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Try keeping it on airplane mode if you don't already. It definitely improves the length of a charge.

I still use Groups and Marketplace but my home feed is blocked thanks to News Feed Eradicator. Check it out if you haven't heard of it. It's a browser extension that can block the home feed (and more) for a number of social sites.

Really cool. It'll be interesting to see how Multigres (by Supabase) shapes up compared to this. I think it's great to have more/better competitive hosted Postgres offerings.

I believe Mixture-of-Experts is a way for a neural network to group certain knowledge into smaller subsets. AFAIK there isn't a specific grouping goal, the network just figures out what goes where on it's own and then when an inference request is made it determines what "expert" would have that knowledge and routes it there. This makes the inference process much more efficient.

Nice. I use one in the chrome store called News Feed Eradicator. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato...

Yeah, I believe the firmware on all compatible devices was auto-updated to the new architecture and apparently they can't go back to the old firmware for some reason. What a mess.

Hey Paul! Try out pg-osc if you haven't already. I use it quite a bit for this type of thing. https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc

Can you add https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc? It's my favorite PG migration tool.

Apple Watches have been great for us. Both of my kids (ages 10 & 13) use a cellular Apple Watch which gives them a way to call/text with us and their friends but it doesn't give them access to social media. I know they'll want a phone soon (my youngest is already asking) but it's an easy "no" for us. I think waiting until around age 14 (or later) sounds about right. I'd like to delay even longer if possible. We'll see how hard they push.

I don't think anybody is assuming it will stay clean without continued work to clean and improve the root causes of the pollution. Still worth doing.

Probably "air" squats, just squatting to parallel or below without any weights.

I don't think so, just a handy feature.

ToothFairy for macOS is what I've been using to handle this. It has an advanced setting for headphones that "Improve sound quality by disabling audio input from device". It's always good to have multiple tools out there to solve problems like this.

Thanks for the reply. My question was specifically about the MVCC feature that creates new rows for updates like this. If you're backfilling data into a new column then you'll likely end up creating new rows for the entire table and the space for the old rows will be marked for re-use via auto-vacuuming. Anyway, bloat like this is a big pain for me when make migrations on huge tables. It doesn't sound like this type of bloat cleanup is a goal for pgroll. Regardless, it's always great to have more options in this space. Thanks for your work!

Does pgroll have any process to address table bloat after the migration? One of the (many) nice things about pg-osc is that it results in a fresh new table without bloat.

They have a PlanetScale logo on the last slide. Is this just to say "Thanks for your work on Vitess!" or are they using the PlanetScale service for some of this?

If you're looking for an alternative T-Mobile MVNO Tello.com might be worth a look. I used to use it and it was _cheap_. I ended up moving to another MVNO on Verizon because T-Mobile coverage isn't great around my house but I was happy with the price and service.

I used Evernote for a decade before switching to Apple Notes a couple years back. It took some getting used to but now it feels seamless. I'd highly recommend it if you don't need anything too fancy.

I'm blown away by this:

"Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview."

I assumed this was going to be the sticking point for wider usage for a long time. They're now saying that you have full rights to sell Dall-E 2 creations?

Sure, I see your point. I'd just like to see a pattern that works for most that could gain some traction. At the end of the day we're all trying to do the same thing (deploy high quality software), just in different ways. Deployment strategy shouldn't need to be a main competency of most teams.

It's always nice to see how other teams do it. Nothing too groundbreaking here but that's a good thing.

I did notice the screenshot of "Checkpoint", their deployment tracking UI. Are there solid open source or SaaS tools doing something similar? I've seen various companies build similar tools but most deployment processes are consistent enough to have a 3rd-party tool that was useful for most teams.

Yes

I highly recommend reading "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier. It's a great overview of the different things to consider while working your way up the ladder (specifically in engineering management).

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I've been reading "Ready Player One" over the past few weeks and it's description of a VR-filled future is blowing my mind. It's really a great look into the possibilities for VR in the next 30 years. Highly recommended!

This is from almost two years ago. This tweet from Zach Holman leads me to believe that things have changed:

https://twitter.com/holman/status/592757813107101697

Nice list. Wakemate (S09) is definitely dead.

Here's a site a friend and I built a while back to test some open datasets against Benford's Law:

http://www.testingbenfordslaw.com/

Most seem to match fairly closely. We accept pull requests with new datasets if anyone wants to contribute.

I've grown to rely on simple_form over the past year or two. Version 2.0 has been great so far! Really quick and easy way to generate nice looking forms.

Agreed. Heroku makes it dead simple to use their Varnish proxy. Just set one http header and they'll cache the page for you. After that, your app doesn't do anything until the cache expires. This obviously won't work for highly dynamic pages, but for semi-static front pages/blog entries it can be a lifesaver.