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by thomas-st 1y ago
That's just the JSON equivalent of "we have data, and it's null" vs "data is missing", and consistency could be enforced using a constraint or by making it non-NULL in the first place. It's more common in
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by thomas-st 2y ago
Previous discussion (with some calling it a scam): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803559
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by thomas-st 2y ago
I have a power bank that is PD capable, but I cannot charge it from my MacBook even if the MacBook is plugged in to power. I get around it by using a USB-C/A dongle and corresponding USB-C/A cable. Presumably this "downgrades
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by thomas-st 2y ago
Use (and shipping via mail) is allowed according to this article, so one of the articles is wrong/outdated: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/iphone-16-allowed-...
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by thomas-st 2y ago
It looks a bit like a handwritten Polish ą
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by thomas-st 2y ago
> (by the way, by the time you have checked in and your boarding pass has been issued, a lot of companies just don't allow you to cancel anymore, so it's really a non-issue?) Which companies have a cancellation policy that is c
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by thomas-st 3y ago
A while ago I was helping a friend pick a cell phone plan with T-Mobile USA. If you study their plans, the "Essentials" plan does not include "taxes and fees", but their "Magenta" plan does. When contacting T-M
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The Sad State of ESIM(thomasst.ch)
3 points by thomas-st 4y ago|0 comments
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by thomas-st 4y ago
I wish cookie settings were part of the browser (e.g. I want to reject all marketing cookies but not essential ones), have a way in JS/HTTP to indicate the type of the cookie, and never see those cookie popups again.
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by thomas-st 4y ago
Careful. My friend used Revolut virtual cards and forgot to deactivate the card after the purchase. Months (or a year) later he got a fraudulent charge and Revolut refused to waive it because they claim he should have deactivated the virtua
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by thomas-st 4y ago
To be clear, it's completely unacceptable they are charging for this repair. My intent was to give some perspective on how the repair process went overall, I needed the device back for work. While apart from the cracked screen issue th
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by thomas-st 4y ago
Honestly, if I had broken the screen, this seems like a fair cost for a new display like this. Apart from the the cost, I'd also like to mention the repair process (via mail at their Houston repair facility) was very speedy. I got a qu
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by thomas-st 4y ago
My 14" M1 MacBook Pro screen repair cost was $809. Supervisor refused the waive the fee. The screen cracked for no apparent reason and then completely stopped working. Some firm already filed a class action complaint, and I submitted m
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by thomas-st 5y ago
Close | Engineering and Product positions | REMOTE | https://jobs.close.com/ We're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we&#x2
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by thomas-st 5y ago
Close | Engineering and Product positions | REMOTE | https://jobs.close.com/ We're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we&#x2
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by thomas-st 7y ago
That's my main worry with Tesla not using LIDAR as a backup. Sure, the image recognition will work in almost all the cases, but occasionally (hopefully very rarely) there is going to be a pattern that it might not recognize (either del
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by thomas-st 7y ago
That's a false rumor. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-16-17-comes...
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by thomas-st 10y ago
See https://hack.close.io/posts/ciso8601 on the use case.
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by thomas-st 10y ago
I had similar issues in Python, where the available date parsers weren't fast enough. With my C module, I got 320ns, which was 62x faster than Python's less flexible strptime. See https://github.com/closeio/ci
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by thomas-st 10y ago
I need to switch between two windows of different applications. Cmd+` only switches within the same application.
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by thomas-st 10y ago
Some other keys that work while using Cmd+Tab: - Press "q" to quit the selected application - Press "h" to toggle hiding the selected application - Press "1" to show all open windows for the selected applicatio
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TaskTiger – Python task queue with per-task forks, unique queues and batch tasks(github.com)
5 points by thomas-st 11y ago|0 comments
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by thomas-st 11y ago
What's "dumb" about the hash ring, and how exactly is your solution faster/simpler? One nice thing about the hash ring is that it nicely rebalances when you add or remove nodes. There is no need split any buckets.
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Consistent hash ring Python library for building distributed apps with Redis(github.com)
31 points by thomas-st 11y ago|6 comments
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by thomas-st 12y ago
I did all the timeit benchmarks on the latest 13" retina MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5. The profiler screenshot is from one of our serves on EC2. Of course there is always potential for optimization, but at this point it's fa
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by thomas-st 12y ago
It doesn't cover all of it, for example week dates or ordinal dates are not currently supported. But feel free to submit any patches :)
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by thomas-st 12y ago
Good idea with the regex, haven't tried it. That being said, you didn't take the time into account to construct a datetime object, let alone attach time zone information. ciso8601 supports time zones using pytz' FixedOffset a
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Show HN: A fast ISO8601 date-time parser for Python(hack.close.io)
55 points by thomas-st 12y ago|37 comments
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by thomas-st 13y ago
Does anyone know an encrypted database that allows for searches? E.g. implementing an algorithm similar to http://crypto.stanford.edu/~eujin/papers/secureindex/
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by thomas-st 13y ago
Chrome: I use Vanilla Cookie Manager. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vanilla-cookie-man... Would be interested in something comparable for Safari. Anyone?

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