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by jelder 6d ago
I observed the same thing happening when we transitioned from analog land line telephones to everyone having mobile phones. The plain old telephone was crispy clean, and cellphone calls by comparison were just barely intelligible. It's
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by jelder 2mo ago
Electricians, sure, but carpenters? I figured these buildings always had steel frames.
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by jelder 2mo ago
This doesn't seem like a niche that isn't filled. Am I missing out on something by still just using iTerm2 and tmux?
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by jelder 2mo ago
Simple Network Management Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Sometimes I think the RFC editors are trolling us.
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by jelder 2mo ago
This sounds an awful lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip , which has been illegal for a long time and for good reason.
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by jelder 2mo ago
> This is not bad luck. It’s a structure. Either AI wrote this, or the author thinks this is what humans sound like now.
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by jelder 2mo ago
Pour one out for anyone who hoped to start a new brand.
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by jelder 2mo ago
Is laser printing more feasible? I've had the same Brother black & white laser for almost a decade and it's more than adequate for everything I do. If I ever need color, I send it off to a service that has much nicer printers
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by jelder 3mo ago
Untrue since the introduction of zstd support in PostgreSQL 15.
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A thousand Postgres branches for $1(xata.io)
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by jelder 4mo ago
> If you encountered a cheetah in pre-industrial times (and survived the meeting), you might think it was impossible for anything to go faster. Fun fact, there is no historical evidence of an adult human ever dying from a cheetah attack.
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by jelder 4mo ago
LSPs are already miles better than grep-like tools. This was true for humans as much as it is for LLMs. It's a shame that Claude still treats it as a second-class citizen (both in the app itself and in the training). A simple "rem
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by jelder 4mo ago
There's a huge difference between a program which can be verified as correct by static analysis, and a program which can only be verified as correct by running it. Python is the latter (though maybe in between with gradual typing). The
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by jelder 6mo ago
Who goes out of their way to “star” a GitHub repo, and what does that even mean? Is it a “like” button, a tip jar, or a bookmark? Does this bare any relationship to the importance, quality, novelty, trustworthiness, or any other property of
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by jelder 6mo ago
We did this with MotherDuck, and without introducing a new language. Every tenant has their own isolated storage and compute, so it’s trivial to grant internal users access to specific tenants as needed. DuckDB’s SQL dialect is mostly just
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by jelder 7mo ago
It would be a shame if somebody modified this to trigger Bluetooth and Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks.
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by jelder 7mo ago
DuckDB had the right idea: just allow some flexibility in the relative order of the `select` and `from` clauses, and make a few other concessions for ergonomics. This then becomes valid: from events -- table is first, which enabl
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by jelder 7mo ago
You can't trust a product that uses ads, because then you are the product.
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by jelder 7mo ago
If you were to rank all of the C compilers in the world and then rank all of the welfare systems in the world, this vibe-coded mess would be at approximately the same rank as the American welfare system. Especially if you extrapolate this n
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by jelder 8mo ago
Couldn't coding agents just run `tail -f *`?
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by jelder 8mo ago
Indie games don’t have a budget for playtesting, but they can probably swing a GA account.
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by jelder 8mo ago
I just today realized io_uring is meant to be read as "I.O.U. Ring" which perfectly describes how it works.
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by jelder 8mo ago
eTAXI is just one such solution https://www.safran-group.com/videos/e-taxi-safran-unveils-it...
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by jelder 8mo ago
> You’re already flying this route with a 300-seat plane where 80+ people in business class generate most of your profit. Give those passengers a supersonic plane, cut the flight time in half, and charge the same price. What does that en
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by jelder 9mo ago
Haven’t seen a loading progress spinner on a landing page in a while. The Ruby website now loads almost as slowly as Ruby on Rails boots up.
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by jelder 9mo ago
“Most people” is not even remotely accurate.
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by jelder 9mo ago
The necessity of using a JSON column was outside of my control, but Zod etc. are absolutely required, I think, in most projects. I wrote more about that here: https://www.jacobelder.com/2025/01/31/where-shift-
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by jelder 9mo ago
That works for lookups but not for foreign key constraints.
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by jelder 9mo ago
I thought this was common practice, generated columns for JSON performance. I've even used this (although it was in Postgres) to maintain foreign key constraints where the key is buried in a JSON column. What we were doing was slightly
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by jelder 10mo ago
The purpose of software is to reduce the cost of change. Of course “code” belongs here.

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