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by francoisp 5y ago
I'd love to know why the author (I've seen that elsewhere as well) would aim at not writing some plpgsql? Is it for the "tour-de-force" bragging rights? I've found that a plgpsql routine can be so much more efficien
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by francoisp 5y ago
Interesting read. I wonder if this is only some bandwidth optimization to throw more hardware at the problem or an actual shift in perspective, ref no NaN/Inf, instead clamps to maxval. Could this introduce artifacts/will math lib
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by francoisp 5y ago
nice! any iOS clients in the works?
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by francoisp 5y ago
Totally unrelated: has anyone noticed that the bar on the F in the FORD logo ends with an e? It has been like that for a while. I remember reading somewhere that Henry Ford had forecasted that transportation was going to be all electric in
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by francoisp 5y ago
Actually if they can build an Expedition SUV on this platform in short order, they could have another model T on their hands. That little e at the end of the bar crossing the capital F would finally take its meaning! (seriously in this pri
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by francoisp 5y ago
I tried putting in a reservation in Canada yesteday. I think they got slashdoted. Spinning.... Victim of their success. Maybe they will understand why Tesla does not need paid for marketing?
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by francoisp 5y ago
I wonder if this is legal. I know Apple asks you to disable location tracking when returning devices to them for warranty. This could be abused by terrorists to use the postman nefariously...
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by francoisp 5y ago
maybe someone could have sent him a copy of this film? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Island_(film) A bit of hacking, some solar panels, a few stereos, tents, some poker chips, a rock band's visit... how long
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by francoisp 5y ago
those that can't do teach, and those that can't teach troll open source devs?
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by francoisp 5y ago
If it would be my univ, I'd send a personal email to the dean. https://cse.umn.edu/college/office-dean#:~:text=Dean%20Mosta... . If enough grads do that, I would expect the university will do something about it, an
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by francoisp 5y ago
(I posted this on another entry that dropped out of the first page of HN? sorry for the dupe) I fail to see how this does not amount to vandalism of public property. https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code
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by francoisp 5y ago
I fail to see how this does not amount to vandalism of public property. https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/594/
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by francoisp 5y ago
Me thinks that If you hold a degree from the University of Minnesota it would be a good idea to let your university know what you think of this.
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by francoisp 5y ago
congrats on the raise!
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by francoisp 5y ago
SQLite is a really neat thing. I was looking at extensions and how to augment it; you could even add a pg_notify -like feature: https://sqlite.org/c3ref/update_hook.html and have worker processes doing what would amoun
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by francoisp 6y ago
Thank you for this post. I have been interested in rust because of matrix, and although I found it a bit more intimidating than go to toy with, I was inclined to try it on a real project over go because it felt like the closest to the hardw
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by francoisp 6y ago
I dont know what this does to you, but every time I read a PG essay I get an urge to write. This is a very virtuous habit, that allows one to have continuity. Thanks PG again for a nicely written arc (pun intended), for the somehow diffuse
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by francoisp 6y ago
my question is: who benefits? Follow the money. About if this hack is true or not: It should have been simple to prove true. Just show a single compromised article with an extra chip, at least one is bound to show up on ebay? Can three lett
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by francoisp 6y ago
hello Matt, you might be interested in this: uses binlog to provide 2 way sync to postgres including hard delete detection, using postgres triggers. https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable
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by francoisp 6y ago
check this out, https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable . Uses binlog a reader to call postgres triggers, upon which you can build 2 way sync realtime.
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by francoisp 6y ago
Very nice! Data wants to be free. Please check out this rosettable thing we open-sourced last year, it could come in handy: it allows real time ETL-like sync between mysql and postgres. https://github.com/francoisp/rose
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by francoisp 6y ago
I wonder if the rating would be electric only after a while... I would imagine that the various authorities would create a different license, like for seaplanes and IFR. It would make some sense as mis-managing the fuel-air mixture on a sma
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by francoisp 6y ago
very nice ! I had been using XDisplay, (wired, Macosx iOS only) requires an app on iOS device and needs a patch once in a while... maybe because Apple was about to come out with sidecar? (API changes?) Anyway this is WAY better! True hacker
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by francoisp 6y ago
Looks like a clear case of migration to postgres. A single table with jsonb. You can do indexes on jsonb and a few plpgsql for partial updates, and forget about it for a while.
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by francoisp 6y ago
a slightly different angle, also opensource: mautic
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by francoisp 6y ago
I think Amazon and covid (semi and full lockdowns, local shops closing etc) have exposed an idea that you touch on, decoupling the last mile shipping from amazon/doordash/etc; a market/depots/etc for peered-powered distr
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by francoisp 6y ago
The small business support is a weak angle at best. There is a local small business that is dying/already dead that did just that and more: the local paper. I think History will look back as this and ascribe the craziness of these year
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by francoisp 6y ago
this list uses the golden rule: short and sweet concepts, precisely worded.
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by francoisp 6y ago
tabtab
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by francoisp 6y ago
kudos to Paul for this one. Writing about a very very charged and divisive social phenomenon and putting out a meta-conception that casts a better light in a very adroit, objective angle. True free thinker stuff. This is prolly how enlighte

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