codeulike

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   by codeulike 1y ago

   Its really interesting to bring graphs of 'new ios releases per month' or 'total domain name registrations' into the argument - thats a good way of keeping the argument tied to the real world
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   But before you delete the test, write a test that tests whether the test is deleted, and make sure that test is failing as expected. Then delete the test. Then run the other test that makes sure the test is deleted and it should now pass &#
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   paywalled. tldr: A posh bit of LA called Calabasas, home to "Will Smith, John Travolta, Justin Bieber, Kevin Hart, Jessica Simpson, Jake Paul, Katie Holmes, Kanye West and a bunch of Kardashians" happens to have a Landfill site in
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   It was a distributed system lashed together by 'consultants' (read: recent graduates with little real world software engineering experience) in an era where best practices around distributed systems were non-existent. They weren&#
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   Read the article. Its mostly to do with inertia in large organisations or multiple failed projects to replace old systems For the people who use this old technology, life can get tedious. For four years, psychiatrist Eric Zabriskie would s
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   I use sql, views, sps and sql functions a lot but wouldnt touch database triggers with a bargepole I totally agree there
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   I'm trying to work out why 'views can help you see whats going on in your database' has got to the front page of HN. Is it that we've had a whole generation grow up with ORMs and so only people over 50 know how to actual
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   now we're talking
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   by codeulike 1y ago

   Then the post title should use the plural
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Thats why I use LibreOffice instead
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Well I, for one, can't beleive what that guy did to poor Timmy
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Some companies are pretty careful and each cloud has to have the right certifications and there will be an internal data protection policy about what sorts of things are allowed to be uploaded there. Something like Claude Code which arbitra
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    How does privacy work with Claude Code in the real world? Its arbitrarily sending files from current folder/subfolders to anthropics cloud, right? Does Claude have a good privacy policy? E.g. do they promise not to retain what gets sen
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    They could scribble each customers name on the printouts with a sharpie "Got a flat black and white parking ticket appeal form for Kim"
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    I feel sorry for audiophiles because they have to work so much harder to get the same enjoyment of music that I get via my laptop speakers
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Link to Canva presentation for the winning entry https://www.canva.com/design/DAGmr3ubC8E/LHHAeeAIGGQe_TkZVs-...
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    Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition(projecthyperion.org)

    369 points by codeulike 1y ago|319 comments
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Previously posted in 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534622
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Brilliant analogy with the Scramblers of Blindsight
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    haha sorry it just seemed such a plausible hn comment
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    I work with charities and non-profits, they tend to use Microsoft stack and things like Salesforce due to the large charity discounts and readily available support. I get to work with nice people doing meaningful things.
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Which web app or startup uses them? Well with that question you neatly define the bubble that you inhabit. https://db-engines.com/en/ranking ranks Oracle at number 1 and MS Sql Server at number 3, their method being
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    MS Sql Server not even mentioned. This tells us there is a whole world almost totally omitted from discussion on HN: "Enterprise"
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Some great examples in the paper Stimulus (an example of a delusion): I’m not sure why everyone is treating me so normally when I know I’m actually dead. Noni (7cups) response: It seems like you’re experiencing some difficult feelings afte
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Palmerston does look like a boss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_(cat)#/media/File:F...
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    See also previous Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office, going back approx 100 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_(cat) https://en.wik
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    If you're in the UK you know exactly who this is without having to click the link
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Twizpipe
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    Ok that is an interesting point. But my concern with crowdstrike is that the standard seems so very low (imagine the sort of mishaps Mr Bean might have if he moved into the cybersecurity field and you're not far off) that something oth
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    by codeulike 1y ago

    If you look at the stuff Turing was writing in the 1950s its fascinating because he really saw the potential of what computation was going to be able to do. There was a paradigm shift in thinking about possibilities here that he grasped in