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np_tedious··on Signal is having technical difficulties
There was a CDN issue for media about a year and a half ago. Can't recall about issues with messaging
np_tedious··on You might not need jQuery (2014)
Maybe there was more than one big part!
np_tedious··on A bit on scaling chess.com's database
Would've been nice to see something about this in the article
np_tedious··on Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data
That's the point, it's not about iMessage but it is about Apple. So to include Facebook things that are not necessarily Facebook Messenger things makes the comparison oranges-apples misleading
np_tedious··on An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”
What happened with Great Suspender?
np_tedious··on The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos (1942) [video]
Chairs and shoes cause health problems? Can you tell me more?

I get that sitting an excessive amount of the day, or wearing shoes for all your waking hours, can be bad. Is that all you mean or is there something more?

np_tedious··on Bitcoin is a disaster
Coinbase does have Zcash. So they don't seem entirely opposed to privacy coins
np_tedious··on Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (2017)
I don't know the circumstances obviously, but consider reaching out to that formerly close friend (assuming they are alive / reachable)
np_tedious··on If-then-else had to be invented
Interesting timing. I just read https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1728174 due to r/programming https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kbs11a/a_damn_... yesterday.

Apparently Cambridge Programming Language (more or less a failed language that became proto-C) designer Christopher Strachey had some misgivings about this usage of "else".

np_tedious··on Show HN: Slices – puzzle game
I did make it this far without getting impatient or bored. Currently stuck on 93. Tough one
np_tedious··on I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
https://legal.tapprd.thefacebook.com/

You're probably right. Windows Server / IIS doesn't seem like them

np_tedious··on I've designed Python fantasy cards to learn it easier
You may be under thinking it. You still want to capture the essence of the function / keyword in order to build the intuitive understanding and make linkages that help the reader remember.

Ex: One good thing about the tuple example is that it sort of highlights that we can have mixed types. The bad thing is that it doesn't do much else..

np_tedious··on Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
CLI tools and other things that don't get "deployed" would be one use case
np_tedious··on Show HN: Slices – puzzle game
I'm at 49 now, and while I think your point is valid I don't agree that it's a problem.

Some repetition or easy levels do occur, but i solve them quite quickly so it's fine. One could even argue that interspersing easy and hard levels makes for good pacing.

I'm enjoying this game a lot!

np_tedious··on Show HN: This website is valid JSON
I had a college course that burned way too much time on XSLT. This was 2008 I think. Needless to say I haven't used it since
np_tedious··on LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
I've never made a post, but I do think I've experienced some of these benefits. Then again I've also become a more attractive job candidate. Tough to separate these things
np_tedious··on Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore (2013)
I rely on haversine distance quite a bit and feel sort of disappointed in myself that I never really looked up the background on it before now
np_tedious··on What is protein folding? A brief explanation
"Proof of useful work" has been attempted for a few things, including this. None have really taken off. I don't know all the difficulties involved super well, but sibling commenter seems on point.

https://foldingcoin.net/ https://primecoin.io/

np_tedious··on Tony Hsieh has died
Aren't there literally violent gangs associated with soccer teams?
np_tedious··on How to Think for Yourself
It's sort of like power of positive thinking / self help book stuff, but for nonconformism and thinking differently. Even if repetitive and sometimes lacking rigor, I'll probably keep reading everything he posts. I could use that influence.
np_tedious··on PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
This sort of proves the point though, doesn't it? REST as initially defined has become some kind of hyperlinked / referenced platonic ideal that very few do or even attempt.

Postgrest, returning/modifying predefined resource(s) based on standard HTTP verbs and whatnot, is at least as RESTful as most other things that use the term. Despite the imprecision, this is still a somewhat useful descriptor beyond "oh it's arbitrary RPC". And it's not at all like GraphQL

np_tedious··on PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
Most (or all?) of those are GraphQL rather than REST.
np_tedious··on PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
I've used it for admin tools at real jobs. And once powered a read only "consumer" (writes came from offline webscraping) hobby project with it to make a no-backend-code react app. I see no reason it couldn't work in prod, especially if you had a CDN or HTTP cache in front.

What I found most striking is that it relies on postgres for just about everything. Content obviously (sometimes straight from tables, sometimes via db views), but also users and permissions. I'd first assumed there would be a config file a mile long but it really is all Postgres.

np_tedious··on The Vale Programming Language
I sort of agree, but enforcing this only on things public / exported can be a nice compromise.

(I mean this as a general statement. Idk how the language handles this)

np_tedious··on Advent of Code in Haskell: T Minus 16
Makes sense. Thank you, I think I'll give this a shot sometime!

My main candidate for this right now involves webscraping from a relatively small single source, structuring the data, and serving it in a different manner.

If I may tag on a semi related question: does https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tagsoup look like an OK html parsing library? Any general advice on choosing packages?

np_tedious··on Advent of Code in Haskell: T Minus 16
> flirt with it on and off for years

> self contained puzzles

These hit pretty close to home. The thing is, at any given time I either don't have an actual project I'm eager / able to start, or if I am motivated to "get stuff done" then I don't want to complicate the effort with something new so I reach for more familiar tools.

I've considered building a simple CRUD REST API or small CLI script in haskell. Do you really suspect I'd learn much more than I would with Advent of Code (which I have done before)?

On the one hand, stuff like learning Hesod, database interaction, and I/O generally would be a real skill. On the other hand, one time I attempted to hack Postgrest to work for Redshift. It mostly worked (read only, no bells and whistles) and that was cool but I didn't really feel i learned much

np_tedious··on Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist
Do you mean IBKR, Interactive Brokers?

I looked up IBK and was surprised to st Industrial Bank of Korea

np_tedious··on Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring at Silicon Valley Tech Firms [pdf]
*by role
np_tedious··on Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring at Silicon Valley Tech Firms [pdf]
I can confirm that at least two FAANG companies explicitly give diversity points to recruiters. That is, hiring a "diverse" candidate is worth ~1.5x as much to them as a non-diverse candidate for the same role.

They are cagey about the exact details of who is included at a given time. But I do know it varies by rule.

np_tedious··on I don't care what Elon Musk thinks anymore
I don't have enough cycles to think everything myself. Outsourcing some things, in a conscious and well chosen and subject-to-revision manner, seems like a pretty important practice.
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