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by aethr 5mo ago
The answer to this problem as it's currently being pursued is renewable carbon feedstocks. Growing things like canola on marginal land, harvesting it and turning it into biofuels and LCLFs (low carbon liquid fuels) using renewable sola
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by aethr 1y ago
In the logistics industry the commonly held wisdom is that there really isn't any accepted system for "how street addresses work". Different countries have completely different systems, and even within a country there are oft
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by aethr 2y ago
Systems like litdb typically include (or work alongside) a schema migration tool, which either reads the current structure of the database and writes that back to a TypeScript file, or reads a TypeScript/schema file and generates a mig
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by aethr 2y ago
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but this would allow me to register the desired conversion type for a basic postgres type, to and from JavaScript but not for the return value of a specific function or even a specific invocation of
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by aethr 2y ago
Using `as` in TypeScript is a dangerous practice, since it sidesteps the entire type safety system. If it has to be used, it should be used minimally, in controlled circumstances. Using a system like this allows your types to be specified i
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by aethr 2y ago
Using (from -> where -> select), how would you provide type hints on the where clause when your select includes non-table columns? SELECT COUNT(col_a) as count WHERE count > 0 Kysely uses (from -> select ->
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by aethr 2y ago
Having recently been down this journey with kysely, these type-safe query builders still seem to have a large gap when it comes to the return types of SQL functions and opaque types. My current project uses PostGIS which uses opaque types f
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by aethr 2y ago
Solar and wind definitely make the most sense wherever feasible, but it's important to keep in mind you can't just build solar and wind farms anywhere. China has moderately good solar capacity in the north, but generation there wi
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by aethr 2y ago
There are plenty of use cases where an established CSS framework is a good choice. For PoCs, internal tools or dashboards, or just short lived projects, you can get very far by utilising a framework. But if you're building a product, o
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by aethr 3y ago
One thing that's keeping my hand on the mouse and stopping me from going full keyboard, is the free scrolling mousewheel on logitech mice. I find it such an ergonomic and natural way to get to the right place in long documents (and cod
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by aethr 3y ago
Different levels of code quality are important for different teams / projects. Teams that are still discovering the domain and defining patterns should aim for a lower quality so they can iterate more easily. In this mode, knowing that
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by aethr 3y ago
Mentioned in another comment, but if you like Baraka, seek out the film Man With a Motion Picture Camera (or Man With a Movie Camera), it's the progenitor of both Baraka and the qatsi trilogy. There's a version with a score perfor
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by aethr 3y ago
Some amazing music that never seemed to go mainstream: The Cinematic Orchestra, great modern jazz with a beat. Try the album Everyday. If you're into film there's a version of the 1929 Dziga Vertov film "Man With a Motion Pic
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by aethr 6y ago
Try the "Modern Javascript Tutorial" https://javascript.info/
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by aethr 6y ago
I am working on this right now on a medium-sized project, and it's deceptively more work than we anticipated. While Vue's component API itself is remaining mostly backwards compatible with Vue 2, most of the "core" suppo
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by aethr 7y ago
Unfortunately we are unable to sponsor visas at this time. Please only apply if you are a permanent resident of Australia or have a valid working visa.
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by aethr 7y ago
FLIP ( https://www.flip.com.au/ ) | Senior Software Development Engineer | Melbourne, AU | ONSITE | Full time FLIP is looking for talented software engineers to help build out our next generation logistics platform. FLIP is a
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by aethr 7y ago
A big mistake I made when I started mentoring other developers was making the answers to their questions too easy. I spent a lot of my early career crawling around on linux servers trying to fix weird bugs in pretty typical web stacks. Late
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by aethr 8y ago
Some people just don't enjoy teaching that much. I think generally most people get satisfaction from helping others, but some devs just seem to prefer working mostly on their own. They still have to write pragmatic and maintainable cod
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by aethr 8y ago
I agree this is an important skill (and attitude), but whether it's a core requirement for senior probably depends on the size of your shop. Senior devs who are keen to mentor, passionate about fixing organizational flaws (process deve
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by aethr 8y ago
When I started at my current company, Senior Developer titles were given out by management. They didn't have the capability or the information to judge people based on technical skills, and the title was mainly used as a perk to keep e
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by aethr 8y ago
The temperature scale on windy.com doesn't really go high enough to depict how hot it is in Australia today: https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,-27.917,137.109...
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by aethr 8y ago
Without analyzing it too much this seems to be a perfect visualization of the mathematics of music theory. The lengths of string become quite a direct metaphor for the wavelengths of notes on the music scale, and seeing them move together i
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by aethr 8y ago
Rebase has a lot of options, including squashing many commits into one or more "good" commits. This is usually a good thing if you have commits that are "work in progress" commits. You can use squash/skip to avoid h
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by aethr 8y ago
The ability to quickly spin up a "radio broadcast" in Grooveshark for friends was amazing. With a small group of five friends we set up a Friday DJ rotation where one person would queue songs all day and the others listen in. All
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by aethr 8y ago
Seeing the example of one facial pose video transcribed to three different looking women, I'm imagining a future where Netflix does a/b testing on its shows, using similar tech to swap out different "actors" to find whic
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by aethr 8y ago
The type of curve in your video is probably used in about 1/4 of medium range passes in an intermediate level game of Ultimate. So what you've shown one of the best football players in the world is capable of in a low pressure sit
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by aethr 8y ago
I played a lot of Ultimate in High School in the late 90s, and went on to play for the top University team in Australia in the early 2000s while pursuing my undergrad in Comp Sci. One thing I've noticed about ultimate that makes a sign
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by aethr 8y ago
Couldn't the web app also verify that the localhost.example.com domain resolves to 127.0.0.1 before attempting a connection?
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by aethr 8y ago
How would you run a local HTTPS server without the private key?

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