malodyets

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Comment · 9 months ago

I learned about this tonight when Claude Code picked up your library for my application that uses logical replication. Looking forward to putting it through its paces.

Comment · 2 years ago

With Diesel async integrating everything with the pooling is a bit hairy. With sqlx everything just works.

Comment · 2 years ago

Powers of 10 is the classic presentation: https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0

Comment · 2 years ago

Much good there but l and 1 are identical.

Comment · 2 years ago

This desperately needs a date `[1999]`

Comment · 2 years ago

Physics answers what and how. Why is for philosophers and theologians.

Comment · 2 years ago

What features or benefits would a small fraction of people love in an alt browser?

What would HN folk love in a browser?

Comment · 2 years ago

I’m a big fan of base58

+ almost as efficient as base64 + no special characters + no padding characters

Comment · 2 years ago

Svn externals provide similar capabilities, though I don’t remember if an external can be an individual file. TortoiseSvn on windows made it not to painful to use.

https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.h...

Comment · 3 years ago

This sounds like the deal I have had with my (young-adult) kids (who live at home).

Comment · 3 years ago

I created a "NoDict" class that does this awhile back: https://github.com/BlackEarth/bl/blob/main/bl/no.py

Comment · 3 years ago

I wish you wouldn’t delete your posts - it makes it hard to understand what the following comments are responding to.

Comment · 3 years ago

I don’t know how dang does it, but the internet would be so much better if every community had even half as good a moderator.

Comment · 3 years ago

Agreed - see Etymological Fallacy. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy>

Comment · 3 years ago

No. This edition is (c) 1970 and thus firmly under copyright for a long time to come (2065 I think).

Rules here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_...

Extended copyright harms the public domain, but the only realistic solution is for authors or publishers to believe in the common good more than their own profits. That does happen: Wikipedia for example is licensed under CC-BY-SA. But then you have Jimmy Wales pleading for donations regularly. Authors and publishers depend on copyright for well deserved income. In the US the balance of interests has swung so far away from the common good toward the author’s and publisher’s interests that for example interesting parody literature like The Wind Done Gone (a parody of Gone with the Wind having the same characters) are suppressed.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the best books I ever read.