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Comment #45328716
Any photographer who pretends to not understand what the term “full frame” is referring to is an asshole.
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Comment #43815402
Have you tried using them? Installing packages is way, way faster. Here’s an example of how this is meaningful to an organization, and I’ve personally experienced the same exact th…
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Comment #43812851
There are so many examples of large companies and open source projects that have moved off of npm that I just don’t think this is true anymore. PNPM and bun are fast enough that th…
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Comment #36375951
Alternative options include Rectangle (free and open source) and Raycast which is a Spotlight replacement but also includes window management
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Comment #36320037
Yes, there’s a large group of users that use 3rd party apps like Apollo
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Comment #36311920
I think the point they’re trying to make is that the “open” command does something very different than the Mac builtin
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Comment #35930451
The moat comment depends on the company, not all or even most businesses depend on actual innovation as their moat. Also, I think we’re agreeing here, but there are a huge set of t…
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Comment #35930100
I doubt the reservation is with the language/runtime itself, especially with elixir and the BEAM. More likely, it’s with the maturity of the community. Especially at a small startu…
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Comment #35697159
In my corner of Twitter there’s no correlation between any of those.
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Comment #35218210
Many/most people don’t though. Dataloader libraries exist for a reason.
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Comment #35216557
All of those problems and solutions are not unique to either tech choice. You can use OpenApi for documentation, a variety of libraries like React-query for caching, and N+1 issues…
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Comment #35155923
Coming back to this after the other thread cooled down a bit lol - to me, unknown actually implies that the function doesn’t care about the values more than any, as the compiler wi…
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Comment #35123727
The problem with that is that when consuming of the dictionary, “doesn’t know” is actually more appropriate. If you then access Object.values(foo) in your method you are given an i…
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Comment #35048323
Well, no longer free on Heroku, but it was
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Comment #35047323
Why would they be missing out? Vercel can host static sites just fine, whether that’s one generated by Next or any other framework or written by hand
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Comment #35047261
That’s supported on most PAAS these days, including Heroku.
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Comment #34945205
I’ve never really been a numpad user, but I like having 123 on the bottom row for more comfortable reach as they’re more frequently used for me
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Comment #34945039
Miryoku does the same thing but the orientation is flipped vertically with the 0 below the center column, which is how it’s done on a full sized keyboard as well.
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Comment #34891218
Are you seriously implying that the few 10’s of thousands of people laid off in big tech is some kind of conspiracy? Do you know how little impact that has on the nation’s overall …
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Comment #34814382
Typically people refer to those by the opposite naming convention - unit tests just test one thing and mock any dependencies, while integration tests integrate multiple things and …
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Comment #34648150
Yep, been having similar issues for ~6 months.
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Comment #34441902
There are in fact a lot of vegans who do want meat eaters to consume less meat, for the same ethical or environmental reasons we don’t eat meat ourselves. Doesn’t require being an …
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Comment #34441797
Where in the United States? It’s very easy to find restaurants serving Beyond/Impossible in most major cities in the US.
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Comment #34441722
While this very well may be true, on this website I think we should hold our science to a higher standard than random Facebook comments
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Comment #34431034
Many tool watches are no-date because you don’t typically need it while scuba diving etc. Personally, I find setting the time much more annoying than the date, especially if the wa…