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s/everything is/everything seems to me/

As demonstrated, crisps are more valuable to the society than art.

That's too reductive. Vacuum full isn't just slow, it exclusively locks the table for the duration of the vacuum and is basically a no-go when the database is in use.

And make sure your `random_page_cost` is about 1.1 if running on an SSD or if >~98% of your hot pages fit in memory. Rather than 4 by default which makes the planner afraid of usin…

Two things - the word "idles" and the nature of CPython's allocator which generally doesn't return memory to the OS but reuses it internally. So you cannot really "spike" memory us…

> Python: ~60% waste (Mostly sized for startup spikes, then idles empty). I understand we're talking about CPU in case of Python and memory for Java and Go. While anxious overprovi…

I wonder what would happen if someone evolved a circuit on a large number of FPGAs from different batches. Each of the FPGAs would receive the same input in each iteration but the …

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Sorry not to have made this clear: I am not a frontend developer. I'm a backend/infra developer who's forced to work on a React app abandoned by a frontend developer who incorporat…

Back in "my days" we would get an in-house web designer to create assets, styles, and a demo HTML document demonstrating all necessary components to implement the planned content. …

Good riddance indeed. The last 30 years of software teaching basically trained developers to produce complexity for its own sake, while calling it engineering. I'm not sufficiently…

Phages don't devour bacteria, they get inside and hijack them, like viruses tend to do with cells.

I was responding to as single comment. I do not have a responsibility to respond to the whole thread. I'm going to include it again, in full: > A forest or wetland is a carbon sink…

The parent comment I'm responding to is literally: > A forest or wetland is a carbon sink only in the growth phase. In a long-term equilibrium, it's carbon-neutral, like biofuels. …

The root of good faith conversation is that we don't latch on fuzzy meanings of words like "comparison" but try to understand which precise meaning should apply. The result of subt…

`kg of fuel per metre` is division, not comparison. You can divide different units by each other. It isn't guaranteed to always make sense but it's very useful.

It's always been like "you cannot compare values of different units" to me. Maybe we should start saying "you cannot compare kilograms to metres".

It's as ridiculous as the comparison of the most recent 12k years of the holocene to the age of plant life on the Earth. As for using lumber for timber, when eventually disposed it…

The world is more complicated than a 17th century lab experiment in combustion. Forests sequester carbon through forest fires producing charcoal. Humans could actually cut down old…

I'll go further and elsewhere at once: APIs should not present nested objects but normalised data. It enables clients to easily to lay out their display structure independently of …

Sadly, the minorities (in the Anglosphere at least) don't deliver at either "think" or "independently". Their counterculture is as countercultural as joining a church. Just another…

I've heard of good experiences using a 3rd party QA company (for frontend-heavy changes) and had pretty OK experiences doing it in-house with subject experts (though testing backen…

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The way loosely-defined "we" call(ed) things in different periods of time isn't a good basis for conclusions, especially in topics in which there was basically no good science 50 y…

Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Python (mostly Flask/FastAPI+SQLAlchemy, browser automation), Postgres, Clojure, FP, frontend (JS/cljs, Re…