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psychometry··on Too big to cover alone: Newsrooms team up
It's not the authors' fault you're too fucking dumb to understand basic facts about how journalism works. Go shill some more ivermectin, you nutter.
psychometry··on Offline-First Database Comparison
Yeah although the docs claim to support things like regex-based searches, it's so horrendously slow it shouldn't even be listed as a feature.
psychometry··on Offline-First Database Comparison
SQL in the browser again: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql
psychometry··on Offline-First Database Comparison
No commits in 2 years. Seems Google lost interest like usual.
psychometry··on macOS Monterey
Wow it's almost as if multiple people comment on things here and they have different opinions!
psychometry··on macOS Monterey
MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc.

I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wanted but didn't yet have, nor the last time they added a feature I didn't realize I wanted because I'd never imagined it. The latter used to be what made Apple products stand out to me.

psychometry··on California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
Hahahaha no, Alabama is not doing well...at anything.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/quality-of-...

psychometry··on California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
Yeah let's run the country like Alabama instead. They're doing well! /s
psychometry··on Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
Most of our screen time is spent working. 8+ hours staring at a screen is bad enough for our eyes and brains. Imagine how much worse it will be when that screen is an inch from your eyeballs. I highly doubt that VR will be replacing screens for anything but occasional recreation anytime soon.
psychometry··on Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality
No, I don't think there's an excuse for anyone writing this badly.
psychometry··on Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality
What in the...? Those are the sorts of things that make you enjoy a novel? Jesus...
psychometry··on Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality
The only character in the first book who exhibited any kind of personality was the gruff cop who swears, doesn't care if he's not allowed to smoke inside, and takes no shit from anyone. It's almost laughable how bad the author is at characterization.
psychometry··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
Thus the manual review. No one's going to be going to prison over a hash collision here.
psychometry··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
This is clearly not an example of a politician simply "misspeaking".
psychometry··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
That's a person not an example.
psychometry··on ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
If it's all Python, why not use Prefect?
psychometry··on Kaiser Permanente suspends 2,200 employees who didn't get Covid vaccine
Good riddance. It's telling that most of the employees losing their jobs over this across the country are almost never physicians and researchers (and only occasionally nurses). It's mostly support staff: people who often have no scientific or medical training and/or no college degree. That should tell you a lot about how justifiable their die-hard belief is.
psychometry··on ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
If your ETL code is written in Python, just use Prefect and thank me later: https://docs.prefect.io/
psychometry··on Robservable: Use of Observable notebooks (or parts of them) as htmlwidgets in R
Oh, long before that.

In addition to being a language that does almost nothing to encourage good development practices and discourage bad ones, compared to Python the R ecosystem's tooling is just so inferior in every area: IDE, unit/functional testing, ETL, deployment, dependency management, etc. etc.

psychometry··on Robservable: Use of Observable notebooks (or parts of them) as htmlwidgets in R
R, RStudio, and Shiny are great for prototyping, but you'd regret building a production data science ecosystem around them. Better to start with Python and rely on JavaScript viz tools in the end.
psychometry··on Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
Let's hope it's a wake-up call to HN admins that they need to rescind this unjustifiable and user-hostile policy.
psychometry··on Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
They absolutely do not need any extra cash...
psychometry··on Downsides of Offline First
It's infuriating to me that WebSQL was killed. 99% of real-world data is relational and yet the powers that be decided that we should all be forced to use IndexedDB and hacky layers like PouchDB built atop it.

I'm excited about https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql though.

psychometry··on Downsides of Offline First
Ok, and if you want your non-web app to be compatible with Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android and you don't want to write more than one app, your options are...?
psychometry··on No Difference in Viral Load Between Un/Vaxed/A/Symptomatic Covid Delta Infected
At some point in time after infection, viral load might be the same, but:

> the viral loads decreased more rapidly in vaccinated than unvaccinated individuals in Singapore [3], suggesting that vaccinated individuals may remain infectious for shorter periods of time.

psychometry··on AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories
That should be a clear indication your analogy is garbage...
psychometry··on AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories
Please explain to me how a thief is going to use the existence of this tech to enable theft.
psychometry··on Chery QQ Ice Cream goes on sale in China – a modern electric car for $4,600
That car would be a death trap in the U.S. because most Americans feel the need to choose their personal vehicle as if it's some sort of urban tank. It would get crushed by even a small SUV or truck.

I'd love to live in a world where it's safe to be on the road driving a scooter, moped, smartcar, etc., without worrying if Karen in her Humvee is going to flatten me because she literally can't see the street within 20ft of her bumper.

psychometry··on Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts
I understand, but you can't have it both ways: You can either build a minimal Twitter clone that limits user-submitted content and not worry too much about security/abuse, or you can build a web host. The latter entails a comparatively enormous amount of responsibility you don't seem keen to take on.
psychometry··on Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts
How are they isolated if you can inject JS that downloads resources from anywhere else? I mean, just to start:

- You have no CSP header that I can see.

- You do expose the server version in the headers, though.

- The site is available at a non-SSL-secured domain.

- There's no X-Frame-Options, X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies, etc.

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