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ploppyploppy··on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
Where/how did he learn to code? What resources?
ploppyploppy··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
Can these negative effects be countered/offset by continuing weight training? I lift 2-4 days a week.
ploppyploppy··on Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
It's written in Java. Jesus.
ploppyploppy··on Tell HN: Cryptocurrency transactions >$10k require filing IRS Form 8300
If you want to send a million $ in USDC, BTC or another digital asset, can't you just send 9999 100 times and resolve the difference on fees?
ploppyploppy··on A new blog for 2024
Blog post, not blog?
ploppyploppy··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas :)
ploppyploppy··on Is Northern Ireland a failed state?
The EUR is below parity with the Dollar. Heaps worse.
ploppyploppy··on OnlyFans: Who is Leonid Radvinsky, the elusive owner of a porn empire?
> The negative outcomes are mainly due to societal stigmatization. Which explains the 'not telling the whole story' pretty well too. It's not exactly great dinner conversation.

Source please?

> Ps I'm not advocating it as a career option but I know some people are drawn to it and genuinely like it. Reddit is/was full of people doing it for free and I don't think it's a bad idea to try to make a job out of it for those people.

This content, free or not is a net negative on society.

ploppyploppy··on OnlyFans: Who is Leonid Radvinsky, the elusive owner of a porn empire?
Not everyone who finds it objectionable is prudish or an American "Chirtian".

I personally find it deeply harmful and a net negative on society and I'm neither of those things.

ploppyploppy··on LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons
LMQL - https://lmql.ai/

Guidance (microsoft) - almost abandoned - https://github.com/microsoft/guidance

ploppyploppy··on Python: Just Write SQL
Low quality naive summary.
ploppyploppy··on TypeChat
Your analysis is based on what's possible now. This is the worst it'll ever be.
ploppyploppy··on TypeChat
Look at Guidance - that's being ignored by Microsoft yet it's an official repo
ploppyploppy··on TypeChat
Anything like this but for Python?
ploppyploppy··on Openjob: best distributed task scheduling framework
Consider Argo Workflows.
ploppyploppy··on KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis
> B) there’s a lot of tricky stuff with indices on PG and you generally need a DB admin from day 1

Sorry this is absolute nonsense. Any software engineer worth their salary should be comfortable working with RDBMS index concepts and interrogating their relational model to determine best practice and direction for table indexing.

ploppyploppy··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Is the old MS tactic of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Albeit through the mask of OpenAI / Altman?
ploppyploppy··on U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic
You are clearly lying here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack#cite_note-:4-19
ploppyploppy··on After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as the clear winner
I second this.

Zero regret. Leaving is heart surgery and within 10 years of officially leaving I don't think we'll be worse off.

ploppyploppy··on Show HN: ChatGPT and Document Parser = Ghost
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
ploppyploppy··on Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit rock bottom?
I recommend whatever you do you must: * ensure good nutrition * ensure good sleep patterns * exercise 3-5 days a week
ploppyploppy··on DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables
What project?

Do you mean polars reading Parquet into DuckDB to process that amount of data?

ploppyploppy··on Ask HN: What is the most disappointing thing someone you respect has said?
> I wonder sometimes how much of it is down to dotty old age and approaching dementia, and if you should forgive people for that.

Or maybe not everyone shares the same views as you?

ploppyploppy··on Newspapers have dropped the 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's racist rant
He is not terrible person for these views. If you disagree with his views then do so with counter argument rather than the "wahh racist see now I don't have to engage" approach.

Furthermore I'm sure I don't have to quote Voltaire for you

ploppyploppy··on [dead]
Indeed. 215k abortions in the UK last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/abortion-statistics...

Outrageous.

ploppyploppy··on UK supermarkets run out of turnips
100% this. Thank you for the nuanced response.

My village general shop has all fruit & veg as normal. This shortage is a media obsession.

ploppyploppy··on Warner Brothers Plans Revamp of LotR
Wow yeah please give me more woke nonsense reboots to perpetuate the demoralisation
ploppyploppy··on Only people building software systems get to have opinions on how they get built
Toxic attitude. I hope to hell to not work with someone like that.
ploppyploppy··on Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables
My village shops don't have this problem in the south of the UK here.
ploppyploppy··on The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism
How do we maintain the originals?
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