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turbocon··on Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
It was my understanding that PostgreSQL supports table sharding out of the box on a single instance but not the ability to do distribute the processing across multiple instances.
turbocon··on Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office
I'm curious how your batteries are holding up? I know effectively nothing about lead acid battery lifespans, but I saw a question asked on your blog concerning the heat the batteries would be subjected too. Did you ever hook up a AC system for the batteries?
turbocon··on PostgreSQL 14
Going to second this, however I will warn, at least in my experience it is a little bit different from most DB IDEs. I didn't like it at all first time I used it, then a friend told me to give it another try. I've never looked back, fantastic tool.
turbocon··on Deploy a website on imgur.com
You can still track without javascript. One way is using invisible img tags. It can be less effective though.
turbocon··on Monitoring my home's air quality with AirGradient's DIY sensor
oshpark is what we used in college https://oshpark.com/

$5/sq inch and you get 3 copies of your board

turbocon··on Kei Car
Some others called it out, but the Ford Maverick hybrid is coming out that starts at $20k and is about the size of the old rangers.
turbocon··on Inbox Zero Using Getpocket
In a very similar situation. On the off chance any body from pocket is reading this, I'd kill for the ability to save a pdf! I read aot of research papers and I'd love a way to save and reference them later.
turbocon··on You Need a Novelty Budget (2018)
I feel like this is the often repeated maxim of "use what works" with the argument inverted and with some extra embellishments.

'Only use novel things that are actually needed and can be accomplished in a reasonable time frame'

Good advice and I like the novel the argument approach.

turbocon··on Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
Not trying to steal from the dev here, but this same ability is built into Pocket that is run by Mozilla, and Mozilla will happily take your money.
turbocon··on Elementary OS 6 Odin
For what it's worth, I discovered this feature on accident because I naturally expected it to do that.
turbocon··on Use Spreadsheets Everywhere
For what it's worth, I've now seen a couple times where the spreadsheet becomes too large and somebody hooks the spreadsheet up to a database so it does queries. That seems to work well for the users willing and able to learn some SQL, and it confuses most others which results in some really strange spreadsheets...
turbocon··on Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
Yea what's going on here, you have a couple of other comments pushing Jsonata?

You an author or something?

turbocon··on Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
Wow, that lead me down quite a rabbit hole, impressive work.
turbocon··on Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
Weird, works for me on android, both Chrome and Firefox
turbocon··on What does First Normal Form mean?
It's rare in practice but occasionally rows have natural unique identifiers that are useable.

The textbook case would be student IDs in a university database where each row corresponds to a single student. However some universities view the student id as sensitive information (kind of like a ssn in the US) and so in that scenario it should be aliased to some other key to prevent the student id from being present in multiple tables as a foreign key.

turbocon··on Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
Ah yes I figured I'd fine one like me in here. Seriously though, if you're having issues with your printer throw it away and buy a Brother printer, they just work and they have reasonable prices for replacement ink. They actually created a new type of inkjet printer, the ink tank printer[1] where you buy the ink in bottles and just pour it into printer tanks, it supposedly ends up being even cheaper on ink than laser printing.

[1] https://www.brother-usa.com/what-is-a-tank-printer

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