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by bmer 2y ago
What's the "right editor" for SQL? "Correct technological choice": I think relational algebra style APIs (a la Polars) are the "correct technological choice" here. SQL is just a tool to express relational
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by bmer 2y ago
I've heard that there are screen lifetime issues? Also, from my limited experience with a single OLED screen, it seems that most stuff was created for a certain kind of screen without as much colour fidelity, and now that stuff seems f
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by bmer 2y ago
Editor completion. Programmability "out-of-the-box" (rather than having to generate SQL using another programming language).
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by bmer 2y ago
I am surprised to see phoronix getting that so wrong…
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by bmer 2y ago
Is it possible to “install” (“flash”?) an open source BIOS onto a newly bought device?
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Ask HN: Security risks when buying mini-PCs/PCs from unknown vendors?
12 points by bmer 2y ago|12 comments
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by bmer 2y ago
No, because if my case holds more genera (and I suspect it does), the answers are in part out of sheer frustration, and therefore prone to being similar to the last one given. I am not afraid to say this is poorly designed.
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by bmer 3y ago
The root problem is a lack of imagination that cannot fathom how the person making the judgement might find themselves in the position of the judged, in the not-so-far-future. The good news is that reality does not care whether or not you l
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by bmer 3y ago
Yeah, I only support brutalising neighbours if its done nice and clean: by an army of attractive well-paid lawyers gaslighting everyone involved.
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by bmer 3y ago
Well, what do the prediction markets think? Markets are unable to lie (as they are deeply/intrinsically connected to reality).
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by bmer 3y ago
Wanting to help others isn't being discouraged. You helping others is being discouraged (apparently? that's your claim, because you believe the market has expectations that you believe should not apply to you?). Anyway, are two di
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by bmer 3y ago
If the US didn't do this, the world would be worse off, no? (Not sure: wondering.)
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by bmer 3y ago
*[CITATIONS NEEDED]* 1) Bioreactors have available many options other than antibiotics for controlling bacterial growth. 2) A bioreactor is not "basically just an animal with a severely curtailed feature set". A bioreactor is no
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by bmer 3y ago
Except it's also very wrong. So, it just happened to make you feel good, and therefore it felt well-informed?
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by bmer 3y ago
I disagree: I don't think there's a pure natural impulse to want to help others. It's usually coated with a bunch of other stuff, inadvertently (e.g. when dealing with attractive members of the opposite sex: wanting to prov
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by bmer 3y ago
One prominent one in recent memory is the Epstein "suicide". Aaron Swartz is another, although not so recent.
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by bmer 3y ago
I think this is a win-win for everyone involved. In the highly likely case where your answers are crap, the world is spared yet another person who thinks they are well-suited to add to the mess. In the equally possible case where your answe
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by bmer 3y ago
That quote does not come from the Quran (I am no fan of Muslims or Islam).
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by bmer 3y ago
That also helps to zero out the probability you'll be paying someone who takes a "craftsperson's approach" to their work, versus a "production-line approach". Neither is bad. The production-line approach is goo
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by bmer 3y ago
> contacted gate pitchm2 pitchcell height,and take the square root I am having trouble parsing `pitchm2 pitchcell height`. Assuming that you meant to use `*` and then HN's markdown assumed it was italics, and placing `×` where itali
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by bmer 3y ago
Although, even Patreon has this issue, since there is no hard requirement to be showing your work regularly; just more of an expectation due to the design of the system. Part of this seems to be due to the reality of creative work: you need
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by bmer 3y ago
Is there a resource you'd recommend that would help one understand what `marketing nm` means technically, and why it's a quantity that the industry uses "because it's clear to them"?
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by bmer 3y ago
It may also not be wrong to say: "those who know history, are destined to repeat it". "That which is the common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care..." is not a universal law, and it is easy to think of
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by bmer 3y ago
Was the heart still considered the seat of "emotion", in such a doctrine?
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by bmer 3y ago
It's kinda crazy how confident they are about it too.
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by bmer 3y ago
This is an excellent point, and it confuses me to see it being downvoted. When lobbying is transparent, it actually loses quite a lot of its power. When lobbying is hidden, it becomes far more influential. Who would you trust more? Your fav
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by bmer 3y ago
It is, in that it takes advantage of peoples' speculative nature. "What if we had all this extra data on our customers?! Then we could do a lot more to make more money! So, it makes sense we ought to pay more for that data too
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by bmer 3y ago
It (the word plateform) never died out in French. Wiktionary's "etymology" section is great for 98% of words: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/platform#Etymology In general, Modern English has many words f
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GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage (2021)(stephendiehl.com)
2 points by bmer 3y ago|1 comments
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by bmer 3y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244528

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