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mdellavo

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mdellavo··on Ask HN: How do I find a job, in this market with ADHD
Using stimulants prescribed for ADHD to have extra pep in your step is drug abuse - just sayin. You see this a lot with adults taking stimulants for ADHD.
mdellavo··on Ruff v0.1.0
One suggestion to the authors - every serious codebase I've ever worked on had their own set of linters and plugins for whatever linter they were using.

How do I extend Ruff? Can I extend Ruff? How do I write plugins and linters? It's Rust in Python and I am generally leery of such things. The fact that it's one tool to do all these things makes believe it's because the tool is inflexible so it must be able to do all these things.

mdellavo··on Ruff v0.1.0
it's version 0.x - breakages are expected
mdellavo··on Announcing WCGI: WebAssembly and CGI
It's not an open standard but the JVM spec is publically available and intended for multiple implementations

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/

mdellavo··on GitHub incident 2022-03-23
sure but three days in a row?
mdellavo··on Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents
simply rendering tables - most of the (python) pdf generation libraries I evaluated a few years ago all had the same limitations (reflow is hard) around laying out large multipage tables. We went with a headless chrome service to print to pdf which did not have the limitation.
mdellavo··on Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents
How well does this handle large tables that span pages? That seems to be a key differentiator for most PDF libs I sampled. I'd assume this works well if it's coming from Chromium
mdellavo··on Android 12 forces you to choose a default browser unless you disable Chrome
you can pick a alternate browser on IOS and as I said - it was multiple instances

Go in your google/android settings and make sure location tracking is off - come back and tell me with a straight face that the UX of the feature is not a dark pattern.

mdellavo··on Android 12 forces you to choose a default browser unless you disable Chrome
It's pretty much BS like that that had me switch to IOS after years on Android.
mdellavo··on A word used only by Postgres developers
Why would some be branded damaged because they have knowledge of a tool? That's ludicrous.

I've used many databases including mongo. They are all tools like any other with pros and cons and having experience with multiple across domains is a boon.

mdellavo··on Slack System Status
hmm didnt this happen once before after a long weekend?
mdellavo··on Show HN: Prisma Python – A fully typed ORM for Python
fully typed? it used dicts for queryinb - should maybe look at sqlalchemy for comparison
mdellavo··on Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?
browserpass is the killer addon for pass - just calling it out
mdellavo··on Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?
I typically use the generate pass command to generate a new password - that isnt in history
mdellavo··on Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?
browserpass for the pass password manager does this
mdellavo··on Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?
https://www.passwordstore.org/
mdellavo··on Show HN: A Schemaless Data Store Within Your SQL Database
what about applying a GIN index on the JSONB?
mdellavo··on Show HN: A Schemaless Data Store Within Your SQL Database
EAV is a pattern you can easily roll out - https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/examples.html#module-e...

Another commenter illustrated some of the issues you will run into with this pattern at scale.

It would probably help to benchmark some complex queries on a sizable data set. And compare against mongo, postgres jsonb, vanilla eav, clickhouse, etc. Without much information to go on, it's hard to know what this is.

mdellavo··on Show HN: A Schemaless Data Store Within Your SQL Database
Are you unrolling the nested JSON data structures and storing as traditional K/Vs in an EAV pattern? Possibly using one table for each datatype or using a sparse table?

I'd be curious how this performs for complex queries - does this rely heavily on index intersection?

mdellavo··on An Experience with Modafinil
I was taking Armodafinil for a bit and this was my experience - it was too strong and would lead to insomnia for me.
mdellavo··on The Black Sky Event
people were without power for over two weeks after hurricane Sandy - no unrest
mdellavo··on FerretDB: A truly open-source MongoDB alternative
It seems to be to be a misrepresentation to call this a mongodb alternative.
mdellavo··on Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
if you delete the key - the data is effectively gone
mdellavo··on I use Attrs instead of Pydantic
SQLModel is brand new? why not just use sqlalchemy which is more mature?
mdellavo··on Adding Optimistic Locking to an API
optimistic locking is a useful technique that seems unfamiliar to many - it's worth looking into
mdellavo··on Time to retire the CSV?
please don't - CSV is a perfectly fine textual file format for many things that can be used by the technical and non with a wide range of support in applications and programming languages.
mdellavo··on Delta pilot sues the airline for allegedly stealing an app he designed
That does not seem like the app from the article
mdellavo··on Delta pilot sues the airline for allegedly stealing an app he designed
is there any secret sauce?
mdellavo··on Delta pilot sues the airline for allegedly stealing an app he designed
Doesn't really seem like much original work... a chat app tailored to a specific audience?
mdellavo··on Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
Generating code has never been a problem for developers :)

I'd be more interested in a tool that notices patterns and boilerplate. It could offer a chance for generalization, abstraction or use of a common pattern from the codebase. This is of course much harder.

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