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What's the "right editor" for SQL? "Correct technological choice": I think relational algebra style APIs (a la Polars) are the "correct technological choice" here. SQL is just a to…

I've heard that there are screen lifetime issues? Also, from my limited experience with a single OLED screen, it seems that most stuff was created for a certain kind of screen with…

Editor completion. Programmability "out-of-the-box" (rather than having to generate SQL using another programming language).

I am surprised to see phoronix getting that so wrong…

Is it possible to “install” (“flash”?) an open source BIOS onto a newly bought device?

I was looking at [Low Cost Mini PCs](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389931) a few days ago, and saw comments recommending vendors such as Beelink or Minisforum. These compa…

No, because if my case holds more genera (and I suspect it does), the answers are in part out of sheer frustration, and therefore prone to being similar to the last one given. I am…

The root problem is a lack of imagination that cannot fathom how the person making the judgement might find themselves in the position of the judged, in the not-so-far-future. The …

Yeah, I only support brutalising neighbours if its done nice and clean: by an army of attractive well-paid lawyers gaslighting everyone involved.

Well, what do the prediction markets think? Markets are unable to lie (as they are deeply/intrinsically connected to reality).

Wanting to help others isn't being discouraged. You helping others is being discouraged (apparently? that's your claim, because you believe the market has expectations that you bel…

If the US didn't do this, the world would be worse off, no? (Not sure: wondering.)

*[CITATIONS NEEDED]* 1) Bioreactors have available many options other than antibiotics for controlling bacterial growth. 2) A bioreactor is not "basically just an animal with a sev…

Except it's also very wrong. So, it just happened to make you feel good, and therefore it felt well-informed?

I disagree: I don't think there's a pure natural impulse to want to help others. It's usually coated with a bunch of other stuff, inadvertently (e.g. when dealing with attractive m…

One prominent one in recent memory is the Epstein "suicide". Aaron Swartz is another, although not so recent.

I think this is a win-win for everyone involved. In the highly likely case where your answers are crap, the world is spared yet another person who thinks they are well-suited to ad…

That quote does not come from the Quran (I am no fan of Muslims or Islam).

That also helps to zero out the probability you'll be paying someone who takes a "craftsperson's approach" to their work, versus a "production-line approach". Neither is bad. The p…

> contacted gate pitchm2 pitchcell height,and take the square root I am having trouble parsing `pitchm2 pitchcell height`. Assuming that you meant to use `*` and then HN's markdown…

Although, even Patreon has this issue, since there is no hard requirement to be showing your work regularly; just more of an expectation due to the design of the system. Part of th…

Is there a resource you'd recommend that would help one understand what `marketing nm` means technically, and why it's a quantity that the industry uses "because it's clear to them…

It may also not be wrong to say: "those who know history, are destined to repeat it". "That which is the common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care..." is not a un…

Was the heart still considered the seat of "emotion", in such a doctrine?

It's kinda crazy how confident they are about it too.