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ericHosick

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About ericHosick

https://github.com/erichosick

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    Yes! Hopefully a language that supports code as data (homoiconicity).

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    > Anyone who claims that FSD doesn't work is flat out lying. i've had "fsd" for years and basically never use it now. i just don't trust it. anytime there is a new version update, …

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    don't mean to push the goalpost (didn't mention the following in the above post) these functions can also be exposed in admin ui's making it easier for the general admin users/supp…

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    To help understand why a complex query with many joins comes back empty, I like to provide helper debug functions that builds the query step by step. Each block checks one prerequi…

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    Comment #42980761

    Yes. I posted in Feb of 2021, was hired and still at the same place.

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    Comment #40835286

    Will you be implementing synced blocks?

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    Comment #40807040

    there are a lot of great usage patterns going on. i saw checked boxes hit almost 800K and then start dropping fast. i've seen every other checkbox get checked on the entire screen …

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    A long time ago I was building a data entry system is Visual Basic for forms that, once entered, need to both store the input in a database and print out the form. There were hundr…

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    Comment #37966562

    This looks super cool. Do you support Common Table Expressions? What kind of overhead have you seen? Does this negate the need for indexes in some cases?

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    Comment #37923954

    It's great to see a link specifically about Psytrance on Hacker News. I enjoy trying to understand how Psytrance is made and if that is something you find interesting too checkout …

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    Comment #37191498

    I would like to make a 120 square foot (internal dimensions) max 10 feet high roof to foundation listening room in the back yard. Very mild climate so heating/cooling is not necess…

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    Comment #37170316

    I spent quite a bit of time (about 8 years) looking into and working on VPLs. What I found was that our perceptions and interactions with various abstractions such as programming, …

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    Comment #36872712

    The LLM is impressive (llama2:13b) but appears to have been greatly limited to what you are allowed to do with it. I tried to get it to generate a JSON object about the movie The M…

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    Comment #36813104

    UUIDs can serve different purposes. As others have mentioned, database performance on inserts might trump the need for difficult to guess UUIDs. In other cases, the UUID needs to b…

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    Mostly SQL related posts https://medium.com/full-stack-architecture

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    > the reason why coding is so difficult is that interfaces are often too darn complicated to keep track of? Haven't brought this up in a while. Ya. I feel coding is hard due to com…

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    > because it makes it look like applying an 1:1 relationship. People can form different mental models of the same abstraction so I see what you are saying I've never seen it that w…

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    I would also like to know why you are getting downvoted. Even wikipedia uses a Venn diagram to explain JOIN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL) . Not trying to use an argument…

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    Have not looked into this but someone I know said they got it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gePhjvKdUro

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    > using the ORM that everyone else is familiar with A relational database isn't always fronted by the same tech. You have RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, Low Code/No Code Solutions (li…

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    A good heuristic to consider when designing composite types is whether any part of the type would lead to redundant storage. For example, a currency composite type might consist of…

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    > Of course, you'll then end up paying $15+/mo for Postgres, which is hilarious for most hobby projects storing 50MB of data. Supabase ( https://supabase.com/pricing ) has an amazi…

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    Do you know if Medium offers a verification process for authors to demonstrate that their content is not produced by a content mill? As a Medium member since 2020, I've been writin…