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by ohlookabird 3y ago
Thanks for the pointer to this fantastic talk. The excitement, thoroughness and dedication they put into this project along with their entertaining presentation is wonderful.
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by ohlookabird 3y ago
Back in the year 2001/2002 (I think) I remember doing this with a Wikipedia plugin for Rockbox ( https://www.rockbox.org/ ), which I had running on my Archos FM Recorder. It was truly awesome to have all this knowledge i
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by ohlookabird 3y ago
I do the same and transactions work well most of the time. I use ZFS as filesystem for my DBMS (Postgres), which allows me to do consistent snapshots. Being able to rollback has been helpful for testing complex or large queries as well.
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by ohlookabird 3y ago
Works very well in my experience. I never get unwanted ads. The only time this is mildly annoying is during election time. Parties usually distribute flyers/pamphlets with their ideas (which are otherwise known, but still interesting t
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
I was recently surprised to see CS 1.6 running in the browser: https://play-cs.com Makes it way to easy to get sucked into a game or two.
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
Yes, this helps a lot! For me, it also helps to have a training plan, or simply calendar events that remind me what exercise I should do at a given day. Usually this allows me to trick my mind and avoids the decision whether or not I should
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
Very useful, thank you!
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
For many years I worked in a high profile research institute (neuroscience) as an RSE without a PhD. Still don't have one, and that's okay (for the path I'm on). Quite a few of the other RSEs in the institute don't have
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
With coding, I often find Antoine de Saint-Exupéry helping me to limit myself: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
Absolutely! Noticing that it usually takes ~20min for me of getting into the groove was a profound revelation for me a few years ago. I noticed a pattern that if keep on powering through those initial 20min, there is a good chance you can c
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
But why would you not be able to reply with the aliased email? I do this regularly. Of course your mail client needs to support this, but using Mutt this is absolutely no problem (just change the FROM header) and I have heard from other use
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
How do you mean? This is exactly what I can do with my setup. If you are referring to the use of Gmail: I prefer to run my own infrastructure as long as this is possible.
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
Nice! I do something similar, but using an automatic aliasing scheme so that I don't have to manually configure an email address for each service and other users can use this without me knowing their aliases. In my setup, aliases can c
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by ohlookabird 4y ago
Found it also a while ago (maybe also on HN), and was captivated by it. I had to spend a whole Saturday reading through it. Absolutely horrifying.
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
I only get this when loading the page: This page crashed. Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'destroy')
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
Indeed, thanks for the link! We used this SimpleDB in university 15 years ago and implemented our own database nodes like hash joins, table scans, index scans, etc. as well as the paging logic and more. This was really useful to better unde
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
Maybe a play on "batteries included"?
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
For what?
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
Wow, thank you very much for this link! I had no idea and the comic presentation is fantastic. I couldn't stop reading and read it front to back. It's horrific what these kids had (and surely somewhere have) to endure without a ch
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
indeed, and it looks like neither thinks having a death penalty is somehow problematic...
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
Thanks! There is also the nice book by Peter Wohlleben touching on this subject (the "wood wide web"): The Hidden Life of Trees.
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
That's a somewhat common joke in East Germany as well (at least it was in the 80s and 90s). Typically it is a buyer from West Germany though.
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer, I wasn't aware of this! I was wondering what the problem is, because I use psycopg2-binary in production without problems for ages. It seems the danger of psycopg2-binary is that one can end up with segfaults, d
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
Looks really nice. It is however funny to see what it does to road signs (black arrows suddenly turn blue or the orange "don't walk" hand of pedestrian traffic lights seems to disappear). I wonder if this has to do that they
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
I don't know, my grand parents (80+ years) get along well with Signal. We have been using it actively over the past years and they can text, call, videocall and share pictures without issues. I am sure the UI can be improved, but it&#x
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
It seems to vary also a lot by region. Take for instance this local news article from yesterday about excess death in some east German states: https://www.dnn.de/Region/Mitteldeutschland/Uebersterblichke... Among
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
That might be and I am not judging you for this perspective. From a company handling my data I however expect them to be professional wherever they articulate themselves about a serious problem.
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
Thanks. However, it is just not excusable and a breach of trust. The Backblaze Twitter communication making pretty clear that they don't see a problem with tracking paying customers. We are moving somewhere else.
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by ohlookabird 5y ago
They might be logically equivalent, but they are not identical if more than two tables are joined. For instance, the current Postgres docs say [1]: > This latter equivalence does not hold exactly when more than two tables appear, because
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by ohlookabird 6y ago
Hm, wonder why he declines to answer the contact and phone book question twice, but instead deflects…

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