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At my office, we heavily lean on Postgres' JSONB capabilities, especially for archived data that is occasionally accessed, and also to handle data dumps from other services. The JS…

I was a young teen when it first came out -- in retrospect, I think it's cool, but at the time, everybody I knew felt like it was baldly pandering to our demographic / 'disaffected…

My guess based on context is that "FNP" refers to the indigenous people of Australia [maybe 'First Nations People?' -- however that term is more generally used in North America, to…

we have a lesson_log channel [with standard entry format] in slack -- for all Slack's shortcomings, this works great, as the whole team can see lessons learned from every departmen…

Yep, same here. I planned to buy a Tesla for environmental reasons when my current 15-year-old car gives up the ghost, but I had no clue about the sort of shenanigans described her…

I've worked in both open and closed office environments -- currently have my own office, and it is _much_ easier for me to be productive without distractions in this arrangement. H…

This is a huge factor. A lotta clients _really want_ to hear "AWS" or "Azure" when they ask "..and where is the infrastructure hosted"

yep -- Centos [which distro I favor for servers] is verrry slow with patches, upgrades, and other additions -- but it is 100% rock solid with no surprises. I use other distros for …

what were you using before JS, and in what domain is the work? Genuinely curious

Former musician here -- A big +1 to the suggestion about ear training; I sure wish I'd pursued it more seriously and earlier -- probably no other activity can transform one's under…

I like JS. I use JS daily. JS is part of the workflow for nearly everyone I know who works with code. For me, ES6 is fantastic to use. Some of the better books on JS [I'm thinking …

Totally -- the "Bridgekeeper," that animated circle bit with Phillip Glass music in the background, "123456789101112" with Pointer Sisters, Cab Calloway, and generally more realish…

Yep! In fact, the orchardist Michael Phillips in "The Apple Grower" specifically recommends older, purely-mechanical tractors for small / family operations, largely for repair reas…

there's a lot of evils about AWS, but even their personal/developer support account has delivered good service for me -- they've really dug in and helped me on some tough questions…

In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a great section describing how crows employ termite mounds to create information relay networks -- remarkable stuff

Strongly reminds me of "A Scanner Darkly" [the movie, at least] -- where the human scanners have to watch thousands of hours of surveillance video [which they do at increased speed…

Sourcehut is one I especially enjoy using, and I really admire the grit + dedication of its developer[s]-- as I mentioned in a related thread a few weeks ago, I intend to migrate m…

This is a damn good point. Whenever my friends, or kids of my friends, start talking about taking some foodservice or other really hard, low-paying job, I roundly encourage them to…

Yep, same here -- switched to DDG a couple years ago and back to FF from Chrome [except when required for the job] a few months ago. Results excellent. I understand that a lotta fo…

"Turn the Ship Around!" has been awesome resource for our team, most definitely recommend

Total agree -- I was temporarily disabled by injury earlier this year and was recently given the all-clear to start lifting again -- was feeling hopelessly atrophied + weak at firs…

same boat here -- migraine / cluster / photophobia sufferer and need to reduce as much as possible the volume and amplitude of light coming into my eye -- in truth, I don't think I…

yeah, when I read this headline, my first reaction was "uh-oh" -- for years, Bricklink has been the only reasonable way to get specific [i.e., not subject to pick-a-brick selection…

Yep. Phoenix resident here; can confirm that expensive full-size trucks are the norm for well-heeled folk of all cultural strata in this region. I live in a fairly affluent section…

What's the other Portland, is it Portland, Maine? Sincere question