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idk, i never thought > “it is blasphemy to delete a test”, was ever a thing. i still don't. if a test is flaky, but it covers something useful, it should be made not flaky somehow.…

Thanks for the info. One minor point: > But `timeofday()` is not volatile, so `DEFAULT timeofday()` is going to lock the table for a long time. Perhaps the “not” was a typo?

I believe PostgreSQL does this since v11, which was released in 2018: (current is v17) > Many other useful performance improvements, including the ability to avoid a table rewrite …

you can get a link to the paper if you click "Article" at the bottom.

I wonder if using a large number of DNS servers and picking one from the list or rotating through them would help.

I really enjoyed this article. I liked what the person had to say about “care” especially, and the sort of crappy scarf that his mother-in-law still loved.

I’m both an amateur musician and a professional coder. Definitely IMO code is a real physical thing that produces tangible results. (I personally think that code operationally is a…

https://go.dev/blog/go1.13-errors I wouldn't use the advice in this article. It's quite old and the stdlib now has support for new stuff via error wrapping.

tbh i don't feel like the people who scheduled a 10 min meeting did anything wrong. the room is marked as free during that time; they know they will be done in 10 mins; it's a shar…

just a quick response, i have asked a few Go questions that he (ILT) has answered on public forums. i don't work at google and never have. but he was clear and thoughtful with me. …

hmm, what is a serverless Pg? I don't quite understand. I thought you needed a database server if you wanted to run Pg.

I didn't agree with everything, but I did with a lot; in particular this: > As Julie says when someone repeats that Amazon was started in a garage: Ain't no garages in the trailer …

hmmm, prog21.dadgum.com is James Hague, not John Carmack. interesting site.

love it especially the sense of humor... like on gif

yes, and informative. i was looking at the article and i thought everything made sense but i could tell i was missing something about this line...

i thought it was funny

how is the webauthn story for FF? I recall that some hardware tokens could sometimes play weird with FF on Mac, I am not sure if Windows had the same thing. that was one practical …

thanks!

Tangent: is it possible to use a Garmin watch without turning Bluetooth on on my phone and still get the data synced somehow?

pretty cool; that frida tool seems really nice. https://frida.re/docs/home/ (and a bunch of people seem to be interested in the "IP" note, but I took as, just trying to not get run…

i don't think so (that it is a terrible name); it's a pretty common term https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reveng

Where I live, most software developers are not legally allowed to call themselves software engineers (engineering is licensed by regulatory body). Still, many do call themselves th…

Yes, artifacts (PRs, tickets, commit messages) should have good context (documentation) associated with them, and yes, simplicity is very important, and yes, some tech debt is alwa…

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