jperras

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by jperras 1mo ago
I would posit that "old web" could be defined as the period before Google Search became public (<~1997). But maybe that's more a measure of my own age and perceptions rather than an accurate representation of the various e
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by jperras 2mo ago
18 year HN vet here. I've forgotten most of these, even though I was around for nearly every single one of them!
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by jperras 5mo ago
> Before you spend many thousands of dollars on a machine better suited to a coffee shop, consider getting a minimalist lever machine. Agreed. I have a Pavoni Europiccola, and it's made approximately ~11,000 espresso shots (about ha
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by jperras 8mo ago
This is just… event sourcing? https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
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by jperras 10mo ago
There's also /classic, which only counts votes from user accounts created before a certain cutoff date. The cutoff used to be early 2008, I believe, but that may have changed in the last ~17 years :)
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by jperras 1y ago
If you go back further than that, teams used to destroy entire engines for a single qualifying. The BMW turbocharged M12/M13 that was used in the mid-eighties put out about 1,400 horsepower at 60 PSI of boost pressure, but it may have
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by jperras 2y ago
The reviews are on the Scotch site itself, not on Amazon: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/
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by jperras 2y ago
Sorry, the reviews are actually on the Scotch site itself: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/
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by jperras 2y ago
Those scissors apparently have a habit of the handle melting away (see reviews): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SSVNNZC As one comment pointed out, they could be using nitrocellulose in the handle.
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by jperras 2y ago
> Don't use the term "hunt" in the name, to me it just screams "dupe" instead of something unique. > [...] > You can have "have you launched yet?", "find the next best thing", "what
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by jperras 2y ago
> The only time exponential backoff is useful is if the failure is due to a rate limit and you specifically need a mechanism to reduce the rate at which you are attempting to use it. That's what you should be using exponential backo
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by jperras 2y ago
16 year HN vet here. This place has both changed a _lot_ and also very little, depending on which axis you want to analyze. One thing that has been pretty consistent, however, is the rather minimal amount of trolls/bots. There are some
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by jperras 2y ago
Very fair. The line between conscientious preservation and alienation can be (and often is) an easy one to cross.
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by jperras 2y ago
Québecois here. We've been trying to tell the rest of Canada this for _decades_.
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by jperras 2y ago
> Er, not really. Not meaningfully. They can be freely compared with timezone-aware timestamps Author here. My original post was a little ambiguous on this topic; I've updated it to make it clearer. The tl;dr is that in Python, `tim
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by jperras 2y ago
Author here. I admit that I didn't fully explain the danger, because I thought it was somewhat self-evident: if you attempt to compare two datetimes correctly, you must know their timezones. Anyone who has used Google Calendar to sched
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by jperras 2y ago
I thought the same, and went from an Apple standard keyboard to a Moonlander. Some time after that I went to a custom 36-key split ergo board. It takes a little time to familiarize yourself, but you get very proficient with layers and home-
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by jperras 2y ago
> Instead of trying to tax the people into complying with your desires, make them want to do so of their own free will! … do you have any idea of the costs that are associated with owning and operating a vehicle in Tokyo?
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by jperras 2y ago
Ah, I see - the default transactional isolation level is what I wasn't accounting for. Thanks for the explanation! Very much appreciated.
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by jperras 2y ago
Is the `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` in the CTE necessary? Granted my understanding of Postgres row-level locking and their interaction with CTEs may be a bit lacking, but according to the docs[1]: The sub-statements in WITH are executed con
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by jperras 3y ago
Lifelong Montréaler here. I think having "problem" in the title is what is ruffling feathers, although I'm not particularly bothered by it. That's perhaps where the analogy is strained the most: stylistic divergence in c
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by jperras 3y ago
> Humans have always had a tendency to develop a deep understanding of their tools, and even to refine them to better suit their needs. Many people in North America use a microwave every day. Does that mean they have or want a deep under
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by jperras 3y ago
Montréaler here. A surprising amount of people cycle all winter long; the days where you see no one cycling about are typically days where you wouldn't even want to be outside in a car due to the inclement weather. Winter cycling is ac
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by jperras 3y ago
Counterpoint: I live in Montréal, and the city tracks cycling usage via (infrared?) counters on major bike paths. Last year there were 1.5 _million_ trips on a single section of a dedicated cycling path that runs through a very commercial p
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by jperras 3y ago
As charcircuit figured out, the username is/was `malware`. They deactivated it in 2018 without any explanation, and even my contacts at Github at the time couldn't quite figure out why it was happening. My only thought was that it
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by jperras 3y ago
I've actually had a (great) username completely blackholed by github. I'm still a bit salty about it. I had received an email several years ago informing me that it was going to be removed. They gave me the equivalent to a coupon
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by jperras 3y ago
Canadian here. Sadly, it's common practice around these parts for buyer agents to completely ignore listings that don't have a selling agent attached; it's their form of industry protectionism. As a result you end up losing o
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by jperras 3y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I'm not very well versed in this domain, and it's nice to have a civil discussion about wearable tech, especially when previous implementations have instantly become vapourware. > So yes a ph
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by jperras 3y ago
The cognitive load of the notifications is an interesting point that I hadn't considered; I can see myself being distracted by those in the workflow I proposed in my previous comment. I wonder if much of this could be solved by OS-leve
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by jperras 3y ago
> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record an

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