating the database world. Although in this case, the authors originally chose an architecture that was poorly suited to their data model. They had relational data and put it in a non-relational store. This was obviousl
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by zachmu 3y ago
I read a non-fiction book by Frank Abagnale (inspiration for Catch Me If You Can) about common forms of fraud, and it's remarkable how often people are caught embezzling because they do something dumb like buy a flashy car that attract
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by zachmu 3y ago
The article boasts of ethereum L2 being able to support 500 TPS thanks to blobs. That's at least two decimal orders of magnitude away from being a global payment solution. It's a joke.
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by zachmu 3y ago
People have friends who want to support them
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by zachmu 3y ago
And yet it's perfectly true. Sorry you feel condescended to. People who say this are relating their own experience of being parents and how they couldn't anticipate how much it would change them.
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by zachmu 3y ago
You're confusing competence with disagreeability.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Somebody already said this, but we built exactly this and it's called Dolt. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt Would love to hear how it addresses your use case or falls short.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Yes, I'm in a similar boat. We had our first kid in our early 30s, basically the same age my parents had me. My parents probably aren't going to be around much longer. We chose to live close to them so they see our kids a lot, but
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by zachmu 3y ago
To accept this view is to accept the idea that most of our ancestors had "childhood poverty trauma". I just don't see how it's a useful frame. And really, it's not the actual poor who are delaying having kids into t
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by zachmu 3y ago
IMHO opinion you have to take happiness surveys like this with a grain of salt. For one thing, there is no such thing as a happiness ruler, this is all based on survey responses and subjective ideas of what it means to be happy. The effect
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by zachmu 3y ago
I think this is the story people tell themselves, but as far as I can tell it's mostly just a story. Kids are resilient and don't need the material wealth college educated people tend to assume they will to have a good childhood.
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by zachmu 3y ago
They probably just don't want the nightmare of legal liability complying with the legislation would entail. They have decided jettisoning all revenue from Texas is the better option, which must hurt.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Still think about this essay on the topic I saw on twitter a few years back: https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-i... > If you intend to have children, but you don’t intend to have t
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by zachmu 3y ago
> The rule of life is: You can have two “Big Things” in your life, but not three. Big Things include: Job Kids Spouse Social Life Major Hobby (e.g. build a boat in the garage, become a chess master, video game addiction) Startup This see
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by zachmu 3y ago
I don't have an opinion about the lawsuit, but calling the Center for Countering Digital Hate "researchers" is pretty dumb. They are an activist group advocating for particular things, not neutral social scientists on a fact
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by zachmu 3y ago
What you're missing is the incredibly vocal activist culture in cities like SF and Seattle, who demand that any new multi-family housing built include below-market-rate units. (These cities also typically extort new developments with e
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by zachmu 3y ago
It exists because someone wants it and is willing to pay for it and someone else is willing to sell it to them. What makes you think you have the right to stop either side of that transaction from engaging in it?
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by zachmu 3y ago
This map gives the odd sense that the sky is absolutely buzzing with satellites and yet they are still incredibly sparse "on the ground". Look at any western US state and you'll see just a handful above at any time.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Same, we went from long-range WiFi that cost us over $250/month and dropped out constantly to rock-solid 50Mbps for $120. Starlink gets slower during Netflix hours but never slow enough you can't run a few simultaneous video strea
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by zachmu 3y ago
Lots of space up there, no pun intended.
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by zachmu 3y ago
What's interesting to me is how quickly AI generated art came to be expected, unexceptional. Every random blog post has a couple AI generated images now, they are completely unremarkable and uninteresting. The novelty wore off basicall
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by zachmu 3y ago
Unless you believe that engineers in Paris are a quarter as productive as engineers in San Francisco, you already acknowledge that geographically defined labor markets vary dramatically in compensation. If you remove those borders, why woul
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by zachmu 3y ago
I do wonder about this. I struggle to believe that the average FAANG employee creates their salary in value. Companies are so flush with cash they are willing to bid up salaries across the board, but it seems like that is a management decis
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by zachmu 3y ago
Why is it so difficult for people to distinguish between "X will happen" and "it's good that X will happen"?
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by zachmu 3y ago
All well and good, but consider: if you work for Google in Pittsburgh you make approximately 60% of what you make doing the same job in Mountain View. We are in a transitionary period where many people are earning Mountain view money while

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