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Comment · 29 days ago
I've given the app a go, but one thing I'm wary of is how much bluesky stuff is in - and that's likely to have race spoilers too

It's a shame Lucas' cycling blog isn't on that platform, that's a great source for news and updates

Comment · 29 days ago
What I'd really like to see is a spoiler-free mode.

I can watch a race on catch-up, but if I'm doing that then I can't open PCS to check profiles or standings/time-gaps until I'm fully caught up

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
pgrust sounds very interesting, but with the deep changes there’s no viable path to upstream it - is the end goal to be robust enough that it’ll get wide adoption?
Comment · 2 months ago
Weirdly Apple seems to have something like this built-in for finding an apple TV remote - but the same flow doesn't appear to be launchable for any other device
Comment · 4 months ago
Upthread the implication seems to be that smolmachines would be in some way a replacement for orbstack to run docker containers

But it seems more like a completely different way to run isolated workloads?

Comment · 6 months ago
on the rare occasions where I need to loudly indicate my presence to a motor vehicle I wouldn't really want to be moving my hands - if I have time to move a hand to a horn I probably have time to brake/manouvre instead.

Generally in those situations I shout really loudly at the driver, and in general they seem to hear me

Comment · 6 months ago
The way AWS keep their pricing section completely separate from their system and architecture docs, despite architecture being the primary driver of cost, is a major contributor to this
Comment · 9 months ago
A bitmap index scan allows the database to narrow down which pages could include the data, but then still has to recheck the condition on the contents of those pages - so will still not be as performant as an proper index scan
Comment · 9 months ago
This pitch seems ok to people using simple log aggregation tools or metric tools that have to be wary of tag cardinality

But how does it compare to an actual modern observability stack built on a columnar datastore like Honeycomb?

Comment · 10 months ago
Any advice on how to learn modern Swift?

When I tried to do learn some to put together a little app, every search result for my questions was for a quick blog seemingly aimed at iOS devs who didn’t want to learn and just wanted to copy-paste the answer - usually in the form of an extension method

Comment · 10 months ago
A failure mode of ULIDs and similar is that they're too random to be easily compared or recognized by eye.

This is especially useful when you're using them for customer or user IDs - being able to easily spot your important or troublesome customers in logs is very helpful

Personally I'd go with a ULID-like scheme similar to the one in the OP - but I'd aim to use the smallest number of bits I could get away with, and pick a compact encoding scheme

Comment · 11 months ago
I invite you to look into feature flagging.

It is entirely viable to never have more than 1 or 2 open pull requests on any particular code repository, and to use continuous delivery practices to keep deploying small changes to production 1 at a time.

That's exactly how I've worked for the past decade or so.

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