spellboots

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by spellboots 2mo ago
I'm actually curious if this is faster than a tmpfs clone, I suspect it might be as depending on how many underlying files it's copying, it might effectively be doing "nothing" for each file. Obviously operations after t
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by spellboots 2mo ago
I do know that if it's not supported by the underlying filesystem if falls back to the default. What I don't know is if it's faster to copy than a regular copy on a ram tmpfs - since it may be essentially be doing "nothi
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by spellboots 2mo ago
Many people are unaware of a relatively recent method that allows almost instant copies of postgres databases that I use very heavily: CREATE DATABASE new_db TEMPLATE templatedb STRATEGY FILE_COPY Combined with set file_copy_meth
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by spellboots 4mo ago
All I need to know about the project is that the creators didn't read a relatively obscure SciFi book from 2005?
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by spellboots 9mo ago
Yes, you can do this with hooks: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks
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by spellboots 1y ago
I worked for US companies for over a decade, and travelled there multiple times a year. I worked remotely from my home in the UK as a software engineer and and CTO, including as CTO of a YC startup for a number of years. I would not travel
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by spellboots 1y ago
This feels a lot like https://inertiajs.com/ which I've really been enjoying using recently
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by spellboots 4y ago
There are economic and regulatory factors involved, it is more complex than people being resistant to change which no doubt makes up part of it. In the UK, for example, automatic cars are more expensive to buy and insure [1]. They also tend
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by spellboots 5y ago
It sounds like you have some additional constraints that you didn't make clear in your original question. You said, "Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed." Also, you need things that you
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by spellboots 5y ago
Enzyme | HQ San Francisco, CA | REMOTE Think TurboTax, but for FDA compliance. We’re building a software platform to handle the compliance aspects of running a drug or medical device company. Compliance is an ongoing activity for companies
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by spellboots 9y ago
I made a similar tool if you want to output a nicely formatted HTML tutorial: http://github.com/alexspeller/kondiment
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by spellboots 10y ago
https://gizmodo.com/262981/this-heated-keyboard-is-the-best-...
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by spellboots 11y ago
:+1:
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by spellboots 11y ago
Assuming that humans will behave rationally is, in itself, quite irrational
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by spellboots 11y ago
Why wouldn't this be protected speech under the first amendment? As long as the newspaper believes it to be true, why wouldn't they be allowed to publish it?
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by spellboots 11y ago
This seems to be contradicted by this recent article: http://asiancorrespondent.com/125980/thai-immigration-offici...
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by spellboots 11y ago
Anyone creating a new Ember.js application today is using babel by default. It works very well in my experience. I haven't used typescript however.
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by spellboots 11y ago
They are in other countries. I just did my kit in the UK. https://www.23andme.com/en-gb/
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by spellboots 12y ago
"Omniref (YC W15) Is Rap Genius for Code": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8821117
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by spellboots 12y ago
Perhaps, perhaps not. You could argue that choosing not to enable data scrubbing was a deliberate decision by DO to place cost savings (simpler / less costly not to scrub SSDs and saves cell wearing) over security, wheras linode was ju
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by spellboots 12y ago
Every provider will have security issues occasionally. Including digital ocean: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...
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by spellboots 12y ago
I've found this to be very untrue - digital ocean offers very poor performance per $ compared to linode in my experience. Linode don't have a $5/month option but if you pay $10/month or more you will get a lot better per
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by spellboots 12y ago
> any crypto we use today will be trivially cracked by a cell phone 20 years from now. This is completely false for correctly implemented crypto unless mobile phones of the future are made of something other than matter and occupy some
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by spellboots 12y ago
> When is the last time your water pipe had a virus? "From 2005-2006, 20% of US outbreaks of virus and bacteria in water were caused by old, dirty pipes" http://www.premierwatermn.com/water-quality/water-co
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by spellboots 12y ago
Is that a major concern? In practice, it's unlikely any serious use of ES6 will run in a browser without a build step due to concatenation, minification etc
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by spellboots 12y ago
Relevant talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by spellboots 12y ago
Definitely a missing feature, I will add this at some point. It shouldn't be too hard as it will be very similar to archiving.
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by spellboots 12y ago
This is my entry for the 2014 Rails Rumble, built in 48 hours. You may be understandably reluctant to hand over access to your email to a third party, so if you think it looks useful but don't want to do that I've released the cod
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Show HN: Bravo to Zero – the quickest way to get back to Inbox Zero(bravotozero.com)
2 points by spellboots 12y ago|3 comments
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by spellboots 12y ago
35mm photos are very high resolution - between 87 and 175 megapixels according to http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/film-resolution.htm

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