purerandomness

I was also born in Soviet Russia.

It's hard to unlearn toxic ideas and relearn to trust in rational thinking, but it can be done. Don't let your upbringing fool you.

It commonly refers to PHP 7+ paired with clean code practices and SOLID principles.

The opposite is PHP5-style code from the early 2000s, no package management, no type strictness, no object orientation, just a giant spaghetti mix of JS, HTML, SQL and PHP in a 10kloc file.

fish never claimed to be POSIX compliant to begin with, so no. There never was an 'extend' step.

1. there are no working production-grade breeder reactors

2. you can't convert ALL of the waste into short-lived isotopes, just a fraction of it.

Sure, we can invest time and money into researching these topics, why not. But why not put the same energy into researching renewables?

It was for decades, there simply isn't anything new to discuss.

We still have no solution a) where to put nuclear waste, and b) how to communicate to civilizations for the next 25000-50000 years what kind of waste that is.

In Germany, the ongoing search for a permanent waste repository is going on for decades now. Funnily enough, this taxpayer's money is never calculated into the total cost of operating nuclear plants. It only makes sense if you subsidize cost by taxes of current and future generations.

Why do you think are they trying to circumvent it?

Does your API provide all the information that can be found on the site, or are they scraping because the API is incomplete?

We've once had to scrape Amazon product pages because they have a lot of API endpoints, but those didn't contain the data we needed.

If Google won't enable AI-filtering AI, they'll become irrelevant, and people will migrate, just as they did away from Altavista.

I'd be surprised if Google didn't already devalue "content" created by GPT-3.

How is this relevant to this thread?

A commenter incorrectly assumed that a technical blog must, of course, be written by a guy. This was pointed out. Whether the word 'dude' is gender neutral or not is not helping.

You can argue that 'dude' is gender neutral all you want.

'He', however, is never referring to a woman. There is no plausible deniability in this case. Let's not play dumb.

Julia is not a "dude".

Julia also did not claim having created CodePen.

It's a common tactic for affiliate price comparison/aggregation sites, like pharmacy aggregators, also do that.

Install a browser extension that bypasses paywalls, like [0]

[0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

I assume you're from Russia, Africa, China, or the USA, where prostitution is not legal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_law#/media/File:P...

Netflix has a subset of the content, and the subset differs on where they think you currently live.

There is no way to legally obtain all the content by paying.

Why? Just like learning Emacs/vim, the time investment is well worth it.

You get much more elaborate the more time you invest in learning, and the skills gained will still be valuable in 25 years - as opposed to whatever subset of SQL the query builder du jour would give you.

The official blog is the cleaned-up version, they removed the most interesting articles when they sold out to match.com

Famously, the article "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating" got deleted during the acquisition.

[1] Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldne...

You don't hand configure VMs, just like you don't hand configure containers.

You use packer and vagrant for that, and you bump base image versions, just like in Dockerfiles.

The name was coined way before "online" meant what it means today.

It's a very old and common stylistic device in literature.

I find it refreshing to read, but I also doubt it plays a major role in the 'reduction of sexism'.

Are you new to the internet, or the English language? This style has been done for several decades now, even before the internet, in various publications.

Why do you think it's supposed to be a "step towards reduction of sexism"?

bootstrap

A load balancer is, for example, used to distribute traffic to multiple worker nodes to scale horizontally.

It can also be used for canary deployments where you roll out a feature to 1% of your user base.

There are several other use cases. I'm pretty sure 'saving IP addresses' is not a use case you'd use a load balancer for.

There is also Floppix, and their FAQ lists a few more [1]

[1] https://www.floppix.com/faq.html

I recommend the book "SQL Performance Explained" by Markus Winand: https://sql-performance-explained.com/

It covers all major databases and is a good start to dive into database interna and how to interpret output from query analyzers.

Other than that, I highly recommend joining the mailing list and IRC (#postgresql on libera.chat).

Lots of valuable tricks being shared there by people with decades of experience.

No DDL transactions, no materialized views, the list is endless.

There's almost no reason to pick MySQL for a new project.

It's not a good analogy:

* Zero is not a HTTP return code

* You don't want to get all the returen codes up to 200, as you'd get with speed. You want HTTP 200 OK and nothing else.

OpenBSD does support SMP since 2004, FreeBSD even earlier.

You seem to confuse SMP with Intel's "HyperThreading", which is disabled on OpenBSD due to security concerns (SPECTRE et al.) and which makes sense to default to in an OS that takes security seriously.

SMP and HyperThreading are completely different things.

Jen built https://lunchmoney.app (a budgeting and personal finances tracking app with a great UX) all by herself.

https://lunchmoney.app/about

Isn't this normal with hosted solutions?

IIRC, GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab.com are all unusable for a few hours at least once a month as far back as I can remember.

Isn't this just commonly accepted as a tradeoff for not having to manage the servers yourself?

This is peak absurdism. Why not simply donate the money? How is this better than a Kickstarter?

How many lives could pg have saved by donating the billable time it took him to write this post?

It gets even better, from the NFT article:

> • What about the environmental costs?

> We plan to make a significant carbon offset to mitigate the environmental impact of this NFT. Within one week of the closing of this auction we will update this page with details of the steps we took.

pg giveth, pg taketh. If you agree that carbon emissions kill, you'd basically donate for a good cause through an absurdly convoluted money laundering scheme called NFT, and cause massive environmental harm on the other side of the planet, killing even more people, again.

I might even draw several trolley problem comics, but the fact this is from pg himself makes me question his sanity and everything he's ever written.

It's the same feeling of betrayal like when Signal turned around and decided to implement a payment token after several of us went ahead and invested time to convert family members away from WhatsApp.

Profit over reason. Pyramid schemes disguised as benevolent startups saving lives.

Startup culture needs a reboot.