ellisv

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Comment · 23 days ago
I’m curious why you think that.

In general using a large setback will save more energy by not constantly cooling the home than it costs to return the house to a desired setpoint later.

Comment · 1 month ago
People who live in cold or hot places like to prestart the climate control in their car.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, I feel this is like when I look for a hotel and see a low price through a sketchy website but it is because it is a non-refundable member-only price. I wonder what the actual click through prices are. Sellers might try to serve higher prices to AI models but I'm not sure that would be useful to them.
Comment · 6 months ago
Most developers have experience using GitHub. The UI and concepts are familiar. The friction for adopting features like Actions is relatively low.
Comment · 6 months ago
I honestly can’t believe how poorly JetBrains has done. I used to love PyCharm but now it’s so far behind. I still use DataGrip but it is absolute dogshit when it comes to agentic coding.
Comment · 9 months ago
It's called the nondelegation doctrine, which forbids one branch of government from authorizing another branch of government to exercise its functions.

Because Article One vests "all legislative powers" to Congress, they cannot delegate legislative powers to the Executive and Judicial branches (because then not all legislative powers would be vested with Congress).

Comment · 10 months ago
About 10 years ago I remember seeing a number of posts saying "don't use int for ids!". Typically the reasons were things like "the id exposes the number of things in the database" and "if you have bad security then users can increment/decrement the id to get more data!". What I then observed was a bunch of developers rushing to use UUIDs for everything.

UUIDv7 looks really promising but I'm not likely to redo all of our tables to use it.

Comment · 10 months ago
also barely readable with dark mode
Comment · 10 months ago
I wish devs would normalize their data rather than shove everything into a JSON(B) column, especially when there is a consistent schema across records.

It's much harder to setup proper indexes, enforce constraints, and adds overhead every time you actually want to use the data.

Comment · 11 months ago
These types of books are always interesting to me because they tackle so many different things. They cover a range of topics at a high level (data manipulation, visualization, machine learning) and each could have its own book. They balance teaching programming while introducing concepts (and sometimes theory).

In short I think it's hard to strike an appropriate balance between these but this seems to be a good intro level book.

Comment · 11 months ago
I never liked the global leaderboard since I was usually asleep when the puzzles were released. I likely never would have had a competitive time anyway.
Comment · 11 months ago
The IDE has been available for awhile.
Comment · 11 months ago
Precip.ai or go grab the MRMS data yourself
Comment · 11 months ago
We can't pull/push to our repos

    [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
    
    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.
Comment · 1 year ago
For tasks like planning travel I often am trying to optimize multiple goals at once. I might find cheaper flights on certain days but more expensive hotels. This is much easier on larger screens because you can view more information side by side.

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