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other_herbert··on Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself
If you sweat in this though, would it grow from the moisture or get killed off by the salinity? either way could lead to new and unexpected failure modes for clothing
other_herbert··on Combustion engine web-based simulator
I had just been daydreaming about a v12 with tiny pistons and wondering how that would behave … now I can find out … turns out it would be terrible at low speed
other_herbert··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
No that kind of critical data would be sent to pendo so it could be reported on or shown in a dashboard!
other_herbert··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
Comic Code Ligatures for me :D
other_herbert··on iPhone Pocket
I checked the url a couple of times to make sure it really was legit... I was certain there'd be like 3 p's or a non visible character in there...
other_herbert··on DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming
The key thing they aren't saying is how much power it took to "send" 800 watts 5.3 miles...
other_herbert··on ZEUS – A new two-petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
Choose how ablated you want your chicken
other_herbert··on SQL style guide by Simon Holywell
You can always alias to a singular … like

join users as user on user….

Then do as you please without the that if you are dealing with a user or leave it plural if multiple…

And if we’re talking personal preference I really dislike caps in reserved words in sql, even before highlighting was everywhere it still just feels archaic for no good reason

other_herbert··on Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
Ha re: audio cues for debugging… your pc speaker is truly an underused tool when debugging something infrequent… for example our system processes a lot of xml data and usually it’s fine but for our test suite hearing beeps and knowing there are server side issues immediately is a great thing
other_herbert··on Show HN: What Beats Rock – AI Rock Paper Scissors
lol

Fire Bucket Hose Candle Power failure Welder Shovel Scissors paper rock

other_herbert··on Addition with flamethrowers – why game devs don't unit test
As a corollary to 2, management tends to love graphs… whatever your using to build should have a plugin that could show unit test success counts and generate even a simple line graph… that alone might be enough incentive to add more testing
other_herbert··on Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system
Just a ui bug, the presentation layer doesn’t match the data layer
other_herbert··on The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
You’ve talked me into running some load tests around and before these times… around thanksgiving I’ll give it a shot too… I wonder though if it’s just a redirection of traffic… if regular business sites are less busy because people are shopping it would just slightly shift the load from one “side” to the other

Hmmmm….

other_herbert··on Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
Lotus notes is wide… I imagine their scope creep checker was just a sticky note that said Absolutely!!
other_herbert··on Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
That’s awesome …. I’ve gotta remember this when our PO’s want to add things that have absolutely no business being in our software…
other_herbert··on Analysis of whether unit testing obviates static type checking (2012)
This exactly… I’ve had several devs come to me with things like “react won’t let me do this” … which is really typescript and really it’s that they are doing something wrong in any lang and it is just good news that the type system caught it
other_herbert··on Is ORM still an anti-pattern?
It’s unlikely that you would be using different db vendors.. not different databases for different environments, that you absolutely should be doing … but pgsql in one and mssql in another is super unlikely
other_herbert··on Ask HN: What's your favorite software testing framework and why?
Came here to suggest the same.. great fast running all the things you want a front end text to be

Also can run coverage reports that are usable in ci (I think it exports to clover format but whatever it is there is a Jenkins plugin that works with it)

other_herbert··on SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
I snorted at the Jenkins suggestion… and you’re right… spooling an agent all that nonsens… lol I imagine telling “the business” that your customer requests are handled timely by a jenkins job queue
other_herbert··on Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7
Not my project/not affiliate but Evolve is wonderful for handling db migrations
other_herbert··on Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
Ok that’s it then it’s time to run doom on my toaster, rendering onto bread… input will be tough though
other_herbert··on Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency
It’s more of a cargo check, you fly all the way there to see if they’ll let you take some cargo back with you

*cargo isn’t really the right analogy… but close enough

other_herbert··on The Perfect Commit
It also will track changes you don’t want… like if you have something you’ve changed for testing that can be kept in a separate change list (I call mine “ignore-for-now”) and the n future changes to that file would be in the regular changes, just minus the other stuff… also not affiliated, another fan
other_herbert··on “Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting
I'd point you to many smaller retailers...

https://outlawaudio.com/shop/

https://emotiva.com/collections/amps

and parts-express...

I've owned things from all of these places so there's that I guess :)

other_herbert··on 90s Cursor Effects
Ooo I’m going to add some of these as Easter eggs
other_herbert··on Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter
Audience participation!

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other_herbert··on Vite 3.0
Replying to emphasize this comment...

For dev, vite _doesn't_ bundle, it sends your site basically unmodified (as individual files) to the browser since most browsers are already capable of running anything you're using anyway... so if you change one file, that one file is patched, not the whole bundle that depended on it..

since there's no bundling, the initial start time is nearly instant...

webpack hot reload is NOTHING like this hot reload

other_herbert··on Programming Fonts
Ok who else starred comic shanns? I’m going to at least try that one for a week
other_herbert··on Show HN: WebRTC Nuts and Bolts, A holistic way of understanding how WebRTC runs
I am.. my use case is a computer with two devices in the same building and they share data over webrtc datachannels..

There are some quirks in getting all the signaling working but there’s now more of a standard to do that process the right way…

Anyway since the devices are on the same network latency is nearly 0…

I do have an ack and retry process … I should add logging to see how often that happens though

other_herbert··on Would You Take Out a Loan for a Pair of Jeans? (2017)
I like you, pay off mine at the end of the month... It seems the percentage of people who do that is around 40%... which seems maybe high...

ALso don't forget, credit card companies charge at least 1.5% of a fee to the retailer, this is why some places (usually gas stations) will have a cash price and a card price...

But yeah... lots of the perks are paid for by the rest of people who aren't paying off the balance...

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