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18 year HN vet here. I've forgotten most of these, even though I was around for nearly every single one of them!

> Before you spend many thousands of dollars on a machine better suited to a coffee shop, consider getting a minimalist lever machine. Agreed. I have a Pavoni Europiccola, and it's…

This is just… event sourcing? https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html

There's also /classic, which only counts votes from user accounts created before a certain cutoff date. The cutoff used to be early 2008, I believe, but that may have changed in th…

If you go back further than that, teams used to destroy entire engines for a single qualifying. The BMW turbocharged M12/M13 that was used in the mid-eighties put out about 1,400 h…

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The reviews are on the Scotch site itself, not on Amazon: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/

Sorry, the reviews are actually on the Scotch site itself: https://www.scotchbrand.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnhw011057/

Those scissors apparently have a habit of the handle melting away (see reviews): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SSVNNZC As one comment pointed out, they could be using nitrocellulose…

> Don't use the term "hunt" in the name, to me it just screams "dupe" instead of something unique. > [...] > You can have "have you launched yet?", "find the next best thing", "wha…

> The only time exponential backoff is useful is if the failure is due to a rate limit and you specifically need a mechanism to reduce the rate at which you are attempting to use i…

16 year HN vet here. This place has both changed a _lot_ and also very little, depending on which axis you want to analyze. One thing that has been pretty consistent, however, is t…

Very fair. The line between conscientious preservation and alienation can be (and often is) an easy one to cross.

Québecois here. We've been trying to tell the rest of Canada this for _decades_.

> Er, not really. Not meaningfully. They can be freely compared with timezone-aware timestamps Author here. My original post was a little ambiguous on this topic; I've updated it t…

Author here. I admit that I didn't fully explain the danger, because I thought it was somewhat self-evident: if you attempt to compare two datetimes correctly, you must know their …

I thought the same, and went from an Apple standard keyboard to a Moonlander. Some time after that I went to a custom 36-key split ergo board. It takes a little time to familiarize…

> Instead of trying to tax the people into complying with your desires, make them want to do so of their own free will! … do you have any idea of the costs that are associated with…

Ah, I see - the default transactional isolation level is what I wasn't accounting for. Thanks for the explanation! Very much appreciated.

Is the `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` in the CTE necessary? Granted my understanding of Postgres row-level locking and their interaction with CTEs may be a bit lacking, but according to …

Lifelong Montréaler here. I think having "problem" in the title is what is ruffling feathers, although I'm not particularly bothered by it. That's perhaps where the analogy is stra…

> Humans have always had a tendency to develop a deep understanding of their tools, and even to refine them to better suit their needs. Many people in North America use a microwave…

Montréaler here. A surprising amount of people cycle all winter long; the days where you see no one cycling about are typically days where you wouldn't even want to be outside in a…

Counterpoint: I live in Montréal, and the city tracks cycling usage via (infrared?) counters on major bike paths. Last year there were 1.5 _million_ trips on a single section of a …

As charcircuit figured out, the username is/was `malware`. They deactivated it in 2018 without any explanation, and even my contacts at Github at the time couldn't quite figure out…