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by vandahm 3mo ago
I generally like ORMs but recognize that they have a lot of problems. The most common problem that I've seen is when an ORM makes it easy to select records in a way that looks efficient but really is not. Strictly speaking, this isn&#x
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by vandahm 3mo ago
I think the last time I emailed a stranger when I had no business reason to do so was to thank someone for creating an excellent set of instructions for running OpenBSD on the exact model of laptop I wanted to use. I didn't expect a re
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by vandahm 4mo ago
I read Persepolis in French, and I don't speak French as a native language, so I worry that I missed some of the art and the nuance of it. But, even so, I thought it was beautiful. She was an extremely talented storyteller, and I'
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by vandahm 4mo ago
This is what the internet is for. I only remember playing this game once or twice on a friend's N64, so I don't have any nostalgia for it, but the idea that someone chose this as their strange, impractical personal project is real
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by vandahm 5mo ago
I build ukuleles and guitars from scratch. That's not as niche as what a lot of people do -- it's just woodworking -- but I do software for a living and enjoy making durable, physical things in my free time.
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by vandahm 7mo ago
I've used React on projects and understand its usefulness, but also React has killed my love of frontend development. And now that everyone is using it to build huge, clunky SPAs instead of normal websites that just work, React has all
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by vandahm 1y ago
What are the consequences of simply disregarding the UK ruling? Does Wikipedia have British employees, offices, or financial assets?
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by vandahm 2y ago
I wish I had thought of this.
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by vandahm 2y ago
But if you don't trust Apple, how to you get the key into the Secure Enclave to begin with? Doesn't Apple control the software on your device that provides the interface into the Secure Enclave from outside of it?
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by vandahm 2y ago
I love the game, but I know a lot of people who don't, for a variety of reasons. They were very opinionated about what kind of game they were trying to make, so you'd expect it to resonate strongly with some people and not at all
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by vandahm 2y ago
Honestly, my .zshrc file started out as a .kshrc file that was passed down to me by an older developer about 20 years ago, when I was still in university. I've added and removed a lot of things over the years, but there are still a few
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by vandahm 2y ago
Your kid is awesome and, even with help from adults, this is an impressive accomplishment.
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by vandahm 2y ago
I made a RNN for a college project because I was interested in obsolete historical technology and I thought I needed to seize the opportunity while it lasted, because once I was out of school, I'd never hear about neural networks ever
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by vandahm 2y ago
> Will there be additional parts that cover how to create GROUP BY queries in the ORM? I find even seasoned Django developers struggle with these. The last time I needed to do that, I ended up crying "uncle" and writing manual
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by vandahm 2y ago
I used Doctrine for a few years, and I remember thinking that it was about 50% awesome and 50% terrible. I wonder what I would think if I came back to it today.
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by vandahm 2y ago
I used Django a lot from about 2007 to 2010 and, then, went for several years without using it at all. When I came back to it, I was delighted to find that everything still worked like it was supposed to, just better. Congrats on getting it
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by vandahm 2y ago
Aren't we all?
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by vandahm 2y ago
I don't develop offline, but I've developed the habit of making lots of tiny commits, then rebasing them into a single commit before pushing. To me, a commit is for something I might want to undo and a push is for something that I
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by vandahm 2y ago
I think that, in 2024, a lot of these problems aren't as bad as they once were, but when this article was written in 2016, SPAs really were a mess. Since then, people have mostly solved the URL problem and the back-button problem, and
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by vandahm 2y ago
Variation on a theme: https://hardsafety.ytmnd.com/
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by vandahm 2y ago
https://lukecompany.ytmnd.com/ Edit: Two more personal favorites from back in the day: https://vaderholidayspecial.ytmnd.com/ https://bondfreaksout.ytmnd.com/
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by vandahm 3y ago
Not necessarily worse, but different. I think that's what makes this newsworthy.
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by vandahm 3y ago
One thing I learned -- I think it was from The Pragmatic Programmer -- that helps me when I feel forced into making a quick decision is this three-part answer: 1. I don't know, 2. It depends, 3. I'll get back to you. If people d
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by vandahm 3y ago
I've had a similar experience. I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and I can count on my fingers the times when the browser actually crashed.
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by vandahm 3y ago
He explained this once, but it's been years and years and I don't have a source link. His argument for using the large fonts hinges on the fact that you keep your desktop monitor farther from your eyes than you do printed material
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by vandahm 3y ago
What is it going to be for us, when we get that old?
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by vandahm 3y ago
When I was a small child, my dad drove a 1983 Datsun Maxima that had this. As cheesy at it seems today, it felt magical and impossibly high-tech at the time, especially to me.
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by vandahm 3y ago
https://archive.is/tbcO6
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by vandahm 3y ago
On desktop, you can use the top navigation to get to the substance of the site. On mobile, it hides the nav so you can't see it. Try these: https://previous.unixdude.net/about.html https://previous.unixdude.
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by vandahm 3y ago
> For running Previous you need a copy of the NeXT ROM. I have an old NeXT machine that works and has NeXTstep running on it. How can I extract the ROM from it and use it to run this emulator?

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