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singlow··on Kids are far behind in school
I think he means a culture that produces bad outcomes.
singlow··on Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case
case in point?
singlow··on Modern JavaScript Tutorial
One of the most common places front-end devs encountered call/apply was when binding functions to event handlers. In those cases an anonymous function was often generated which used apply or call. Bind replaces this dance for many cases. Hence, most cases where devs encountered js call/apply were replaced by bind. There are differences between the two, but they largely didn't matter for most cases.
singlow··on Modern JavaScript Tutorial
In practice though, many places that used apply/call tend to bind instead.
singlow··on My experience with exporting Postgres RDS partitioned tables to S3
Might consider using the Athena Federated Query. Essentially it is a lambda that knows how to get data from a database instance and write it to s3. It is very well optimized for partitioned tables.

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-athena-query-federation/tree/...

Once that is configured, execute a Create-Table-As (CTAS) or insert query using a select from the configured lambda-backed catalog.

I have only tryed the mysql version, but they docs indicate they are very similar.

singlow··on SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining
Its not about whether the SEC knew. It is about whether nvidia properly incorporated that knowledge into their financial reporting. If nvidia knew how many of its cards were going to crypto then they needed to properly report that as a market segment that has different growth profiles than the standard gaming market. That way analysts could evaluate their projections more effectively.
singlow··on SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining
Right. And not just disclose it as a fact, but incorporate it into their projects and risk outlooks.
singlow··on SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining
I don't think it is even that important whether they specifically enumerate the destination of the cards. The important thing is that they should create an honest projection and risk assessment. When they present their earnings statement they need to indicate not only how much they sold but how much they expect to sell in the future. If they knew that a large portion of cards were going to cryptominers then they need ed to indicate the potential difference in growth stability between those sales and the normal consumer sales.
singlow··on Spacedrive – A File Explorer from the Future
This looks like an accident. Even many of the suspicious sites that do it seem to be an accidental side effect. The ones that annoy me the most are the news articles that trigger a history event on scroll. I think they do it as part of a tracking mechanism to detect scroll position, but the result is you have to press back twice to leave. I can't see the benefit, not like anyone is going to press back then say, "oh i guess i can't leave so I'll click an ad".
singlow··on The Cultural Meaning of Shitposting
There are good ships, and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.

And that is my ship toast for the day.

singlow··on Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
So i get annoyed that my computer doesn't go to sleep sometimes because some website is playing a video. Is there a simple way to tell Linux/Gnome/Chrome to ignore videos and go to sleep anyway? I don't watch long videos on this computer so I hate to come back into my office and find my screen never locked because some website played a video i wasn't even watching.
singlow··on Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations
Food for thought. Read through all of your comments and count how many of them are condescending. I mean across all your throw-away accounts. Really think about the answer.
singlow··on 3M tape with anisotropic z-axis electrical conductivity
The current price is based on the predicted earnings growth. Everyone expects 3M to have earnings growth and that expectation is already baked in. The price is only going to spike if something unexpected happens. Growth would have to exceed expectations.
singlow··on The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen
Not that I like walled gardens, but I do think that once you open up the door, many quality titles will skip the store which otherwise would have listed. So the garden is now incomplete. You haven't just given access to the things you previously blocked. Now some users will need to venture outside to find apps that otherwise would have been in the app store.
singlow··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
But that is the opposite of hostile. He made an offer to the board and he did it publicly.

If it were a hostile takeover he would buy enough shares to elect his own board.

singlow··on Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism
But in this case `home` is the correct verb. As a verb it has the same meaning as in the phrases homing pigeon or homing missile. Home-in is the older (by citation) and more common phrase, with hone-in probably being used due to mishearing home-in, although they could have both arisen independently.
singlow··on Zas Editor
Once you've learned vim why do you care if any other editor has vim bindings? What can you do with vim-mode ZasEditor that you couldn't do in vim?
singlow··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
I really don't understand how you pull that from my comment. They are trying to avert a hostile takeover. Elon may not even be interested in making twitter more profitable. It may just be a pet project for him to take over the company and shutter it out of spite or use it to further some other goals. They gave him a board seat to try to get him to back off.
singlow··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
OK, Elon, lets settle. Let's give you a board seat but you have to promise not to try and buy up controlling shares in the company and privatize it in a hostile takeover.
singlow··on Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK
Look, if you stop considering slippery slope to be a fallacy, next thing you'll start making straw men arguments.
singlow··on Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
If your intuition allowed you to guess with a high enough success rate that it overcame the penalty then it is that intuition that gave you an advantage. You didn't just get lucky.
singlow··on Launch HN: Koko (YC W22 Nonprofit) – Online Suicide Prevention Kit
Koko is a character from the operetta The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan. He is a death row convict appointed to be executioner.
singlow··on Nvidia Grace CPU
As a consumer you may not be able to, but volume customers and distributors are ordering them and waiting for them.
singlow··on Nvidia Grace CPU
There is constant production and deliveries being made, just no standing inventory.
singlow··on The hunt for Nigerians who can change into cats
This is a different use of the word materialism. You are reading it as the tendency to consider material possessions of high importance. The post is referring to a philosophical doctrine that nothing exists except for matter, its movements and its modifications. This is in contrast to belief systems that include things that are "supernatural" such as invisible beings, spirits, mystical energy forces, etc.
singlow··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
I would say the deadline is much sooner, since it becomes very necessary for some software to correctly recognize future dates correctly well before they arrive.
singlow··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
After that date we would no longer transition away from daylight saving time. It would not cause an immediate transition. There would be one more transition in the following year to get back onto daylight saving time. So the effective effective date is really march of 2024.
singlow··on Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
Ubuntu will likely be more compatible and easier to work with. The version you get in docker is very minimal as well, although maybe not quite as tiny as alpine.
singlow··on Plausibly deniable encryption (2020)
I think that's the point of that comment. Police have procedures now to prevent a nuke script from being effective.
singlow··on New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
Being biodegradable doesn't mean that it will degrade in any circumstances. Lumber in a house is usually protected from many biological degradation agents, even if it is not chemically treated. If you took that same wood and threw it in a pile exposed to rain and bugs, it would be gone in less than 100 years.
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