maxfurman

GP is referring to the deregulation of the late 1970s. Before that, there were a large number of smaller regional airlines in the US, that have since mostly disappeared.

I'm not sure about that - I think your second example will parse to "parent": [{"child": "name"}] in JSON

It's hard to believe now, but for a few years Facebook was new and cool! Using FB meant you were young and hip, not like those old folks who barely even knew what the Internet was. Zuck was more like a nerdy cousin than a reptilian overlord.

Of course, here in the 2020s the tables have turned.

It feels that way to the nerds! But in fact most of the jocks are nearly as smart as the nerds, they just also play sports.

Anything with recurring billing needs to be cancelled, for a start.

Sounds like Kotlin to me

This is pretty neat! One question, if all your queries have to be SQLite-compatible, doesn't that defeat the purpose of using PG in the first place? Maybe SQLite supports more PG features than I thought, but if for example your app uses pgvector or pgcrypto you might have issues here.

I've been doing web development full-time for nearly a decade now, and I didn't know about all of these. I think I failed a job interview last month because I didn't know about <datalist>. Sigh.

This would have described the Mormon church not long ago. That's why they went to Utah!

> For example, it takes me 20 minutes to go from 1 side of the city to the other. Using the bus routes, its 2 hours

Compared to SEPTA (Philly's bus system) this seems way off base. Yes, it takes longer to take the bus than to drive yourself because the bus has to stop for passengers. But your own car will still have to stop at red lights, wait for pedestrians, etc., nearly as much as a bus. I can see 30-45 minutes for a bus ride comparable to a 20 minute direct drive, but any more than that points to some other problem with your city's roads.

I think it's sarcasm

Why is the light mode so dim? I thought something was wrong at first, like there was a modal background covering the screen that I couldn't clear.

I'll take this opportunity to link to Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby - https://poignant.guide - one of the most unique and inspiring programming language tutorials you'll ever read.

Enjoyable in the chemical sense. It triggers your brain's reward pathways via dopamine just like anything else you enjoy.

I remember Caffeine used to be a third-party program that would prevent your Mac from sleeping, same behavior as the `caffeinate` here. Were they acquired and incorporated into the OS?

Arnold is Austrian anyway

You can await values that aren't already async in JS. IIRC the runtime turns it into the equivalent of `await Promise.resolve(x)`.

I've been writing some C# lately and `using` has been very nice to use with file handles, buffers, etc., that might need to be cleaned up. But they only work nicely in C# because the C# stdlib has properly implemented `Dispose()` for File, StreamReader, et. al. Whenever I'm dealing with library types I have no idea if I'm supposed to dispose of them or not. We've got a similar problem here with JS where the node team has to implement `[Symbol.dispose]` in all the relevant classes (ugh) and who knows when that will land. And until then the runtime has to clean up disposable resources without the help of `using`. So what's the point?

Nope! It's alive and well both at giants like Shopify and at smaller orgs like my own.

Desperate people with no leverage against their potential employers? There are a lot of them in this country.

It's a reference to Stringer Bell, from The Wire.

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but `if` and many other control-flow constructs are implemented as macros in Clojure. So you probably use macros a lot!

I too have a Subaru, my emergency brake has only engaged when trying to parallel park a bit too aggressively. I must be a very good driver! But perhaps it has saved my bumper a few dents

I'm not sure that we do make policy decisions based on data, otherwise we'd be doing a lot more about climate change.

The civilization we've built, globally, is dependent on a certain climate. Certain places are livable and some aren't. Climate change threatens that. Even a few inches of global sea rise threatens millions of people who live in places like Miami or on islands. Many animals as well can only survive under certain climate conditions. So, the Earth will not crack in half, but those of us who live here will have a lot to deal with in the next few decades. Wouldn't it be better to just (or "just") reduce our greenhouse gas emissions?

Perhaps it is more like Marlboro forcing its employees to smoke Marlboros - if those Marlboros were secret, non-public cigarettes only available on Marlboro premises. OK so maybe this metaphor is a little thin.

That's the 2012 model. Easy mistake

Every 2-3 years I am severely tempted by The Other Side, especially as a very happy Macbook user. But every time, there's a new phone that's just nice enough to keep me around.

Am I the only one excited for this conference? My Pixel 4A can't hold a charge any more and I've been holding out for the 7A.

Kale, rice, and beans are notoriously cheap! When I worked in a restaurant 20 years ago we put kale out as decoration because no one wanted to eat it. Times change, I suppose.