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Please oh please let GCP add this to the supported managed Postgres extensions...

The UK government has announced very little about the plan and in fact made it clear that the details are yet to be decided https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-id-sc…

I would recommend doing more than gaussian blurring. Blurring makes it harder but not impossible to recover, especially if you know the exact font and font size in an image (which …

I'm not sure that's a particularly fair conclusion to make Mike. 1bn a day is order 10k/s. if you the creator of Sidekiq know "dozens" of people hitting that rates, if anything you…

This was a really compelling article Dan, and I say that as a long time l advocate of "traditional" server side rendering like Rails of old. I think your checklist of characteristi…

try ruby. there are several ways to call commands but the simplest is simply the command string in backticks

> This layout creates uniformly-sized columns, without any rows I find it amusing that they've decided to refer to this as masonry layout. If you actually built a wall like this (a…

Isn't that exactly what this article is advocating for? Its just getting to Least Privilege in a much less painful way than is common.

> at the end of someones weeks of work That sounds like more of a criticism of large PRs and long feedback cycles than of code review itself.

> It's just a combination of plant oils Sounds plenty plant-based to me. Why conflate plant-based with healthy? Plenty of people, myself included, have turned to meat-alternatives …

can't afford it? in the UK ibuprofen and paracetamol are like, 20p for a pack of 16! though I do miss the giant packs you get in the US, all pills come in small blister packs with …

I had a read through your docs but was unable to find any info on how you handle the sync of hard deletions from sources. We use Stitch at the moment and have found this to be a su…

is that a bad thing? I don't think anyone is against a reporting monolith. to me, being able to silo data in the appropriate stores for their read / write patterns, and still query…

See https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes which cites > Public Health England's 2015 independent evidence review found that, based on the available evidence, va…

Does this really count as using boring technology? they're choosing the younger of the two DBs and to use some of the latest features e.g lateral joins

Caring.com | Full-time | REMOTE > Senior Engineer | ONSITE > VP of Engineering Tech stack: Ruby, Rails, React, GraphQL, MySQL, Postgres, AWS Caring.com, based in San Mateo, CA, hel…

The solution to the bottled water epidemic is (to return to) reusing water bottles, not to manufacture yet more millions out of a different material. Reduce, reuse, recycle. In tha…

Not to mention that it doesn't take a genius to see that a solid object folded in half is not going to be less than twice as thick!

I can just about understand this attitude with services that do not have an ad-free subscription option, but Spotify does! How do you reconcile that you deserve to be able to use S…

> this safety doesn't even cost more; it's actually cheaper than the alternative when you net out all the costs. You can't just drop an argument destroying bomb like this with no c…

Absolutism is unnecessary, two people eating half as much beef is just as impactful as one of two people going vegan. I don't think eating less meat is impractical, certainly not s…